Kids and technology

Yeah, I find that if someone uses correct grammar and spelling I treat them with a lot more respect! Also, anything they say has a much bigger impact on me.

Xctly dah sme 4 me.
Ha.

I am inclined to disagree, I find bad grammar a reflection of its necessity. As long as I can understand what is being said then I don't have a problem with bad spelling, or incorrect punctuation etc. In very few situations do poor language skills render something incomprehensible. It's just snobbery.

Pete.

If I were talking to someone I know, then shorthand wouldn't bother me at all. What does annoy is when people join forums and ask for help like this:

That isn't bad grammar, they aren't real words. There's a difference.

Pete.

hw do yhuu do dis wit dat tin dre itz ard. cn ne1 tel me
how do you do this with that thing, Dr. Dre it is hard. Can anyone tell me.

I don't know why you were talking to Dr. Dre..

Bad grammar is not ever necessary. I have been in the business world for almost 40 years. Trust me when I say if you don't know at least the basics, you might as well get ready for failure.

I'm not!

But not everyone is in the business world, Sara. Most people have regular uninspiring jobs that require nothing of them. I've worked in sales, in offices, in shops, in factories. My English skills where never ever needed. It was all tick-boxes, multiple choice forms. Even the phone numbers were dialed automatically by a computer. That is the reality of the issue.

Someone give me an example of a time in an average bog standard job where good grammar skills are essential. (Watch me crash and burn here.)

If people are not acquiring the skills and still getting by just fine, which they are, then there is obviously very little need for them.

Pete.

Writer, newspaper editor, filling out forms!
buurn !

And when you wrote something down in these job, I bet you used good grammar ie. What you learned in school. It is second nature if you learned it's proper usage. If not, you ain't goin' no place better soon....

HUH?

Well when a person at McDonald's says to me "Do you want a drink with them fries?", I'm sorry I cringe. I may be a snob but that irritates me!

I agree with Padraig, someone well spoken or someone that can write well comes across as more intelligent.

They may come across as less intelligent but you understood what it was they were saying, right?

Pete.

How the hell did a discussion about kids and technology get onto gramatically correct writings... Please get BACK ON SUBJECT!

it's only the cafe!
I like talking about illiterate people ha

It maybe the cafe but it's still inpolite to go of topic. The topic starter started the topic to discuss kids and technology. If you wish to discuss grammar please create a new thread.

To go back on topic.... My 10yr old and 6yr old cousins are both computer literate!!

Conversely... Old people don't deserve to be given technology. It blows their tiny, wrinkled minds.

Thats a little harsh

lol so true...my girlfriends grandad got sent this upgrade from Orange. Its a brand new sony ericsson walkman phone and its so so wasted on him!!!