Illiteracy here we come! - Page 2

**Hraesvelg** · 06-04-2009, 09:06 PM

My handwriting is terrible, but spelling is essential.

Destrus · 06-04-2009, 09:25 PM

my handwriting is terrible as well, especially if i rush. teachers have a hard time understanding ti sometimes.

oh i should vlarify the me learning cursive thing:
cursive is what they taught us to write, there was no learning print for me. i especially have to lol cause i remember at one point there was certain letters i didn't know how to write in print but knew perfectly well in cursive.

**Yosei** · 06-04-2009, 09:34 PM

I sucked hard when I was first learning how to pronounce words and spell them. But then I got really good, I was a spelling bee dork, and I'm pretty good at spitting out the letters of a word on command.

I just think how you write says a lot about you. I know a lot of people used to say the bigger your hand writing is the more immature you were for your age.

Destrus · 06-04-2009, 09:38 PM

i always thought my hand writing was big but people said it was small >_<

**Loveless** · 06-04-2009, 11:15 PM

That is horrible. I remember my teacher not letting the class out for recess until we finished our handwriting exercises.

I don't think you need to write/print like a typewriter (I do) but having legible writing should be encouraged. Relying on computers is just asking for trouble in the future. And spelling is just... yeah, spell check works but you also have to have the right settings (like color and colour, etc). And they won't catch differences like their, there, and they're. All spelled correctly, sound the same, different meanings.

It is a pet peeve now when I see people type and/or say "more funner" and the like. Yuck.

**Yosei** · 06-04-2009, 11:21 PM

Or when people can't tell when to use a or an.

**Loveless** · 06-04-2009, 11:24 PM

Yeah... to me I would think that would come rather naturally.

If it's a second language then sure... I guess it'd be difficult at first but again, not that hard to pick up.

**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"