Again, i put a link to a word in our English dictionary and you continue to dress up this fact as aggressively attacking someone when they are down?
I must admit when I read back on the stuff I write I should check it before posting, some of the repetition of phrasing and sentence construction is embarrassing.
Yeah I had to dumb it down for some of the thicker people posting as they didn't seem to be getting it
I see. Personally it doesn't bother me, and I wish people would let it lie. Bear/bare, their/there, fewer/less, Porgy and Bess. None of it should detract from a point someone is trying to make, and they shouldn't have to apologise/apologize for it. <proofreadspostcarefully>
I teach English out here in Vietnam and, believe me, if you have ever been in a staff room of English teachers, you will know how anally retentive we all are when it comes to our apostrophes and our bare bears. Totally irrelevant on here, though - content is the important thing. Couldn't care less about 'should of'. I'm much more concerned about people who think it isn't rude to point out other people's mistakes.
At the end of the day we're all guilty these days of grammatical errors purely and simply in my opinion because of modern day texting, twittering and typing on internet forums etc. etc. Mainly because we want to get our point across as quickly as possible. Another thing that really irks me is the way kids talk today with artificial American accents, due to all the ****e American TV that is shown everywhere. The Americans/Canadians have been bastardising the English language for years and now our youth is copying them ! Rant over
I think it is because English grammar is taught poorly in schools, there may well be other components that are taught well. Part of my job is to mark essays by medical students and the writing is atrocious, they have absolutely no idea how to construct a sentence.
Do you think a return to Grammar (pardon the pun here) Schools would help Longsight ? The original introduction of the 'Comprehensive' system was the start of it all I reckon
Interesting that this post gets more responses than a lot of the football related ones !!!! Alot of replies telling people its a football forum. Is it?
Not really, I think it's more about the nature of the exams. The idea was that O' level English constrained abilities and creativity - there was too much focus on grammar, so they changed the system, and many of my colleagues think they went too far and lost the essence of being able to write. There is no point being creative, if you can't fecking communicate.
