College-level grammar lost on college students

The Digital Collegian (Penn State) ^ | Friday, Feb. 25, 2005 | Jen Winberry

[Puppage]

LOL! You're kill'n me.

[WildTurkey]

Now let's examine this for a second. Would anyone ever actually write that out on paper? No. So if you wouldn't write it out on paper, why would you say it aloud?

Most like-ly they would, like, have trouble trying to write a sentence.

[Energizer45678]

Great Post. Not to mention the constant use of a voice inflection at the end of every statement that makes the speaker sound as if he or she is asking a question. Where did that come from? It drives me crazy.

[Bigh4u2]

I love the line from the simpsons where Jolene tells Cletus that they shouldn't be kissing 'cause my daddy will get upset' and he tells hers 'that's alright, He's my daddy too.'.

Just about floored me.

[MattinNJ]

Word processors cover up a lot of the problems. I am often amazed at the difference between someone's letters and their e-mails.

Same with calculators. I cannot believe some of the conversations I hear in the mall. "Well, it originally cost $100.00 and then it was 40% off and then they say it's an additional 20% off-How much does it cost?"

[elli1]

...You know, I just have a fundamental disagreement, I guess, with the attitude of the administration with respect to a number of difficult areas. You know, I don't think it hurts us to be vigorously engaged, to be there, you know, conveying our point of view, to make sure we're aware of, you know, every possible option for both carrots and sticks.... (Hillary Rodham Clinton 02.20.05)

[Polyxene]

Beat me to it! And THIS is supposedly the smartest woman in the world! NOT!

[petitfour]

Well, you know, she went to Wellesley, you know, and Yale Law School.

[SAJ]

For the same reason you park in the driveway and drive on the parkway.

;^)

[petitfour]

Because it is actually a sweep for sweeping. (I really, you know, don't know. I bet it's a British thing.) You know. :)

[chs68]

I read this article, and I'm like, "oh my God!", I totally know like what you're trying to say.

I even showed it to a friend, and he's like, "Dude, like awesome!"

KnowwhatImsaying?

[-YYZ-]

Like, ohmygod, gag me with a spoon.

[Goodgirlinred]

This is so funny; but, it is all too true. However, I knew it back in the 80's when I went back to college at the age of 32! The youngsters I was in school with could not write term papers and could barely write a complete sentence.


Like, how weird is that? My English teachers taught my classmates and me how to do all that stuff in the 8th grade. LOL! Oh, and yeah, I can talk like my teenage granddaughter now. I mean, I am 55 and I am starting my second adolescence now. LOL!

[Lazamataz]

There are some stuffs I don't just not understood, and me is at points what I are given up on figure out many ov these puzzleys.

[sine_nomine]

It is all very true. I try to teach grammar to working adult college students. Two causes of the problems are:
1. No Latin training at all. This was a great help in teaching us grammar, sentence structure, advanced composition methods, and spelling;
2. Feel good English classes where no discipline is required in writing or speaking.

Journalists on TV speak horrible English, such as "Among we journalists..." and "The Pope is laying in the hospital bed..." (!?)

[Lee Heggy]

Irregardless of this thread many will still misremember proper grammar anyway.

[Bigh4u2]

"and me is at points what I are given up on figure out many ov these puzzleys."

So dumbed you r.

Turn it round the utter way.

Youze gots it downside up.

[RexBeach]

LOL! Thanks!