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[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Dan

Exactly. On the other hand, I worked with someone until a while ago who had been written off by many as being thick as mince, but I suspect he may have been mildly Autistic. He was like the ****ing Rain Man when it came to numbers, and was highly artistic, very inventive and a great creative thinker.

Just goes to show that it cuts both ways - some are diagnosed wrongly and never succeed as a result, some aren't diagnosed at all and do brilliantly.

You should offer to take him to a Casino for a weekend...........

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

You should offer to take him to a Casino for a weekend...........

Who says I haven't already

Seriously though, we were all stood around in his office drinking coffee one day and discussing his Rain Man tendencies, when someone pointed at the whiteboard and said

"Go on then, how many letters are on the board".

"271" he came back. So we counted. All the way to 279, and then we took the **** mercilessly until he said...

"There's a phone number on there too. You said 'letters' not 'characters'"

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Dan

Who says I haven't already

Seriously though, we were all stood around in his office drinking coffee one day and discussing his Rain Man tendencies, when someone pointed at the whiteboard and said

"Go on then, how many letters are on the board".

"271" he came back. So we counted. All the way to 279, and then we took the **** mercilessly until he said...

"There's a phone number on there too. You said 'letters' not 'characters'"

Woohoo - Vegas here you come

I think its AMAZING that some people can do this kind of thing, and that its terrible that they end up getting judged as being "wrong".

They are just different, not better, not worse.

[gruntygiggles]

Originally Posted by Luckypants

Yes I often think it is laziness. They are either to lazy to make an effort to write an intelligible post or were to lazy to make an effort at school and now know no better.

In my opinion nothing makes you appear poorly educated or thick more than an inability to read or write to a basic standard. I know we all have to make allowances for those with genuine problems, but it seems to me (and has already been posted) that these conditions are bandied about as excuses for poor academic performance by those that just cannot be arsed.

In fact, after reading some posts on an undergraduate forum recently, I despair of the level reading and writing skills that is acceptable in schools currently.

+1

And do you know what really gets my goat?????

When you have the government designing ad campaigns for school kids and using words like, "woz" and "ere" in some attempt to be cool and get down with the kids.

When did it become so wrong to want to keep the English language alive?

Originally Posted by The Guru

It annoys me aswell, but at the end of the day some people have poor reading and writing abilities... and some people are just thick.

I think that a lot of the trouble these days is that some people just aren't bothered.

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

I think its AMAZING that some people can do this kind of thing, and that its terrible that they end up getting judged as being "wrong".

They are just different, not better, not worse.

Spot on. Excellent post.

Originally Posted by Ed

I hate 'should/could/would of' instead of 'should/could/would have'

So ignorant

I've just thought of a few others that really get on my wick.

One being the use of 'been' instead of 'being'.

Another being the number of times I see people write 'I can' when they mean 'I can't'.

'Alot' instead of 'a lot'

'Breaks' instead of 'brakes'

[anna]

I understand the annoyances with text speak. It can be difficult to follow and, has only come about due to the mobile phone technology and the need for a short hand version of English.

All languages evolve whether it is a good thing or a bad thing who knows. It seems that currently English language is evolving purely down to the fact that the following generations are either too lazy or not being educated properly.

For myself I used to consider that I was taught to a reasonable standard of English after all I can read, and I can write English well enough to converse and have held employment in reasonable positions of needing language skills to negotiate.

However, it is only when I had to learn a new language that I realised that in fact my English education was falling seriously short and, what is more it is falling shorter than the education in European countries.

For example, the structure of English language was not taught to me in any great depth, which makes learning a new language incredibly difficult. Not only do I have to learn the terms for the grammatical differences that I am learning in the new language, but I also have to learn the same term in English and what it is. For example subjunctives, present continuous infinitives, present subjunctives. All of these elements of grammar make up a language and to learn another language I am finding that I have to learn in English how these terms work, and what they do before I am able to transfer it into the learning language.

This isn’t because I am stupid (oi!!! careful now!!) or that the younger generation is, it´s clearly a sever hole in our English education.

I do suffer from dyslexia, but this wasn't discovered until I was 18 it was actually 1 week from sitting my final A-Level exams they did some test's and said yes actually the reason you find spelling and english difficult is that you are dyslexia. But its to late now to try and get extra time or mark's on your A-Levels. I didn't want to do that either and more to the point!!!!!

I made a decision when i went to Uni that I had got this far without their help why do I need it now.

The only time I used the But I'm dyslexi was to get the computer that my local LEA paid for, for students that went on to University that had a learning disability. I was prepared to pay for my own laptop for my work, but my dad made a point that he had paid council tax etc....... that why shouldn't I get part of the pot.

I could of got lots of extra help at Uni, my coursework to be looked at before submission and any mistakes to be corrected for me to then correct it. A covering letter to then go over the very same coursework to say that this student suffers from a learning disability do not mark down for poor grammer and spelling. But to be honest I didn't want to.

It sometimes takes me a while to post as I have to re-read what I have wrote and sometimes spell check words in Microsoft Word. Or if drew is with me I will ask him how you spell certain words. But i try my best! and hope i don't upset any of you that have to try and read my post's

Now as for shorting of words........... is what you get. I can get sent text messages from my cousions or mates that to be able to read what they say I have to read them out loud!!!

I notice a bit on here but kind of gloss over it (read it out loud) and then I know what they are on able!

This is going to make me seem really old now (and i'm not!) But i think one of the reason's is a change of times. We received an email from a new employee the other day and me and mel (who work on the payroll) could not read what he had wrote. We read the 6 digets then 8 so we have figured that this must be his bank details. That was a business email as well.

Anyway I think I have gone off topic and back on and don't think i answers the OP. But when do i!!!!


EDIT: If anybody wants to quote this and amend any mistakes I would be most grateful...... as Drew is not here!

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by anna

I understand the annoyances with text speak. It can be difficult to follow and, has only come about due to the mobile phone technology and the need for a short hand version of English.

All languages evolve whether it is a good thing or a bad thing who knows. It seems that currently English language is evolving purely down to the fact that the following generations are either too lazy or not being educated properly.

For myself I used to consider that I was taught to a reasonable standard of English after all I can read, and I can write English well enough to converse and have held employment in reasonable positions of needing language skills to negotiate.

However, it is only when I had to learn a new language that I realised that in fact my English education was falling seriously short and, what is more it is falling shorter than the education in European countries.

For example, the structure of English language was not taught to me in any great depth, which makes learning a new language incredibly difficult. Not only do I have to learn the terms for the grammatical differences that I am learning in the new language, but I also have to learn the same term in English and what it is. For example subjunctives, present continuous infinitives, present subjunctives. All of these elements of grammar make up a language and to learn another language I am finding that I have to learn in English how these terms work, and what they do before I am able to transfer it into the learning language.

This isn’t because I am stupid (oi!!! careful now!!) or that the younger generation is, it´s clearly a sever hole in our English education.

Get Filly-pie to write that down for you did you?