On 11 Oct, 11:25, "Brimstone" wrote:
"®i©ardo" wrote in message

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On 10/10/2010 20:44, Bruce wrote:
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On 10/10/2010 19:54, Brimstone wrote:
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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.

My thoughts, exactly.

I don't know which is worse - people who do not care how wrong they
are, or people who do not know. In either case, the teaching
"profession"* has an awful lot to answer for.

[* Never was the word 'profession' so inappropriately applied.]

What is worse are the people with nothing better to do that scribble
interminably over a couple of mistakes. Quite obviously you and the PP
believe that people who make honest mistakes, in a totally unimportant
passage, should be shot. **** knows how you would react if it was a
similar error in a multi-billion pound contract.

Well, it would probably negate the contract, which demonstrates exactly
why such things are of the utmost importance! Unless, of course, you can
afford to throw billions of pounds by virtue of your ignorance or
stupidity. Still, being a good Socialist (if there can be such a thing),
it wouldn't worry you, would it, as it would be someone else's money
anyway.

It's pretty clear he doesn't give a toss either way, which very
effectively demonstrates the monumental arrogance of the profoundly
ignorant. *He doesn't know, he doesn't care that he doesn't know, and
he doesn't care about the consequences of not knowing.

Not a winning combination. *One can only hope that he is never placed
in a position where his ignorance could cause harm to others.

Superb succinct comment.

Which is sadly inaccurate.

I've been struggling to work out why not learning punctuation at
school is more likely to cause harm to others than not learning
geography, or anything else that one might not have paid attention to
in lessons or been taught badly.

It's the worst hyperbole ever.