tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343001.post115631384833563724..comments2024-03-01T05:39:54.300-05:00Comments on mister anchovy's: Who says we don’t need no education?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343001.post-1156492216526448842006-08-25T03:50:00.000-04:002006-08-25T03:50:00.000-04:00"it's just going where it's going and that's it"My..."it's just going where it's going and that's it"<BR/><BR/>My, Radmila, that's a bit depressing, isn't it?! <BR/><BR/>But teachers don't seem to want (or be able) to do their jobs anymore.* (asterisk)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11969314216753450118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343001.post-1156424060207331972006-08-24T08:54:00.000-04:002006-08-24T08:54:00.000-04:00Oh...listen...I'm totally with you.But, I do somet...Oh...listen...I'm totally with you.<BR/>But, I do sometimes wonder if it's just going where it's going and that's it.<BR/>I mean, plenty of teachers in elementary schools are fresh out of University and have bad grammar, spelling and penmanship.<BR/>I read a note from a teacher my neice had a couple of yesrs ago.<BR/>It said:<BR/>"Please speak with K about how she speaks out in class whenever she feels like"<BR/>WTF is that?<BR/>The penmanship thing is two things. It's lack of practice and to hide bad grammar and spelling.<BR/>It's ridiculous.Radmilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03066698122441059335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343001.post-1156408558227967262006-08-24T04:35:00.000-04:002006-08-24T04:35:00.000-04:00Pie: Of course, every generation has things about ...Pie: Of course, every generation has things about it that piss of the previous generation. Music has to change. The entertainment industry in general, too, as regards what is and isn't permissible. But mobile (cell) phones bug the hell out of me, and I hate how it's made people write. Pet peeve? Perhaps.<BR/><BR/>Lee: That's just ridiculous, isn't it? I mean, surely it takes as much effort to write badly and incorrectly as it does to write properly?! <BR/><BR/>Radmila: Absolutely, language is always changing, and I'm not resistant to change. But there have to be rules that govern spellings, grammar, etc. There must be correct ways to write a word. We Brits know that Americans spell colour (and similar words) without the u, for example, and that's fine; but you can't have people spelling it kulr, kolur, kulur, coler, culler, etc all within the same country! That would be insane. And don't get me started on penmanship! Everyone writes like a teenage girl these days, with fat, bubby letters and circles for dots on i's. What is with that?!<BR/><BR/>Lola: I don't buy into the diversity of language thing. I think the only thing that I could possibly say in favour of textspeak is that it makes you use your brain to work out exactly what the word is supposed to say! But that in itself is making written communication harder to understand, which is surely against the very essence of communication. If we are to change the way we write and spell, surely the goal is to make things easier for everyone, not just for 12-year-olds? And that teacher sounds like a jerk.* (asterisk)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11969314216753450118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343001.post-1156372436252957182006-08-23T18:33:00.000-04:002006-08-23T18:33:00.000-04:00Okay. The penmanship issue irritates me. My niec...Okay. The penmanship issue irritates me. My niece, while in grade two, was required to submit wordprocessed homework because the teacher "couldn't read the children's handwriting". What the #*@%! (This was about six years ago) Should they have been teaching kids to write correctly?<BR/><BR/>As well, I think that bad spellers existed a long time ago. I remember in high school thirty years ago that many of my classmates weren't able to spell. It just wasn't that important to them at the time.<BR/><BR/>I was reading an article somewhere the other day that suggested that nowadays kids who use textspeak are actually more diverse in their use of language. For the life of me, I cannot remember the specific examples but they said a lot of the expressions that they use are not that common in spoken language thus it expanded kids' usage vocabulary. Personally, I think it was a bit of a stretch however, I thought that I'd mention it.<BR/><BR/>Honestly though, I am sure that our parents could certainly say that we were a bunch of scatterbrains at that age too. However, I suppose that it was for reasons different from the ones that exist now...Lolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00211924978286112270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343001.post-1156365754955174132006-08-23T16:42:00.000-04:002006-08-23T16:42:00.000-04:00It's really pretty sad, but language is always cha...It's really pretty sad, but language is always changing.<BR/>Maybe we're just being left behind?<BR/>What with all our old time comprehension expectations, and our correct spelling and grammar hang ups.<BR/>We'll all be left in the dirt, like handwriting has been.<BR/>I don't know if I'm the only one that notices that penmanship used to be a big deal...50 years ago, everyone had lovely handwriting. Now, you hardly get a hand written piece of anything, and when you do it's illegible...what with the bad spelling, and grammar combined with chickenscratch handwriting.Radmilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03066698122441059335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343001.post-1156349699327103242006-08-23T12:14:00.000-04:002006-08-23T12:14:00.000-04:00Even beyond txtspk, sometimes when I'm trolling fo...Even beyond txtspk, sometimes when I'm trolling for new blogs, I'll run into something like this: <A HREF="http://team-disney.blogspot.com/2006/07/heyy-evry1.html" REL="nofollow"> some crap post</A><BR/><BR/>And I think maybe the world really is about to end.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14915252268400469774noreply@blogger.com