nephandi
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It's not good news, for sure. But if it's true, it's true. On a positive note, a couple of teachers of retarded kids (we call it cognitively impaired around here), teach their classes very well. Kids learn multiplication, how to tell time, how to read, and how to write. Their skills are way stronger than a lot of the "normal" kids out there.
Yes many mental retardations allow the person to learn to do things, very specifically. However being able to spell a word perfectly do not mean that they can understand it. So who do you wish to talk to, someone who can spell a word perfectly or someone with the mental capacity to use the word?
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But all anecdotal stuff aside, the vast majority of people could write clearly and correctly if they actually tried. If you promised someone a million bucks or put a gun to his/her head, they would look up words they don't know how to spell. They would start sentences with capital letters.
Sure if you put someone in a life or death situation, most pepole can learn, the question is, as this is not a life or death situation is it worth it. I could take hours, and hours and hours of classes to learn to write perfect English, however I would rather spend that time learning a forth language, learning about the Occult, Leaning about BDSM well in short learning things far more useful to me than writing English perfectly as I can make myself understood just fine. However if spelling and grammar is a life and death importance to you, then may I suggest that this forum might not be the best for you but that you should try shallowsnobsforums.com instead for a better chance that you find someone of like mind.
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I have never in my life met a person who would look at a lower case letter and see it as a capital, or who saw nonexistent punctuation marks.
It is not the most common, but it do happen with dyslexia.
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And they can learn proper word usage and grammar at a middle school level.
I have tried. And I am not stupid. My IQ is above normal, my average grades was B+ But I did never learn proper grammar nor spelling, and that is not because I did not try. You have just no idea of what you are talking about.
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Okay, Mr. smart alecky Nerwegian, let me clarify. Of COURSE I make allowances for people conversing in a second language. Most non native English speakers have a better command of English spelling/grammar than Americans do. And no, I do not speak a second language. I am an arrogant American. English is the only language anyone needs.
Words gettting jumbled was not the point here. It was people who don't know that sentences start with capital letters, don't know the difference between to and two or there and their, and who don't know that every sentence deserves some sort of punctuation. And I was not referring to typos. Hell, we all make those. I was talking about basic elementary school language and writing skills. There...do I have a brain now?
From your posts in the rest of this tread, then I would say jury is still out on that brain.
Now, if what you are trying to rant about if punctuation and capital letters then why do you rage generally about spelling and grammar?
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Maybe laziness. Could have been just an incorrect assumption, though. I incorrectly attributed such a harsh reply to a male mind.
Most men online seam to think I am male unless I use a very feminine nick. That is okey I enjoy making guesses as to how many posts it will take for them to realize I am a girl. :D
I wish you well
< Message edited by nephandi -- 7/18/2009 3:28:11 PM >
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