i wouldn't worry about it. gamgee and mro are basically the same
person to me..

Did all three of you drop out of school at about the same age?

I knew that statement would draw a swift reaction. :D


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Gamgee wrote to candycane <=-

candycane wrote to Gamgee <=-

i wouldn't worry about it. gamgee and mro are basically the same person
to me..

Did all three of you drop out of school at about the same age?

No? It's probably a habit from using a lot of irc chats and like
other instant message platforms n stuff..

I'll bet I've been using IRC a lot longer than you have, and many IM
apps over the years, and I don't do that. Neither does anyone I know.

Why would you *WANT* to appear to be sloppy/lazy/illiterate? Sorry,
but I don't understand that kind of behavior. Is it really that much harder to write properly? Are you in that much of a hurry that you
can't do it?

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Why would you *WANT* to appear to be sloppy/lazy/illiterate? Sorry, but
I don't understand that kind of behavior. Is it really that much harder
to write properly? Are you in that much of a hurry that you can't do
it?

It is a younger generation thing, the generation that grew up with text messaging, etc. Those of us who had texting introduced later probably still try to be grammatically correct.

Also, I am pretty certain they've quit stressing grammar as much in schools.


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Dumas Walker wrote to GAMGEE <=-

Why would you *WANT* to appear to be sloppy/lazy/illiterate? Sorry, but
I don't understand that kind of behavior. Is it really that much harder
to write properly? Are you in that much of a hurry that you can't do
it?

It is a younger generation thing, the generation that grew up
with text messaging, etc. Those of us who had texting introduced
later probably still try to be grammatically correct.

Yes, I'm sure you're absolutely right. This generation will have lots
of neck/spine problems, and carpal tunnel in the hands, when they get
old; due to walking around while constantly staring down at their phone
and running into things.

Also, I am pretty certain they've quit stressing grammar as much
in schools.

Agreed. Along with a LOT of other important stuff. Have to make room
in the curriculum for all the new "woke" agenda stuff, ya know. :-(



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Yes, I'm sure you're absolutely right. This generation will have lots
of neck/spine problems, and carpal tunnel in the hands, when they get
old; due to walking around while constantly staring down at their phone
and running into things.

Zombies. ;)

Also, I am pretty certain they've quit stressing grammar as much
in schools.

Agreed. Along with a LOT of other important stuff. Have to make room
in the curriculum for all the new "woke" agenda stuff, ya know. :-(

That and the general lowering of standards so that the kids can score
better on the aptitude tests.


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Re: Re: strange window displa
By: Dumas Walker to GAMGEE on Wed Aug 02 2023 07:18 am

Also, I am pretty certain they've quit stressing grammar as much
in schools.

That and the general lowering of standards so that the kids can score
better on the aptitude tests.

What do they do when they get to college? College's no longer check grammer on students papers? Or did they do away with writing papers too?

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Re: Re: strange window displa
By: HusTler to Dumas Walker on Fri Aug 04 2023 07:33 pm

That and the general lowering of standards so that the kids can score better on the aptitude tests.

What do they do when they get to college? College's no longer check grammer on students papers? Or did they do away with writing papers too?

when a teacher lowered a grade and said they should correct grammer and he would score it again, they called him racist and went to the news and got him canceled.


https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/ucla-professor-accused-of-racism-for-correcting-grammar-capitalization

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/11/25/ucla-grad-students-stage-sit-during-class-protest-what-they-see-racially-hostile

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That and the general lowering of standards so that the kids can score better on the aptitude tests.

What do they do when they get to college? College's no longer check grammer o
students papers? Or did they do away with writing papers too?

I am not certain but, outside of English majors, they may not check grammer
any more.


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Dumas Walker wrote to HUSTLER <=-

I am not certain but, outside of English majors, they may not check grammer any more.

I was in AP English a long time ago, and had a conflict with the
3rd year AP English teacher. He sent me down to the regular English
class, and I realized I could write literal nonsense, but as long as it
was correctly grammatically correct, capitalized and punctuated I'd get
an A.

I hadn't thought about that guy in a long time. I should have dedicated
my novel to him. :)



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Re: Re: strange window displa
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Dumas Walker on Mon Aug 07 2023 08:09 am

I hadn't thought about that guy in a long time. I should have dedicated
my novel to him. :)

You wrote a novel? What was it about?

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Re: Re: strange window displa
By: candycane to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Aug 07 2023 06:27 pm

I hadn't thought about that guy in a long time. I should have dedicated
my novel to him. :)

You wrote a novel? What was it about?

Yeah really? For real? Is it published yet? Inquiring minds want to know ;-)


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Re: Re: strange window displa
By: HusTler to Dumas Walker on Fri Aug 04 2023 07:33 pm

What do they do when they get to college? College's no longer check grammer > students papers? Or did they do away with writing papers too?

When a College gets an avalanche of ignorant morons instead of the students they are expecting, they are forced to lower their standards.

If the Engineering College starts getting students who left High School ignoring what the Moment of Inertia of a body is, they will have to adapt theirplans. They won't be able to assume students know it and will have to teach it
themselves.

This is the reason why you have 2nd year College students who are still learning the basics.

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candycane wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I hadn't thought about that guy in a long time. I should have dedicated
my novel to him. :)

You wrote a novel? What was it about?

Part Zombie Apocalypse, part Earth Abides by George Stewart - the first
apocalyptic fiction I read as a kid.




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Hustler wrote to candycane <=-

Yeah really? For real? Is it published yet? Inquiring minds want to
know ;-)

I wrote it during NANOWRIMO in 2017, added some text to get it to around
50K words, then took some out. It's still rough around the edges, but
I'm going to get around to putting it up as a kindle book some day.



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I was in AP English a long time ago, and had a conflict with the
3rd year AP English teacher. He sent me down to the regular English
class, and I realized I could write literal nonsense, but as long as it
was correctly grammatically correct, capitalized and punctuated I'd get
an A.

I hadn't thought about that guy in a long time. I should have dedicated
my novel to him. :)

Sounds like maybe you should have! :)


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Re: Re: strange window displa
By: poindexter FORTRAN to candycane on Tue Aug 08 2023 07:18 am

Part Zombie Apocalypse, part Earth Abides by George Stewart - the first apocalyptic fiction I read as a kid.

Wow, that's pretty cool! I haven't heard of Earth Abides before. What's the book you wrote called?

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Re: Re: strange window displa
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Hustler on Tue Aug 08 2023 07:23 am

I wrote it during NANOWRIMO in 2017, added some text to get it to around 50K words, then took some out. It's still rough around the edges, but
I'm going to get around to putting it up as a kindle book some day.

Wow! Good luck, you can do it! (sorry about the previous message I hadn't read the response yet)

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Re: Re: strange window displa
By: HusTler to Dumas Walker on Fri Aug 04 2023 07:33 pm

What do they do when they get to college? College's no longer check grammer on students papers? Or did they do away

^ incorrect ^ grammAr ^'

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On 2023-08-01, Dumas Walker <CAPCITY2!Dumas.Walker@vert.synchro.net> wrote:

Why would you *WANT* to appear to be sloppy/lazy/illiterate? Sorry, but
I don't understand that kind of behavior. Is it really that much harder
to write properly? Are you in that much of a hurry that you can't do
it?

It is a younger generation thing, the generation that grew up with text messaging, etc. Those of us who had texting introduced later probably still try to be grammatically correct.

Also, I am pretty certain they've quit stressing grammar as much in schools.

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Well, the truth it's MSN/AIM/Jabber have better capabilities than SMS's even
in Europe thus, writting like that looked like an uneducated chav/illiterated trashy teen everywhere. Later, with smartphones, I agree with you, the
traits got widespread.

On 2023-08-08, Arelor <PALANTIR!Arelor@vert.synchro.net> wrote:

Re: Re: strange window displa
By: HusTler to Dumas Walker on Fri Aug 04 2023 07:33 pm

What do they do when they get to college? College's no longer check grammer > students papers? Or did they do away with writing papers too?

When a College gets an avalanche of ignorant morons instead of the students they are expecting, they are forced to lower their standards.

If the Engineering College starts getting students who left High School ignoring what the Moment of Inertia of a body is, they will have to adapt theirplans. They won't be able to assume students know it and will have to teach it
themselves.

This is the reason why you have 2nd year College students who are still learning the basics.

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I've seen that in Spain too, it's crazy. The things is at pre-Uni HS "split" between
humanities and science, either branch enforces you to be able to parse a Spanish book
as if you were a damn Cervantes or a member of the Royal Academy of the Spanish
Language setting up the standards. OTOH, you can entirely omit Maths in Humanities,
as my SO did. And, heck, Math it's logical; try to parse complex nested phrases (oración suborndinada, I don't know how to translate it, you basically use a sentence
as an object for another one) in Spanish and a mid-difficult integral it's a breeze.