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Old 05-22-2007, 06:08 PM   #1 (permalink)
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This topic trouble me so. First off, I don't understand how anyone can go through schooling and not know how to spell properly. How does that happen? Are you people not required to write in school? Are all your classes oral? Do you not read books? I'm speaking from a viewpoint of a foreigner who took English twice a week (yes, that means I was required to speak or read in English only an hour and a half a week) and yet it appears that my grammar is better than 70% of the native English speakers...are you people not embarrassed of this fact? Admittedly, my grammar and spelling are far from perfect, but if I can manage to construct a coherent sentence in a foreign language, how is it that so many native English speakers fail to do the same? Really...I'm curious to know. What are your excuses? How do the rest of you, the (seeming) minority that has a handle on their own language, explain this phenomenon?
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Old 05-22-2007, 06:18 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I explain this phenomenon by saying that a lot of people (especially Americans) are lazy idiots who feel it's better to save time in writing whatever they're writing than to make their sentence coherent. Sorry if that was incoherent.
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Old 05-22-2007, 06:22 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I explain this phenomenon by saying that a lot of people (especially Americans) are lazy idiots who feel it's better to save time in writing whatever they're writing than to make their sentence coherent. Sorry if that was incoherent.
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Curiosity marijan, are you basing this off from encounters with teenage americans on forums? Because thats a terrible thing to base it off. Since the majority of teens on the internet think its okay to type like they're writing a text message.
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Old 05-22-2007, 06:26 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Teenage Americans make me want to laugh and then choke myself with a cereal bar.
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Old 05-22-2007, 06:28 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Curiosity marijan, are you basing this off from encounters with teenage americans on forums? Because thats a terrible thing to base it off. Since the majority of teens on the internet think its okay to type like they're writing a text message.
So you're saying that in real life they're quite capable of spelling normally?
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Old 05-22-2007, 06:33 PM   #6 (permalink)
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d00d it s nat mi foult i dun carr, i liek 2 busy txtn to do the sentuncos.

****, i put a comma in there >.<

you'd be surprised at how bad some kids are at genral reading and writing comprehension at my school, but mainly it's because it doesn't have an immediate benefit and its rather time consuming at first, making kids not want to push themselves to get better at it.

i blame microsoft word >:[
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So you're saying that in real life they're quite capable of spelling normally?
I find most of them are quite capable, they're just lazy.
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I don't accept that as a valid excuse. No one is that lazy.
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Old 05-22-2007, 06:52 PM   #9 (permalink)
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You'd be amazed, i've called people out on it hear and they all tell me this isn't school.
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You'd be amazed, i've called people out on it hear and they all tell me this isn't school.
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I blame the educational system.

In my day the curriculum was much more demanding than it is nowadays.
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