I see so many young people who can't spell, can't complete simple sentences and are just all around stupid and I wonder how on earth they will be our next scientists, teachers, doctors and pioneers.  \n\nScaress me to the core.
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Dont worry. As this world industrialzes and modernizes further the cultures that value education and knowlege will prosper. Those that do not will falter. Keep in mind we are on the cusp of two important revolutions; information sharing and energy. America and other developed countries have a lot to gain by improving the way people communicate and how we heat our houses, power our cars and travel around the world. We have only just begun to use science to improve our world. The things we will do in the future will make todays technology seem like the dark ages. So, dont be so fearful of the future. We have only just begun.
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In the age of IM's and SMS texts, the youth of America seems to have adopted a "but you know what I mean" attitude on the topic, which I find disturbing, as well.\n\nFor those folks who throw their hands up in the air, and announce that they are "just bad spallars (sic)", please do the rest of us a favor and click the Check Spelling button pre-submission.\n\nI agree with you so very much.\n\nDo any of you remember Ray Bradbury's FARENHEIT 451 ?  It asserts that since we do all of our logical thinking in words, that limiting the vocabulary of the masses could, in turn limit their thinking.  It's interesting to see that the most unclear thinking seems to be posted in the most dubious syntax most of the time.
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I don't think we're holding our kids to high enough standards. I think kids are getting passed when they really don't deserve it. Just for example, look at some of the spelling and grammar on Yahoo Answers. How did some of these people pass in school?
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This is what happens when kids are not graded, so as to spare their feelings.  \n\nIt's true; there's been a whole movement in the past ten years to allow children to root around and try to find the correct answers, whether in mathematics, or English, with no punishments or demerits for incorrect answers, and yet no rewards for answers that ARE correct.\n\nThe current crop of 12 to 20 year-olds can't read, write, compose or spell, and what's worse, they think their puny efforts are "good enough".\n\nSad, isn't it?
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Everybody here is an idiot. Especially "DrFeelgood", WTF kind of moron writes -\n\n"You are a moron. Hey dunce ..."\n\nDamn people are stupid.
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Laziness, laziness, and then more laziness. Get PARENTS more involved is where it starts. Not that I am putting all the teenagers down out there, but the majority of horrible spellers and run on sentence abusers happen to be teens. I am also tired of people writing things like," WHuT cAN I do 2 Makez Him fall 4 Muh Hotnezz?" I guess that people think it's cool to write like that (or whatever), but it just shows where so many people place education and grammar in their lives. \n\n Yes, it is a growing problem, and the problem is that parents are much too lenient these days as opposed to 20 years ago. I would not have said these things 5 years ago though, so maybe there is still hope when the kids grow up.
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I completely agree with you. I notice it a lot on here. Most of the so called questions are not even in question form. The spelling mistakes are unbelievable and we have spell check! Go figure? It is scary to see this. It really makes me wonder what goes on in school, what are our teaches doing? Where are the parents? Are they help their children? What about some adults, they do the very same thing. I just read a so called question and it said: "My sister and brother in law leave when they feed?" First off, this is NOT a question, second, the word "feed" should be "fed" or it should have read,"they leave after they have eaten" (That makes more sense). The dumbing down of America is so apparent and it is getting worse and worse. We need to put more money into our education system instead of the billions we spend on nonsense. \nI posted a question a few days ago, "How come no one spells words out?" I see "wit" for with...."cuz" for because...."plz" for please. I received really great responses. But the majority mentioned that it is faster to type these shortcuts....."wit" is only missing the "h"...how much faster do you type leaving out one letter?\nI agree with you a 100%.....remember, type-o's are different from spelling and grammar mistakes. Spell check will not do it's job right if you spell words like "cuz" for because.\nYou are right and I hope people take your question seriously and learn something from it.
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Wow, that's sad.\n\nYet another woman who with little to no education, too many children (or will have soon), who is a drain on society and will die giving nothing to the world but children with no real future.\n\nCongrats on being proud of being dumb.
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The people who do write on her eare misrepresentative of the whole of society. Generally they are teens or preteens that have nothing better to do after they get out of school. Other than them, the other seemingly unintelligent people on here also do not represent the whole. The society is ggetting smarter, however those who are intelligent tend to have better things to do than answer other people's questions, nevertheless I never have thought of the internet as a good representation of the world's intelligence since any moron can have a computer and access to the internet. \n\nSo why am I here? I'm wasting time between class and work :P I still have a job that can't be considered a career or even serious, so I'm lucky enough to have time to waste :) I choose the internet and this site specificaly because I like the diversity.
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My view is that the internet is opening more avenues of communication to teenagers and people with poor education, and both groups (with some exceptions) tend to spell poorly. \n\nIt's not that anyone's grammar is getting worse, but rather that we're being exposed more and more to the already existing bad grammar.
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Fascinating dialect you have there...\n\n(yes - I get a bit annoyed when people spell the way they speak, but hey...what can you expect when teachers aren't allowed to correct their spelling? Might hurt the little dears' egos...)
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Yeah yeah, Ok Lu - Good for you - but back to the subject - not you using this thread to glorify yourself and your problem solving abilities. :-&#92;\n\nBack to the subject.......\n\nI totally agree with you Phil C - It's like when I was at school and Encarta just came out. All the kids with computers used to just cut and paste HUGE chunks of it into thier homework. \n\nIt's the same as all this coursework B*llsh*t. Kids racking up a grade without even sitting an exam - It should be all down to the tests, not studying and putting together studies that equate to 60% of your final grade.\n\nLife is stressful and in the working world it all comes donw to the crunch - They should be educated to deal with pressure from a younger age - then we wouldn;t get so many flakey Grads in jobs that have no idea about thinking on thier feet.\n\nKids are lazy as hell - we are just helping that.\n\nLu - There is a trait called modesty I believe you should look into developing. But I guess you are only a kid so brag. brag, brag away my smug little one. :-|
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Yaaaay! Another member of the Army for Better Communication (the ABC). I cringe when I see the spelling, grammar, etc., on this site -- by people who profess to be adults and college graduates. But the kids are the worst! I think they're in for a big shock when they enter the work force, where the ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and correctly is a major factor in success.
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It bothers a lot of us - you just seem to be hitting all the questions that the lazy jackasses ask. \n\nThere are, indeed, a section of us who type like intelligent individuals who give a rats' ass about the English language. \n\nThe rest of them give us a bad name, really, when you continue to read the news of how "chatting online can lower your IQ" - Sure, if you're a RETARD to begin with!\n\n♥
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I agree with you entirely.  I wonder where my tax dollars are going when I see the way words are spelled and grammar is tortured.\n\nSometimes I come on here, see the bad grammar and spelling then the idiotic questions and I leave and answer nothing.
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I've asked this question.  Most people just don't care about their spelling, and they claim to be in too much of a hurry to use Spell Check.  They are idiots.
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I'm amazed. You spell very well and use periods at the ends of sentences and your grammar isnt bad at all. Yet I see kids posting questions in here that claim to be in high school who can barely communicate at all. Their spelling is so bad you can't understand them and they don't use a period for an entire paragraph. You are obviously smarter than them but you were the one left back?\n\nThis says a lot about teachers and the screwed up school system. Good luck to you.