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    English language classes

    I've just read this on the BBC's "Have Your Say":

    change for what poll tax 18% inflation 3 million out of work 250,000 miners out of work remember thatcher its all ready started notts council leicester county council both tory i minght add cutting public money do we really wont the goast of thatcher back {david the eaton lad camron]
    there both the same yes lets vote for change a give another party a crack at it thay carnt mess it up as much as the main two no more boom and bust torys and labour said the same as i can recall WHAT A LAUGH or is it there just lairs o and 1 more thing expeces immigration you can go on and on and on


    No punctuation, illiterate spelling and grammar, is this the level of English being taught in our schools now? I hope Michael Gove can do a better job than Ed Balls.

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    Re: English language classes

    Well if they can really remember Thatcher, they probably didn't learn their English in the period when Ed Balls has been in charge...
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    Re: English language classes

    The danger with starting a thread like this is that you tempt people out of Pedants' Corner....

    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Doolan View Post
    No punctuation, illiterate spelling and grammar, is this the level of English being taught in our schools now? I hope Michael Gove can do a better job than Ed Balls.
    I think it should either be "grammar. Is", or possibly "grammar; is".

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    Re: English language classes

    Quote Originally Posted by FirstMove View Post
    The danger with starting a thread like this is that you tempt people out of Pedants' Corner....
    I take it you mean Pedant's corner ?

    ...more pedantry here

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    Re: English language classes

    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Doolan View Post
    No punctuation, illiterate spelling and grammar, is this the level of English being taught in our schools now?
    The chances are that the person who wrote it didn't take much notice of the English being taught at their school. It's like asking whether the actions of the idiot who cuts you up on the slip road is representative of the kind of driving skill being taught in our motoring schools today.

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    Re: English language classes

    You only have to go on facebook or read posts on this forum (especialy mine) to see how bad English is nowdays.

    I think we should all learn Engrish anyway http://engrishfunny.com/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    I take it you mean Pedant's corner ?

    ...more pedantry here

    Pedants'
    corner is correct ... The corner belonging to several pedants.
    It's not a very interesting corner if it only has one pedant in it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FirstMove View Post

    Pedants'
    corner is correct ... The corner belonging to several pedants.
    It's not a very interesting corner if it only has one pedant in it.
    Well yes, but you were the only pedant, and it was you that suggested the corner

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    Well yes, but you were the only pedant, and it was you that suggested the corner
    I think someone else suggested it (and started the thread) before FirstMove. And there's more than one of 'em in there...
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    Re: English language classes

    witch is da gr8st prblm bad speling no punkchewayshen gangsta rap inglish txt spk

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    Re: English language classes

    My Gramma has been dead for some time now.

    As long as people can read and understand what you are writing, does it matter?

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    Re: English language classes

    Quote Originally Posted by Bubble View Post
    witch is da gr8st prblm bad speling no punkchewayshen gangsta rap inglish txt spk
    you forgot the "or".

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    Re: English language classes

    Quote Originally Posted by Martin View Post
    My Gramma has been dead for some time now.

    As long as people can read and understand what you are writing, does it matter?
    There starts the long slippery slope down to pictograms daubed on cave walls and communication by grunting. Yes it matters. A great deal. There's a general dumbing down these days when there should be a raising up. Education is universal, people can surely handle some simple rules. Even the media assumes it is talking to stupid people nowadays : see here

    that article contains this...

    Yet another notes: "Whilst I haven't noted a particular increase of signs and symptoms associated with parafunctional [not to do with normal actions] clenching and grinding during the period of the recession, this is generally a phenomenon that is slowly increasing in prevalence."
    C'mon! An aside in a bbc news story explaining what parafunctional means, I think anyone who didn't know the word would have had an educated guess and figured it out without the patronising aside. There seems to be more and more of this these days.

    I remember when it was all fields.


    ...as an aside, reading that quote is very amusing out of context like that, if you assume it is about dance rather than teeth

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    Re: English language classes

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    There starts the long slippery slope down to pictograms daubed on cave walls and communication by grunting.
    That's called being a teenager isn't it?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    ...as an aside, reading that quote is very amusing out of context like that, if you assume it is about dance rather than teeth

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    Re: English language classes

    Quote Originally Posted by Bubble View Post
    witch is da gr8st prblm bad speling no punkchewayshen gangsta rap inglish txt spk
    Quote Originally Posted by Gadget View Post
    you forgot the "or".

    There's always somebody wanting to stick their 'or' in

    (ok, I'll get my coat on the way out...)

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    Re: English language classes

    Quote Originally Posted by gamebird View Post
    There's always somebody wanting to stick their 'or' in

    (ok, I'll get my coat on the way out...)
    no, here, I got it for you

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