Naff Naff Naff!

[tvordlj]

Christ... Took a two day course on writing better reports and proposals and aside from the first morning that talked about organizing the report, the rest was ALL grammar. Today was stuff like where to use commas and semi colons. Fuck! I was having junior high school flash backs by noon! Rewriting sentences, exchanging words, dangling participles .. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!

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[browncoweyes.livejournal.com]

Sadly, it's a fact that the kids the schools are churning out now a days wouldn't know proper grammar or english if it hit them over the head. They probably assumed they'd get a class full of post teenyboppers.

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[tvor.livejournal.com]

It IS sad. Not only can they not read properly they can't write either. Sure, sometimes i don't speak properly and even write very fast and loose when i'm writing something casual. When i'm writing for business though, i do just fine. The instructor had a glance over some of my business stuff and said overall it was very good. there were a few minor things that he could find.

The junior high i went to really drilled grammar into us for three years. I know i've forgotten some of it but it does stay with you. Mr. Dockrill would be proud LOL

[acey.livejournal.com]

Heh - my parents also drilled punctuation and grammar into us at every opportunity. (Don't ever get me going on the use of the apostrophe!)