When I read Joe Wu's letter about MSU instructors not having polished communication skills ("Educators should have English Skills" SN 2/24), I am reminded of the adage about people who live in glass houses. I will allow another reader to pick apart the weak and bigoted argument, dismissing those who do not fit his definition of a quality instructor and communicator. My focus is on the mechanics of the letter that Mr. Wu wrote.

The first time I read the letter, I had to question whether it was a feeble attempt at satire. It then occurred to me that he was indeed serious. My confusion was rooted in the numerous grammatical mistakes that Mr. Wu made as he attacked the communication skills of others. There was an apparent misunderstanding of the difference between being fluent and proficient, as well as six misuses of the word "that" where "who" should have been, and one case of Mr. Wu putting a pronoun for himself before a description of his fellow Spartans.

I think that more than half of the campus will agree with me when I write that those who are without grammatical sin should cast the first stone.

Brett Meteyer
1998 graduate