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something i've noticed about ya'll americans
Don Seer:
lol theres a difference between a typo and the wrong word altogether :)
Trauma-san:
--- Quote from: Overseer on March 01, 2004, 12:36:05 AM ---
dont take this the wrong way.. but some of ya'll really can't spell for shit, ya got good grammar, then... :(
i'm no spelling bee champion (we dont have those here :D) but i see some really really fundamental mistakes daily in this place... often appears to the the same words.
its a broad thing.. just wondered if any of you guys have noticed this..
first noticed it obvously with infinite who claimed to be an english major or training to be a teacher or something.. but many more of you do too.
i cant be the only one to have noticed this.. i think trauma can spell tho.. lol
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Man, I won't even get into it, lol but basically the school system is failing everybody in America. Nobody wants to be there, the teachers don't like it, the kids run free and do whatever they want, the parents don't do anything at home, on and on and on.
Don Seer:
yeah i kinda figured that.. because I've really wondered how the hell college educated people here can't spell!
i've wondered this for a long long time.
thing is, its often the same mistakes, and the same words.. which is why i've hooked on phonics thing.. it teaches you to spell by listening right? but if two words sound the same.. it kinda teaches you wrong?
Trauma-san:
Well, I thought I'd get into it a little more.
What made me start noticing how fucked up the schools are, is when a girl I know became a teacher. She teaches 1st grade... that's 6 year olds. She can't hug them, it's against school policies.
The schools have became so terrorized over things being done the wrong way, and lawsuits, and loopholes and shit, that they have no balls anymore. A teacher can't hug a child. That has nothing to do with learning; but it's just symbolic of how things have changed for the worse.
As far as learning goes, teachers can't fail kids that fuck up. In the old days, you were afraid of your teacher, because he would fail you, suspend you, etc. Now the teachers (or most) have absolutely no control over their classrooms so nobody does any work. They just skate by.
I owe nearly everything I am to the work my teachers and my father did when I was a kid. I had teachers, from the time I was in Kindergarten till at least 5th grade, and then again subject specific teachers in jr. high and High school that went out of their way to make learning fun and exciting. My dad helped me out too, not so much taking tests and studying and things, but from the time I was born, he talked to me, taught me things, took me places, showed me how to do things, answered my questions. Parents don't always do that, so kids don't always learn.
bez:
I cant say I've actually noticed this really. I've noticed the odd spelling mistake here and there but I always presume its because people type fast, typo's, different languages, slang, and other shit. Like me, if I make an error when I am typing on this board I will most likely leave it as it is rather than actually spending time clicking, deleting, typing and scrolling, dunno if ya'll do the same.
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