Spelling and Grammar

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Tiddlywinks wrote: »

Where's the double negative? It makes perfect sense to me.

er.. it was in the piece I quoted!

Nobody - nowadays .....

double negative!!

Mudd14

Regarding the original post I think that English teachers do a very good job in my part of the country. They are now battling the children of the 'txt' generation which cant be easy.

I am sure there are numerous errors in my post but I dont care, I was never good at English at school, Maths was my subject.

d-seven

Mudd14 wrote: »

Regarding the original post I think that English teachers do a very good job in my part of the country. They are now battling the children of the 'txt' generation which cant be easy.

I am sure there are numerous errors in my post but I dont care, I was never good at English at school, Maths was my subject.

I think you are right there Mudd14. 'TXT' speak has it's place; on mobile phones where message space is limited. Sadly it has found it's way into the 'real' world.
Some people on other forums (not this one thankfully!) think it acceptable to type entire sentences in 'txt spk', all caps (which is incredibly hard on the eyes!) and as one poster mentioned in this thread, the gangsta style.
What I find worrying is the amount of older people that seem to be adopting these types of typing. I've used the net now for over 10 years and have seen the useage increase over that time.
Another bugbear is the use of American spellings by people from the UK i.e. color, favor etc. The worst thing I have seen on TV recently was the first Hairy Bikers episode of Mums know best. The title was spelt 'Family Favorites' (there's a U missing there!).
That really p***es me off :mad:

Tiddlywinks

GoldenJill wrote: »

why can nobody spell nowadays = double negative

I think this is a total windup!

GoldenJill wrote: »

er.. it was in the piece I quoted!

Nobody - nowadays .....

double negative!!

By the way, I was not the original poster of this phrase but I disagree with you saying that a double negative has been used.

"Nowadays" is a word taken to mean the phrase "these days" or "at this present time" - the fact that it starts with the letters N and O does not make it a "negative" word.

So..... substituting as follows:

"Why can nobody spell these days" clearly shows that this was not a use of a double negative. Had it said "why can't nobody spell..." then it would have been.

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haha Tiddlywinks ... hilarious!!!

Tiddlywinks

GoldenJill wrote: »

haha Tiddlywinks ... hilarious!!!

Hilarious, why?

anamenottaken

GoldenJill wrote: »

er.. it was in the piece I quoted!

Nobody - nowadays .....

double negative!!

What did you think no-wadays meant?