guardian.co.uk — One in 10 parents struggle to understand the bedtime stories they read to their children, a survey by adult learning organisation Learndirect has found. Almost a quarter (23%) skip passages they cannot read or invent words to get to the end of a sentence, the poll found.
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tech42erJul 26, 2007
Don't blame us; you were the ones who insisted on spelling phonetic long "i" as "eye".
tech42erJul 26, 2007
Don't worry. You're at +11 as of this writing.
tech42erJul 26, 2007
If you really want to be pedantic about it, shouldn't you be speaking Middle English or Old English, since modern English is derived from it?
craftycornerJul 26, 2007
In my experience, teaching and helping with homework had changed a lot from when my mother was young and when I was young. I went through the "new math" craze...made helping kids with homework impossible...
sonic007Jul 26, 2007
This is what happens when you inbreed. Having sex with a relative is not a good thing. If you can read and understand books like that go back to school and stay off the drugs. They arent supposed to make complete sense but if you can read it should be good enough.
domiferJul 27, 2007
Serves me right for being an egocentric American - comment cheerfully withdrawn!