Jesus wept

@eve wrote:

two separate points.

1. I grew up with stories from the war told by my mum. She used to talk to me for hours about the air raids , rationing, putting a stocking line up the back of your legs with gravy powder , how her bro was killed on the Prince of Wales ( he was awarded a posthumous VC) etc. I loved hearing those stories. However, i was , naturally,never in contact with ppl who fought in Crimea or the Spanish war. Perhaps it is just that as the ones who experienced these things pass away, there is no one to keep the realities of it alive.

2. I dont know if grammar is disappearing with the coming of text speak. Perhaps it is just that our language is evolving. We do not speak , today,in the same way that Shakespeare did.

My mam was once telling me off when she saw me wearing makeup and my aunt stopped her in her tracks, saying “if you stop her here she’ll only put it on when she leaves…just like you used to stop under the railway bridge with Ciss and Irene and brown your legs with gravy browning and draw on the seams with eyebrow pencil before you all went over to Neath where no one would know you”…my mam went red and my makeup was never mentioned again! :lol:

As for grammar etc., english is a living and evolving language, that’s the beauty of it and throughout the ages there have been curmudgeons bemoaning the lack of respect for the language. Long may it continue!

@simplysu wrote:

. . . . . I’m a bemoaning curmudgeon.

Actually Su, if you said it slowly and softly, you could make it sound quite dirty . . . . .

Gi’s yer number, I’m on me tea break . . . . .

@wordsworth60 wrote:

@simplysu wrote:

. . . . . I’m a bemoaning curmudgeon.

Actually Su, if you said it slowly and softly, you could make it sound quite dirty . . . . .

Gi’s yer number, I’m on me tea break . . . . .

I’m rather offended by the implication that a mere tea break would be time enough indeed to enjoy a conversation with me. Hmm …

@terry wrote:

@rainbowbrite wrote:

I’m wondering what schools teach these days and do children tweet more than visiting their local library.

I’m just glad I grew up during the pre-mobile phone era. Text speak and lack of basic grammar is endemic in today’s youth. I’m sure rogue trader is going to say how unimportant grammar is in today’s society, but (in my opinion) good grammar relies on sound intellect and good reasoning skills. Let’s not lose sight of that.

Quite. I too grew up without mobile phones and the internet and seem to have survived a fate worse than text speak.

Luckily the children I teach also do not recognise text language. Yet.