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Hopefully we will know a lot of this already, but you will find it interesting.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2317510.ece
Do you think that it says something about general standards that they've put this section in the Times?
Not quite sure what you mean by the question -
Do you think that it says something about general standards that they've put this section in the Times?
Interesting article albeit a bit depressing. As it is, so many uni students today no longer know how to write a whole sentence without a number of spelling mistakes. This sort of predigested Agatha Christie won't help matters. All the more puzzling as Agatha Christie is hardly a demanding writer. I coulad almost (only almost :)) understand this for a weighty nineteenth century novel but Hercule Poirot?
Clarissa, the Times has always come across as being the paper read by the well educated- not saying that if you don't you aren't well educated, times have changed.
So you might expect the readers to be more literate and know a lot of that stuff.
Perhaps they are trying to reach a wider audience.
Perhaps I'm stereotyping.
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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2317510.ece
Do you think that it says something about general standards that they've put this section in the Times?
Not quite sure what you mean by the question -
Do you think that it says something about general standards that they've put this section in the Times?
Interesting article albeit a bit depressing. As it is, so many uni students today no longer know how to write a whole sentence without a number of spelling mistakes. This sort of predigested Agatha Christie won't help matters. All the more puzzling as Agatha Christie is hardly a demanding writer. I coulad almost (only almost :)) understand this for a weighty nineteenth century novel but Hercule Poirot?
So you might expect the readers to be more literate and know a lot of that stuff.
Perhaps they are trying to reach a wider audience.
Perhaps I'm stereotyping.