I imagine most of these students will have a big ol’ wake-up call once they get into the real world. But maybe that’s the point.

The e-mail is funny. (So is that “look again.”) And it’s an interesting question. I’ve found that the writer who always attends to spelling/grammar/punctuation/usage and does them perfectly usually turns out to be the good-but-boring writer (i.e., me, oftentimes). I’m trying to quit worrying about all that so much in the hopes that I just express myself in a more interesting way.

But, this girl isn’t writing something expressive. She’s writing a simple business e-mail!! She also forgot her commas and her quotation marks, which wouldn’t be so bad, except for that “excepted.” I’ve had would-be interns, English and journalism majors, who wouldn’t have done much better, sad to say.

Seriously, whatever happened to articulate, college-educated adults? Bet the Chinese and Indians are laughing all the way to the bank.