PROPER ENGLISH ONLY PLEASE

Comparing Roseanne to Helen Hayes? Well, Rozen does work for People. The Book Review is my last hope and chance of reading something literary in the Los Angeles Times and you have a book reviewer writing slang in the context of the review: “disses”; “c’mon.” If you don’t require your book reviewers to have a vocabulary then how do we know they even understand what they are reading? Please write in English, some of us still speak it. If I wanted a foreign language newspaper or a teen magazine I’d buy one.

NANCY WEST, MARINA DEL REY