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MariaB -> RE: Grammatical Pedantry! (9/4/2014 4:19:15 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr
I moved to this part of the country, not long ago and the people here have a habit of saying things like: "The dog needs walked." or "The dishes need washed." It drives me fucking nuts. I believe it does make otherwise intelligent people sound lazy/illiterate.
I say "The dog needs walked" and "The dishes need washed". Its very much a northern English way of speaking and it drives my other half nuts but then he's an Aspie and only understands correctly versed English. Another thing we say is, "do you want to walk the dog" and "do you want to wash the dishes" but it isn't a question.
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I'm not speaking about 3 mis-used commas in a six paragraph post. I'm talking about a wall-of-text with mis-spelled words, mixed metaphors, text speak, and an over-all sense of "well, I know what I'm saying. if you don't, too bad." What's the point in making a post, then if not to communicate with others?
Have you heard of Alexia? Its word blindness often acquired in adulthood through illness. Have you heard of Dyslexia? It is often inherited but can be acquired later in life and it affects 20% or 1 in 5 Americans.
The thing is, they do think they are communicating. I'm sure their written word looks just fine to them. Its often obvious, at least to me, when someone is dyslexic and its fairly clear when someone isn't all that clever. Its interesting that the English are generally far kinder and more tactful with those not as fluent in the brain department as themselves. I was shocked to discover that most French schools do not believe in dyslexia and that if you send your dyslexic child to a French school, the chances are they will be put in the dunces class.
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I just went back to school and it amazes me how many college students don't have a clue how to communicate, using the written word. One of my professors asked the class what a gerund was, today and not one person (Except me) knew. It's a shame that that is the case in a school of higher education.
I couldn’t have made it through school without the ability to write in cursive. School kids today use their laptops to learn and their Ipads and Smart phones to communicate. Research has shown that the simple act of hand writing and constructing the letters by pen on paper increases our ability to recall information.
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Now, I find that I am completely comfortable allowing people I don't care about to seem lazy or inarticulate but, when someone means something to me, I want others to know them for the intelligent people that I know them to be.
Surely if we don't know them we can't presume they are being lazy. When we label others we are displaying our reluctance to make the effort to understand them. If I avoid thinking and jump to conclusions about their intelligence or lack of it, then its me who is being stupid.
Screen captures still RULE! Ya feel me?
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