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lifeisstillgood on July 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar

  Dear Mr. von Neumann:
  With the greatest sorrow I have learned of your 
  illness.   
  The news came to me as quite unexpected. Morgenstern 
  already last summer told me of a bout of weakness you 
  once had

I am pretty sure that "already last summer" is poor English grammar. Tisk - this Godel character. Probably not worth a face to face.

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/the-gdel-letter/

gjm11 on July 20, 2012 [–]

From the original article:

> [...] Extenuating circumstances aside (dyslexia, English language learners, etc.) [...]

Kurt Goedel wasn't a native English speaker; he was from Austria. I think that would count as an extenuating circumstance.

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