Written Language Disorder: Medical researchers fear there's no cure for bad writing

[Dennis Baron]

never complain. never explain. which is another version of dress
British, think Yiddish. (thinking Yiddish helps to sort out the real
from the spoof).

thanks, though.

Dennis
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On May 14, 2009, at 8:02 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

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> Dennis, Too good!  I'm having a hard time discerning what's true and
> what's a spoof.  Can you insert some smileys to help the
> unsophisticated?  And footnotes, so I can check your sources?
>
> Perhaps you can add examples of some otherwise well known authors
> with adult-onset WLD?  Nathaniel Hawthorne?  Others?
>
> Joel
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> At 5/14/2009 12:46 AM, Dennis Baron wrote:
>> There's a new post on the Web of Language:
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>> Written Language Disorder: Medical researchers fear there's no cure
>> for bad writing
>>
>> A group of Mayo Clinic researchers has found that almost 15 percent
>> of
>> otherwise normal school-aged children in Rochester, Minnesota, are
>> suffering from Written Language Disorder. According to Dr. Slavica K.
>> Katusic, while Written Language Disorder, or WLD, does not pose as
>> great a threat as the H1N1 virus, it's actually just as common in
>> school children as reading problems, with boys twice as likely as
>> girls to be symptomatic.
>>
>> read more about this medical scourge at the Web of Language:
>> http://illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage
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>> Dennis Baron
>> Professor of English and Linguistics
>> Department of English
>> University of Illinois
>> 608 S. Wright St.
>> Urbana, IL 61801
>>
>> office: 217-244-0568
>> fax: 217-333-4321
>>
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