Festerthetester wrote:
News broadcasts are largely insulting. They all tell you what to think rather than just relaying the news.
A couple of local newspapers are mainly just on local events and school sports.
Is literacy a dying requirement for communication?
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R00KB4 wrote:
I feel like grammar isn't as important in English classes as being able to form an argument and research.
I agree but somehow I expect someone who has the ability to think well enough to present a coherent argument should also, rather easily, write a coherent sentence to express it. Maybe I'm asking too much.
Sep 24, 2023
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Wits-end wrote:
To quote one of my college professors, “If the student hasn’t learnt, the teacher ain’t taught.” I agree with the OP (see, I just did it) in that acquiring communication skills has not been a priority in many educational programs. My question is this, did our generation fail to adequately prepare subsequent generations or did the explosion of technology catch all of us flat-footed?
It's probably the easy ability of anyone to put their thoughts in front of a larger public today that plays the greatest role. Previously, you had to show others that you had communication skills to have your opinions published in newspapers, magazines, books.
Sep 24, 2023
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HiramHolliday wrote:
The spelling in Shakespeare’s era was different…yet..
Yet a great number of English speakers today can't make sense out of much of what he wrote.
I'm not sure people spoke like Shakespeare wrote even then, any more than people speak like the dialogue in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'.
Away, you starvelling, you elf-skin, you dried neat’s-tongue, bull’s-pizzle, you stock-fish!
Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon wouldst I. I shall meet thee as decrepit as thou art and pierce your vile soul with leaden shot.
Out of my sight now! Thou dost infect mine eyes.
Would thou wouldst burst from such a deed!
Hark yon strumpet approacheth
CaracticusPotts wrote:
A plague on both your houses…
Theft from Romeo? Thou art a varlet.
Drink of it heartily it be your last.
And the rest was silence.
Speaking of back to the topic.
Well then, to make a case for the other side...
As long as people are able to communicate, changing the format doesn't matter.
I liked @wits-end 's method of giving an the applicant time to write something about an experience. I tend to think that clear writing is indicative of clear thinking... but note that grammar and spelling aren't necessarily requirements of this. They're more like icing on the cake (so long as the important ideas are present).
When both the ideas and delivery are muddled, then sure, it's painful to read.
I give most people a lot of leeway on spelling and grammar. Knowledge, and especially wisdom, aren't always found in books. Problems arise because some fools are such eloquent speakers and some sages so inarticulate.