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Re:Linguistic purism in English by eru on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @05:27AM (#11712234)
Civil servant or a pupil.
Re:Linguistic purism in English by bhaak on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @06:38AM (#11712465)
Apparently not even pupils. There have been various reports in the last years that the spelling of pupils is getting worse as lots of teachers don't enforce the spelling.

"Let them write how they feel writing, don't interrupt their creative processes with not so important rules".

Re:Linguistic purism in English by eru on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @09:44PM (#11719147)
Oh, we only got dinged for spelling mistakes in Deutsch lessons, I think.