Why are so many people semi-literate?

Morlock · 2 Sep 2010 at 19:48

Don't they teach English language at school in this day an age?

Detrimentum · 2 Sep 2010 at 19:49

Day an age?

(I got the joke)

jp_bl_68 · 2 Sep 2010 at 19:51

It's at times like these that we could do with a facepalm smiley.

CliffyBiro · 2 Sep 2010 at 19:51

Oi!

Get away from my glass house!

Nix · 2 Sep 2010 at 19:53

Too busy taking photographs of their genitals I'd suspect.

Edrof · 2 Sep 2010 at 19:54

Perfect grammar and punctuation is surprisingly difficult to achieve. I think most people just type away and don't bother correcting mistakes before clicking that Post button.

Cosimo · 2 Sep 2010 at 19:56

They spend too much time playing with themselves and are too lazy to learn.

Makhaira · 2 Sep 2010 at 19:59

Perhaps they are embracing the lolcat in all of us?

Bri · 2 Sep 2010 at 20:01

It's nothing to do with schooling, it's pure laziness.

Cr0fty · 2 Sep 2010 at 20:02

The question I have to ask, so I shall put it here, is why have so many people not faced up to a Cougar and proven their true worth? It disgusts me.

Only then can we hope to be disciplined enough to curtail our meagre grammar misdemeanours.

kylew · 2 Sep 2010 at 20:03

Forde said:
Perfect grammar and punctuation is surprisingly difficult to achieve. I think most people just type away and don't bother correcting mistakes before clicking that Post button.

There's "Perfect" and then there's the terrible mess you see from most people on here, or the whole internet.

I am actually surprised when I see "you're, your, there, they're, their, were, where, ware, wear" and apostrophes used properly.

The main one I'm noticing lately is people thinking "have" is "of", "could have" for example.

Makhaira · 2 Sep 2010 at 20:06

Definitely laziness.

In response I tend to adopt the attitude of "if you can't be bothered checking it, I can't be bothered reading it".

Morlock · 2 Sep 2010 at 20:07

Bri said:
It's nothing to do with schooling, it's pure laziness.

Laziness in learning at school? I have noticed it becoming more and more prevalent, not just on the internet.

I think that it reflects badly on the person and makes him/her appear a bit 'thick'.
I am more inclined to respect a poster's advice and opinions if their posts don't contain poor spelling and grammar, the odd typo is usually obvious, rather than a general lack of literacy skills.

kylew · 2 Sep 2010 at 20:07

I think a funny example of this is when a bunch of idiots harrased that pediatrician thinking it meant pedophile.

kylew · 2 Sep 2010 at 20:08

Morlock said:
Laziness in learning at school? I have noticed it becoming more and more prevalent, not just on the internet.

I think that it reflects badly on the person and makes him/her appear a bit 'thick'.
I am more inclined to respect a poster's advice and opinions if it doesn't contain poor spelling and grammar, the odd typo is usually obvious, rather than a general lack of literacy skills.

Typos are obvious, but you soon realise they're not typos when the person puts an apostrophe in every word ending in the letter "s".

Glaucus · 2 Sep 2010 at 20:09

Bri said:
It's nothing to do with schooling, it's pure laziness.

because it is so easy,

Some of us have spent our entire school lifes having extra tuition and help and still can't grasp languages.

jp_bl_68 · 2 Sep 2010 at 20:10

If you understand what the other person is saying then who cares if there are a few mistakes?

dat b in sed i wnt evn tri 2 reed nethin dat lks lyk dis

Makhaira · 2 Sep 2010 at 20:15

jp_bl_68 said:
dat b in sed i wnt evn tri 2 reed nethin dat lks lyk dis

I presume that's what the OP is referring to? There's no justification in picking out people who may struggle with the finer points of language, but when they make no effort, they deserve all the flak they get!

Cosimo · 2 Sep 2010 at 20:16

jp_bl_68 said:
dat b in sed i wnt evn tri 2 reed nethin dat lks lyk dis

Tis a language I didn't get taught at school.