timesonline.co.uk— Children are being held back at school because they are forced to memorise irregular spellings and learn how to use the apostrophe, a leading academic will claim.
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I'm seriously surprised at how many Americans, especially on Digg, are unable to spell correctly or use proper grammar. I'm from Holland and even I can somehow manage to easily discern between "your" and "you're", or "there", "they're" and "their".
I do my best to pronounce "Favre" as "Fah-vre." I admit that I don't do it very well. But I just can't sit around saying "Farve," when I know perfectly well that the v comes before the r. Saying "Farve" is like saying "nucular."
Speaking about America because I live here. Had I included anything outside of America, some assh**e on Digg would have called me out for the same thing, Raven.
bananasluggy,I can totally relate. I didn't graduate all that long ago, and I was severely chastised by my English teacher for using colloqualisms in our writing. Sadly, this concept of there being certain forms of expression which are fine for texting but inappropriate in other domains seems to have become more few, to paraphrase a certain leader. The attitude is, "u no wut i ment neways!!!1!!" If anyone dares say such a thing to my face, I will have to teach them a lesson of a different sort. The press is not much better. One day I noticed "begs the question" used several times within just a twenty minute time frame, across multiple channels. Grrr.
Necrobump but yeah, you've typed four lines of text and made very little sense with it.Are you trying to get a point across faster than you can type? Hint: slow down.
That is the most bulls**t connection anyone has ever made. Pretty much someone of every last name has written science fiction. It'd be ironic if his name was Orwell but just because his last name is like an author who wrote in just about the SAME GENRE as George Orwell that doesn't mean it's a funny connection.
aksn1p3rSep 8, 2008
Chatter: A wuu2 l2m lob nu? Digger: WTF?
plasmaticaSep 9, 2008
I'm seriously surprised at how many Americans, especially on Digg, are unable to spell correctly or use proper grammar. I'm from Holland and even I can somehow manage to easily discern between "your" and "you're", or "there", "they're" and "their".
elliamSep 9, 2008
You just disunderstand it.
zdigglerSep 9, 2008
I'm sorry you must be really dumb.
idiggaponySep 9, 2008
I do my best to pronounce "Favre" as "Fah-vre." I admit that I don't do it very well. But I just can't sit around saying "Farve," when I know perfectly well that the v comes before the r. Saying "Farve" is like saying "nucular."
xomb13zSep 9, 2008
Speaking about America because I live here. Had I included anything outside of America, some assh**e on Digg would have called me out for the same thing, Raven.
dixtaSep 10, 2008
Sentence fragment."'Sentence fragment' is also a sentence fragment!"".... Must conserve battery....."
spectre_25gtSep 10, 2008
@sat0shiIf pictographic characters like Kanji were a complete answer, the kana would not exist.
georgefishOct 10, 2008
bananasluggy,I can totally relate. I didn't graduate all that long ago, and I was severely chastised by my English teacher for using colloqualisms in our writing. Sadly, this concept of there being certain forms of expression which are fine for texting but inappropriate in other domains seems to have become more few, to paraphrase a certain leader. The attitude is, "u no wut i ment neways!!!1!!" If anyone dares say such a thing to my face, I will have to teach them a lesson of a different sort. The press is not much better. One day I noticed "begs the question" used several times within just a twenty minute time frame, across multiple channels. Grrr.
steviesteveoSep 8, 2009
Necrobump but yeah, you've typed four lines of text and made very little sense with it.Are you trying to get a point across faster than you can type? Hint: slow down.
steviesteveoSep 8, 2009
That is the most bulls**t connection anyone has ever made. Pretty much someone of every last name has written science fiction. It'd be ironic if his name was Orwell but just because his last name is like an author who wrote in just about the SAME GENRE as George Orwell that doesn't mean it's a funny connection.
shelpeareMay 31, 2010
See this interesting take on the "I before E except after C" rule. What would life be like if this rule turned out to be true:<a class="user" href="http://www.bukisa.com/articles/287080_they-said" rel="nofollow">http://www.bukisa.com/articles/287080_they-said</a>