jumpy
09-01-08, 09:04 AM
Local education Authority sucks my balls.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1050941/The-3-000-txt-spk-poster-undermines-English-teaching.html
in an attempt to connect with children who are more comfortable writing and reading in the abbreviated language used in mobile phone text messages than formal English.
Perhaps if they were taught correctly in the first place then they wouldn't feel intimidated by simple english.
TXT speak is ok as a form of shorthand due to the minute size of mobile keypads and annoyingly unpredictable 'predictive text', but as a more official means of communicating it sks mah bawles! Just like the LEA who thought it would be a good way of communicating important information to young people.
Kind of like the anime/pokemon episode in South Park, where all of the kids start talking in 'anime' and calling Mr. Garrison 'Garrison San' and Mr. Hat 'Hat San' - the only way the adults could get the kids to behave normally again and not be brainwashed by the use of anime by the japanese to take over america, was to start talking anime themselves; as soon as the kids cought on to the fact than adult 'thought' something they liked was cool, all the kids droped their anime toys/style like it was a tramps gusset.
As for spending £3000.00 (that's a fifth of my gross annual income :eek: for that piece of crap?) on designing the poster, I could have done it for about a tenner and made it look less like a 4 year old had made it using M$ paint.
All of this 'gettin' dahn wit der youf innit' is, quite frankly, embarrassing. And whilst I won't flat out say it undermines the queens english, it certainly annoys the hell out of me - too many oiks who can't read, speak or write propperly in this country as it is without encouraging more 'lamer speak'.
What next? Posters about illiteracy and statistics about the abysmal standard of spoken and written english in the UK? :hmm:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1050941/The-3-000-txt-spk-poster-undermines-English-teaching.html
in an attempt to connect with children who are more comfortable writing and reading in the abbreviated language used in mobile phone text messages than formal English.
Perhaps if they were taught correctly in the first place then they wouldn't feel intimidated by simple english.
TXT speak is ok as a form of shorthand due to the minute size of mobile keypads and annoyingly unpredictable 'predictive text', but as a more official means of communicating it sks mah bawles! Just like the LEA who thought it would be a good way of communicating important information to young people.
Kind of like the anime/pokemon episode in South Park, where all of the kids start talking in 'anime' and calling Mr. Garrison 'Garrison San' and Mr. Hat 'Hat San' - the only way the adults could get the kids to behave normally again and not be brainwashed by the use of anime by the japanese to take over america, was to start talking anime themselves; as soon as the kids cought on to the fact than adult 'thought' something they liked was cool, all the kids droped their anime toys/style like it was a tramps gusset.
As for spending £3000.00 (that's a fifth of my gross annual income :eek: for that piece of crap?) on designing the poster, I could have done it for about a tenner and made it look less like a 4 year old had made it using M$ paint.
All of this 'gettin' dahn wit der youf innit' is, quite frankly, embarrassing. And whilst I won't flat out say it undermines the queens english, it certainly annoys the hell out of me - too many oiks who can't read, speak or write propperly in this country as it is without encouraging more 'lamer speak'.
What next? Posters about illiteracy and statistics about the abysmal standard of spoken and written english in the UK? :hmm: