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There are many jokes about dyslexia, but are they appropriate for ads?

Several groups went berserk recently when Deutsch touted the $14,000 Mitsubishi Lancer thusly: “It must be dyslexic. It thinks it’s a $41,000 car.” “It is disappoint ing that Mitsubishi, with their millions of dollars to invest in advertising, has chosen to trivialize a serious and life-long disability!” railed EducationNews.org. Others thought it was fine. “Why can’t we just deal with it and not take things so seriously?” Nancy Von Wald, director of a Tuscon, Ariz.,

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