Hello,
I am a few years removed from my last English teacher but I don't
think the standards would have changed that much over the intervening
6 years. I am pretty sure you would be hard pressed to get away with
having txt speak all through your essays.
The teachers always harped on about formal writing techniques and did
mark accordingly. There were a few things that they would let through,
which might have been called up in the past, (the earlier example of
they as apposed to he/she) or some of the more obscure forms of
punctuation. These things would have been highlighted to students at
higher achievement levels than I ever managed though. Just scraped
through that, went promptly went into engineering and then later
realised I might have to do far more writing than I was comfortable
with, but the much more structured format and more in depth subject
knowledge made it much easier (specially with the huge writing project
that was my Masters thesis, I would say never again but working toward
a PhD thesis now).
As to personal word annoyances lighted versus lit. And the use of data
as a collective noun (or some such thing) I don't even know if how I
think it should be used is correct but every time I see it annoyance
strikes me, and I see a significant amount of it when reading general
interest science magazines.
Cheers,
Nick
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Dragosani <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> SO! :) This led me onto the change in English language (for us Brits I
> think I would still say "spelled" Ray, but ridicule the Brits that said it
> was "spelt") and the change this has undergone rapidly since the explosion
> in mobile phones and texting...Teachers in
> English schools unable to mark papers (or more PC - cannot mark down papers
> that are written in txt speak)....So the english language (especially for
> young-uns) has already undergone a rapid change...But I see this change not
> as advancement of the species,
> rather than more of a stagnation - because laziness is not learning how to
> spell correctly and take shortcuts, is definately not moving forward....
>
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> Regards,
>
> Drago
