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On 15/09/10 20:19, Julian Hall wrote: > On 15/09/2010 19:47, Gibbs wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 19:03 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: >>> http://www.zeropaid.com/news/90729/uk-isps-unfair-consumers-must-pay-to-protect-entertainment-industry-profits/ >>> >>> >>> >>> Gordon >>> >> Shocking... It's hardly reasonable as it is to be honest. >> >> Also is that site foreign? The article is pretty badly written. I'm not >> good at English myself (inherited from being in Devon so long). I'm not >> usually a grammar nazi, just saying. >> >> Gibbs >> >> > You've obviously not seen many BBC News articles on their website > lately. Their standard of English is shocking - quite apart from minor > things like referring to 'his Dad' in an article about Einstein. The > word 'inappropriate' is jumping up and down waving for attention, among > others. That plus regular spelling errors and grammar... and they're > supposedly native English speaking journalists. > > Julian > Yes but until recently kids had to be allowed to express themselves when writing so if they made errors it was not PC to correct them as it meant they would be put off by having errors pointed out to them or it damaged their creativity. They have banned red pen as its too authoritative, Personally I never had an issue with red pen in my work books at school. ok my spelling it's great on this. I did see a job advert at Wise Employment for telephone interviewers - must have "good spoke and written English" says it all really eh, I did contact em and point out the error, no response, not as yet anyway. Paul -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq