I love computers. I spend hours daily on and in and with mine, I can do lots of things with them, and almost reformatted mine a few days ago. Is it possible to reformat teachers and curriculum/curriculi so that students can learn? I went to the movies last week, and asked at the counter for "two chocolate flavoured icecreams please". The assistant smiled a welcome and said "what flavour would you like?" Maybe that's not school's fault. Maybe it's the trainer's error. Training is heavy on smiling and you're welcomes and would you like fries with that, but kids don't listen any more, or at least, they don't hear. Well they all have speakers in their ears so they must be able to, like, listen.
I've been waiting 3 weeks for a phone call to arrange an appointment before I have surgery next week, so in despair I phoned and asked why they hadn't contacted me yet. "I've been ringing this number but they say your father doesn't live there," the female person said brightly with a smile in her voice. But it was a number in a different State of the country, and my father, and my father-in-law, both died more than 20 years ago. Why would she ring a city and state neither of them ever lived? It was too hard. We were five minutes into the conversation before she finally accepted that my spouse is my husband, not my father.
My granddaughter is 15, academically clever and roaring through high school a year ahead of her peers. She has no idea where to put apostrophes, so sends her assignments to me to punctuate before she submits them. Why are apostrophes hard? Because they slow you down when you're texting, which has just become a verb.
I've just been seconded to a committee to prepare for a new, highly specialised, dictionary. The most recent version was produced last year. It contains words like EVO, EXO, EMO and ZA. There are even definitions for these words. They are teenage abbreviations for words like Excellent and Pizza. I am all for a living language, new words being introduced (but not old words disappearing. I want the language to grow). But slang that lasts for half a generation doesn't belong in a serious dictionary. No, it is not a dictionary of slang.
And how do you protest? We used to have a verse about children born on different days of the week. The last line was "But the child who is born on the Sabbath day, is bright and bonny and good and gay." Gay? Anyone born on Sunday is homosexual?
I can't go on. Please let me know if you wish to join my protest. And if you'd like fries with that.
Iratekow
1 comment:
Dear Cranky Fella,
Why are you surprised that some imbecile was trying to telephone a number that was not yours? A friend of mine recently had to have a triple bypass operation and he had to tell the hosptital on no less than six occasions that, they did not have the correct telephone number for him.
As for persons born on Sunday being homosexual. Such a statement is balderdash, balderdash and nothing but, balderdash. The word "Gay" has been hijacked by the homosexual community as they do not like being referred to as homosexual. The word Gay must seem to them to cover up their disgusting unnatural behavbehaviour. I once saw a letter in a gardening magazine where a homosexual complained because the magazine had used the expression "A Gay Display of Flowers". The homosexual complained this was a misuse of the word Gay. These people have the hide of Jessy!
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