Being a newcomer to this Yahoo answer game, but am an avid emailer & texter, does anyone nowadays know how to write proper English? "Your" instead of "You're" , "To" instead of "Too" , "Weather" instead of "Whether" are just 3 of basic grammatical no-brainer mistakes that I see far too often in these type of web pages, emails from friends etc. It's got to stop for the sake of all mankind as we know it!! There's even a spell checker that can be used, but no one can be bothered. I am not a teacher, or a writer. Just a baldyoldgit with a bee in his bonnet. Now why don't you all just f-f-f-f-fade away.......talkin' about my generation. The Who, 1960something, Isle of Wight, LSD & flower people. Now that's my bag man. Nurse, I think it's time for my labotomy.Pass me the screwdriver quick. TTFN playmates.
2007-02-04 05:31:38 · 11 answers · asked by baldyoldgit 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
LOL I totally agree with you, me being 'old school' at the ripe old age of 38!
I think especially texting but also computers in schools have taught the youth of today to abbrieviate and take shortcuts. How many would pass a handwritten assignment??? My guess is, with the bad punctuation, bad spelling and poor grammar, it would have to be very few.
I left high school the year before computers were installed and I thought I had been cheated for it! :)
Seeing your question has put a smile on my dial, thank you!
Take a pass on the labotomy my friend, we need all the baldyoldgit's and old schoolers there are left to survive, so that atleast some kids out there can get a whif of how it was done in the good old days.
2007-02-04 06:35:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A major symptom of the downward spiral this society is in. I notice that the posters from the UK, don't make the same grammatical and spelling errors (and they ARE errors, even if you misspell or use slang on purpose) than the ones from the good old U.S. of A. They obviously have better schooling (and manners, by the way) over there.
I'm from your generation too, and if WE can manage to form proper sentences with correct spelling after having survived the drug-addled 60s and 70s...what's THEIR excuse?
2007-02-04 05:46:43 · answer #2 · answered by LolaCorolla 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These kids nowadays just don't care, I guess. It bothers me too, when they start with their "skool" or other cute new ways of spelling things. But, yes, their grammatical errors or actually just plain misspellings bother me, and I'll even, at times, stop reading the question because of that.
2007-02-04 05:43:02 · answer #3 · answered by MoMoney23 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm with you...a child of the 60's lol
The grammar is awful, some questions are barely decipherable!
Bring back the Queen's English and make everyone use spell check!
2007-02-04 05:46:46 · answer #4 · answered by huggz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you. I think it's caused by a combination of declining educational standards as well as the prevalence of SMS text messaging, which encourages people to start abbreviating words to cut down on the number of letters needed.
2007-02-04 05:35:47 · answer #5 · answered by Groucho Returns 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Poor grammar is a pet peeve of mine, too. I even instist on writing complete sentences in text messages. We seem to be a dwindling minority.
Mixing up 'then' and 'than' and 'effect' and 'affect' are two that really bug me.
It's funny, though, that this concept that there's one and only one way to spell a word it relatively new. In Shakespeare's day, that would have seemed hilariously prudish and pedantic.
2007-02-04 05:38:52 · answer #6 · answered by eschampion 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To me the worst solecism around is "I shouldn't of done it", "I would of gone mad". Every time I see "of" used as the verb "have" I feel like throttling the nearest teacher who refused to correct errors in the classroom. It is not the young person's fault, they were not taught any better.
2007-02-04 08:49:28 · answer #7 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of this started when "He was like really mad" was introduced into our language as an acceptable substitute for "He was it seemed to me really mad". And when Webster put Y'all in the dictionary, can we not say you all or everyone. It makes me sick because I live in Texas and everyone either says Y'all or Like. I think it is starting to wear off on me, like you know.
2007-02-04 05:51:25 · answer #8 · answered by fullofuselessknowledge 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the worse one of all is "there" instead of "their". By the way it's "correct" English and not "proper" English.
2007-02-04 07:26:43 · answer #9 · answered by pontoise 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"besides the incontrovertible fact that it befell 3 years in the past, I nonetheless undergo in innovations it needless to say." is real. "besides the incontrovertible fact that it became into 3 years in the past, I nonetheless undergo in innovations it needless to say." might additionally be the superb option, yet you may no longer use "became into befell" wisely
2016-10-01 10:17:28 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋