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Post by tarradiddle on Aug 28, 2006 23:09:21 GMT -5
:)This is a very long thread. But I'm glad I found it. I thought I was fighting single handedly to save the English language. English and it's history (did you know if came from German?) has always been a great interest of mine. And after school it became my "hobby" since I couldn't find anyway to make a living with studying English. But I did make a living writing job descriptions, which was sort of technical and had to be correct and concise.. My friends here at the ..um..Old Ladies Home or The Orphanage (as some call it) use me as a dictionary. Would like to add here that it's not foreigners that bother me. Learning another language is very difficult. It's Americans who should know better. Lately I've been noticing that everyone on tv uses "ground" for "floor" and vice-versa. I yell at them but they don't pay any attention . Even news casters on tv make mistakes. I don't mind teenagers having their own "codes" like. We did even way-back-then when I was a teenager. We got over it later. And we were never rude to our elders. I think what I hate the most is foul language. Words that never were uttered by females or even in the presence of females.(I'm being politically correct here too.) Oh my, I could go on for hours. But I won't. Probably no one will read this anyway. But they say it helps to write things down. "They" being my previous therapists.
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Post by sandy on Aug 29, 2006 9:33:27 GMT -5
I don't come down on foreigners for trying to learn English. It's a big undertaking. I come down on people who have spoken English all their lives and are so dumb about it. We all make mistakes. In spoken and written words. Children should be taught to speak correctly from childhood. Start them out in the direction they need to go. Slang is a great way to express yourself but if it's the only way you know That's BAD!
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Post by Mark on Aug 29, 2006 12:05:47 GMT -5
Tarradiddle is correct in that foul language is becoming all too common. We've become too tolerant of its usage - witness the words allowed on TV today which weren't a short time ago, and the awful language used in the so-called Rap music. Well, number one, I call it noise, not music, and number two, it uses some language I didn't even hear in the military.
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Post by Fluffy on Sept 2, 2006 9:28:18 GMT -5
I hate adults using foul language around children. It's no excuse to say that they hear it at school or outside either, IMO
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Post by sandy on Sept 2, 2006 10:23:49 GMT -5
Parents swearing in front of children shows lack of respect and a lot of non caring. If you don't care what your children think of you what a sad person you are.
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Post by Mark on Sept 2, 2006 13:06:29 GMT -5
Indeed it does, Sandy. That is exactly right.
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