Educated maybe, but not in terms of written or spoken English skills and that precisely is the problem....Originally Posted by Motu
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Educated maybe, but not in terms of written or spoken English skills and that precisely is the problem....
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The Sharif don't like it!
Spelling is for the toffs & Lords!
Working class muckers like us don't need that shit!
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Yes. However it is often the case that education is severely limited for those lacking language skills and the education system, ie: schools and tertiary educators let their pupils down by not insisting on correct spelling and grammar and pass them regardless. Therefore we find "qualified" people entering the workforce and failing due to their inability to present themselves in manner that would be taken seriously.
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What if I wax lyrical?
You don't get to be an old dog without learning a few tricks.
Shorai Powersports batteries are very trick!
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You betray your lordship by spelling correctly, young man...
You don't get to be an old dog without learning a few tricks.
Shorai Powersports batteries are very trick!
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I'm amazed at how many expat English teachers in Taiwan are horrid spellers. To teach legally you at least need a university degree, so I wonder if they are working legally or not...
Not to mention I've met my fair share of expats who even I could barely understand what they were saying, come to find out they're from South Africa or Ireland or even north-east Canada.
Mad nagging bitch!
Surely a starting point would be to ensure our teachers can spell correctly!
The clangers I see degree holding teachers make, as they write on the board are unbelievable! Yes, even English teachers! Heaven help us, when those who are charged with making our young folk literate, can't even spell!
Of course, the card carrying member of the BDOTGNZA and lowly teacher aide corrects their errors for them.....
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I agree with your post Edbear,spelling is very important,and standards seem to have slipped in the last few years. I partly blame the texting language that has evolved over the last 10 years.
But even the best writers etc make mistakes sometimes.
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Funnily enough, some of the best speakers of English I have ever met are South Africans and I personally find their accent quite pleasant. Blacks from Sudan I've met are very nicely spoken and extremely courteous, (not to mention being among the most attractive people I've seen too.)
I'm sure you do so with the greatest of respect, too...
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It's not only texting language, standards were on a downward spiral long before. In the '80's schools were encouraged to ease up on the spelling and grammar standards, even to encourage phonetic spelling! A teacher was told off if they disciplined a student for bad spelling, grammar or writing as it might discourage the student!
Yes, we all make mistakes, even those of us who take pride in accuracy and my own thread has highlighted my own errors, (which I put down to tiredness...), however the educated are not overly pedantic in the main.
You don't get to be an old dog without learning a few tricks.
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The instructions are simple...
lasting. Communcation is the life-bloodWithout mentioning the surp...super...un-necessary apostrophes, there are a lot of punctuation errors, too.including shaved. If he empoyed a worker with a beard
Overall, an 8.5/10...
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
The instructions are simple...
Yep. A bunch of unthanked, unloved afficianados of Kiwi English, particularly as it is spelled, dedicated to resisting the creeping cancer of naff Americanisms (it is arse, not ass) and poor, general levels of literacy.
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
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I understand your opening post has been brought to the attention of AAAA
The Association for the Abolition of the Aberrant Apostrophe
"There must be a one-to-one correspondence between left and right parentheses, with each left parenthesis to the left of its corresponding right parenthesis."
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