They have an image.
It's a feeble image.
Posted on 07/18/2006 2:05:15 PM PDT by JSedreporter
Me fail English? That's unpossible.
Has anyone told grampa?
kid knot need learn rite wright
Oh, wait. Maybe writing it that way would insure no one would take it seriously.
Eschew the hegemony!!!
They have an image.
It's a feeble image.
Interestingly, the languages with the most elaborate grammar are spoken by the most primitive peoples. It is the most archaic forms of the Indo-European languages, such as Sanskrit and Lithuanian, that preserve the original 8 cases.
As time goes by, countries and empires form, technology advances, and everything gets simplied.
Itnertsyli, ti si nto raeyll ncessyra ot vene slpel crrocelty, hte gtsi fo hte msseage wlli gte thourgh.
Grammar is so, like, uncool. What's so important about being understood? When we each have our own value system, and each value system is as valid as any other, what do I care what you think (or write)? And if you don't understand what I write, what difference does it make?
Ignorance is bliss. Don't worry, be happy.
God Bless You!
Vogon poetry just got better.
Most voucher systems would give the parent half of the amount the state dedicates to each student. The other half would still go to the public school.
It still seems like a pretty good deal. We'd be paying the public school $8000 a year to "not" teach our kids, instead of the current $16,000 we pay them to "not" teach them. It would be something like a protection racket, paying them in effect to leave us alone and stay out of the way.
At $8000 it would be well worth it. Instead of paying them to fail, we pay them to go away.
So...all those early years where the kids get to see hundreds of examples of error intermingled with the correct leads them to have difficulty intuitively seeing the correct? Who'd have thought?
If I understand this correctly, they want to de-emphasize correct usage so the creativity of the writer is not shackled. That makes perfect sense. That's why in the past, when a lot of people who became writers studied not only English grammar but sometimes the classical languages as well, people were stuck with having to read DeFoe, Stevenson, Swift, Dickens, Emerson, Twain, Hawthorne, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Frost, etc., while our own time, free from such contraints, is thick with literary giants.
I'll check this out when I get back from the baffroom.
If one cannot write, it is a fair assumption that one has not read. If one has not read, it is a fair assumption that one cannot think.
I have to tell you, I find it almost ironic that here we have an article decrying how easy teachers have been on students, not correcting their spelling, word usage mistakes for YEARS in order that they don't hurt feelings, damage self-esteem and all that. Yet let me attempt to correct another poster's misspells, pronoun error, not a probable typo but actual and in fact grammatical error on one of these internet forums and I am labeled pedantic, *grammar-cop*, or some other derrogative name. All because I wish to note the difference between imply and infer, affect and effect, inform others that using *second of all* after *first of all* is ungrammatical ... don't get me started on *irregardless* ....
Academics aren't the only ones who've KO'd grammar, I'm sorry to say. :(
So why is it again they KO'ed Kelsey Grammar? Was it over a past Frasier episode?
Amazing that actually writing is more effective at making better writers than having them correct 20 sentences in a workbook. I never would have thought that. /sarcasm
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