Blindness, low vision, an impairment, a disability. How many millions more, globally?Ĭall it what you want. That’s more than 25 Million in the USA alone (so says the American Foundation for the Blind).
That being said…īy choosing to turn your words into a picture of words, you’ve now pushed away many of the “more than 25 Million” people who have severe visual impairments, and cannot read regular print. I’ve learned and am sure I will continue learning much from Copyblogger. I’m a native French speaker myself, and I can tell you the issue is exactly the same at least for French. This is far from the case, and not only in the English-speaking area. The incorrect assusmption consists of believing that native speakers automatically deliver *the* *error-free* version of their own language. the teachers being native speakers themselves, they are prone to committing the same *native* mistakes as well. I think it’s a general rule for all *foreign* languages, whatever the language: foreigners speak and write it better because they were taught right from the start the *correct* use of their foreign language – and they learnt that correct use *exclusively* (at least at the beginning) – whereas we all learn our native language, whatever it is, not from a school teaching us what its correct use is supposed to be, but from natural speakers using it *as it is spoken* in real life – mistakes, regionalisms and all – and in that case the school’s first mission consists of *correcting* native language use and setting it straight….
“Generally, I’ve noticed a trend that students for whom English is not their first language speak far and away better English than those for whom English IS their first language.” Generally, I’ve noticed a trend that students for whom English is not their first language speak far and away better English than those for whom English IS their first language.Īlas, I’m sad for those who will be left behind in life because they didn’t pay attention to the details of communication.Īmazon itself is paying attention to grammar and deleting e-books that don’t abide by good communication protocols. Such an attitude is reflective of the same generations’ disrespect for themselves. We have generations (yes, plural) of people who don’t give a flip flop about grammar or correct usage. In Boston, I’ve heard “I gotta axe you this” and the teacher doesn’t address the mispronunciation of “ask”.
IS CANNOT ONE WORD OR TWO GRAMMAR GIRL FULL
(They’re contending with a classroom full of disruptive students who’d rather be anywhere else, never mind the task of getting everyone to pay attention to grammar). In the California Dreamin’ classroom, you often hear the term “whateva” from the teachers.
IS CANNOT ONE WORD OR TWO GRAMMAR GIRL MOVIE
In the south, you hear teachers all the time say “I seen that girl yesterday” or “I had saw that movie when I was a kid”. The unfortunate thing about correct usages “being taught” is that often the teacher is the one who is remiss.
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