•February 22, 2023•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer

It’s not every day I get an avalanche of mail from readers of this column.
But then it’s not every day I get my dander up and essentially call something stupid.
Last Sunday I wrote about a silly attempt to draw attention to a website that purports to help improve your writing.
The PR person who took that job is probably rueing the day it landed on his desk.
Writing Tips Institute says it polled 3,000 Americans on whether they would support a law protecting their states’ individual dialects.
My point: Illinois doesn’t have one dialect. Nor does it have two or three. And besides, how does one enforce a law that so clearly, as reader Dennis Nowicki pointed out, is an affront to the First Amendment of the Constitution?
“Right on,” he wrote, clearly putting himself in my age group. “There is no need for more laws that are near impossible to enforce and that further negatively impact free speech.”     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.