Learning to Write XXX

In casual conversation all speakers slur vowels, drop final consanants and take short-cuts through syntax. Don’t tell me this only occurs with people on the lower rungs of the social scale. If you believe that, you haven’t learned to listen yet.
In the latest post in this series I suggested that speech transferred to the page [...]






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