I’ve met adults like James right here on the internet. It’s unfortunate that some of their posts are unintelligible. I hasten to add that no one here has this attitude.
I had people correct my grammar and pronunciation when I was much younger and it helped me to learn. I learned the difference between ITS and IT’S and the correct way to say Ybor City. I went to a catholic school in grades 1-5 and got a poor education.
Read a post on the Etiquette Hell blog once from somebody named “Katelyn.” Her teacher insisted her name was spelled “Caitlin”.
And another poster said she got marked down on a “What I Did Over The Summer” paper for spelling her brother’s name wrong. She tried to explain to the teacher that her brother’s name was spelled in an unconventional manner, but the teacher treated her like she didn’t know what she was talking about. And her parents wouldn’t speak to the teacher, even though kid was right and the teacher was wrong, because it was just a couple of points.
Reader’s Digest had a story about a kid who got marked down for “punctuation errors” on his biography of Harry S Truman, for not putting a period after the S. Kid tells teacher the S is a full middle name, not an initial. Teacher pulls out an encyclopedia that shows S with a period and asks the kid if he thinks he knows more than the encyclopedia. Kid writes directly to former president Truman and gets a personal letter back confirming kid was right and teacher was wrong and kid got his points back on his paper.
I remember an account, supposedly factual, of a kid transferring in. The teacher asked where they lived before and was told Iowa. “Here we pronounce that Ohio” was the officious reply.
Nor do we speak Anglo Saxon or Chaucer’s English but if we’re just going to write any old way we feel like, how can we make ourselves understood to others?
wiatr over 6 years ago
I’ve met adults like James right here on the internet. It’s unfortunate that some of their posts are unintelligible. I hasten to add that no one here has this attitude.
StratmanRon over 6 years ago
In today’s strip, that scary truth about big-box discount store fashion “sense”…
Sailor46 USN 65-95 over 6 years ago
All my teachers were bossy, everything had to be their way.
kab buch over 6 years ago
Sorry James, if writing is too bad critics will comment. I’ve also had that issue.
locake over 6 years ago
I had people correct my grammar and pronunciation when I was much younger and it helped me to learn. I learned the difference between ITS and IT’S and the correct way to say Ybor City. I went to a catholic school in grades 1-5 and got a poor education.
Asharah over 6 years ago
Read a post on the Etiquette Hell blog once from somebody named “Katelyn.” Her teacher insisted her name was spelled “Caitlin”.
And another poster said she got marked down on a “What I Did Over The Summer” paper for spelling her brother’s name wrong. She tried to explain to the teacher that her brother’s name was spelled in an unconventional manner, but the teacher treated her like she didn’t know what she was talking about. And her parents wouldn’t speak to the teacher, even though kid was right and the teacher was wrong, because it was just a couple of points.
Asharah over 6 years ago
Reader’s Digest had a story about a kid who got marked down for “punctuation errors” on his biography of Harry S Truman, for not putting a period after the S. Kid tells teacher the S is a full middle name, not an initial. Teacher pulls out an encyclopedia that shows S with a period and asks the kid if he thinks he knows more than the encyclopedia. Kid writes directly to former president Truman and gets a personal letter back confirming kid was right and teacher was wrong and kid got his points back on his paper.
Hippogriff over 6 years ago
I remember an account, supposedly factual, of a kid transferring in. The teacher asked where they lived before and was told Iowa. “Here we pronounce that Ohio” was the officious reply.
wiatr over 6 years ago
I have indeed noticed those sorts of errors. In my local paper it is almost expected but in some periodicals it is almost shocking.
wiatr over 6 years ago
Nor do we speak Anglo Saxon or Chaucer’s English but if we’re just going to write any old way we feel like, how can we make ourselves understood to others?