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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Standup for English major’s because we have rites, too. Some one have to know the difference between stationary and stationery and be able to conjugate the pass tense of verbs. You only think your a good writer but I know and you’re colleagues know that you write runon sentences and has terrible grammer spelling and use age even though English is you’re Native language and you even have a collage degree.

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These issues are taught in k-12, not collegiate English. University English is about tracing from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Pound and Zukofsky to understand literary tradition.[/quote]

English is a field of study spin up fairly recently for students who couldn't hack Greek and Latin. It is not a hallowed tradition of any sort. Chaucer for example is a hackneyed imitator of much better Italian writers. He's in the English canon because he's in English. He would not be an important part of any reasonable survey of important Western authors cross-language, there are just too many better competitors in continental lit.[/quote]

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