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Letter to Linus (Q7134)

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creative work by William Gillespie
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Letter to Linus
creative work by William Gillespie

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    2001
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    The art of writing has always been threatened by low overhead. Until now. When you join our exclusive club, you'll enjoy the benefits of reduced competition. (English)
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    My parents, before they died, bought me English as a graduation present. It's an outdated version. I hear it has fewer problems than the latest release, but I can't look up some of the newer words... (English)
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    In decrepit basement rooms, gather daily to train, recite the alphabet backward and forward in seconds, write in complete darkness, memorize dictionaries. (English)
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    You are even capable, some fear, of unlocking encrypted text; freely pirating newspapers, textbooks, bus schedules. (English)
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    If. Dialects starved, would you still cook me dinner? (English)
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    To foster literacy, the government is using helicopters to overfly target sectors, dropping poems warning of the evils of poverty. "Real friends don't need money," one optimistic slogan states. (English)
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    With language rapidly gaining the status of a military technology, some form of regulation may be in order in order to lock... (English)
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