That 21st Century Queen's Britain still struggles with illiteracy will make headline news in poor Gambia where Turk blames the scale of backwardness on illiteracy.
I totally agree with the comment that was made in the article posted by Karamba when "donkeyrigged." wrote:
"I very much doubt anyone educated post 68/69 really knows anything about correct punctuation or sentence construction. The coming of Comprenensive education and demise of the Grammar school has seen to that. Add a further 30 years of crumbling education and you have what you have today - illiterates, people who have never taken a spelling test during their education and an astounding number of people who can't even converse in the Queen's English. Is it any wonder councils make gaffs - they are after all made up of those very same people!"
I cannot improve on that !!
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
So recently as few days back, a text from one higher education institution was flowered with shorthand words and fixed with numbers representing words like "2" for "to" etc. Much to worry about this is the fact that students readily buy into using similar standard as though a norm.
To a certain degree, text language is fast taking over standard grammar and don't B surprised when curriculum experts validate this in some remote future.
No doubt about that,It appears that a new language is blossoming for use with written communications only (Text SMS etc.)this is because these new language saves money and you can write more information in a small space, plus it saves on thumb movements while writing !
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
Yes Touab 1020, it is also something that many people get to luv b'cos it saves time and much appealing to fashion. Big mouth calls it generational manifest of time in motion.
Who taught you these long and complex words that are a sample of Politicspeak,? a language much used by those through out the world who do not know answers to questions they are asked and think that everyone except those within their circle are stupid and don't matter,unless its election time of course.
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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