At the end of the day did the reader undertand what the writer intended? I did.
I am always worried that I will make the most terrible grammatical error (yes I know I am) when posting or responding to a post on this forum. It can be a bit scary in here at times epecially when there are so many sharks circling.
Surely language has to evolve?
You have nothing to fear ~ the discussion was about standards in schools.
We here are a bunch of people with a loose common bond. I like to think of us as friends or at least regulars in a village pub who can take the mickey, joke, have a laugh ~ all with no animosity. I do not feel that way about those who set themselves up as teachers, earn somewhere in excess of £45k per annum and get it so patently wrong. (Yes Wenchy ~ I know Mr Wench does not earn that much but he is not a headteacher.)
Those here joke and laugh about their schooling (and lack of it) with no hard feelings. We ALL make typing errors and in the heat of the moment, when a thought strikes and we want to communicate it, we make mistakes in our grammar, syntax, punctuation, spelling et al AND IT DOESN'T MATTER because that is how it would be in the pub.
What we have here is conversation and that is a far cry from the formal communication that I was speaking about. Frankly the p*ss taking and venom here is much less than on most sites I have seen. Why else do others refer to us as "The Knitting Circle"?
