People with poor grammar need not apply

Mustang_Susie

I cringe when people ignore punctuation, mispronounce simple words or insert extra words while reading out loud.

I want to ask them, "do you have any comprehension of the text you just read? Thanks to your eloquence, I certainly don't."

I do add or change words when I read.
It's part of my dyslexia. Kinda annoying sometimes. But I usually have excellent comprehension.
Unless I pre read the passage twice before reading it out load. I can usually get all the correct words in that case. When I was in grade school, I would count the kids ahead of me and count the paragraphs to get to what mine would be, then read and reread it until it was my turn. So I would read the correct words the correct way.
But then have no idea what the text was about because I missed all the paragraphs the other kids read.

Thank you for sharing.
Perhaps I should clarify that a majority of the time, it seems like these people do not want to even make the effort to read correctly. They had even volunteered to read out loud, but still didn't seem to care or try.
I would say you care enough to put in the effort to read correctly.

Mustang_Susie

well, the majority of the time I'm typing on my phone so if you were my friend you'd delete me. Not worried.

*this was to susank's post.

In my humble opinion , texts and public oration standards differ.

slkehl

I have terrible grammar. My English classes in middle school and high school focused on reading but not writing. I think I wrote maybe one paper a year and never got much feedback. I'm about to graduate from college with a science degree and can write decently in scientific language. But a cover letter for a job application? Emails to coworkers? It's a problem. I just took the GRE and was above the 90th percentile in both the reading and math sections, but my writing score sucked. Idk, maybe I need to take a class or something.

Mustang_Susie

I have terrible grammar. My English classes in middle school and high school focused on reading but not writing. I think I wrote maybe one paper a year and never got much feedback. I'm about to graduate from college with a science degree and can write decently in scientific language. But a cover letter for a job application? Emails to coworkers? It's a problem. I just took the GRE and was above the 90th percentile in both the reading and math sections, but my writing score sucked. Idk, maybe I need to take a class or something.

If it makes you feel better, grammar was pounded into me in Catholic grade and high school.
I got A's in college English but struggled through my science courses for my nursing major.
To this day I am also a math retard.

etoiles_argentees

well, the majority of the time I'm typing on my phone so if you were my friend you'd delete me. Not worried.

*this was to susank's post.

In my humble opinion , texts and public oration standards differ.

orator [ˈɒrətə]
n
1. a public speaker, esp one versed in rhetoric
2. a person given to lengthy or pompous speeches
3. (Law) Obsolete the claimant in a cause of action in chancery

This IS MFP, I'm not worried. If someone on here doesn't like my lack of sentence structure it doesn't bother me a bit. I have other priorities in my life... if you are bothered by reading someone's post because of it, don't read it. Simple.