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Re:Technology and the College Generation by Swizec on Friday September 27, 2013 @07:41PM (#6460228)
No.

Doing my matura (sort of like the SAT's) I took advance level English just so I could get away from having to know how to properly write an English letter. I got a 98.5% and to this day (~6 years later) I couldn't tell you how to properly format something that is officially recognised as a Letter.

Email has thrown most of the old rules about addressing people out the door. Nothing I learned in elementary or middle school about written communication is even remotely useful these days. The only times those things even remotely come in to play are when I have to write a formal letter to the government.

And even then I just google the correct format.

Re:Technology and the College Generation by nav1 on Friday September 27, 2013 @08:37PM (#6460402)
How hard is it to form a subject line for an e-mail? It should indicate what's inside the message; there really isn't much to think about here.
Re:Technology and the College Generation by dingaling on Saturday September 28, 2013 @04:00AM (#6461285)
> How hard is it to form a subject line for an e-mail? It should indicate what's inside the message

Except if you're sending encrypted e-mails :)

In that regard a colleague and I now use an incrementing integer for the subject, with occasional skips in the sequence.

Re:Technology and the College Generation by walshemj on Saturday September 28, 2013 @12:10PM (#6462152)
Well I was taught at 8 or 9 at junior school how to write a basic letter.

These are not people whose second language is English they are native speakers.