This site is interesting and fun but so many contributions are almost unreadable. I don't count people who are using a language that is not their first language. Mind you goodness knows what language some people are using!
2006-11-02 05:13:05 · 17 answers · asked by Cheryl M 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Thank God, I thought I was the only one that thought this.
It is a shame that we have to live in a world where we have old and new generations barely able to write a sentence or read a book. It's as if parents are giving up on all their children. More involvement is needed or this world will go to pieces.
2006-11-02 06:55:47 · answer #1 · answered by earthstarlatin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's so true! The amount of wallybrains on here that can't spell or have poor gramatical skills is quite staggering. I would suspect the ones who can't spell or string a proper sentence together are people under 18 as they will have been through school under Labour, and as we all know schools nowadays don't teach kids anything anymore, not even basic literacy it would appear, they all seem to spell in texting english. Something to be said about being through the education system with the tories, they might have done some nasty things, but at least most people leaving school in the 80's/early to mid 90's could actually spell properly and could count and read, unlike the untouchable lost generation we have now.
2006-11-02 05:26:43 · answer #2 · answered by Alf Garnet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not irritated, but I am worried. I know that some US questions seem to infiltrate the UK and Ireland site, but I assume that the majority I read do originate in the UK. This means that a large number of British people are leaving school with less than a basic knowledge of their language. How can that be happening? This is what's worrying, because our young people are our future and I'm wondering where it's going!
2006-11-02 05:20:33 · answer #3 · answered by uknative 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of the questions appear to be written in potty language, and lots of people who can't read anything else seldom have any trouble with that.
But, no, it doesn't bother me that illiteracy is on the rise. Why should it? Being able to read would help a potential competitor read my treasure maps and find my stash of gems and gold and cashmere sweaters. Or, if someone else dropped a treasure map with written directions, the first dozen people who noticed it might not recognize its value, whereas I certainly would.
And, if there were certain illiterate people whom I wished could read, I could always try to teach them their letters. But why I should care whether that bunch of hostile bozos yonder ever learns to read or not, I've no idea.
2006-11-02 05:24:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not necessarily illiteracy. It's mostly laziness. It's all text speak and shortening words because people can't be arsed to type words in full.
no wot I mean m8 lol.
I did a spell check on that sentence above and the only word it had a problem with was lol!
What does that tell you about the people writing the scripts behind the spell checker here!
2006-11-02 05:18:50 · answer #5 · answered by Martin G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, although I am more irritated than worried. What I hate more is when people answer questions with blatently wrong answers, opinions masquerading as fact, or worst of all "I don't know". If you don't know, why answer?!
2006-11-02 05:18:22 · answer #6 · answered by satyricon_uk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes it is hard to read and make sense out of it. It is irritating especially when we have spell check.
2006-11-02 05:45:19 · answer #7 · answered by B"Quotes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I get where you'r comming from. sometimes I think I am reading the old Payton Place book again
2006-11-02 05:16:00 · answer #8 · answered by Tired Old Man 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Join the club...I fear the future!!
I really like the illiterate idiots that defend their piss-poor grammar as 'no big deal'...
2006-11-02 05:17:13 · answer #9 · answered by a kinder, gentler me 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont know about you but I know about me if I'm worried about something like that i would let it go because it might get you in a lot of trouble.
2006-11-02 05:17:24 · answer #10 · answered by Addinesha E 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋