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College-level grammar lost on college students
The Digital Collegian (Penn State) ^
| Friday, Feb. 25, 2005
| Jen Winberry
Posted on 02/25/2005 11:29:26 AM PST by Willie Green
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To: Willie Green
Maria Montessori taut mee too rite.
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posted on
02/25/2005 11:30:47 AM PST
by
RexBeach
To: Willie Green
College-level grammar lost on college studentsNot to mention History & Geography.
Listen to Hannity's Man on The Street interviews. 24 year old grad students who can't name the Vice President of the United States.
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posted on
02/25/2005 11:32:09 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
To: Willie Green
Ebonics in the classroom will solve this problem. ;)
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posted on
02/25/2005 11:32:47 AM PST
by
Stellar Dendrite
(PROPHETIC list of Communist goals SPREAD THE WORD!: http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm)
To: Willie Green
For the life of me I cannot understand how it is that we have reached this level in our academic careers and we still cannot speak proper English. Perhaps if students put down the Transgendered Studies textbooks, they might actually learn something. Reading "I'm Like Dyke" can only get you so far.
To: Willie Green
Typical suburban kid cannot handle English grammar very well. But, look on the bright side: after being innundated with Spanish language shows on PBS, and Spanish language classes in Grade School all the way up through High School, a good many of those kids can count from 1 to 10 in Spanish! That's got to count for something.
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posted on
02/25/2005 11:35:51 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: Willie Green
Now, do you honestly think the interviewer will hire a perceivably ditzy chica who used the words "like" and "you know" as often as it rains in State College? Or will he or she choose a perceivably intelligent young lass who is well-spoken and articulate.
I think the answer is clear.
He'll hire the good-looking one!
Just kidding! If the interviewer has good language skills, he or she might differentiate based on the prospect's language skills. But that's not as good of an assumption as is implied above.
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posted on
02/25/2005 11:36:28 AM PST
by
VoiceOfBruck
(First the good news - you're going to get a disease named after you.)
To: Willie Green
This am a grate post, thanks.
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posted on
02/25/2005 11:36:29 AM PST
by
steveo
(Member: Fathers Against Rude Television)
To: RexBeach
It's like, you know, I hate it when,like, people don't know how to spell lose.
They spell it loose...you know?
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posted on
02/25/2005 11:37:00 AM PST
by
MEG33
(GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
To: Willie Green
That's college level grammar? The nuns in elementary school would have smacked me for some of those mistakes.
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posted on
02/25/2005 11:37:06 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Blackwell for Governor 2006: hated by the 'Rats, feared by the RINOs.)
To: Willie Green
Eye R vary prowd ov mi publik skool edumication.
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posted on
02/25/2005 11:37:47 AM PST
by
msnimje
To: msnimje
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posted on
02/25/2005 11:38:49 AM PST
by
Bigh4u2
Now, do you honestly think the interviewer will hire a perceivably ditzy chica who used the words "like" and "you know" as often as it rains in State College?
Do you mean someone like Hillary Clinton, hired by the voters of the state of New York to represent them in the United States Senate and who used 'you know' twenty-eight times, by my count, in her appearance on Meet the Press last Sunday???
Transcript
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posted on
02/25/2005 11:39:00 AM PST
by
elli1
To: MEG33
I love this! Thank you! LOL! No, no, I mean, like thank you. There, that's like better. Like.
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posted on
02/25/2005 11:39:11 AM PST
by
RexBeach
To: MEG33
I love this! Thank you! LOL! No, no, I mean, like thank you. There, that's like better. Like.
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posted on
02/25/2005 11:39:26 AM PST
by
RexBeach
To: Puppage
" 24 year old grad students who can't name the Vice President of the United States."
Heck. They don't even know who the FIRST President of the United States is.
George Washlincoln?
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posted on
02/25/2005 11:40:15 AM PST
by
Bigh4u2
To: Stellar Dendrite
GRAMMER?
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posted on
02/25/2005 11:40:28 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
To: Willie Green
we still cannot speak proper English. My family hasn't spoken properly for generations, but it hasn't hurt us any! :)
Kidding aside, one of my daughters brought up an interesting question about English the other day;
If one uses a vacuum to vacuum and a mop to mop,
why, when one uses a broom, isn't it called 'brooming'?
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posted on
02/25/2005 11:41:22 AM PST
by
MamaTexan
(Welcome to Free Republic, the home of conservative cyber cannibals)
To: Puppage
That looks more like a 'PAPPER'.
Grammer bakes cakes and pies.
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posted on
02/25/2005 11:41:33 AM PST
by
Bigh4u2
To: Willie Green
Amy Heckerling's 1995 hit Clueless introduced our generation to this horrible word, and ever since we have not been able to let go of it.Point of information!
Valley Girls had been totally doing that since, like, nineteen eighty-five. ;-)
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posted on
02/25/2005 11:42:31 AM PST
by
Kretek
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