College-level grammar lost on college students

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

[Willie Green]

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[RexBeach]

Maria Montessori taut mee too rite.

[Puppage]

College-level grammar lost on college students

Not 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.

[Stellar Dendrite]

Ebonics in the classroom will solve this problem. ;)

[rickmichaels]

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.

[ClearCase_guy]

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.

[VoiceOfBruck]

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.

[steveo]

This am a grate post, thanks.

[MEG33]

It's like, you know, I hate it when,like, people don't know how to spell lose.
They spell it loose...you know?

[KarlInOhio]

That's college level grammar? The nuns in elementary school would have smacked me for some of those mistakes.

[msnimje]

Eye R vary prowd ov mi publik skool edumication.

[Bigh4u2]

I'm bet you arss.

[elli1]

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???

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[RexBeach]

I love this! Thank you! LOL! No, no, I mean, like thank you. There, that's like better. Like.

[RexBeach]

I love this! Thank you! LOL! No, no, I mean, like thank you. There, that's like better. Like.

[Bigh4u2]

" 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?

[Puppage]

GRAMMER?

[MamaTexan]

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'?

[Bigh4u2]

That looks more like a 'PAPPER'.

Grammer bakes cakes and pies.

[Kretek]

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. ;-)