OT: literacy
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Pardon my pedantic ass if you will, but why is it that so many posters on this site cannot write in legible English? I know I've misspelled words and have allowed a few errors to slip through, but some of what I try to read looks like text messages from a drunk stripper written while driving. Does this bother anyone else or is it just me? Is it asking too much to ask posters to go back and re-read what they've written and make corrections before posting?
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IMO gov can't do anything well nor efficiently – thus I personally feel education would be better if it's was privatized.
Sry :)
Pet peeves of mine:
1. your/you're: You're obligated to check your spelling.
2. their/they're/their: There is no good reason that they're not proofreading their posts.
3. its/it's: It's unfair to judge a discussion board by its posters.
4. to/too/two: Two of these elementary errors in one post are too many to bear.
5. lose/loose: A poster who plays fast and loose with his spelling loses my respect.
Seriously, these things should have been learned in grade school and retained in adulthood. In fact, people who make these mistakes should be BAND from this board :)
Some good stuff @MrDuece
Oh, and I see no end in sight for the misspellings and incoherent posts.
Sometimes the autocorrects are pretty funny imo.
Papi, I don't agree that privatization would help a thing. I think the biggest problem is parents who:
1. Put everything on the teachers while they don't use, speak or write with proper grammar themselves.
2. Don't check that their kids are attending classes and doing their assigned homework.
3. Don't insist that their local school boards set high standards for hiring and performance of teachers and are not willing to pay for it.
School systems are uneven across the country. Houston accepted thousands of Katrina refugees. Many of the students were utterly unmotivated, lazy, enamoured of the gangsta lifestyle and had inferior previous education. They were disruptive and dragged the whole system down. My sister-in-law lived through that mess as a lead math teacher before she retired. In her retirement she is a teacher of teachers at the college level.
Good school systems do exist. West Jefferson Hills in Pittsburgh, as well as Bethel Park and Mt. Lebanon in the South Hills suburbs are all excellent. When my daughter submitted her first freshman English paper at South Carolina, her professor commented that it was a pleasure to grade a paper from somebody who knew how to write and even understood footnotes. She easily tested out of the freshman math requirement despite having been only an average math student at WJH. Virtually nobody in those communities felt any need to send their kids to private schools. Those that did generally changed their minds and enrolled their students in the public schools when they realized that WJH was the best and most cost effective place for their kids.
Correction: 2. their/they're/there
Pot . . . kettle . . . black
What I do mind is the incomprehensible gibberish that some people post as discussions or reviews. These people are too lazy to try to write something that others would want to read.
OP: Original Post.
AFAIK: As far as I know.
Since I don't get any extra credit for typing proper sentences etc. I tend to ignore it on occasion.
There is no real education in schools any longer. But they do teach BS!
Any idea why founder won't allow editing?
But evidently, "to" and "too" isn't an issue for you. lol
https://www.tuscl.net/postread.php?PID=3…
Spelling mistakes I can overlook to a point because I know most people type on their phones now but what irks me are the blatant grammatical mistakes. To and too, they're and there or their, your and you're. etc...... Also the people who obviously have no comprehension of english composition make me shake my head. Throwing a bunch of sentence fragments together into a paragraph that have no common ground with each other is just a mess. There are posts I just skip if I try to get through the first couple of sentences and it's making no sense.
And why can't people get "me" and "I" straight?
(Yes, I know that a simple sentence can't start with "and" - just a bit of irony! Did anyone notice my little bit of "Duece" irony?)
1) sometimes when I go to the deli dept in the store I'll ask for a 1/3 lb of cheese – it seems like 1/3 of the time they don't know what a 1/3 is (I guess they are used to just being asked for 1/2 a lb or 1 lb)
2) I was having a cheap lunch at a cafeteria I often visit – the total was $5.22 – I gave her a $20 and did not feel like receiving $14.78 in change; i.e. did not want the 4 singles – so when she was giving me my change back, $14.78, I told her I've give her an extra $1 so she could give me back a $10 and a $5 (for a total of $15.78 instead) and the lady was stumped and could not figure it out
You want to confuse the hell out of someone? Go thru a drive thru and when the total is whatever, say $7.48 Give them a 10 or 20, then say, I've got the 3 cents and hand it to them. They have no fucking idea! One even called a manager over and he didn't know either. He told her to void the order and start over. Really???