There are so many of these that you seriously don't want to get me started... if you use facebook, you need to follow Captain Grammar Pants - she teaches at Evergreen State...
I just finished grading a stack of papers written by my GRAD STUDENTS and they make your examples look like good grammar!
*head!desk*
You know why, don't you? Because the school teachers DO NOT CARE ABOUT GRAMMAR!!! My daughter had to do a lot of writing last year in school (4th grade writing FCAT - don't get me started). She'd come home with stuff she'd written that got really high marks from the teacher (she actually LOVES to write and is very creative - while her classmates are trying to produce a couple of paragraphs, she'll turn in a four page story and complain because she didn't have enough time to write more!) However, her papers would be full of spelling and grammar mistake and her teacher not only didn't penalize her for them, she didn't even circle them and require my daughter to correct them!
Same thing is true for my son in middle school. Although, he had the reading teacher from HELL last year - according to her, the silent letter in the word "ghost" is the "G"!
Combine this lack of basic foundation material with the proliferation of text-speak into the "real world" and you have the recipe for the disaster that is writing in modern America.
They don't even do spelling in my son's former middle school. And they quit doing cursive in his former elementary school. But don't get me started on the public education system.
How can the g be silent. Wouldn't that make it a host? Which is not a ghost at all. *sighs*
Yeah, I know. Apparently there were a bunch of errors in the key provided by the workbook she got that worksheet from and she was too brain-dead to realize that. Of course, this is the same teacher who told us during the open house near the start of the school year that she used to work at Subway but making the sandwiches was just too difficult so she went into teaching instead (I am not kidding, alas).
I find these errors a lot when it comes to what I'd thought were common sayings and phrases, it usually drives me to google to figure out if I've always heard them wrong or if whoever I'm reading has them wrong.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2013-07-10 02:30 am (UTC)I don't know how these people made it out of high school, much less through college and into the workforce.
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Date: 2013-07-10 03:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-10 04:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-10 06:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-10 06:03 am (UTC)I just finished grading a stack of papers written by my GRAD STUDENTS and they make your examples look like good grammar!
*head!desk*
You know why, don't you? Because the school teachers DO NOT CARE ABOUT GRAMMAR!!! My daughter had to do a lot of writing last year in school (4th grade writing FCAT - don't get me started). She'd come home with stuff she'd written that got really high marks from the teacher (she actually LOVES to write and is very creative - while her classmates are trying to produce a couple of paragraphs, she'll turn in a four page story and complain because she didn't have enough time to write more!) However, her papers would be full of spelling and grammar mistake and her teacher not only didn't penalize her for them, she didn't even circle them and require my daughter to correct them!
Same thing is true for my son in middle school. Although, he had the reading teacher from HELL last year - according to her, the silent letter in the word "ghost" is the "G"!
Combine this lack of basic foundation material with the proliferation of text-speak into the "real world" and you have the recipe for the disaster that is writing in modern America.
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Date: 2013-07-10 06:55 am (UTC)How can the g be silent. Wouldn't that make it a host? Which is not a ghost at all. *sighs*
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Date: 2013-07-11 10:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-10 03:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-10 05:59 pm (UTC):-P
*huggles*
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Date: 2013-07-12 01:03 am (UTC)Just found this one in something I was reading.
"She mused allowed."
GRRRRRRR!
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Date: 2013-07-13 01:02 pm (UTC)