Many colleges have stopped making English classes a requirement for STEM
degrees, using the argument that there's so much techie stuff that they
haven't time for silly foo-foo classes like English. So, these kids
graduate with their heads full of knowledge, but they are incapable of
writing a coherent English sentence. And they are hired by companies like
the one I worked for. These kids were gyped by their educators because no
one realized that, while it's fabulous that they have all this valuable
information between their own ears, it's totally useless if they are unable
to put this information between the ears of OTHER people. And the way that
we do that is language. While explaining something face-to-face is useful,
it is not sufficient ---- we also have to put it in writing so more people
can have the benefit of all the things you have learned. So, much of my
work involved teaching our brlliant young people how to write, and brutally
pencil-whipping what they put down on paper so that it could be understood
by someone who may not know all the things they knew. So sending all my
typos out into the world can be a tad more distressing for me than it is
for normal folks. But I am congenitially unable to abstain from putting
words -- lots and lots of words--together and sending them out into the
world in the hope that they can be helpful -- or at least amusing -- to
others (because making folks chuckle a bit is also helpful, at least for
me ).