expatgirl
Master Chef
you're not......these kids dont' know how to behave.......you need to teach them
But kids don't count. Otherwise I would've been crazy from my own daughter already.
sorry, surrounded by kids all day, I can't help that the cute rubs off on me....
and yes they all speak very well.
now I see why this thread was a bad idea.
Kids that use the following:
Whatever (after they say something and then add "whatever")
I bad ( When they make an error and then say " I bad" )
My biggest one is the use of "F" word. The kids now days use it every other word in a sentence and they don't care where they are. My daughter said it once when she was younger and she received a slap, still at 29 years old if I ever heard her use that she will receive another slap.
Mostly just listening to any kid. I think English teaching has been dropped of off the schools list of subjects taught.
Around here it's "My bad," which is just as bad! It supposedly means the same (according to the ones who use it), as "I'm sorry," but to me it takes the responsibility out of it, makes it impersonal. Kind of like (another of my pet peeves), "No problem" for "You're welcome." It takes the human element out of it. It seems like this is just another step in society becoming a large number of self-centered individuals rather than a community that looks after one another....I bad ( When they make an error and then say " I bad" )...
or better yet, they mix those two words up with Orient as in the cultureI feel your pain. I was an English minor in college.
Lots of people use the word "orientated" when they mean 'oriented.' I'm getting better with dangling participles, but they still grate upon the ear I was given.
One person's opinion is what I see there. Sorry, but there's quite a few I disagree with.
Your second post, after I said I say the T in often did appear directed at me.I didn't say right or wrong, and it wasn't directed to you, as your comment came AFTER my post.
The title of this thread is...................................