Any teachers on here

[Phone]

Peggy,

 

Her classroom material is "presented" on a personal computer and her "work" is retuned in the same manner. Frankly, eventhough she reads, I find her vocabulary lacking (maybe it's just me?). She can "burn up" the Microsoft Word dictionary. She's added any number of "txt" symbols (abbreviations) to the dictionary to be converted to words for her.

 

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[Sportsman]

I fink peggys rite, innit

[Ken L]

As someone who had 2 years of remedial education for what is now called dyslexia in an under performing inner city school (I was one of only five percent that achieved five or more GCE's), I'm not really a fan of spelling and grammar Nazi's but there are limits even to my tolerance.

I like sportsman, use several fora and admit that on rare occasions, I have remonstrated with supposedly grown men for having the written communication skills of a retarded seven your old - although I usually save it for those that are throwing stones in a glass house.

 

As for "text speak" generally, chalk me down as a hater.

[Ken L]

Here's a bit of culture for the text fans to savor....

 

2 be, o not 2 be--that iz d question:

wethR 'tis nobler n d mind 2 suffer

d slings & arrows of outrageous fortuN

o 2 tAk arms agAnst a sea of troubles

& by opposing nd dem. 2 die, 2 sleep--

n more--and by a slp 2 sA we nd

d heartache, & d thou natRL shocks

dat flesh iz heir 2. 'Tis a consummation

Devoutly 2 b wished. 2 die, 2 sleep--

2 sleep--perchance 2 dream: ay, there's d rub,

4 n dat slp of def wot dreams mA cum

wen we hav shuffled off DIS mortal coil,

Must GIV us pause. There's d rSpect

dat makes calamity of so lng Lyf.

4 hu wud bear d whips & scorns of time,

Th' oppressor's wrong, d proud man's contumely

d pangs of despised love, d law's delay,

d insolence of office, & d spurns

dat pAtNt merit of th' unworthy takes,

wen he himsLf mite Hs quietus mAk

w a bare bodkin? hu wud fardels bear,

2 grunt & sweat undR a weary life,

bt dat d dread of somTIN aftR death,

d undiscovered country, frm whuz bourn

n traveller returns, puzzles d will,

& makes us rather bear thOs ills we hav

thN fly 2 others dat we knO not of?

Thus conscience duz mAk cowards of us all,

& thus d native hue of resolutN

iz sicklied o'er w d pale cast of thought,

& enterprise of gr8 pitch & momNt

w DIS regRd thR currents turn awry

& lose d nAm of actN. -- Soft U now,

d fair Ophelia! -- Nymph, n thy orisons

b aL my sins remembered.

[Newt]

I can read that crud but it's sorta like trying to wade in thick syrup - no fun at all.

[chesters1]

No not quite like that. In France one is taught to write in cursive, joined-up writing, using a fountain pen from the word go.

 

we were but all that came to an end when the secondary school insisted on capitals only ,now my handwriting goes between the two .

not sure why we need to grasp foreign grammar surely they speak english with the lack of it we do ?

i actually was given handwriting lessons by Mrs funnel of one of my primary schools all to no avail though

i was probably one of the few school leavers to leave school at 15 but in the third year ,i did the second year almost 3 times

 

i have no problem with kids using text speak it wasnt that long ago (in our long history) only the clergy wrote and mostly in latin

fountain pens though were very middle class we used scratchy dip pens until our parents rose up the ladder

Edited October 10, 2012 by chesters1

[Phone]

Newt,

 

CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update and Delete. (Retrieve may occasionally be substituted for Read.) These functions are also descriptive of the "data life cycle".

 

I had to look it up. When I was in business I had IBM equipment (before PC's). One time I paid a handsome sum for IBM Crud.

 

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[Clifftop]

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_gotten_correct_grammar

 

From the above link

Gotten is correct, and very old. In England many people wrongly assume that gotten is a modern Americanism, but the truth is the English more-or-less stopped using it, and have forgotten (!) that they used to use it.

[rob.imk2]

Asked my owd fella who,s 80 odd he has never used the word gotten but said the owd uns used to use it .But where I live oop the north west of england we usually drop the G at the end of a word anyway ie gettin or goin Now if you listen to any local from Atherton or around that area you are moving into foreign language territory even I need a translator

[John S]

Newt,

 

CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update and Delete. (Retrieve may occasionally be substituted for Read.) These functions are also descriptive of the "data life cycle".

 

I had to look it up. When I was in business I had IBM equipment (before PC's). One time I paid a handsome sum for IBM Crud.

 

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Phone,

 

In the UK, crud refers to something that is rubbish