Why don't people edit text anymore?

[boingy]

here's an example from an article regarding Diangana's return clause....

The Verdict

If his tart is anything to go by, then Baggies fans will be hoping that West Ham allow Diangana to stay at the Hawthorns.


Has anyone seen his Tart? Will she be missed that much?

[Pugmitch]

Whilst we’re at it......why don’t people know the difference between ‘there’ and ‘their’?

It’s the same with apostrophes.......I could go on with the abuse of the English language.

Yes I know that language develops with each generation but the basics appear to be missing.

I know I’m an old fuddy duddy but it all really does my head in!

As for text speak......I despair!

[mickd1961]

So many people using “to” rather than “too” and vice versa.

Not knowing their “where” from their “were”.

People putting “M8” for “mate” on texts FFS!

[phild]

your and you're

[boingy]

Pure laziness.

[9goals2hattricks3pen]

who's and whose
its and it's

Have to admit I struggle with use of : and ;

Word that is disappearing from English is twice (we used to have thrice) youngsters often use two times. I don't think any other language has an equivalent.

[Leicesterbaggie]

The problem was when the powers that be decided that pupils' thoughts and ideas were more important than how they wrote it down on paper and that grammar was unimportant. I know this from experience as although my main subject was PE I also taught English to Years 7 and 8 (1 and 2 to older posters). I was always at odds with the Head of Department because of my insistence that the technical side of the subject was very important, especially in the early years. I can also say that I have seen reports, not in the school that I taught in by the way, written by a teacher with an English degree where they couldn't string two sentences together. Their reply was that they were educated under a system when grammar was not deemed to be important. I'm not really 'au fait' with how English is taught today but I hope that grammar is now given more prominence.

[mickd1961]

When I moved from Yorkshire to the Midlands in 1967 I was 5 1/2 but I could already read well,to the level of a 7 year old according to my old school reports.

In Yorkshire I’d been taught the normal way.

At my Stourbridge school they taught using that ridiculous way where the “a” and “e” are joined together.....I think it’s calked “Phonetics”.

I had to be taught individually because I was so far ahead of the kids trying to decipher this mumbo Jumbo!

At 7 I had the Reading age of an 11 year old and at 11 my reading age was of a 16-17 year old.

Most of my contemporaries were still holding a crayon in their fist and using building blocks at 11.

That phonetics idea died a death,I fear text speak won’t.

[westcountryvillain]

I too despair at the demise of the art of articulation - youngsters eh!

My lad texts 'k' to mean 'ok' - it's a tsunami fellas

[TipperaryBaggie]

My niece said to me one day after seeing a man on the television that he was fit. Imagine the look I got when I asked which gym he uses!