Illiteracy here we come!

**Hessah** · 06-05-2009, 12:19 AM

Well for Sparky I could understand if they're not very fuss with grammar and stuff, coz it's a 2nd language...

but if English is the only language that you speak and you cant even get that to an acceptable standard.. that's horrible...

Just recently I heard on the radio that this 18 years old girl wrote a complain letter about a TV channel to a newspaper... Man I don't even know if you call her letter English or Chinese... it's... Chinese all spelled out in English...

"I think they are very inch lor, say bad for short say bad for fat, very much hurt us ga ma..."

"Inch" has the same sound as "mean" in Chinese... so they took the sound then "translate" it into English...

It was like WUT?

But hand writing... well doctors have bad handwritings and they're very knowledgeable people and well respected in society... so....? LOL

**Loveless** · 06-05-2009, 12:37 AM

Wow... that's how some people I know speak or write on their facebook. And these are people I've known from grade school.

Anyway, that's the thing... you write a complaint letter like that you're not going to be taken seriously.

It's not the doctors... it's the pharmacists that I admire for being able to read it! xD

**Hessah** · 06-05-2009, 12:48 AM

Yeah that's how people write on the net, and this new generation thinks that it's appropriate to write like that for formal stuff too!!

I dunno if that girl did her letter like that so she gets attention (it's was mentioned through radio and things, so in a way she did get her message out further than she's sent it..)

but... it was like WOW... and I'm not sure if I shold be proud that I could actually understand that letter better than my parents would LOL

LOL True about the pharmacists there must be a subject in Uni on "how to read Doctor's writing"

**Loveless** · 06-05-2009, 12:51 AM

Couple years back I was reading this one particular person's blog. In the end it said "Baby's first words: Lol." I laughed then but I'm starting to think it's possible... scary.

**Hessah** · 06-05-2009, 12:58 AM

HAHAHA!!

And its funny when u see little kiddies that ask "what's that?" pointing to a casette tape...

Back then we use tapes... now people can use these "Smart LED Lights" to transmit data... http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2194/

**Vasu** · 06-05-2009, 01:01 AM

I think it doesn't matter even if English is your second language, you should still be relatively fluent in it. Although English almost isn't my second language. I think in English, so the grammar and stuff comes pretty naturally to me.

**Hessah** · 06-05-2009, 01:14 AM

To ask someone that doesnt need to speak English everyday to be fluent in it is a lot to ask for....

Imagine you learn French at school, and that's the only time you need to speak French.. will you be relatively fluent in it?

**a.L** · 06-05-2009, 01:15 AM

I feel smart in English class. LOL

**Loveless** · 06-05-2009, 01:18 AM

Ah, French class. I forgot everything I learned that day as soon as I stepped out of the classroom.

**Vasu** · 06-05-2009, 01:51 AM

Originally Posted by Hessah

To ask someone that doesnt need to speak English everyday to be fluent in it is a lot to ask for....

Imagine you learn French at school, and that's the only time you need to speak French.. will you be relatively fluent in it?

I get what you're saying, but they should atleast know the difference between "a" and "an" just like even though I'm not fluent in French, I know the difference between un and une or le and la.