I have been coming to this site now for about a month and ive noticed something very disturbing, have you?

Question

i have noticed now for last month how poor peoples communication skills are. their sentence structure, spelling, grammar and other things. there have been several questions i havent been able to answer because i couldnt make heads or tails out of what they were trying to say. i realize that some of the questions are being asked by people from other countries and their use of the english language isnt the best but they do well enough. its the younger people from USA that are having the difficulties. whats amazing to me is that before you post your question, you have an opportunity to preview what you wrote. i do this often to ensure i have spelled everything correctly and am using the right words and that my question is worded right so others can understand what i am asking. these young people are our future and if they cant master the english language, how effective will they be as professionals? i dont mean to critize, its just an observation. have you noticed this as well?

Answer 1

Your own grammar, punctuation and spelling aren't up to scratch either, as far as i can make out................. And have you heard about capital letters at the beginning of a sentence?

And i'm obviously more literate than you.  Your grammar IS bad, as is your punctuation.  Take a class, mate.

Answer 2

I personally value traditional composition, spelling and punctuation but I can live with the creative spelling of the younger generation. I do not think less of them because of it. Had I been born into the same generation, then, probably, I would do it too.

Has it ever occurred to you that we have been responsible for their education? So we are also responsible for the end product, whether we like it or not.

They could also be reacting to the values we held up to them.

However, take heart, we will have our revenge when we see the generation under them doing exactly what they have done to us.   Cheers to living that long!

Answer 3

Yes but your grammar, spelling and punctuation suck big time, so who are you to 'critize'..criticise?

Answer 4

well most kids today have "pc" slang....and most people today know about this.....anyways when your checking your previews, your not doing a good job! your "run on"  sentences are throughout the entire paragraph. so before you commend yourself on a job well done, " YOU" should preview like, 5 times ok?

Answer 5

A classic from MSN:

"dood its speld 'digimon' ur gramr sux go back to skool"

Or the old favourite:

"I have a spelling chequer.

It game wit my pea sea.

It plane lee marks four my revue

Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

"Eye ran this poem threw it,

Your sure reel glad two no.

Its vary polished in it’s weigh.

My chequer tolled me sew."

Need we say more?

Others may have criticised you for some of your grammar and capitalisation, but at least they could all understand what you were writing about!!

Answer 6

Yes i agree with you, it is a pain especially when its so bad you dont even understand what they are talking about

and if you complain about it to them you find people reporting you to yahoo for it.

And you will find its not people from other countries its every day people who have not done very well from going to school

Answer 7

i no, its so anoying! Specially wen u get ppl tht cnt be botherd spelling the whole word or type like this i l!k3 t4c4$ for example.

Answer 8

Yes. I think it's just an internet thing. People don't care about the spelling etc. They are lazy these days and spell things how they sound which isn't always the correct spelling.

When my daughter types in msn it is terrible, yet when she is writing or typing things for school etc they are always perfect. I cannot believe how easily she can change between the both so easily.Lucky for her, she can adapy easily. Most can't. I know I volunteer at the local school and see how bad things are these days.

I think that unfortunately it will lead to our youth having terrible writing skills etc when they grow up.

Answer 9

I have, and it is extremely disturbing. Like you, I have not been able to answer questions because I couldn't make out what they were trying to say. I am 22 years young and still don't understand what these kids are thinking when typing. It baffles me beyond belief.

Here is something that might peak your interest also. I was reading a thread the other day with my boyfriend about the delevopment of art. They showed the progression in pictures (what better way huh?) I don't believe words would have done this justice anyhow. They showed a picture that was painted by Di Vinci. Amazing artist if I may say so! The next piece of 'art' was that of a canvas and metal bendable rods coming through it, bent it every which way. Hardly what I would call art, in my opinion atleast. The third was present day 'art'. I believe it was called computer simulated art. It was a picture of a pear, yes I said PEAR, with a mouth (teeth and tounge visable). This pear was supposed to be an angel or something of that sort I take it. It had a white cloth cloaked over it with a halo. There was a sun in the back ground and a tree close by. On the side it said this, "LOL WUT" What???????????!!!!!!!!!!!?????????? What in the world!? I was completely shocked and APPALLED that this is what my generation and future generations consider art. I really wish I could find that thread again. I've been looking and have had no such luck however. Words could never really do it justice.

In all honesty, I believe this is what the government wants. They want the future generations to lack knowledge. Knowledge is power. You can't disagree with them and fight back if you are clueless as to what is happening around you. Lack of education makes this all possible. I'm glad that my time here on earth is limited. I would hate to see what this world is going to come to in the future. Quite frankly, I hate what it has already become.

I also find it sad that people feel they have to criticize you when simply trying to point something out. You never once said that your typing, grammar, etc. was perfect. I too have run across questions in which the person couldn't put a full sentence together, minus capitalization and such.  There is a difference between internet slang and just stupidity. I wish I could say most of it was just internet slang. Sadly, it's not.

Answer 10

Yer buddy i know what you mean but you don't really know English either REMEMBER!! capital letters at the start of every sentence and you spelt critize wrong thats American way of spelling it