• railcar@midwest.social
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    19 hours ago

    That I spent years developing proficiency in my language and expanding my vocabulary to get accepted, only to be told to write simplified English in journalism school. Then they doubled down in my business classes to write for a 6th grade education and those who don’t speak natively.

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      Ya I was surprised that that became the style they liked in my university history classes. None of that rhetoric bullshit.