Posted: 3/23/2010 12:51:13 PM EDT
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From an online article. I prefer the original, mistakes and all.
Teacher’s Note: After a number of students said that the grammar mistakes on their papers weren't their fault because they used the computer's grammar checker, I wondered how accurate this software was and ran Lincoln's Gettysburg Address through it. I was amazed at the number of mistakes Abe made! So I rewrote it, correcting all the errors while keeping the general idea, and now WordPerfect could find no mistakes at all. The same was true with Microsoft Word. I hope Abe appreciates all the work I did for him. The point is, forget about grammar checkers; learn grammar! Revised Gettysburg Address: Now see here fellows like a bunch of guys' years 87 ago starting a country knew hear. These guys be thinking it was are extra nifty if you know this country standing for liberty everybody is get a fair deal. Now we are being, kicking the stuffing out of each other, see if this nation can you know makes it. Politicians are meeting. Here today to likes dedicating this, you know place to those who is be being now dead meat. While this is, you know well, we can't like really being doing it because they are already been done a nifty good job. Instead we should you know tries to finishing the work they are be, done start. On else they are like be checking out for no thing. We got to make sure that this nation is being, you now, keep on shuffling along. See you, you no, like later. The Original: THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us––that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion––that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. |
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Powerpoint makes you stupid. http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/ |