Getzup Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 yo do you guys think that because we have a forum, with many threads full of pages...that we are somehow better at reading?:confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunm Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 No I still see enough bad grammar to safely say that no, there not much good reading (or writing) being done around here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauler5150 Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 'there not much reading' I think you meant 'theres'. But in a way you do have a point however Lens just proved you right in some sort of regard as everybody makes typos and stuff all the time. Just on here it gets picked on a fair bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abracadabra Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 no, he meant "there's" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 i enjoy reading, but on here there's so much mindless dribble, it makes me feel more dumb afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunm Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 see, i proved my own point yes, i meant "there's" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earmuffs Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 i just look at teh piczzzz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poop Man Bob Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Hi! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardyHarHar Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 yeah yeah yeah. We ought to wear togas too. Forum rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Blaze Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 uh, naw. rolling rock? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gat Bush Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 asian bitch break dancing squad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ginger Bread Man Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 your reading abilities will only have increased properly if there were no grammatical errors. point in case. when you read SuM1 RitN LiEk DIz n DaT, it is difficult to read. more exposure results in better reading to this typing . its all relative Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauler5150 Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Luckily for us not too many people choose to write in that upper and lowercase style, unless it is to convey sarcasm. Luckily in the states you don't have a government that is trying to bring in Outcomes based Education (the education minister for my state is a migrant) who believes that using pictures in an ENGLISH exam is a way to examine the skills of the highschoolers. I know this is a conspiracy to allow these migrants to infiltrate our society to the point until I become a foreigner in my own country. /end rant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AOTPrep Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 we get to enjoy slang from all over the world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 veri bad gramer and spellings in deez treads....their our lots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madsencarl Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 there's not as much bad grammar in channel zero as opposed to other parts of the forum, and it's top of the range in crossfire. but that's too intellectual, makes my brain hurt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunt double Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Luckily in the states you don't have a government that is trying to bring in Outcomes based Education (the education minister for my state is a migrant) who believes that using pictures in an ENGLISH exam is a way to examine the skills of the highschoolers. I know this is a conspiracy to allow these migrants to infiltrate our society to the point until I become a foreigner in my own country. For one, whether or not the education minister is a migrant or not, has nothing to do with policymaking for the state government's various education policies. There is an entire staff employed to write various policies. These types of changes to curriculum and testing come from recommendations made by both education professors and practising teachers. In a nutshell, outcomes-based education is focused on the achievement of a series of core outcomes that all students should achieve once they finish school. It involves a widening of scope of what is taught in the classroom to include how to equip students for real-life situations. The basic idea is that students will learn how to be self-directed. The change to have pictures in an english exam is to test critical literacies, such as the ability to recognise particular conventions of advertisments for example. The use of visual stimulus material is not a recent development in english education. This type of stuff has been taught in schools for a long time. I guess we will have to wait and see whether or not there is a conspiracy or you are just a misinformed bigot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tango 24 Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 ^^works for the government in our final exams we were told specifically not to use msn/interweb lingo i found that highly insulting to my superior intellectz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauler5150 Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 No I am not some misinformed bigot. I just see a greater conspiracy going on, that the everyday man is pretty much oblivious to. Obviously with the skills shortage we are experiencing, we are importing a lot of labour to do the jobs that are available, and these migrants are therefore bringing their children with them. As the children's standard of education in english (if it is their 2nd/adopted language) could not be at the standard that the people born here have, the OBE would obviously help them out tremendously. I had to go through my english exam the old way, which was by writing words on a page. This picture scenario is bullshit. I equate drawing pictures to answer a question posed in ENGLISH (which happens to be the topic being examined!!!!) to be suitable for a 5 year old, but not at high school levels. BTW I killed my english exam at school (top 2% of all students who sat it that year) but if I had to draw pictures, it would have been funny as one essay was on the 'stolen generation'. What was I meant to do to answer that? Draw some white men in suits taking kids from the aborigines?? And to your assumption that I may be misinformed, I am just voicing my opinion which if you can see the greater picture by reading between the lines, you'll obviously see I am informed, as I possess a university education and have been there and done that. /end justification of rant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauler5150 Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 And yeah, I believe stunt double you work for the government and are looking to further their propaganda. Apparently they are thinking of letting the students use MSN/internet lingo in these OBE exams from recent reports. Just imagine: "G1v3 m3 an A b3cau53 1 am teh 1337!!!!!1111oneone11111!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunt double Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 -edited- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Huxtable. Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 ^^yo that nigga looks like some type of exotic bird and shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauler5150 Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 That pic is hilarious!!! Lightened my mood tremendously. Gonna go and drop it on some Myspace pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papa_dukes Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 yea 12oz has improved my every day life now my hoe sayin "pee in my teh butt pa lease" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pace1 Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 No I just think that it has improved our ability t0 t4lk liek t0t411y 1337 manzzzzzz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatalist Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 PSM?! lmao. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Getzup Posted December 10, 2006 Author Share Posted December 10, 2006 Well I've read some of your comments.I think you all agree tht there is alot of typoe's and what nots. My question was really about how much time we spend reading a day...But If we spend 10+ hours a day reading mispelled comments in threads wouldn't that perpetuate or promote more mispellings? Since it goes un- corrected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26SidedCube Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 I read books filled with words that people don't use anymore. Archaic language is where it's at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunt double Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 what, like canterbury tales? "Thus kan I forme and peynte a creature Whan that me list; who kan me countrefete? Pigmalion noght, though he ay forge and bete, Or grave, or peynte, for I dar wel seyn" I wanna spell words like Chaucer did. Middle English sounds rad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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