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No doubt you are as alarmed as i by the tragic decline in america's language skills. if 10 people read the following sentence: two tanker trucks has just overturned in alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.
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No Doubt You Are As Alarmed As

Mike Nichols
No doubt you are as alarmed as i by the tragic decline in america's language skills. if 10 people read the following sentence: two tanker trucks has just overturned in alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.
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