Allegedly, on or about 31 January 2013, Craig White sent: > better get used to it and other language simplifications encouraged by > SMS/tweeting/etc. It's only going to increase. There's younger > generations that simply aren't likely to feel bound your rules. > > Grammar snobbery is just going to turn you into an unhappy PITA. Of course, one can have their revenge by using proper language when talking to / writing to these youngsters, and make them equally flumuxed when trying to understand what you've written. ;-) I say that, mainly, in jest. But it's been my experience with some modern teenagers, that their grasp of language is rather poor. Never mind the written word, even the odd three-syllable word in spoken language, with nothing much more unusual than the words being used in this email, from you and I, gets blank stares and needs explaining and rewording. And why might that be? Because reading and writing, more specifically being taught both of them, fell out of fashion. I don't mean something heavy like learning Shakespeare by heart, or latin, just plain old ordinary language of the current day. Some of the year 12's work, that I looked at, bordered on remedial primary school. In just about all ways; length, grammar, punctuation, and very immature language. If they spent anything more than about five minutes on it, I'd be really appalled. While you might call it "grammar snobbery," it does them no favour when they can't read or right well enough to apply for a job and keep it. Some even can't follow the instructions for applying to the job. Which relates to a second failing of our current education system, thinking that you don't actually having to do what you're told to do. And you can see the follow-through of that in various ways, thinking that the road rules and laws of the land are something that other people have to adhere to. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.6.11-5.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 8 21:40:51 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
