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comment by riemannman
riemannman  ·  4392 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 10 most challenged books of 2011
This comment sends me ageist vibes. What does youth have to do with it?

Also, following proper English grammar says nothing about literacy. Maybe we should all stop criticizing the text and pick up the book and read it first.

I'm pretty sure Mark Twain's novels are a pretty apt analogy in this situation. (Not the quality of the content, but in the sense that the dialect/writing format it is written in should not directly affect what we think of the work.)





dublinben  ·  4392 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Age has nothing to do with it. Half-literacy is the problem. There are perfectly eloquent young people who would be embarrassed to read TTYL in class.