15-04-2014, 07:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Nom
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Does not bother me, on one forum a member was extremely Dyslexic, yet always managed to read and understand their posts,as for the Apostrophe Police 
15-04-2014, 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by jaywalker
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I guess you have to also remember that many people of our age group and older did not get a good education and had to leave school very early or in some cases were just not very good at English, while they may have been good at other things.We're not all equally blessed with either ability or inclination so we have to be a bit forgiving when people are different from us. I get annoyed with bad English too but then I stop and think of the all the students I had over 40 years of teaching English and I remember the ones who couldn't learn some things no matter how well they were taught and those whose interests were in other areas and just didn't have the will to learn and those who came from homes where there was no incentive to learn. And it's not so easy to catch up after you leave school as people might think.
15-04-2014, 07:39 AM
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I think we can easily slip into extreme generalizations - I have heard young people from all over the world speak excellent Queens English - they obviously had good schooling and home support too.conversely I have heard appalling english from English youth, American youth in particular etc etc - but these are sub-groups and in any given country to ability to converse in 'good' english will vary tremendously
15-04-2014, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Nom
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Does not bother me, on one forum a member was extremely Dyslexic, yet always managed to read and understand their posts,as for the Apostrophe Police
At the risk of starting another disagreement, I believe dyslexia is bandied around far too much, sometimes seen as a label for those who can't spell. They will never learn if they've been misdiagnosed...
I can always read and understand the posts and replies to other sites, just very difficult sometimes, a bit like talking for 5 minutes without taking a breath!!
15-04-2014, 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by cranberry
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I'm not referring to people who have dyslexia, I mean the one's who are just lazy with spelling and punctuation, some folk seem to think it's old fashioned and, anyway, who cares, well this thread proves many of us do care!At the risk of starting another disagreement, I believe dyslexia is bandied around far too much, sometimes seen as a label for those who can't spell. They will never learn if they've been misdiagnosed...
I can always read and understand the posts and replies to other sites, just very difficult sometimes, a bit like talking for 5 minutes without taking a breath!!
15-04-2014, 11:51 AM
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People who use "off" instead of "of" and people who never use paragraphs are the ones that really annoy me. The rest I can shrug off and mostly understand what it is they are saying. However I do think all this "text speak" has a lot to answer for, and no, I donīt like it.15-04-2014, 12:43 PM
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Not quite the same thing, but there are a couple of things that drive me mad all the same, the first are those who when speaking seem to find it impossible to pronounce 'th' correctly. Simply place the tongue near the roof of the mouth and slightly between the teeth and sort of blow, see? easy peasy. It is not 'f' or 'v' (as in fink and vat); and the second are those (all too common nowadays) who seem to find it impossible to pronounce the end of words and who use a 'glottal stop' instead. Before long we will have degenerated into cave man grunts.|
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