English Education is Dead
This has nothing to do with babies, other than because I don’t get out much I spend a lot of time on message boards for new moms. From these I have garnered very helpful breastfeeding advice, chatted with adults, and so on. However, I have also discovered that the state of English education in this country is awful, based on the spelling and grammar mistakes people make. And I’m not talking typos here. Some of my biggest pet peeves are:
- I too tired to take two babies out. Adverb. Preposition. Number. They’re different; figure it out. They’re, there and their are also regular problems.
- When bragging about using your time to get a graduate degree in education, make sure you talk about your precious time, not your presious time.
- If you don’t have the patients for something, I hope you mean that you, as a doctor, don’t have enough patients to open a profitable private practice, not that you lack patience.
- You are not e.e. cummings. Use standard capitalization and punctuation for clarity.
- OVERUSE of…..punctuation….and CAPITALS..is as hard to understand as a - total - lack of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Grumpy English teachers, unite!
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October 4th, 2006 08:57
hahahahahah!!! OK, you had me rolling with this one! spending a bit too much time on the web, are you? well, one thing is for sure, English teachers never become desensitized to the insanity that is a lack of proper education.
October 17th, 2006 12:40
5. —-”POLYPS!!?!!”…..