We are doomed if educators can't write

[19hhbelgian]

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I have to agree 100%. It's inexcusable for any communication from a school to have errors in it. I was appalled at an English teacher at the school where I taught; she was constantly using subject pronouns after prepositions; you'd've thought it was a crime to say "me" instead of "I"; she did not know WHY she was wrong. I also had a principal who could not write a sentence correctly, and I raised such a fuss and filed a complaint with the school board against her; from then on she sent nothing out without my proofreading it. I can understand a math or history teacher's messing up; all it show is that he/she found language classes boring and/or didn't care all that much for the finer points of English. We all knew 95% of English grammar when we entered first grade, and NONE of us learned or know ALL of the other 5%, but for school administrators and/or English teachers to not know a great amount of the remaining 5% should be cause for their being fired.

Shouldn't that be "all it shows " I'm just saying.

I had to read that multiple times to figure out what you were correcting! Just goes to show that the mind fixes things for us, without our knowledge.

 

[Hoosiermomma]

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I have to agree 100%. It's inexcusable for any communication from a school to have errors in it. I was appalled at an English teacher at the school where I taught; she was constantly using subject pronouns after prepositions; you'd've thought it was a crime to say "me" instead of "I"; she did not know WHY she was wrong. I also had a principal who could not write a sentence correctly, and I raised such a fuss and filed a complaint with the school board against her; from then on she sent nothing out without my proofreading it. I can understand a math or history teacher's messing up; all it show is that he/she found language classes boring and/or didn't care all that much for the finer points of English. We all knew 95% of English grammar when we entered first grade, and NONE of us learned or know ALL of the other 5%, but for school administrators and/or English teachers to not know a great amount of the remaining 5% should be cause for their being fired.

Shouldn't that be "all it shows " I'm just saying.

That's what I was going to say....

 

[grandmaof5]

I am an Educational Assistant with the local school board, and I have indeed seen some dilllies. I've heard the 'sun is not a star' thing, as well. Poor grammar is a pet peeve of mine as well. Poor spelling can be a completely different thing. For instance, I usually spell 'neighbour' like this, not 'neighbor'. It is because I am a Canadian and use the English way of spelling. It is not incorrect, just another way of spelling it. Spelling it 'nieghbor' is wrong, but I assume it could be a typo.

Saying "I seen it" drives me crazy! Another one is "I could of..." or "I should of..." If I see these I truly want to scream!

When DS and DD brought home something like that form (see, that 'form' should be 'from' -a typo)school, I'd circle it and send it back with a note on it asking if they meant " the correct form". It probably didn't make me popular with teachers.

Something I've been hearing lately is "Am I allowed going to the store?"

 

[ceknight]

Not to feed the fire nor send this off on a tangent, but this is precisely why I am terrible at chatting online or texting on the cell. Nothing gets my goat more than the shortcuts and misgivings to our language just because we want to do it faster. With the proliferation of technology in our children's lives how can they be expected to adhere to the standards of communication when 99% of their usage is on these devices and approved by all. Oh, I am far from a grammatacist nor a spelling wiz, but I try my best to adhere to set standards at ALL times and modes. Feel free to point out my errors in this post. Learning is a non-stop event.

 

[ceknight]

See I told you.... I know that it is grammaticist, but came out grammatacist when I typed it.

 

[joebryant]

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Shouldn't that be "all it shows " I'm just saying.

I had to read that multiple times to figure out what you were correcting! Just goes to show that the mind fixes things for us, without our knowledge.

Everyone should have somebody else proofread any important paper they've written because it's too easy to miss/overlook your own mistakes. My wife and I ALWAYS proofread each others papers, and we almost always find a mistake the other one made.

 

[raroo]

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LOL LOL that one drives me nuts too!!

I also know how you feel about the Canadian spelling, it's frustrating when I spell "colour" or "flavour", etc., and it shows up as a spelling error. Gahh!

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

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What's a restaurand?

 

[Judy]

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What's a restaurand?

Well, Joe's wife would have caught this if he were submitting something formally. I'm not so upset by typos in an online chat forum like this. I am a lot more bothered by "would of caught" than a typo like this, as "would of" is not a typo, it is a failure to understand basic grammar. I cannot believe the mixing up of their, there, and they're that I see. Even worse is "to" for "two."

Some posts here are so bad that I won't reply to them. After all, who's to say the poster would even understand me?

I gave up trying to correct people years ago, when it became far too daunting a task. I still correct my 33 year old son, though....

 

[OutInTheStiks]

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What's a restaurand?

Well, Joe's wife would have caught this if he were submitting something formally. I'm not so upset by typos in an online chat forum like this. I am a lot more bothered by "would of caught" than a typo like this, as "would of" is not a typo, it is a failure to understand basic grammar. I cannot believe the mixing up of their, there, and they're that I see. Even worse is "to" for "two."

Some posts here are so bad that I won't reply to them. After all, who's to say the poster would even understand me?

I gave up trying to correct people years ago, when it became far too daunting a task. I still correct my 33 year old son, though....

A less than amazing grasp of the intricacies of the English language does not neccessarily indicate that the writer is foolish or unable to comprehend.