Re: Cho's Screenplay "McBeef" -- creepy


"Cliff and Linda Griffith" <grifftex@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Kris Baker" <kris.baker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In one of my college English classes, the teacher said, "I know y'all
don't
like grammar and spelling; so we'll just skip over those and go on to
literature." She did give us a spelling test once, and one of the
"words"
she called out was "mainTAINance" [sic].

Linda (reluctant to give too much weight to a degree in English)

Maybe the uneducated folks like me, should consider teaching the class
;)

Kris

You'd have done a better job than she; but something tells me you're not
at
all "uneducated". I attribute some of the problems to "the changing
times", or some such nonsense. I'm pleased with the educations that my
children received in public schools and state colleges; but I think
perhaps
my generation received better. My grandmother only had an eighth-grade
education, but she was able to help me with my math homework for quite
awhile. Her education, such as it was, may have been even better than
mine...at least to 8th grade. My mother was a teacher, I was a teacher,
and
my husband used to write and edit CPA manuals; so our kids come from a
family of spelling- and grammar-geeks. Uh, no...I mean, "Our kids learned
correct spelling and grammar early-on." My daughter swears she learned
more
English grammar in her H.S. Latin classes than she ever did in her English
classes; and I know that the romance languages help with English, as well.

Linda (There's a good reason that I don't mention my math and science
skills.)

I'm a product of the public schools....and nothing else. But I've read a
lot, and was "around words my entire career. Now, I'm still on text-
based Usenet and shunning the whiz-bang Web. I guess there's a
pattern here. Meanwhile, my very charming daughter seems to have
inherited her father's spelling skills ;)

Kris


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