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University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 17, 1992
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Kids can't write well, study says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A national sampling of the nation's best elementary and junior high school students found that most are poor, disorganized writers, the Department of Education said yesterday.
The study by the National Assessment of Educational Progress said that one reason for the poor writing was that teachers spent little time on writing instruction of any kind in the classroom.
"It is an unprecedented snap-shot of what better-than-average students are writing in better-than-average schools," said Phyllis W. Aldrich, a member of the National Assessment Governing Board.
"Quite frankly, it appears that they are not asked to do very much and that the quality of their even best efforts is often pretty poor," said Aldrich.
'Wayne's World' language losing popularity ... NOT!
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The release of the film "Wayne's World" has spurred an unprecedented upsurge in good grammar, proper sentence structure and accurate verb conjugation.
The "not" construction, which New York Times columnist William Safire calls a "psuedo-Galile negative," is the catch phrase of the moment.
For anyone locked in their own basement for the past few months, "not" is a staple of any conversation between Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar, the cellar-dwelling hosts of the faux cable show "Wayne's World."
Here's how to use it: Utter any declarative sentence, preferably one conveying a compliment or conviction — then pause, and undercut its meaning with a quick
Wayne's work is everywhere.
T- shirties produced by the Republican National Committee proclaim "Didn't inhale ... Not." playing off of Bill Clinton's claim that he once smoked marijuana without inhaling.
Safire dedicated two-thirds of a recent "On Language" piece to the "not" proliferation, and included this insight on the phenomenon from federal Magistrate Franklin Noel of Minneapolis:
"Rather than using the ordinary syntax, the speaker will express a negative by making an affirmative statement, followed by a brief pause punctated by the word 'not.'
*My law clerks often use this mode of expression, and I fear that my ignorance may be generational," Noel wrote.
Noel indicated that the line had not cleared the age gap.
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