As an English teacher, I must admit that I occasionally cringe at the language use I see on the Internet and with the kids in my own school. I am not trying to point out anyone's shortcomings, but if you are interested, here is an amazing site that expresses things in the way that I tend think as well:
Just one more beef here. As a French speaker as well, the word is not "walla," but "voila". As I tell my students, if you want to be taken seriously, learn how to speak and write.
I put this in flame, even though it is a weak rant, because it is my pet peeve when it comes to this form of communication.
[Edited by tibgrrl on Nov 14, 2002 5:02 PM]
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"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"
no, because I tend to go easier on myself in this style than in formal writing. I don't mean to tell anyone that they should communicate formally in this venue, just that there is no substitute for looking at least slightly intelligent. I always find it shameful when I have highly intelligent kids in my class who look like complete dolts because they cannot spell or do not know the difference between "their," "there," and "they're".
I don't mean to be anal here, my grammar is far from perfect online (I don't think about what I am going to write before I write it, and I tend to be more into creative writing... not formal), but at least I am understandable.
EDIT - too, I am always looking to improve the way I communicate... It is a personnal quest of mine. To me, higher education is a life long pursuit that will only end the day I die.
[Edited by tibgrrl on Nov 14, 2002 4:58 PM]
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do not be fooled by my low post count : Member Since: August 21, 2001 (4 years, 102 days)
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"
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do not be fooled by my low post count : Member Since: August 21, 2001 (4 years, 102 days)
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"
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do not be fooled by my low post count : Member Since: August 21, 2001 (4 years, 102 days)
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"
Well, I must join in on this rant as well. I'm not an English teacher or anal or anywhere near perfect myself, but will someone tell me why exactly the teaching of puncuation, spelling and grammar was disposed of?
I recall being taught grammar in grade 9, and my english teacher telling us how she could actually get in trouble for teaching it to us. Fortunately, her passion as a teacher was greater than her desire to stay out of s--t, and we all learned something. This was in the late 80's.
I can't decide which is more frustrating, when someone is trying but just doesn't know any better, or when someone deliberately mangles the language to sound "cool." Cool, like sticking a band-aid on your face or rolling up one pantleg. I can't even tell you if that last sentence was correct or not, but I think everyone got the idea.
I could go, but I won't, before I make a big grammatical error (if I haven't already) and make myself look like a complete wookie. :embarrassed:
It was disposed of and still is not really allowed, which is the stupidest thing ever. The reason why is only known to those clever people we elect into office each year. Years ago, they introduced the teaching of something called "whole language" and got ridof phonetic teaching and grammar. This is stupid and I don't listen. I prefer that the kids my classes go to college/university not looking and feeling like ignorant fools.
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do not be fooled by my low post count : Member Since: August 21, 2001 (4 years, 102 days)
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"
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