The Real YayaCanada
  • Home
  • About
  • Archive
  • Quotes + Pandemic Truth

Yer Gramma's Grammer

6/12/2017

4 Comments

 
Picture
NOT!!!!

Here's an article
that blames social media for an epidemic of poor grammar and spelling.

Personally, if I were on social media, I would not be making those mistakes because my school teachers taught me how to spell and speak. This is no longer the case in our schools.

And guess where it's most in evidence - in the corporate media. Check out the following. It's an excerpt from the CBC's "The Current".
  • "I think it's really cool that social media is making room for nuances, whether it's use of newfangled punctuation marks or new words or abbreviations," Favilla tells The Current's Anna Maria Tremonti.

Now, I need to take a second to ungrit my teeth.

The word "media" cannot correctly be followed by "is", yet it almost always is, these days. The singular for "media" is "medium". Radio is a medium, TV is a medium, film is a medium. Combined they are "media".

It's little wonder people get "phenomena" and "phenomenon" mixed up as well.

English derives from Latin, and certain Latin plurals end in "a".  Therefore, the media "are". Otherwise, stop calling it English.

Americans, particularly, make these errors, and plenty more, and they really ought to call their language "American", because it's not English. If we're all to become Americanized, then lets get rid of the monarchy NOW. Those people occupying palaces in England, living basically on social welfare while stashing their real dough offshore, are not even English!

America envies our British pomp and ceremony, and usually bombs what it wants to get its hands on. The only reason the US hasn't bombed us (yet) is because our government, whether Liberal or Conservative, always falls neatly into line with American objectives, and this seems most evident in the deteroriation of our schooling.

Even some medical doctors talk about "a dangerous bacteria". How has it escaped them, despite heavy usage of Latin in their names for diseases, and despite their prolonged education, that there is no such thing as "a" bacteria? Do I really need to point out that the singular is "bacterium"?

The sad thing is that the Internet is rife with sincere attempts to educate people with regard to proper usage, but nobody cares.  Nobody cares but me that I am writing this today -- especially those who are addicted to social media.

Anyone who does read this ought to be thankful it's so short because there are many more examples of poor English usage I could have talked about. But those with any interest at all will search out a few educational sites to learn more.

The saddest thing of all is that repetition influences thought, and the media are repetitioning you to death!

Picture
Picture
4 Comments
Gwen
13/12/2017 03:45:14 pm

Hi Yaya! Spotted you over at Penny's.

My eye was drawn to this post (after the polar bear fib). Poor grammar makes me grit my teeth also.

I'm sure you've noticed in plenty of comment sections when someone corrects another commenter for poor grammar or a misspelling, plenty of rude and hostile people jump in to beat up the person doing the correcting. I've come to assume that these people are happy being ignorant.

I homeschool my son, and I use the common misspellings and grammar mistakes as part of his spelling tests. He knows well how my hair flies up when I come across these mistakes. :)

Reply
YYC link
14/12/2017 05:29:05 pm

Ah, a kindred spirit. Thanks so much, Gwen for your comments.

I did feel like a cranky old school marm when I wrote the Grammer post, but I could have said a whole lot more, as I'm sure you could too. I guess that's how the offenders see us, which tells us a lot about how much they enjoyed school.

Homeschooling your kids has got to take a lot out of you but if the schools are going downhill, your kids have to come first, and I'm impressed at what you're doing!

Reply
Gwen
14/12/2017 06:22:45 pm

You're welcome.

This is an excerpt from an email my husband sent me. This part was apropos of the conversation you and I are having so I thought I'd share it.
*****************************************

I had personal discussion with a graduate student from Bangladesh this week. He said that he is grading graduate students' work and that what they are submitting has many, (he said "many"), grammatical errors. He and I spoke about our education system and what is expected of our students. He is about 38 years old and from an Eastern country so his values and measures are nothing like those light measures we use in America for success. He was not critical but he was surprised.

yayac link
16/12/2017 10:05:33 am

Gwen, your husband has certainly proved a sad point - that it's the whole western system of education at fault. It's even sadder that he's talking about the work of university grad students!

Your note is just in time for my latest grammar victim: Alan Dershowitz, emeritus prof at Harvard and prestigious chair holder. That post is going up this morning.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Picture
     
    ​​WORLD NEWS

    * * * * * * * * 
    ​--->NEW Jan 24
    Russia gains tactical initiative in Ukraine. SouthFront  LINK

    Jan 22

    The Right's Identity Politics Glenn Greenwald
    LINK

    JPSears: Are People Really That Stupid? LINK

    Jan 21
    Dr. Willie Soon re: Sun's Role in "Climate Change" New American LINK
    ​
    ---------------------------------

    ​ONGOING CAUSES  

    CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENCE - CHD: Breaking Down the Latest Science: Live every Friday - LINK

    CPAC: Public Order Emergency (Convoy) Commission VIDEOS

    Gays Against Groomers:
    VIDEO: Rebel News LINK  +  “Gender Identity”: Protections Being Used to Shield Predators LINK

    GLOBAL WALKOUT - LINK

    🚚 🚚 🚚 🚚 🚚 🚚 🚚 🚚

      PANDEMIC           TRUTH

    ​ * * * * *
    Leading voices in the fields of science, healthcare, law and journalism: "STOP WORLD CONTROL" LINK.

    The Exposé - UK -
    Vaccine Reports from Canada and around the World. LINK

    VACCINE CHOICE CANADA LINK

    PANDEMIC TRUTH 
    ARCHIVE: Scroll to 2022 for News Items

    ​* * * * * * * *
    Picture
    Picture
    Photo by Brian O'Connor, North Bay
    ​
    ​​QUOTE of the MONTH:
    ​"No." Rosa Parks
    ​​​
    *** 
    NOTICES ***​
    ​
    ** Hassan Diab **
    France Sets April 2023 Trial Date! Read what you can do to help Hassan Diab. LINK
    ​
    THE LIGHT Paper LINK
    ​
    ​DRUTHERS: If I had my druthers, we all would know the truth - LINK

    LENDMAN Blog - LINK

    NoJabForMe: LINK

    Mounties for Freedom LINK

    CDN Civil Liberties Assoc.
    ​(CCLA) LINK

    Constitutional Rights Centre
    (CRC) LINK
    ​
    ONT Civil Liberties Assoc. (OCLA)  LINK


    LEADING CAUSES OF DEATHS IN CANADA
    WorldAtlas - LINK
    ----------------------
    CLIMATE CHANGE? 
    50 Yrs of Failed Predictions LINK

    * DR. ROGER HIGGS *
    ResearchGate: Climate
    PROJECT LOG: ​LINK

    FRIENDS OF SCIENCE LINK

    "THE RIGHT CLIMATE STUFF"  
    LINK​
    ----------------------
    JUSTICE FOR
    MOHAMED HARKAT

    PETITION: Stop Moe Harkat’s deportation to torture LINK
    Will We Allow Canada To Deport Mohamed Harkat To Torture? ... HuffPost
    The True North Not So Free ... YYC:
    PLEASE ​DONATE
    Visit 
    here to donate online.


    ​FREE ASSANGE! ​Read: CounterCurrents
    Watch: UK Column

    ​----------------------
    ​
    PALESTINE

    Canada Palestine Assoc.Vancouver LINK

    VIDEO: The Prison Remains the Same - IsraelPalestineNews
    ​
    Amnesty.org
    :
    This is Apartheid. 05/22

    Jewish Voice for Peace:​​
    Anti-Zionism is not Antisemitism

    PCHR: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

    IMEMC News: ISRAEL'S ONGOING ASSAULTS ON PALESTINIAN FAMILIES
    ​
    Palestine Photo Project
    LINK
    ----------------------

    Picture
 INTERESTING PLACES: 
​
ACTIVIST TEACHER -- ​Arch. & Eng. for 9/11 Truth -- BDS Movement -- Canada Palestine Assoc. -- CDNs for Justice &  Peace in the Middle East -- CHYCHO -- ClimateChange101 -- COAT -- Count Me Out (of census) --EndGeoengineering --Famous Canadian Women --Friends of Science -- GeoEngineeringWatch -- GLOBAL RESEARCH -- IF NOT NOW -- INVESTMENT WATCH-- Israel Palestine News --Jewish Voice for Peace --JUSTICE FOR MOHAMED HARKAT--JUSTICE FOR HASSAN DIAB--​PALESTINE  PHOTO PROJECT --PENNYFORYOUR THOUGHTS -- LENDMAN -- SUSPICIOUS DEATHS -- Truth & Shadows -- Vaccine Choice 
  • Home
  • About
  • Archive
  • Quotes + Pandemic Truth