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recman · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 Mar 2012 Karma :

Just watched a couple of students moaning about their English exam results.
'I coodunt beeleeve it man, I only got a c but I fort I wus gonna get a b, dis is just not right man, innit.' Rolling Eyes

Rogerborg · nimbA Joined: 26 Oct 2010 Karma :

Well, Shakespeare invented an obscene amount of words, including 'pedant', is what I is saying, blood.
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Skudd · Super Spammer Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Karma :

Nuff said.
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Skudd · Super Spammer Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Karma :

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Skudd · Super Spammer Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Karma :

Spelling is practice, stop reading as much or typing and all of a sudden you are wondering how to spell words that you wouldn't have had second thoughts about once.
I have always been crap with regards to spelling, just one of those things, I remember getting a good hiding for spelling Guitar as Cuitar, so I stopped writting stuff, if I didn't write, I wouldn't spell things incorrectly.
Like cooking, I'm a fair cook, but I forgot how to boil an egg. Practice is the issue.
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Im-a-Ridah · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Karma :

The internet is great in that regard as it really helps people keep their spelling and grammar levels up. Mine for example, is far better than it was at school! That said, I study a lot of technical literature, so I'm probably not a good example of the average forum member.

recman · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 Mar 2012 Karma :

There are people who are born to study and people who learn from those who study.
I'm the lazy latter. Wink

Redoko · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Nov 2009 Karma :

I try to take pride in my spelling and grammar.

However I have been caught out messing up my of's and have's on a tired day.
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yaigi · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Jul 2012 Karma :

Rogerborg · nimbA Joined: 26 Oct 2010 Karma :

I had the misfortune to be subjected to Radio 1 some weeks ago, and they had a popular youth beat combo entertainer guesting[*].

His speech started off along the lines of "Nuff reffpect to mah massive homies possy we'ze keepin' in realz innit wazzup" but within a few minutes had reverted to "Oh, yah, yah, and then I met Jeremy and Alasdair and during the hols we went skiing in Courchevel and decided it would be a wizard wheeze to start a band. Uh... innit." Rolling Eyes

[*] Verbing is a perfectly valid piece of Shakespearing.
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recman · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 Mar 2012 Karma :

I was thinking more along the lines of this yoot trying to blame the Government for his own shortcomings.

bikertomm · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Jul 2010 Karma :

What I find particularly funny is when people who did'nt get the results they were expecting blame it on the school.

I saw numerous facebook status's in which I needed to hold myself back!

E.g So I took 10 GCSE's and got 2, Carson High is shit...

Laughing

My school was a fucking shit hole, I figured that closer to my GCSE's I was learning more at home than I was going in, so I did just that.. just started going home and revising..

Passed all 11 bitches!

And I have myself to thank for that, not the school!
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bikertomm · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Jul 2010 Karma :

Haha, cool man.

Seems everyone just wants it handed on a plate these days.

Used to want to be a teacher, but not any more!

And Skudd, I'll have you know I got 3 C's, 7B's And 1 A Razz

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J.M. · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Karma :

My spelling and grammar has become far worse since:

a) Using Google Chrome with an American dictionary for ages
b) Using Google Chrome with a painfully incomplete dictionary
c) Using the internet in general
d) Reading dribble written on the internet rather than printed material
e) Reading more American written dribble on the internet than UK English
f) Using software that doesn't even have a GB English option, only US
g) I stopped reading actual books
h) I just right-click to correct spellings rather than looking to see what I got wrong and learning from it

I often find now that I'm struggling to spell words that I would have had no troubles with beforehand. Sometimes to the extent that I'm so unsure of how to spell a word that I either Google it or rephrase my sentence.

I mean, "wierd" and "weird". I can't even remember which is correct. I think it's "weird". Firefox seems to have no Auto-correct though and that's been switched to my main browser. Weird.

TL;DR. Technology made me stupid.
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janner_10 · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 Sep 2011 Karma :

^^ This.

Since leaving school, in 1991. I don't think i have written much by hand.

I started a new job last June, whereby we have to keep a written journal of our shift to hand over to the next shift.

Took me about 6 months to remember how to write and spell, you lose the ability that's for sure.
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LordShaftesbu... · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Sep 2008 Karma :

I am currently dilemmerizing about whether to do the shopping in Lidl or Tesco. Thinking

bikertomm · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Jul 2010 Karma :

Tesco FTW...
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JonB · Afraid of Mileage Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Karma :

People are blaming the government for the worsening grades, but I have been seeing first hand the kind of person that goes into teaching. It is those who have left uni with an OK degree and can't be bothered to apply themselves and find a decent private sector job. So they just fall into an easy trap of completing a PGCE and get sucked in by the sheer amount of holiday on offer.

People will tell me that teachers don't just sit on their arse and do nothing during the summer holidays. My Facebook newsfeed suggests otherwise. The best teachers I had at school were from a different generation who did it because they loved it, the current crop do it because they couldn't be arsed to find anything else.
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