Where has English Grammar gone?
May 24th 2010, 9:39 am
#17
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Re: Where has English Grammar gone?
You beat me to it and I'm not sure what to make of the following 'sentence'.
How lazy have we all become, I sit at night and do my sons/daughters spelling and make them spell every word they get wrong twice may 3 times, but my daughter especially will go straight after and text her friend and do all this text speak, what are we getting ready to be the captains of our industry and to run our world??
Last edited by Bo-Jangles; May 24th 2010 at 9:47 am.
May 24th 2010, 10:03 am
#18
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Re: Where has English Grammar gone?
please get real!
times channge and so dos the language and the weigh we speak and spel it as well.
Who gives a toss as to how a word is spelled or if it is correct in its placement.
As long as we undestand it so what. The days of proper gramer are well gone and no wondr with the vast ethnic mixes we have now a days!
so please get a grip the cavemen moved on from ughh and uhhhs and we will continue to adapt and change. didnt stop you understanding this crap post now did it!
times channge and so dos the language and the weigh we speak and spel it as well.
Who gives a toss as to how a word is spelled or if it is correct in its placement.
As long as we undestand it so what. The days of proper gramer are well gone and no wondr with the vast ethnic mixes we have now a days!
so please get a grip the cavemen moved on from ughh and uhhhs and we will continue to adapt and change. didnt stop you understanding this crap post now did it!
May 24th 2010, 10:21 am
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Re: Where has English Grammar gone?
It took me a log time to accept that people just spell differently.
I hate the Americanisation of spelling but it's microsoft make it easy for people to change it and the internet floods us with it.
At uni, we can only write in NZ English and that makes me much more comfortable. Still we have to refer to the World Health Organization because that's the official name.
My husband thinks I'm anal, and he's right. I need to let it go and realise that language changes over time and as long as it is fit for purpose who cares?
I was listening to a linguist on National Radio a few weeks back who suggested that language will continue to simplify before the pendulum swings back again as complex meaning is lost.
I hate the Americanisation of spelling but it's microsoft make it easy for people to change it and the internet floods us with it.
At uni, we can only write in NZ English and that makes me much more comfortable. Still we have to refer to the World Health Organization because that's the official name.
My husband thinks I'm anal, and he's right. I need to let it go and realise that language changes over time and as long as it is fit for purpose who cares?
I was listening to a linguist on National Radio a few weeks back who suggested that language will continue to simplify before the pendulum swings back again as complex meaning is lost.
May 24th 2010, 1:37 pm
#20
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Re: Where has English Grammar gone?
Not too many english speaking left in England now.......
May 24th 2010, 4:52 pm
#21
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Re: Where has English Grammar gone?
I hate it when people spell incorrectly and have even been known to correct signs in bars when drunk.
I'm a primary school teacher and the rumour around school is that 'you have to speak posh when you are in Miss Rileys class.' Makes me smile all the time!
I'm a primary school teacher and the rumour around school is that 'you have to speak posh when you are in Miss Rileys class.' Makes me smile all the time!
May 25th 2010, 12:57 pm
#24
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Re: Where has English Grammar gone?
I enjoy both the simplicity of contemporary English along with the beautiful complex forms and precise wording of traditional English. The written English that was still used in schools just 50 years ago appears as archaic now as the books written now do to children filled with quirks of the language yet to be ironed out. Well used language always has something old, something new, something borrowed and something original about it all at once.
May 25th 2010, 6:02 pm
#25
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Re: Where has English Grammar gone?
It used to just be kids spelling things in text speak but sadly now I find myself doing it and reading through most threads here we are all at it.
I am going to make a stance and not do text speak on any future posts and I urge everyone on here to do the same.
I find it funny that Americans spell some words as they sound and even snear SNEER at them for it i.e. color and putting a z in lieu of an s in words like organisation etc.
How lazy have we all become, I sit at night and do my sons/daughters spelling and make them spell every word they get wrong twice may 3 times, but my daughter especially will go straight after and text her friend and do all this text speak, what are we getting ready to be the captains of our industry and to run our world??
I am going to make a stance and not do text speak on any future posts and I urge everyone on here to do the same.
I find it funny that Americans spell some words as they sound and even snear SNEER at them for it i.e. color and putting a z in lieu of an s in words like organisation etc.
How lazy have we all become, I sit at night and do my sons/daughters spelling and make them spell every word they get wrong twice may 3 times, but my daughter especially will go straight after and text her friend and do all this text speak, what are we getting ready to be the captains of our industry and to run our world??
May 25th 2010, 10:21 pm
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Re: Where has English Grammar gone?
Now I could really put the cat among the pigeons - I say loads of Doric words and my DH thinks my mum made them up!
I haven't a clue how to spell most of them yet I use them almost daily.
I do have a pet grammar hate though.
their, they're, there ~ argh
and "I done..."
Then again I admit to being a terrible speller and am too lazy to use spell check
I haven't a clue how to spell most of them yet I use them almost daily.
I do have a pet grammar hate though.
their, they're, there ~ argh
and "I done..."
Then again I admit to being a terrible speller and am too lazy to use spell check
May 26th 2010, 8:47 am
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Re: Where has English Grammar gone?
Now I could really put the cat among the pigeons - I say loads of Doric words and my DH thinks my mum made them up!
I haven't a clue how to spell most of them yet I use them almost daily.
I do have a pet grammar hate though.
their, they're, there ~ argh
and "I done..."
Then again I admit to being a terrible speller and am too lazy to use spell check
I haven't a clue how to spell most of them yet I use them almost daily.
I do have a pet grammar hate though.
their, they're, there ~ argh
and "I done..."
Then again I admit to being a terrible speller and am too lazy to use spell check
May 26th 2010, 9:44 am
#29
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Re: Where has English Grammar gone?
We was brunged up to speek proper in the North 
May 26th 2010, 9:47 am
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Re: Where has English Grammar gone?
Wasn't the thread about grammar ? Not about spelling?