[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.

[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.

[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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[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'?

[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. ;-)

[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.

[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?"

[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?

[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.

[Lee Heggy]

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

[Sloth]

Though many resist, I will continue to speak correctly, irregardless.