by The Fall Guy 17 Replies latest jw friends
In recent months I have noticed more and more people on the net (including here) are using this latest perversion of the English language -
"I would of done this..........or he would of tried to change things"
It's WOULD'VE - short for WOULD HAVE!
The emoticon-texting/non-writing generation are losing the skill of communicating properly.
“The emoticon-texting/non-writing generation are losing the skill of communicating properly.“
You are dead right there Fall Guy. I despair, and blame the schools for not making it a priority.... and don’t try and tell me it is just the evolution of language. It isn’t, it is poor grammar.
I don’t think they teach the basics in school anymore. What irks me the most is when a cbc journalist writes an article with grammatical errors in it.
I have an excuse. I’ve never been to college.
I think the bar must be set very low for college graduates these days
THE FALL GUY:
People don’t realize this detracts from what they are trying to say. I do believe the schools in the US are at fault for lowering the standards for English and grammar some decades ago and these finer but necessary points were never even taught. What we see all around us is the result.
HOSER:
It also irks me when I see mistakes in news articles. Recently, I saw a news article somewhere that mentioned a “grizzly” crime rather than “grisly”. I was almost tempted to contact them and say there were no bears in that area.
Yes, they have lowered the bar for who gets into college. We had that discussion on a thread not too long ago.
Several years ago, I had an opportunity to read a number of college papers on a particular subject.
I was shocked by the number of college juniors and seniors who couldn't write a coherent paragraph.
Some couldn't even write a coherent sentence.
I think a huge contributory factor is that people don't read. If they absorb all their information from screens and tiny snippets of illiterate text.
So my recommendation to anyone is READ, READ, READ.
It is awful.....just watch some celebrity interviews....some of them speak an unknown language....especially young rappers....then watch and listen to some court TV plaintiffs and defendants. The grasp of the spoken language is disappearing. If they cannot speak it, no way they are going to write it properly.
It's wooda like in " I wooda did it"
One that grates on me is " one thousand and one hundred and sixty". Or is that two?
It is everywhere, tv, printed documents, signs.
What nonsense...I don't have the slightest difficulty understanding what someone has to say. It's their intent, their issue...... that matters.
Maybe instead of hearing a person the key is to listen to what they have to say and not judge on the occasional mispronunciation.
I learned to hold back my judgement of someone's use of language because we have a lot of people on this forum where English is not their first language. I don't have a second language so I stand back and allow for that.
And by the way your proper English language can be totally screwed over with little private words that have traveled down through the centuries.
words like:
People have been using the proposition, "of" in place of the verb, "have" for as long as I can remember.
I think the confusion is probably because people say it so fast in normal day to day speech that they don't really know how to spell it out in written composition.
