Or "are becoming".. :-)

A few years back an acquaintance asked me to help a friend of hers with proofreading his major thesis for his Master's degree. Incidentally, this was a psychology student, too. I accepted the challenge, but lived to regret it. I had never ever seen anything like it before, and I sincerely hope I'll never see anything similar again. He didn't lack words - far from it - but he totally and utterly lacked the ability to tie the words together into comprehensible sentences. At the same time he had a distinct fondness for long, complex sentence structures, structures which he didn't master. I did my best, tried to split the long and unwieldy sentences into smaller entities. I quizzed him about what he actually wanted to say and often gave him two options based on the text in hand. He remained vague, didn't really know that himself, by the sound of it. I gave up interfering with the sentences where he himself was uncertain about the meaning and corrected the rest as best I could.

I never dared ask my acquaintance what the eventual outcome was..

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