Its Sad To Say: There Grammar Is Worse Than You’re Own
Posted on | September 27, 2008 | 5 Comments
So let me get this straight. We pay zillions of dollars in income and property taxes to “educate” other people’s children. Those brats get carted off in long, gas-guzzling yellow boxes for eight hours a day, five days a week, ten months a year, from age five to eighteen.
And at the other end of this assembly line, we are rewarded with a conveyor belt full of well-educated, well-behaved young adults ready to assume their responsible roles in society, right?
Get serious.
It is unbelievable that so many Americans cannot choose correctly among the following simple options:
“it’s” vs. “its”
“there” vs. “their” vs. “they’re”
“your” vs. “you’re”
Yes, the English language is one of the more difficult to learn, but that should apply to foreigners, not natives!
I’m ashamed and disgusted. How did we let this happen?
Tags: education > grammar > spelling > stupidity
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 4:25 am
I can tolerate the occasional mixups, with how easy it can be to confuse the alternatives that are not caught by the brain during a quick self-edit, but consistent mistakes drives me up the wall, too.
October 23rd, 2008 @ 9:05 pm
Were we to do bodily harm to the offenders, no well-educated jury would convict us!
May 31st, 2009 @ 3:03 pm
“The English language is one of the more difficult to learn” ? I believe it is the easiest. This is why it is “international”. The grammar is so basic. Learning Arabic, Russian or Chinese is way more difficult. There is no excuse for American children. Weak brains, fat asses.
May 31st, 2009 @ 4:56 pm
A clarification: the English language is one of the more difficult to become fluent in for adult students. The grammar may be simpler than in other languages, but we have a colossal number of idiomatic expressions, baffling spellings, and homonyms. It has become the “international” language because the world’s superpower speaks it and its tourists and businesspeople travel the world expecting everyone else to accommodate them (which, for the most part, they do).
March 5th, 2010 @ 9:37 am
English was an international language long before the USA became the “world’s superpower”, it was the worlds international language because of the British Empire. It also became the world’s international language not because its grammar is simpler (which it is) but because you can just about put the words in any order in a sentence and still be understood.
By the way, British children are just as bad as American children when it comes to the use of the language. And by British I include Australians, New Zealanders and others educated in the same way.