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 Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:43 pm
While correcting a peer's assignment, I ran across a sentence that read something to the effect of "I have a gift 4 you." I asked my teacher if I could mark off points, but she told me to give simply a warning. This upset me. When I become an English teacher, things like that WILL be deducted credit. Afterall, it is English--not math. So statements like "I have a gift 4 you," and "I gave it 2 you," shall not fly.
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:29 pm
I must say that is one lenient teacher.
One is always chastised when making an idiotic sentence like that.
Okay, perhaps I'm being a bit extreme in saying, "chastised", but people are usually criticized when using numbers for words.
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:57 pm
Thankfully my teacher isn't that lax with her standards. She might just fly into a fury if that happened. This is a silent understanding among my peers, so it never happens.
Still, to let numbers pass for words... geez...
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:14 pm
My teacher's head would blow off! Urrgh the insanity of this world!
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:28 pm
This is simply not right. Even when I was a kid my English teacher was already telling me to write out numbers, because it was English and not math; now it's gotten to the point where we can replace whole words with numbers and no one says anything...just what is this world coming to...
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:45 pm
My teacher would be LAUGHING if she saw that. You can't replace letters with numbers. That is why we have seperate subjects. Though, I would understand if it was to make writing shorter... I mean, no one wants to write notes that are long... but still, it's not right.
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:02 am
Hmm, possibly not related, but I've always wondered why Americans and the like refer to mathematics as "math", as it's mathematics. (We say maths here.)
I think that might just be me and my weird Australian views.
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:58 am
When I was in high school, we had one English tutor.
I remember, she read a story that a student wrote, and the student had put text talk in. Numbers, 'U' etc.
She tore it up in front of the student and told her to re-write it in proper English.
I will forever praise that tutor.
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:06 am
PrincessPeachey Hmm, possibly not related, but I've always wondered why Americans and the like refer to mathematics as "math", as it's mathematic s. (We say maths here.) I think that might just be me and my weird Australian views. "Maths" sounds unpleasant.
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:00 pm
I will say that I am glad that I do not have to worry about people doing the whole, "I'll do this 4 you". It is stupid and I am glad I don't have to listen to it ever
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:15 pm
Marcus McFlufferson When I was in high school, we had one English tutor. I remember, she read a story that a student wrote, and the student had put text talk in. Numbers, 'U' etc. She tore it up in front of the student and told her to re-write it in proper English. I will forever praise that tutor. She is a paragon of humanity.
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:12 am
Don't substitute letters with numbers! scream
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:10 am
PrincessPeachey Hmm, possibly not related, but I've always wondered why Americans and the like refer to mathematics as "math", as it's mathematic s. (We say maths here.) I think that might just be me and my weird Australian views. British says 'maths' too. I say math. But either is better than how my grandma says it: 'arithmetic' gonk
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:11 am
I hate shortcut words- and numbers!
"I luv U."
"This is 4 U."
"2morrow well dance."
EW!
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