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by doubloon 834 days ago
yes well unfortunately people are very bad at communicating in English, humanities departments in schools have been cut to the bone and English professor is now a part time job you get in addition to waiting tables or working retail.

So the old tradition of analyzing what sentences and words mean so that you can more clearly state your ideas, itself has been attacked as "useless liberal arts" and replaced by coding camps. So now we have a bunch of people who know how to "code" in a javascript framework that will become obsolete in 18 months but if you ask them to write a short English essay they will look at you with a blank stare.