On 10/10/2010 09:53, Brimstone wrote:

"Bruce" wrote in message
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"Brimstone" wrote:

Anyone who doesn't know that the overhang at the rear of a vehicle moves
sideways as they turn and will hit anything in it's arc is a
numbskull who
should be let out of the house on his/her own.


What about people who insert greengrocers' apostrophes and write the
opposite of what they intended to say?

Aren't they numbskulls* too? Should they be let out on their own?


* Or should that be "numbskull's"?

What about those people who have got nothing better to do than pick up
on people's typographical, grammatical and spelling errors, aren't they
numbskulls as well? Should they be allowed to use a computer?



Hmm, touchy, touchy.

We'll be getting the "well, you know what I mean" response when it is
pointed out that, by virtue of their illiteracy, someone has written
utter scribble. When I used to lecture on English contract law I was
forever telling the gormless scrotes - all of whom had "achieved" A*
GCSE English, of course - that what they'd written meant something
completely different to what they thought it meant. This, in contractual
terms could have meant an utter disaster. Yet, throughout their
schooling years punctuation and grammar had been totally ignored,
perhaps because the students had been taught by illiterates.

Still, given that now, it seems, the educational norm is to be
illiterate - and innumerate, which is part of the same problem - I
suppose we'll have to accept the NUT has achieved a measure of social
equality in dumbing everybody down.

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