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August 20, 2012 at 4:29 am #1093844Up::0SuzsSpace, post: 109049 wrote:If I see a problem on a web page I’m likely to email and tell them about it..
That’s cool that you email them. It’s really easy just to be put off and go away instead.
I am presently re-writing many different website pages which have poor English and poor customer engagement (but great SEO repetition). English is so poorly used on the web, and in marketing, that it makes my resulting pages a standout.
August 20, 2012 at 4:29 am #1093948Up::0SuzsSpace, post: 109049 wrote:If I see a problem on a web page I’m likely to email and tell them about it..That’s cool that you email them. It’s really easy just to be put off and go away instead.
I am presently re-writing many different website pages which have poor English and poor customer engagement (but great SEO repetition). English is so poorly used on the web, and in marketing, that it makes my resulting pages a standout.
August 20, 2012 at 5:20 am #1093845Up::0I have some minor issues – such as they’re, their, there …etc – but for the most part, are folk here aware of how the English language has developed and changed over time? We’re seeing nothing more than an accelerated version of that due to technology changes. So long as your kids get a good education, outside of copy writing for a specific purpose, I’d not worry so much, about so much.
August 20, 2012 at 5:20 am #1093950Up::0I have some minor issues – such as they’re, their, there …etc – but for the most part, are folk here aware of how the English language has developed and changed over time? We’re seeing nothing more than an accelerated version of that due to technology changes. So long as your kids get a good education, outside of copy writing for a specific purpose, I’d not worry so much, about so much.
August 20, 2012 at 5:39 am #1093846Up::0Zava Design, post: 128342 wrote:I have some minor issues – such as they’re, their, there …etc – but for the most part, are folk here aware of how the English language has developed and changed over time? We’re seeing nothing more than an accelerated version of that due to technology changes. So long as your kids get a good education, outside of copy writing for a specific purpose, I’d not worry so much, about so much.Not going to get a good job if you can’t spell correctly. No employer is going to take a resume that is littered with text speak seriously.
August 20, 2012 at 5:39 am #1093952Up::0Zava Design, post: 128342 wrote:I have some minor issues – such as they’re, their, there …etc – but for the most part, are folk here aware of how the English language has developed and changed over time? We’re seeing nothing more than an accelerated version of that due to technology changes. So long as your kids get a good education, outside of copy writing for a specific purpose, I’d not worry so much, about so much.Not going to get a good job if you can’t spell correctly. No employer is going to take a resume that is littered with text speak seriously.
August 20, 2012 at 6:08 am #1093847Up::0tonyk, post: 128217 wrote:Anymore . Any more refers to an amount.That all depends on where you was brung up.
It’s one of the subtle differences between UK, US and Australian English.
August 20, 2012 at 6:08 am #1093954Up::0tonyk, post: 128217 wrote:Anymore . Any more refers to an amount.That all depends on where you was brung up.
It’s one of the subtle differences between UK, US and Australian English.
August 20, 2012 at 6:16 am #1093848Up::0Zava Design, post: 128342 wrote:I have some minor issues – such as they’re, their, there …etc – but for the most part, are folk here aware of how the English language has developed and changed over time? We’re seeing nothing more than an accelerated version of that due to technology changes. So long as your kids get a good education, outside of copy writing for a specific purpose, I’d not worry so much, about so much.Do you have a school aged child?
August 20, 2012 at 6:16 am #1093956Up::0Zava Design, post: 128342 wrote:I have some minor issues – such as they’re, their, there …etc – but for the most part, are folk here aware of how the English language has developed and changed over time? We’re seeing nothing more than an accelerated version of that due to technology changes. So long as your kids get a good education, outside of copy writing for a specific purpose, I’d not worry so much, about so much.Do you have a school aged child?
August 20, 2012 at 6:23 am #1093849Up::0tonyk, post: 128347 wrote:Not going to get a good job if you can’t spell correctly. No employer is going to take a resume that is littered with text speak seriously.My wife works for one of the big 4 accounts firms. She receives resumes from graduates who seem incapable of using anything other that text speak.
If they can’t apply for a job in something approximating correct English, how can they be trusted to write advice to a client?
August 20, 2012 at 6:23 am #1093958Up::0tonyk, post: 128347 wrote:Not going to get a good job if you can’t spell correctly. No employer is going to take a resume that is littered with text speak seriously.My wife works for one of the big 4 accounts firms. She receives resumes from graduates who seem incapable of using anything other that text speak.
If they can’t apply for a job in something approximating correct English, how can they be trusted to write advice to a client?
August 20, 2012 at 6:24 pm #1093850Up::0tonyk, post: 128347 wrote:Not going to get a good job if you can’t spell correctly. No employer is going to take a resume that is littered with text speak seriously.
There are times/places for spelling/grammar to be perfect, but some other instances discussed in this thread are more likely where new spellings/words are going to come from that will appear in the Oxford dictionary in a few years time. It’s already happened.August 20, 2012 at 6:24 pm #1093960Up::0tonyk, post: 128347 wrote:Not going to get a good job if you can’t spell correctly. No employer is going to take a resume that is littered with text speak seriously.
There are times/places for spelling/grammar to be perfect, but some other instances discussed in this thread are more likely where new spellings/words are going to come from that will appear in the Oxford dictionary in a few years time. It’s already happened.August 20, 2012 at 6:29 pm #1093851Up::0Uncomplicating, post: 128351 wrote:Do you have a school aged child?
I don’t. My sister has three.And?
If you’re insinuating that I have no experience thereby no real concerns of bringing up kids you’d be wrong. And issues like the examples in here about the errors in school homework are a real concern. However other areas such as text messaging, twitter …etc, that is the English language in transition in my opinion. In 20 years time many of those abbreviations will become common usage. And it will be no more “wrong” than some of the words we already use nowadays that most here would accept as “correct”, but folk a few decades ago would not.
Or even more recent than that: Would you regard the use of “email” as correct English spelling/grammar?
My 2c.
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