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December 13, 2012 01:00 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/_RIFs7JsEVU/literacy-privilege-or-why-gr.html
Literacy privilege, or, why grammar nazis are dicks
Chandra, a "recovering grammar snob" who works as an English teacher, has a smashing trio of essays on Literacy Privilege -- the invisible privilege that accrues to people who have the facility to write well and clearly, and who have absorbed the "correct" conventions of English. I know I've been guilty of dismissing people because [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/_RIFs7JsEVU/literacy-privilege-or-why-gr.html
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