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... I joke that I'd like to become an English teacher.
Some days I wonder if I'm really joking.
I'm much more lenient on speech, but if you are writing things down, then by god the majority of your writing had better be correctly capitalized, correctly punctuated, correctly spelled (with certain acceptable variants), and constructed in a way that makes sense, or I froth at the mouth.
Man, I would be the angriest, bitterest English teacher ever. Students would live in terror of me - save those who were already inclined to write properly, to whom I would probably be a shining hero. I would grade with no mercy. No, I will not give you a passing grade because you're on the football team, you will learn how to use the fucking comma or you will fail my class. I would probably end up losing my job, not because I was grading too harshly... but because when they told me that, I would go off ranting about the decline of communication and Don't You Think Education Is Important (You Bastards). I wouldn't say "you bastards". But I'd be thinking it very loudly.
Yeah. There are a few buttons that trigger my instant RAAAAAAAAAAGE. Language misuse is one of them. :D
Some days I wonder if I'm really joking.
I'm much more lenient on speech, but if you are writing things down, then by god the majority of your writing had better be correctly capitalized, correctly punctuated, correctly spelled (with certain acceptable variants), and constructed in a way that makes sense, or I froth at the mouth.
Man, I would be the angriest, bitterest English teacher ever. Students would live in terror of me - save those who were already inclined to write properly, to whom I would probably be a shining hero. I would grade with no mercy. No, I will not give you a passing grade because you're on the football team, you will learn how to use the fucking comma or you will fail my class. I would probably end up losing my job, not because I was grading too harshly... but because when they told me that, I would go off ranting about the decline of communication and Don't You Think Education Is Important (You Bastards). I wouldn't say "you bastards". But I'd be thinking it very loudly.
Yeah. There are a few buttons that trigger my instant RAAAAAAAAAAGE. Language misuse is one of them. :D
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If it makes you feel better, about the Canada thing: the test for literacy is if you can read, write and understand one sentence in a given language about yourself. Technically, I can pass the literacy test for Latin, even though I think the ancient Romans (and the Pope) could surely school me with their massive language abilities.