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The new Breitbart for you.
First, the story.
The quote:
"The video shows one Antifa man with a bat approaching a few Trump supporters with a bat while another dowses the couple with pepper spray."
THIS is dowsing.
"Water witching."
He meant DOUSING.
All publications are now hiring semi-literate people.
We need to rebuild our schools from the ground up.
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@ThomasWic Don’t get me started!!
Apostrophe usage
To, too or two
Their, there or they’re
And even autocorrect can’t spell correctly
And I cannot handle apostrophes in plurals!
@Lauren @charlotte1958 @ThomasWic
I have trouble with that.
...or ending a sentence with a preposition.
Why did you say that for?
there, their
you're, your
to, too
Why your been to hard on there edu-ma-cation for?
@charlotte1958 @ThomasWic
Basic grammar and sentence structure.
Agreement between subject an verb.
Accurate pronoun usage/references (and I don’t mean gender).
My day job requires reading volumes of non-technical writings, most authored by those with post-college degrees. It’s appalling.
Lose /loose
Flaunt/flout
@charlotte1958 @ThomasWic
AND lose or loose
@charlotte1958 @ThomasWic
If I use any of them incorrectly please assume I’ve been kidnapped and am writing under duress
@ThomasWic
Amen to that Thomas
@ThomasWic
Amen to that Thomas
@ThomasWic
🤣, yup!
Right after the 3Rs let's have Civics!
@ThomasWic I stopped reading Breitbart about a month or so ago (it was after you called out Ann Coulter), but in the months before that, as I kept reading their stuff I kept noticing all these spelling errors and typos all over the place in their articles.
@ThomasWic I been listening to what the schools are teaching and its appalling.
My stepson is a senior, in honors classes, and doesn't know when the 2nd World War Ended.
Doesn't know anything about the Gettysburg address
Doesn't know how WW1 started.
sad
@ThomasWic They are in such a rush to be the first to publish “post” their articles they forget to or don’t care to spell check. Maybe Siri typed it for them, they seem to be a lazy bunch. Not to mention the lack of critical thinking skills
Apparently, there is not any executive editing going on. Either that, or the executive editor is also semi-literate too. LOL
But then, editing properly takes time and energy, attention to detail and some mad skills too.
Been editing on an executive level for years and years now. A tedious task, but oh so necessary, unless you want to look stupid, but I think the standards are just going to shit now.
I bet most of it is done by a computer program now. And if it is programmed by the same under educated folks...
I don't doubt that at all. If so, then no wonder these articles have no soul. I cannot detect any intelligence either a lot of times, so I can't help but wonder if they have AI not only editing the work, but also writing it too.
Heh. Just type in keywords and context and hit enter. LOLOLOL.
May this time of fakery and inauthenticity assist sleeping people to develop some discernment.
Honestly, if you can't feeeeel how fake it is, how numb do you have to be?
@ThomasWic I can’t like or favorite this comment enough. My husband is a high school carpentry shop teacher and he will tell this same thing all day to anyone who will listen. At least right now his kids get a little “debriefing” when they come to his shop class.
@ThomasWic the single space after a sentence, quotation mark before the period arrrrgh..
@Dannysteel @ThomasWic The single space after the sentence is the new standard adopted in the late 1980s. It was adopted because storage space on computers was very expensive then and every single bit you could save meant less $$ required for computer storage.
They are probably banned from using the word homophones too...
"LGBT cells" is the auto correct...
@ThomasWic middle school teacher here, and I concur. One of our biggest problems, other than those pesky homophones, is that we put FAR more time and resources into the lowest ability students. Our high flyers are given very little enrichment or acceleration, and they are forced to remain in classes with the students who require much more help or just don’t care. We are wasting our country’s potential—we are intensionally instituting mediocrity.
@cctrivette @ThomasWic no student left behind so none can get ahead
@ThomasWic This is alarmingly widespread. I just heard Rachel Maddow use the word "asstudiously" on the air.
@ThomasWic Back in the early 1990s I was a graduate assistant for accounting professors. One of the skills being pushed back then was writing skills, so the professors were requiring periodic essay assignments. Out of the “honors” program of approximately 30 students, three could write a coherent essay. Out of the non-honors students of approximately 120, only one wrote a coherent essay. I imagine it has only gotten worse since then.
The education system is full of useful idiots and bureaucrats.
There are lots of grants out there for education. The National Science Foundation gives away millions of our tax-payer dollars to education yearly.
Ever wonder if these education administrators create the conditions (keep students from obtaining a true education) to continue getting the money to retain their six-figure salaries? 🤔
@ThomasWic Omg YES! My daughter had dual credit college courses. Of course they were online. Her English teacher was a hot mess. She couldn't understand her lectures. So I started listening to them, too. This teacher made NO sense. She jumped around a lot. I told my daughter that the English teacher needed to take the public speaking class she had. Now that teacher knew how to do a lecture. Smh
@ThomasWic Good old autocorrect will find you A correctly spelled word but often not quite THE RIGHT one. Poor substitute for a live, skilled editor. I grew up regularly mispronouncing words because I learned them reading books. People now seem to have difficulty with automatically distinguishing between homonyms by context.
@ThomasWic
Funny...just wrote a thread on that...first chapter...draft
https://social.quodverum.com/@Clayrjr/105437713146502236