Posted on 05/16/2011 8:07:36 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
I was in the gym yesterday. No sound. I’m reading the screen. The first three readings didn’t makes sense. What is there to do in Miami? I tried to force the sentence into that mold. I focused on each letter...Oh, they meant THEIR.
Maybe it’s a small thing but I admit my head was spinning a little. This is Fox News. The world is watching. Supposedly a conservative network, so they should care about language. Presumably they hire only the best editors and writers. But these poor bumblers can’t write basic English. OMG!
First, let’s congratulate the Education Establishment. I’ve always suspected they hope to turn American civilization into a giant Babel. Clearly, they are doing it. (You want to see what the future looks like? Go to YouTube, look at the comments that younger people leave. It’s gibberish, It’s what you get from an education elite that always defends slang, fuzziness, bad grammar, guessing, close is good enough, the non-teaching of everything, and the never memorizing of anything.)
It’s just a fact of life. We have these three words (there/their/they’re) that sound alike but they’re quite different. Each word tells an interesting story. It’s the kind of trio that kids can easily learn by the fifth grade. They simply have to memorize the differences. That’s precisely what our batty Education Establishment forbids. (Item #6 on my "Top 10 Worst Ideas In Education goes: "NO MEMORIZATION -- This is standard operating procedure in all grades and in all courses. It is an excellent policy if you wish to ensure cultural illiteracy and societal amnesia.")
There are many Americans who think they can turn their back on bad public schools, and escape into private schools and homeschooling. Maybe there’s no escape. Public schools are writing those headlines on Fox News!
I submit that the so-called writer went to a bad public school and an undemanding college, and now that person can spread the intellectual corruption. How can parents tell their kids to study? The kids can reply, “Look. The big networks can’t spell. What difference does it make?” Thank you, Fox News.
As I say, congratulations are in order. Our education professors know their stuff. The dogma -- more and more dominant -- is that every child must have an IEP (Individualized Education Plan). Roughly translated, that means every student learns something different, and nobody learns it well. Welcome to Babel.
I know there are good teachers who will prevail if at all possible. But the game is stacked against them. They are actively maneuvered away from being good teachers. For one small example, a gimmick called Whole Language has been saying for 50 years that if you just let children handle books, HALLELUJAH, they will read, know how to spell and punctuate, and be able to write copy for TV stations. Not much teaching required! Just a little. Give the kid another pretty book. They will pick up those words right through the pores in their skin. Or there skin. Whichever.
So what’s the first order of business? Let’s shame Fox News into doing a better job. Second order of business: could we possibly shame the Education Establishment into trying to do a better job? Well, I’m trying.
Third order of business is to constantly lecture the kids that they have to get involved in their own education because a lot of people in charge of their education do not give a damn. The link goes to “A Speech To Teenagers About Their Education,” which makes that exact point.
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For more about the grammatical side of life (e.g., “Let’s kiss Gertrude” is not the same as “Let’s kiss, Gertrude,” see “13: Precision Worth Preserving,” on Improve-Education.org.)
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http://www.articlesbase.com/education-articles/a-speech-to-teenagers-about-their-education-744773.html
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I have no idea what your rambling post is supposed to indicate, but the word usage in the FOX sentence is CORRECT!
Why would they use the possessive form to ask what activities are available in Miami?
Stop trying to sell your products - you are clearly not a good spokesperson! Sorry!
What is THERE to do in Miami is PERFECTLY CORRECT
>I was in the gym yesterday.<
And it had FNC on? No gym in L.A. would ever have it on or the libtards would throw a hissy fit.
You have to remember that the text in the moving banner is created by voice recognition software ... not someone typing! You get a lot of crazy things because a lot of words sound the same! FOX isn’t dumb or stupid ... the voice recognition software is just not human!
Journalists are pretty lose with the language.
Hmm, did you mis-spell on purpose?..:=)
Of course I did. I thought it would be obvious.
Way to much talking. That's not who I was going too. What is there channel? I here it was allot of fun. This is as hugh and series as having you're beeber on stune.
It was, just checking..:=)
Yu neid two lern to spehl!
“...that every child must have an IEP (Individualized Education Plan”
That’s just for kids who are in the special ed program. FWIW, teachers are NOT pushing for all kids to have an IEP.
you can always tell someone who is from DC...(right or left) they always start their answers with “I mean...”...check it out I’m right on this one,,,it drives me NUTS!!! I mean ..really drives me nuts!
Eye have a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight for it to say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lee ever wrong
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased to no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer told me sew
The spell check in most word processing programs is to blame for much of this.
That may be among the myried of reasons why traditional media continues to loose audience. Those engaged in communications really should of payed attention to grammer lessons. Its a shame so few know basic rules of sintax.
Would it be bad form for me to point out a typo in the article?
“It’s gibberish, It’s what you get from an education elite that always defends slang, fuzziness, bad grammar, guessing, close is good enough, the non-teaching of everything, and the never memorizing of anything.)”
There should either be a period at the end of the first sentence instead of a comma, or no capitalization of the word “It’s.”
Just sayin’.
The SPEL CHEQUER is not the problem. Bad language skills amongst the presstitute class is a PEBCAD issue.
A friend retired early as a national editor for NBC. When I asked why he left early, he said “I have corrected the spelling and grammar of the last carefully coiffed, talking head from the Columbia School of Journalism that I can stand.”
His view was something to the effect of “Bad Presstitutes! BAD, BAAAD Presstitutes!
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