Teachers ! Is This Your Legacy ?

Question

What do yo think your roll has been in the destruction of the English language on this media ?
How is it that the majority of questions are posed using goofy lingo or just plain rank bad sentence construction ?
So bad, indeed, that it is often impossible to determine the questioner's sense.
Someone has a lot to answer for, and I happen to believe it is the teaching profession.
What do you think ?

Jon B.
Your answer is pathetic !!

Sorry !
I used the word "roll". I should have used "role".

Answer 1

From the way you ask your question I gather that you are American.
Now, how can you expect any American to use an average, proper language when you have such a model in your President.
Secondly, you are definitely right to blame the teachers!! Who else: the parents? the media? No no no, that would be too easy. THEY have better things to do or want to sell more fast copies.
Thirdly, I know some very well-educated Caucasians, so why worry?

Answer 2

I think it's you (or "yo") with your negative attitude. My "roll" is usually filled with bacon and possibly HP sauce, so I'm not sure that can be blamed for your poor spelling. "Media" entered the English language from Latin and was a plural, so I can only assume you meant to say "this medium" or "these media". Either way it doesn't make much sense: are you treating the internet or World Wide Web as a "medium" or are you referring to this particular site? I love the fact that your third "sentence" does not have a finite clause: some people might say that that means it isn't a sentence at all! Was that what you were trying to show?

What you must realise is that most questions on here are deliberately silly; manipulating the language is one way of making people laugh. However, as an ex-teacher of English, I do agree that many of my colleagues were practically illiterate, with few ideas of what they were meant to be teaching. The main problems, though, are society, parents' attitudes and the fact that many children have no interest in learning. Can you blame them? Why read a novel when you could be "TXTing" your "m8s" and watching the X Factor?

Answer 3

In my own opinion English language has and will always evolved no matter what happen.
DESTRUCTION is such a big word to use, do you know for sure that all people who asks question under this category are teachers such a big assumption don't you think?
Well if you are annoyed with all the people who typed such goofy lingo, then don't answer there questions.
Teachers are not the only people to blame there are many factors to consider the environment/community they live in, the media, the parents.

If you really believe that teachers are to blame then you must hate your teachers and your parents remember they are our first teacher.

Answer 4

i don`t think your being very fair here .My children have very good and caring teachers .Grammar is not the be all and end all in life .Being realistic i think whatever teachers do most children will stick with the grammar used in their local dialect or they will be seen as an outsider .Spelling and grammar always has changed in English ,go back a few hundred years and its hardly recognisable as the same language.so why should a form of English that only the minority choose to use be the only correct one ,and the rest of of us be looked down on
Apart from all that sometimes when i answer questions i choose to write the way i speak ,reason being, it sounds like me ,and its the only way to get a bit of your own personality into what you write , otherwise it gets very boring .We don`t want to be a bunch of clones.

Answer 5

It sounds like you don't like teachers. Many sites are blocked on school computers--chat rooms, IM software, myspace, etc. If the students are using goofy lingo, it's not on the school's time, unless they are circumventing the rules. In that case, the dean would suspend their computer privileges.
If your child is writing like that (or even if he isn't), it's time to move the computer where you can supervise usage. You have a right to know where your child is at all times, including on the web. It would also be important to know who his/her friends are!
Teachers are only as good as the parents who raise them. If education isn't supported at home, how are teachers supposed to help your child learn?

Answer 6

I think you are talking nonsense. Destruction is a big word, and this website is used by quite a wide range of ages, so it isn't really a good indicator of the state of teenagers' english. Teachers do a fantastic job, in the face of increasing paperwork and control from the managerial sector. I blame Tony Blair - but then I blame him for most things - couldn't find my socks this morning and I took Tony's name in vain.
And it's "role", by the way.

Answer 7

You may have a point, but as someone pointed out, you assume that all of us speak English.
We don't! Many of badly written questions are obviously written by people who have not English as first language (you see that in the way the sentences are formed).
I don't speak English either: it is my fourth language! (French first, add others...)
English has the advantage of being easy to learn and is very popular, even in remote places on Earth.
If it were to become universal, so be it.
If it was 2 becom mispel an grafical, so be it!
As long as we understand each other.
It would make things easier.

Answer 8

you were right to say on this media there seems to be destruction of the english language.please dont blame the teacher who has nothing to do students who behave irresponsibly.They may comunicate in a way you do not like but they know thier language very well.

Answer 9

The english language has been evolving since its inception.

I think teachers in the UK have been against the "l8r, cya, b4" etc type language which seems to have spawned itself from children/teenagers using their imagination when saving characters in SMS messages.

Why try to blame someone? It shows creativity IMO ;)

Answer 10

Well, speaking as a teacher "you can take a horse to water but a pencil must be lead." One can't force people to learn, one can only inspire. And those who are inspirational are rare within the teaching profession. It is not well paid enough that those who know how to do it, are prepared to do it, because they can get better monies elsewhere. "Those who can do, those who can't teach, and those who can't teach, teach gym" Woody Allen (and others).