Is it it me, or am I being a grumpy old got over nothing? This is a text that I received from my daughter's High School today. A letter has been sent to u via email where poss & also placed on the website regarding a year 9 careers fair. Plz contact the school if u require a paper copy. No wonder children struggle to write properly if this is what comes from the actual school. Am I right to contact the school and complain, or am I just being a grumpy old git?
I always remember my geography master at grammar school telling us he rejected a school placing for his son because the introductory letter had an apostrophe in a possessive "its", it's never wrong to expect the best from a school that is teaching your child! Doesn't mean you're not a grumpy old git though!
I was at a school open session with one of my granddaughters as her parents couldn’t make it. The grammar was awful – from the teacher! She had attempted to correct a spelling of ‘camouflage’, but had still got it wrong. On a project about some animals, she said why not add something about ‘there’ habitat! Aargh!! The kids have no chance with this standard of teaching. I made a few comments of my own in the margin!
Thats a disgrace, my late wife was a teacher and would never have done anything like that. I would write back and say that if that is the level of grammar you're advocating, then I will seriously consider taking my child out of your school! #grumpyisgood
You missed a trick there, ILD! The perfect opportunity to ruffle a few more Budgie feathers by saying 'of' instead of 'have'!
You is bein' a right grumpy ol git! You and the rest is dinosaurs. This is text speak and a commonly used language amoungst those the right side of 50 (I would of said 40 about 2 weeks ago ). As long as the letter is of the requisit quality? Then I don't see the harm. Though I do think we of a generation have people coming through, who are increasingly reliant on spell check.
I'd of let rip and said "your not fit to teach my daughter these subject's". Bloody heathen's at that shcool!
Shouldn't that be 'That's a disgrace...' ILD? Shouldn't the letter be of 'requisite' quality Baldrick? My own feeling is that 'text speak' is fine when texting or twittering, but out of place in a letter. EDIT: Cromer seems to have caught DD's disease with "I'd of let rip" instead of I'd have let rip. No apostrophes in subjects or heathens either, even in that 'shcool', or was that your point?
Oops, detention looming for me, then! You'll probably have noticed I'm one of the worst (not worse, worse is of two, worst is of several / many) for ing at punctuation misuse, Rick. Yep, the chief-superintendent of the Norfolk grammar police is alive and well and living - and getting crabby, occasionally, on the north Norfolk coast
I did use that (again, deliberately) in my earlier post but RER didn't seem to pick up on it, so I assumed I'd kind of got away with it edit : see #13
