On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:39:55AM +0100, Matthew Jones wrote:
> I don't know which education system you went through, but I was taught all
> this stuff at primary school. I think it's just because the pupils couln't
> be beggared to learn it properly (as you suggest), preferring to subscribe
> to the "well, you know what I mean" school of thought.
I was at school from up to 1995 and grammer, hand writing and similar were
only lightly touched upon. IT was another subject that we never actually
did (other than read about spreadsheets leading to my adult hatred of
Excel) and as far as I'm aware none of my friends of the same age did any
real grammer in school so you can expect a fair size chunk of 20-22 year
olds to have no real grasp of what constitutes good grammar.
Although i have to say that I'm one of the worse for this, i drop into
slang and similar almost all the time outside of work, not to mention that
my emails to friends are written as I'd say them. Is it just me or do we
seem to thread drift a lot recently...
> I remember last year I helped a designer chum of mine subscribe to (void),
Did he have lots of wasted disk space you felt the need to use? ;)
Dean
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--- Anon
