When the teachers of schools 'txt tlk'...

[blueturnsgrey]

My religion teacher has the most atrocious spelling and grammar. He actually said, "Were she?" when questioning a student about where another girl went for vacation. It went something like:

"She was in Florida!"
"Were she?"

It made me cringe. But then I felt bad about that.  

[HERO Lissuh]

"Txt talk" makes me shudder. Luckily, my computer opetrations teacher would never let us type like that. He said that only real losers type like that. Hehe! biggrin  

[Deyvon]

In the teachers defense, have you ever tried to write on smart board? Those guys are horrid. I don't care if I have my PhD in English I am going to write on a smart board in text talk or at least some form of short hand.  

[Angelic-Sargeant]

Teachers should be agaisnt text talk! If they think they are hip, or groovy, or in the croud, beacuse they use text talk, during their job, then they are wrong. Everyone here should agree, text talkers are people with no vocabulary, teachers are here to teach kids vocabulary, so it pains me to even hear of a text-talk-teacher!

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"tchrs shud b gnst txt tlk if thy thnk thy r hp or grvy or in da crd bcuz thy uz txt tlk drng thr jb thn thy r rng. Evry1 hr shud agre txt tlkrs r ppl wit 0 vcblry tchrs r hr 2 tch vcblry so ti pns meh 2 vn hr ov a txt tlk tchr!"

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The text talk version took me almost 10 minutes to write, If you have a vocabulary, don't try this at home! I need to cry now that I have used such a great quantity of text talk.

stressed crying sweatdrop eek

 

[Natsuri]

La Diavola

Oi! How do some people become teachers, huh? A teacher who has trouble spelling is one thing, but a teacher who uses 'txt tlk' is just sad. Whatever happened to teachers teaching?



Someone said something about their teacher allowing them to write essays in text talk. That fact makes me want to curl up and die. How do you even write and essay with that?! "7h1s 1s my 3$$@y." Ow. Just that sentence hurt my brain. >_<;;

Speaking of which, I written a small segment of text talk, thankfully, in one of my stories that I'm working on. Just typing those few short sentences with uncapitalized "I's" and wrecking the entire structure gashed me enough as it is! gonk  

[datzRENTHEAD2ya]

I have a teacher like that. He thinks it makes him "hip". Everyone but me likes it. I can't understand it!  

[Patron with a Mission]

Dear God...a teacher who has a college education did that. I might as well learn leet or text talk and write my novels in that format. In a few years, there will be few who will normally read it. *sigh*  

[The Lady Narcissa]

eek Oh...my...goodness...What is this world coming to?!?!? Text talk fries my brain. xp I can't believe teachers are letting people write like that!!

It makes me want to kill myself. emo  

[SilverBellsAbove]

Sometimes I wish I could just rope everyone together in the assembly hall and give them a lecture about the English language. Who cares if they hate me because of it? It's for a good cause. sweatdrop  

[Natsuri]

dameonmac5918

Dear God...a teacher who has a college education did that. I might as well learn leet or text talk and write my novels in that format. In a few years, there will be few who will normally read it. *sigh*

Kinda like the time where Orwell predicted that Newspeak will eclipse Standard English in a matter of decades. Could this be what he was talking about??? question  

[Patron with a Mission]

Natsuri

dameonmac5918

Dear God...a teacher who has a college education did that. I might as well learn leet or text talk and write my novels in that format. In a few years, there will be few who will normally read it. *sigh*

Kinda like the time where Orwell predicted that Newspeak will eclipse Standard English in a matter of decades. Could this be what he was talking about??? question

I suspect so. This is also what I'm basing my novel on, and the similarities scare me much, because I had no idea how big a problem illiteracy or text talking was until I came on here, and I began to write my novel way before I came on here. And now...I think my novel is coming true. eek  

[Kukushka]

The Demonic Dork

My teacher tells us that we can write in txt tlk.

That is awful...

While we're at it, why don't we just use Riddley Walker to teach kids proper spelling and grammar?

Honestly, schools are supposed to teach children the proper way to do things, not allow them to practice improper ways. It would be like allowing kids to submit homework where they say that 9+9=99 without marking them wrong or correcting them.

My goodness. The more I hear about the public school system, the more I think it might just be best to homeschool my children.  

[SilverBellsAbove]

When I have kids (now THAT'S a scary thought) I probably WILL homeschool them.

But then again, my husband had better be good at math. Because I sure as the sky is wide can't teach ANYONE math.

blaugh  

[abarrach]

Is this the result of the "No childe leaft beehind" act?

I don't understand what possessed whoever decided to not teach grammar in English class. Honestly, I have to give credit for my understanding of grammar to the fact that I went through grade school in French. In French class we learned grammar, and I managed to transfer that knowledge to my understanding of English. In English class we hardly ever did anything related to grammar.

What you guys are describing here is an atrocity to the language! It also means students are going to have an even harder time learning new languages because they won't have the understanding of their own language to refer to.

Edit : Apparently, I can't spell 'atrocity' correctly... (originally wrote 'attrocity')  

[Taia Aisling]

Txt-tlk teachers make my brain hurt. I have one. And she wrote in my turned-in assignment something with "lol" in it, which doesn't bother me nearly as much as the three spelling errors and couple of shortcuts. Not to mention she's a gifted teacher and in class needs someone else to help her spell out what she's writing.

(Like Oddysseus.)

For that matter, she's my social studies teacher -and- gifted coordinator for my school... she should at least be able to spell out what she's teaching, not then get into acronyms. (Cause I don't like shortcuts coming back from my assignments that I worked so hard on.)