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Not really funny, but very sad when you think about it. This is from my fiancee's facebook. Is this really the literacy rate of people today?
 
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HumblePie said:
No really funny, but very sad when you think about it. This is from my fiancee's facebook. Is this really the literacy rate of people today?
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Scary but all too true...I'm taking online classes to get my bachelors (I'm almost 40D🙂 and the posts some of the kids make to our discussions are sadly close to this, the essays that half of them wrote for Comp I are just pathetic, I swear they don't even know how to use spell check let alone use proper grammar.
 
corwin said:
Scary but all too true...I'm taking online classes to get my bachelors (I'm almost 40D🙂 and the posts some of the kids make to our discussions are sadly close to this, the essays that half of them wrote for Comp I are just pathetic, I swear they don't even know how to use spell check let alone use proper grammar.
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This is the problem with America. We pass children who are basically one step above a mentally handicapped child. It used to be that if you were this way you had to repeat the grade because you were too stupid.
 
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This is the problem with America. We pass children who are basically one step above a mentally handicapped child. It used to be that if you were this way you had to repeat the grade because you were too stupid.
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When you switch to an education system that is based on hard scores on tests and the number of people that pass, there is a very strong incentive to make it very very easy to pass.
 
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This is the problem with America. We pass children who are basically one step above a mentally handicapped child. It used to be that if you were this way you had to repeat the grade because you were too stupid.
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Of course, everybody gets a blue ribbon now, we're all winners🙄
 
HumblePie said:
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No really funny, but very sad when you think about it. This is from my fiancee's facebook. Is this really the literacy rate of people today?
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It's like someone took a Google translation server and fed it into a grain thresher.



Edit: Re-reading the post....and after it's been fed through a grain thresher, it was dumped into a particle accelerator where dictionaries were slammed into the tattered remains at 99.8% of the speed of light, sending words and punctuation marks flying off at incredible speeds, whereupon some of them embedded themselves into the Wallium-Terbium Facebookamide (WTF) lattice surrounding the test chamber.


Incidentally, I now know why the goat in post# 14801 was screaming.😱
 
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corwin said:
Scary but all too true...I'm taking online classes to get my bachelors (I'm almost 40D🙂 and the posts some of the kids make to our discussions are sadly close to this, the essays that half of them wrote for Comp I are just pathetic, I swear they don't even know how to use spell check let alone use proper grammar.
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If you confront one of these mongrels about their grammatical transgressions they will say "Ho! Ho! You see, this is just the way that I type things that don't matter! When I have to do a school essay, I use proper grammar." Yet, lo and behold, you take a look at one of their essays, and there it is, festooned with all manner of grammatical error and blunder.
 
tcG said:
If you confront one of these mongrels about their grammatical transgressions they will say "Ho! Ho! You see, this is just the way that I type things that don't matter! When I have to do a school essay, I use proper grammar." Yet, lo and behold, you take a look at one of their essays, and there it is, festooned with all manner of grammatical error and blunder.
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Not too surprising. I admit that I type much more informally on a forum such as this one, and my posts wouldn't pass muster in a proper essay format...but my mistakes have nothing on those people.

I am tempted to start a business, just so that I can crush the spirits of people like that in interviews.
 
tcG said:
If you confront one of these mongrels about their grammatical transgressions they will say "Ho! Ho! You see, this is just the way that I type things that don't matter! When I have to do a school essay, I use proper grammar." Yet, lo and behold, you take a look at one of their essays, and there it is, festooned with all manner of grammatical error and blunder.
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To be fair, some of us CAN accomplish that kind of switch. 😉

But it's an oft-used excuse that isn't backed up by reality for many individuals.

For me, I'll admit I can rarely crank out a perfect post or essay without a single edit. The concept being: edit, and knowing what to look for. I think free-flow and type accordingly for a first-pass, then go into edit-mode and carefully clean up any messes. Sometimes I'll have to scrap an entire paragraph, or at least a few sentences, because I wrote myself into a corner and can't, imho, clean it up with good flow AND proper grammar.
 
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