ILLITERACY EXPECTED TO COST UK ECONOMY £32 BILLION BY 2032

ABOUT A THIRD OF BOYS  AT FIVE YEARS OLD CAN'T READ??????????????????
SOUNDS LIKE LOTS OF PROBLEMS.

You don't have to spend very much time on Facebook to realise that a lot of people have managed to spend a minimum of 11 years in education in the UK and come out semi-literate. I don't know how they manage it.

Facebook has "Buy and Sell," local pages and on my local one I've seen examples like people offering a dinning table, a chester draws, something that comes with spairs and items from mataland!

Don't get me started on those dreadful apostrophes - not just in plurals as we know to expect but things like Charle's for Charles, i'll for ill and we'll for well.

By the way, is anyone else having problems with the speed (or lack of it) of the forum?

I also dislike it when people type in 'text speak'.

C u l8er

Thx, u2

etc

Fair enough on a mobile but I've seen it online comments.

chrissie wrote:I also dislike it when people type in 'text speak'.

C u l8er

Thx, u2

etc

Fair enough on a mobile but I've seen it online comments.

I'm seeing that a lot on Facebook, chrissie, but then so many people are now accessing the internet on mobile phones.

AnnaEsse wrote:

chrissie wrote:I also dislike it when people type in 'text speak'.

C u l8er

Thx, u2

etc

Fair enough on a mobile but I've seen it online comments.

I'm seeing that a lot on Facebook, chrissie, but then so many people are now accessing the internet on mobile phones.

Yes, that's probably true. I think that youngsters have just got used to not having to spell what with auto correct on their mobiles and spell check on their laptops. My son, who has just left school, always had to type his homework and produce it on a memory stick. He's okay but it does make people lazy imo.

chrissie wrote:I also dislike it when people type in 'text speak'.

C u l8er

Thx, u2

etc

Fair enough on a mobile but I've seen it online comments.

I've seen it in entire essays.  Meant for somebody's assessment.  It was an instant FAIL.

My personal favourite, in a local garden centre, was a big sign saying "Pansy's ready". I wanted to go in and ask what Pansy was ready for, but the kids wouldn't let me.

Iris wrote:My personal favourite, in a local garden centre, was a big sign saying "Pansy's ready".  I wanted to go in and ask what Pansy was ready for, but the kids wouldn't let me.

Thinking of what "pansy" was an unflattering name for in my younger days, I think that the answer as to what it was ready for is "Hello, sailor"!

40% OF DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN CAN'T READ WELL BY THE AGE OF 11.

SLIGHTLY OFF TOPIC ,LOTS OF UNIVERSITY GRADUATES CAN'T READ EITHER.

Not Born Yesterday wrote:Don't get me started on those dreadful apostrophes - not just in plurals as we know to expect but things like Charle's for Charles, i'll for ill and we'll for well.

By the way, is anyone else having problems with the speed (or lack of it) of the forum?

I gave up this morning, it was worse than watching grass grow, but it seems okay again now.

Yes it's fine now. It's strange that it affected only this forum and not others as would be expected if Forumotion was having problems.