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April 6, 2006
What to do with the weird stuff?
Editing a work like LoveUSHateUS.com is a challenge: we want it to be easy to read, and we want to help out contributors whose first language isn't English, but we don't want to change what people say. The freshness of the entries--and their passionate feeling--is part of their value.
But I did approve an entry just now after deleting the last bizarre line:
"American as baseball and apple pie. Be it Mrs. Smith's, or Grannies, aren't pies just great?
America, home of many great foods and games.
Got to love it!!!
This day ends at 5 and the abyss begins."
If you can explain what abyss that is, please write to me.
Interesting, isn't it, that the entries by Americans are less often signed than those from outside the country. And their English isn't so great, either. Come on, we can do better!
Posted by Karen Christensen at April 6, 2006 8:35 AM