Spelling and Grammar

Blackpool_Saver

Have you been drinking or taking drugs, threatening you, don't be silly.

If you feel threatened it is obviously your own inner feeling causing it.

Blackpool_Saver

Goodnight normal people, I am not coming back to this thread, I have moved on from childish nonsense like this.

Juicyloo

I went to grammar school in Lytham luvie- did not for one minute think you did!

Morgan_Ree

I think I might need to get some popcorn

Juicyloo

No neither- just do not like being attacked

Juicyloo

Me too, sorry I started a thread which has intimidated uneducated yet intelligent people, if they'd been given a chance

poet123

You really are making some friends on the forums tonight!!

First, teachers are in the firing line, and now a barely literate post berating the standard of English used by others. Way to go.:T

Juicyloo

Barely literate- in what way Poet?

Quasar

I get CVs sent to my head office from time to time when we are recruiting new people (market research) and some graduates have no idea what a properly connected paragraph looks like, never mind fine points (so to speak) such as commas and spelling.

Abroad, each native language is taught on the basis of spelling, grammar, and even sentence analysis which provides the basis for coherent expression. It used to be the same here, so what went wrong? English is the language of Shakespeare, why does modern British education thinking assume that teaching it as the precise tool of expression it is, is unnecessary?

So many talented young people are shortchanged, and all in the name of cheap politics and whatnot.

That said, I have no real problems with people who can't spell or use proper grammar as long as I can understand them. But graduates yes, I would expect them to be a bit above average.

dmg24

Morgan_Ree wrote: »

I think I might need to get some popcorn

I'm not sure about popcorn, I think somebody has been on the pop!

Juicyloo, it was you that started attacking people, and without just cause. How did you expect them to react?