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14. If these are real I am astonished

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Mon Jul 7, 2025, 06:57 PM

Jul 2025

I don't teach English for good reason but if I were to hand out a math syllabus as riddled with errors as these letters I would rightfully be condemned by both my students and my coworkers. Do they not have any proof readers? I have on occasion had my students turn in written projects to me, on which I didn't grade grammar but I would tell them that if I was able to find a great many errors it might distract me from the meaning. I received some papers with pretty bad grammar but nothing in the realm of this. It is almost as if Trump learned German or another language which routinely capitalizes nouns as his first language.

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