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Saturday, January 06, 2007
When you're talking about the excellence of your university, and you can't spell its... ...it's a problem. "[T]he commitment to excellence from the university is plain for all to see," writes an Alabama blogger; and, he argues, hiring Nick Saban is somehow part of that. Throughout the piece, he spells "its" "it's." 'Alabama has done what it took to restore the honor and dignity of it's name and it's fans.' How much dignity can a writer have when he can't spell 'its'? It may seem a small thing, but when your rhetoric's grandiose -- all about your honor and your dignity and the excellence of your education -- and you spell like a third-grader, the reader laughs, and dignity disintegrates. |