General Chat

Building with no foundations.

if you mean the experiment where it was ok to spell a word /say a phrase, wrongly,

on the grounds that the "message was got across" and was thus permitted.....

yes.....

I think that speaking your own language is a skill like any other.

We, who were educated before the changes that came about in the 1970s, were taught the skill to a point where we were able to handle the language with ease and cut corners where we felt happy to do so.

Many of us could write or speak in a totally correct manner but choose to communicate at the level at which all are comfortable.

Unfortunately, those educated after us have never been properly taught the basic skill and can only emulate those who communicate at the level at which most are comfortable.

Right?

but don't you think that it would be boring, if everybody spoke Queens English?
(and don't start sentences with but, or and)
we'd all sound at times as if the plum was still in the mouth, methinks...

I mean, like, Nobody is perfect are they?

Embarrassed to see they came from Norwich lol

Lizx

LOL ;-)

Skirts Bob.

Sorry attempt at humour on my part.

dunno where you got that from,

Sharron,

yeah did my share of pressing pleated skirts....and trousers......shaving brush, water and brown paper and a REALLY hot iron........ pleats that would cut ..



Debbie arrived first then Stephen.......so one of each.........LOL

Look Bob, I know you weren't at school in the seventies when education began to be focused away from learning by rote and upon discovery.

That, Bob, was when you were ironing the skirts of your children (how sad you only had boys!). Cor what a man!

:-D :-D

think it was cos you implied that I woz old .

;-)

How am I being ageist?

I am not at all surprised, if you listen to the way the teachers speak on those Educating...... Programmes, some dreadful grammar there.

I have a great acquaintanceship with the Editor of our local newspaper and some of his reporters, and have done for a while now. I am constantly correcting their reports and spelling too sometimes.

Only last evening I read online that A hero Mum stopped a drugged driver..... An heroic Mum would have sounded better and been more correct, after all heroes are male and I pointed that out too.

Sometimes they even write the incorrect street name giving a name of a road that isn't even in Norwich. As I was born and bred here I do know most of the street names and it rankles when they get it wrong. Also they often spell the name of my old school incorrectly, it's the Hewett School named after Mordicai Hewett, but it's often written as Hewitt School. That really bugs me!

The I and me thing is annoying, it's so easy to check if you are writing or saying it correctly. You just have to take one person out of the sentence so if you are saying Charlie and I did this it would be I did this and make sense as you wouldn't say me did this as in Charlie and me did this. So many people think they are being 'posh' and say I when they should say me lol (Have I explained it clearly? - it's difficult to write an explanation)

Lizx

Sharron - you're not being ageist, are you :-S

Bob,I know you are too old to use that sort of English.

Ah! Sharron


but they" one " it didn't they?

I thought they'd blown it saying Dimitar..........I always heard it as Dimitry

Is that the same article in the Mail, about illiteracy, where, in the headline, they spelt 'equipped' wrong. They corrected it in later editions.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/10/daily-mail-typo_n_5797616.html

There was an article in the Mail last week by a woman who had resigned her position as an English teacher when she realized how bad her English was.

A parent who was a lawyer had been rude to her when she had said "me and the headmistress are dealing with it" and I can't really blame him!

Good grief!!! :-0

Even my 12 year old grand daughter knows better!

On Pointless I have just heard a headmaster say something was a much more harder word!