BLUEEYEDBRIGADIER

Thursday, 25 January 2007 03:52

Finally realizing that North American high schools are seriously screwing over future generations by passing them with piss-poor English language skills, eh Cybersnark? Or is this the plea after years of slow sinking into depression? Cuz even as a university student, I know that some of my peers couldn't write a proper sentence even if a gun was held to their head and told they would get capped the first time they boobed:(

BEB

CYBERSNARK

Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:01

Oh, this comes from an essay I was proofreading yesterday (my part-time job). Engineering students are the worst of the worst --NO english training at all.

BLUEEYEDBRIGADIER

Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:46

Well...not since high school at least. Not unless they took English Lit as an elective;)

But yeah...too much equation-orientation for those scaffold monkeys. My buddy in Physics is just as bad;)

BEB

MSG

Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:19

So you have a somewhat pathetic English teacher who is threatened by alternate methods of punctuation??

SAVEWASH

Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:40

I hear you. I work with a bunch of people, some college-educated and some not, who couldn't string together words into a proper sentence if their lives depended on it. This is true in both their writing and their speaking. If I read or hear "I seen it" one more time, I think I'll throw a fit and scream "I saw it" repeatedly until they take me away in a straitjacket.

SOLAN

Sunday, 18 March 2007 19:22

Yepp, feel with you there as well. *shudders* I'd probably be all over them and yell or something...