Spelling and grammer

[Grahameeboy]

Naki Rat speak the truth.

Kids are PC'd and molly-codled to death these days.

I could tell you many stories to support this, especially from my job experience.

"Go away, you can't touch me" is a frequent one as they are cuffed/placed in the back of the car, followed by tears when for the first time in their life they realise they can't lie/bluff/promise/wheedle/threaten their way out of a predicament. (that will likely have further consequences too)

'But that's not fair, sob, sob" - welcome to the real world....

That is a sweeping generalisation though as you will only be exposed to the bad stuff....

Maybe the outcome of their mistakes is a good thing...

[scumdog]

That is a sweeping generalisation though as you will only be exposed to the bad stuff....

Maybe the outcome of their mistakes is a good thing...

Yep, mostly a whole lot of youn 'uns out there can get their shit sorted out by themselves DESPITE their education/upbringing (overprotective or lazy parents), but when those as described can't? - the outcome is tragic (for them)

[Grahameeboy]

Yep, mostly a whole lot of youn 'uns out there can get their shit sorted out by themselves DESPITE their education/upbringing (overprotective or lazy parents), but when those as described can't? - the outcome is tragic (for them)

Thats life though in all dimensions....adults cannot often sort their shit out...I think it's part of being human and our acceptance that life was not meant to be perfect...maybe it's the human race / society that is all wrapped up in cotton wool which makes society often very negative instead of embracing all that life does have to offer...

You look back through the centuries....it's human nature...yes life is tragic (which I could atest too) but it is more often than not magic too...

[jeffs]

I thought of contributing a lot more to this thread, but since I have dyslexia, I just could not be assed.

Why ?
because people who do not understand it, ridicule,
and people who do understand it pity.
Since I am to old to appreciate either,
let the people who can only read English, if it is written perfectly, carry on missing a colourful world not open to them.

BTW I do have an education and a good job, one that can see me for what I am, and not how I spell.

So if you can not understand what I have written above, because it is grammatically incorrect and badly spelled.

I will just smile back at you, and with out putting it in writing, In my head, say what I really think of you

[Hitcher]

Dyslexia, unless clinically diagnosed, is a word often misused by people with varying learning disorders.

There are many amongst us who have worked hard to overcome cognitive and other disabilities. Some of those don't hide behind "dyslexia" as a convenient excuse for other shortcomings.

[Naki Rat]

.............................http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...&postcount=134

So, is most of your reply to my post actually a confirmation of what I said, or am I missing something ?

[jeffs]

Dyslexia, unless clinically diagnosed, is a word often misused by people with varying learning disorders.

There are many amongst us who have worked hard to overcome cognitive and other disabilities. Some of those don't hide behind "dyslexia" as a convenient excuse for other shortcomings.

So those of us that "have" been clinically diagnosed as dyslexic are all hiding behind the medical institutions that have diagnosed us then ?

And there I was thinking I had dyslexia after being tested, and all the time I should have come to you to get diagnosed as a bad speller.

Or as I said " ... " just thought it, and did not put it in writing.

[davebullet]

Ok I get your point, but I don't think some understand mine, see above! If someone was rude to me about my riding, I would look else where for a teacher. Simple.

Fair call. There is the polite way and the rude way. The message may be the same, but it can be sent considerately.

[YellowDog]

The funnist one I remember was when someone on here said that as money was a bit tight he was going to "Porn the wife".

I presume that the Porn shop is next door to the Pawn shop

[Subike]

OK here is a dumb asses question.
You talk about using the spelling and or grammer check before entering your post.
How do you do that?
A step by step guide for a dummy is needed

[Hitcher]

So those of us that "have" been clinically diagnosed as dyslexic are all hiding behind the medical institutions that have diagnosed us then ?

Only if dyslexia affects your powers of comprehension.

[Grahameeboy]

So, is most of your reply to my post actually a confirmation of what I said, or am I missing something ?

You are missing something

[YellowDog]

OK here is a dumb asses question.
You talk about using the spelling and or grammer check before entering your post.
How do you do that?
A step by step guide for a dummy is needed

This is a BBS. Unless you totally screw up, don't worry.

But if you are now totally self conscious about it, then type it in a word processor where you can grammar and spell check, then copy and paste it into KB.

Easy peasy!

[wbks]

At the risk of firing up a slanging match, the point is that the current education system is selling its students short by allowing them to be wrapped in cotton wool rather than be exposed to the realities of the big wide world. Rocketgal68's attitudes are just an expression of the education system she is part of.

I don't think it's that "they" are wrapped in cotton wool, it's that most of "them" are too lazy to make the effort, and so long as their basic errors in spelling and grammar aren't "overly intrusive" it doesn't have any result, so there isn't much incentive anyway.

You have omitted prak, crusier (and , debateably, tourier), and worngA . We owe much to Mr Sk8r-Boi.





Well done. But, WTF is "visual oral text". It sounds a contradiction in terms. How can 'text' be 'oral' ?

Personally I have no problem with how anyone spells . Or grams. Or puncts. The meaning is usually clear enough (and the whole point of txt is that it IS understandable). The innernettubes are not , by and large, a formal place. There is a time for strict formality and a time for colloquialism. Both are acceptable, in their own place. And da England is a flexible thing.

A visual oral text is usually a movie that you analyze

My point has been pointed out I don't know how many times on this thread... shall I point it out again... don't blame you if you have not read the whole thread, its getting rather long... can we kill it please.

peace love & mungbeans to Hitcher Naki rat & whomever else does not understand that we are all not the same... and I will admit the typing skills were a a bit under the weather last night, I can contribute wine to that!

I wasn't being sarcy, I couldn't be bothered reading all the pages. So you think that people having shitty grammar/spelling is because everyone is different? Apart from people that have had reasonably serious head injuries or have some kind of disorder (which I'm not trying to trivialize) I can't say I've ever known anyone to have such shitty language skills as seen on KB some times, unless they just don't give a shit/are too lazy. Is being "different" what that is about?

Things have indeed changed since my day.

Writing a critical essay on a novel we called English Literature. But movies are now part of the English curriculum? Tempora mutantur, I guess.

Some people promote changing with the times to suit the coming years, and some complain that it's stupid...

[robboh]

This is a BBS. Unless you totally screw up, don't worry.

But if you are now totally self conscious about it, then type it in a word processor where you can grammar and spell check, then copy and paste it into KB.

Easy peasy!

Or use a Mac, which has both a dctionary and theasarus, available in a "correct as you type" mode, in any text entry box; including the web browser :-)