dosxuk Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Quick question - would you have an issue if it had been "I LIKE MUSEUMS"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliceBB Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 I`ve recently had to select a canditate for a job we advertised, and there`s another interesting sidelight to all this trendy educational crap. I`m told that people are taught that handwriting is old hat, it`s all done on a PC now, and what`s more a letter done on a word processor looks better and has more impact then a hand written one. Well that`s so much tosh. Speaking as the potential employer, I`d rather see a hand written letter, because it proves : The person can write legibly (assuming it is actually legible ! ). The person can spell (assuming they can spell etc), as opposed to using a spell checker, or sending a CV/covering letter written by someone else. The person can be arsed to put some effort in, how much effort does clicking "Print" take ? How much effort does paragraphing correctly take? Can't you be arsed to do that? Your answers look like poems, with every line justified on the left! How stupid is that?! How did that feel? I was going to post this question : how acceptable is it for people to criticise other people's posting style on internet forums? There is someone who does this to me and it's putting me off contributing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Hardie Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Don't worry folks. The pass rate for A Levels has increased for the 29th year in succession so all your fears must be unfounded. And the grain harvest has ......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19SazzaLou91 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 It seems every young person you meet these days has the inability to spell - I know many on Facebook and they're all exactly alike. What I find most interesting is that they all blame it on their "dyslexia". I get hundreds of emails a month through my company and they all spell phonetically - which is an alarming trend. May I just say I am classed as a "young person" for I am 19, however, I take pride in the knowledge that I can string a sentence together with very few spelling/grammatical errors. So, please, do not tar us all with the same brush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
04jessops Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 It seems every young person you meet these days has the inability to spell - I know many on Facebook and they're all exactly alike. What I find most interesting is that they all blame it on their "dyslexia". I get hundreds of emails a month through my company and they all spell phonetically - which is an alarming trend. More than anything, this highlights the need for spelling reform in the English language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 I have a gripe about the improper usage of an ellipsis ... that's three dots, not four of five ... sheesh is it really so hard. Now back to the OP ... it's a banner where design takes precedence over punctuation. Get over it. jb No-one on this forum apart from me, to my knowledge, uses the ellipsis character … they tend to use three (or more) full stops in a row ... which is quite different. It makes my blood boil, I can tell you. But if it's signage, then the use of all caps or all lower case is hardly unacceptable. But the horribly visible "Sharrow loves it's apostrophes" signage up and down London Road is disappointing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica23 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 No-one on this forum apart from me, to my knowledge, uses the ellipsis character … they tend to use three full stops in a row ... which is quite different. There's an ellipsis character? Who. Knew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 There's an ellipsis character? Who. Knew. UTF-8/typography nerds … know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metaphoria Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 I take a fence to the miss use of the ellipsis character. Having said that, trendy literacy is equally annoying... Et al. has to be up there. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishcake Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 I took offence to my neighbours having a banner saying we don't want no peadophiles. Surely that means they want them! I tried to tell them about double negatives to no avail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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