Bill Hayles <bill...@ctv.es> wrote in message
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I learnt Spanish by declension and conjugation. Given a Spanish
infinitive, I can probably give you the gerund or the past participle.
Whether I know what the verb means is another matter!
I must admit that altho' I'm not totally thick I have NO IDEA what you just
said......Maybe its just me........I can do maths well......Languages I just
have no ability with B-(
I am well known as a pedant when it comes to matters of grammar.
What....Like you hang on clothes and look glitsy? (Sorry couldn't resist)
Constructions such as "if it was me" instead of "if it were me", or
"different to" rather than "different from" ("different" is as ablative
an adjective as can be imagined) annoy me. Perhaps they shouldn't;
My wife gets REALLY annoyed with people that don't know the difference
between 'there', they're' and 'their'
I've known her to have to leave the room.......I feel she has a problem.....
maybe my less than perfect typing annoys others - I'm not perfect! What
is worse is that very often, those who use such phrases don't even
realise they are wrong.
I do that...I just type what I 'say' in my head....To me it sounds
right....But to others they read what I have written, NOT what I
wrote....(If you get my gist)
When I was at school, I was given a thorough grounding in language
construction and grammar, and I learnt Latin. This skills have stood me
in good stead over the years and although I found them boring at the
time I'm very thankful that I learnt them.
We (me) learn't English in, what I believe, was a terrible manner...We very
rarely read books in school, it was always text books, not real story
books.....I escaped school with a 'D'. And I don't believe anybody in my
class got higher than a 'C' Shame really
I wouldn't say all my posts have perfect spelling and grammar, but I try
my
best.
The standard of literacy in this group is first class, which is just one
of the many factors which make it a pleasure to read it.
Even with the way that a few of us clip sentences? I must admit that I have
a horrible tendency to put dots in to space out breathing gaps.......Like
this B-)
Are these still taught in schools? I get the impression that they
aren't, and if that is the case, how can people be blamed for not
knowing them!
I don't think its a case of 'Not being taught' but a case of not having the
time in the curicculum (sp?) to properly teach certain things...
My last year was the year that the new G.C.S.E.s were dragged in....And as a
result most of the people I wan't toi school with, lost out because there
was NO set standard to go by...No body knew what to teach us at the
time.......Most of the stuff we learn't wasn't in the test papers and a lot
of the questions were stuff we just skipped over.....
In the end I got a 'C' for my Math exam.......And I was in the top 1%
(Second place) of my year and I had no way to retake it.....(I got a job
straight out of school)
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Rick
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