Re: Re: OT: "Gissa a Job!" & Location

["Neil F" <automated@xxxxxxx>]

well said Keith!

Most naturally bright whizzkids I have met are crap at english too. Isn't
it
a fact that a lot of very intelligent people suffer with dyslexia?

It's like people saying John Lennon was a crap musician because he couldn't
read or write music...BOL***Ks!

Neil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 1:03 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: OT: "Gissa a Job!" & Location


> I was absolute crap at english...
>
> >an indefinite possessive!
>
> ...what the hell does that mean?
>
> does that mean you lent something to someone and they are keeping it
> for an unknown period of time!
>
> The vast majority of what they "tried" to teach us in
English has
> been of no use whatsoever. For all my book reviews I read and
> reported on several well written books from the school library. The
> books concerned had titles such as "Tape Recording and Hifi"
"Stage
> Lighting" etc. I learnt a great deal from those books which has
> proved extremely useful during my working life.
>
> Needless to say, whan I took my CSE English exam and they were asking
> questions on the Shakespere books I was supposed to have read and
> reveiwed, I failed badly (Grade 4 CSE). Having said that, I believe
> it to be the ONLY time in my 41 years existance that any knowledge of
> Shakespere would have been any use whatsoever.
>
> The same applies to what we learnt in Geography and History. By the
> time History was dropped because I couldnt fit it in with my CSE's we
> had just about got as far as the Industrial Revolution. (Why not
> start with the most recent events and work backwards). Most of the
> countries we learnt about in Geography dont exist anymore but we
> never learnt where all the counties that make up the UK are.
>
> I appreciate that you need to have a way of quickly shortlisting CV's
> but you could easily miss someone who could be the best
> programmer/engineer that you could ever employ.
>
> One thing I have noticed is that people who are technically minded
> and highly skilled could easily forge a prescription as their
> handwriting is often as bad or worse than a doctors. Why do you think
> we type all the time. I very rarely write things down because I cant
> read them afterwards!
>
> OK so thee are spell checkers and such like, but using Word is a
> nightmare. Most of the word processing I do is of a technical nature
> and almost everything is underlined in red. Often chunks of text are
> underlined in green indicating it is gramatically incorrect. Word
> cannot indicate how I should correct it. If it doesnt know what is
> right, how does it know that what I have typed is wrong???
>
> I feel better now :-)
>
> Keith
>
> PS. My English isnt much better now....but my gibberish has improved
> a lot.
>
>
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