Ban the "of " - what happened to education ?

it is

"have"


not


"of"


as in - " i should have put up a 4m kite to handle the 40 knot wind gusts that the cyclone was producing"


not " i should of correctly measured the wind speed before claiming i was kiting in 60 knots of wind in Townsville today - just because it feels windy does not mean i can randomly make up large numbers and apply that arbitrary label to the wind speed i believe there to be "

Yeah. When I went to skool we all had to do religious education and learnt all about the 12 apostrophes.
Although the only ones I can remember now are Peter Paul and Mary because they sung some good songs.
I wonder what happened to the other 8? errrr 9?

I agree. The Baby boomer generation were much better teachers than the newer generation X teachers

BTW Mark, I couldn't care less but in the sentence you wrote there should be an "r" in the word apostrophe.

Secondly, who are you referring by "They"? Tut tut. My year 10 English teacher would have scribbled red pen all over your post (and this post too no doubt).

It doesn't stay with spelling

recognition is also a problem

eg, "it wasn't long and bulldozers were working"

The fact was, that it was possibly an excavator or a back hoe

please Miss can I ... er ... I mean may I

there their they're, it will be ok!

seeing as though I spelt (or for the yanks here, "spelled") it correctly in the first sentence, it is obviously a typo

When will I learn to proof read own posts 10 times if it is a spelling or grammar thread hahaha been caought out before by you'se all

i so, like, hate stuff like grammer

tks u r tha gr8est
even, like fuly sik m8

Now to be serious though, the degradation in the standards of education is frightening. I have seen junior staff in my job, who have to prepare documents that go to a Govt Minister's office and the spelling and grammar is atrocious ( <-- spelling? (just in case haha))
Not everyone is a rocket scientist, I am far from it, but I believe education's emphasis in the last 20 years or so on telling kids earlier and earlier about the environment / land rights for gay whales etc topics is having a detrimental effect on the basics - you can't add more without taking away something, and they've taken away the 3 R's.
The secondary effect I believe, is we wonder why kids now suffer more depression (previously unheard of in young kids)..... as they are not learning kids stuff anymore, rather they are being indoctrinated about how bad the world is and how we are all f'kd due to the environment etc.
Oops ranting off topic

gtg
brb

You know i think you are correct.
Write, wright rites, right?

I used to be a spelling nazi... I used to correct my english teacher's spelling when she wrote stuff up on the board (and could never understand why I kept getting poor marks for my essays ). The misuse of apostrophes used to wind me up, and grammatical errors would send me into fits of rage.

The kiter forum cured me of this. Try to find one thread without a spelling or grammatical error in the posts. Go on, I challenge you. You'll be there a while.

Now I just accept that there are people out there who just can't spell.

I figure that my life will be longer if I just roll my eyes and ignore the fact that most people walk around with their metaphorical fly undone

^^^^ another one that sh!ts me too - text message or txt

This, right here, is a text message. Writing on a post-it note is a text message. The advertisements in the newspaper are text messages.

FFS, the term for a message sent between mobile phones is "SMS" kiddies.

Whats about sext messages. Are they calling that the wrong name as well?

I like when you use an iPhone it puts the apostophe in so I dont have to worry about it

So answer the question Wanker. At the beach where they were kiteing, what was the wind strength.

&x28;.&x29;&x28;.&x29; BOOBS

This is something that also &x22s;****s me to tears&x22s;, i.e. twisting a topic onto some random tangent.

This topic was about spelling, or at least it seemed that way to me