I am mortified at the continuous degeneration of language used on social network platforms. In fact it beats my imagination. What puzzles me even more is that some Teachers who are supposed to know better and set standards are involved.
Now there is this thing called Facebook language. You see a wrongly spelled word or sentence full of grammatical errors, you call the writer’s attention to it and you get: “oh, that? It’s Facebook language.” Facebook language? Really? If Facebook was created to speed the corruption of language and moral degeneration, I pray Facebook collapses sooner than later! (But Facebook was not created for that; at least I don’t get that from the Facebook corporation mission statement).
Once in a while we all post certain things and later realize we got some spellings wrong due, partly, to over-zealousness. But very often one gets the feeling that the reason most of what some people publish is laden or littered with horrible, ludicrous spellings and grammatical errors is attributable to their low level of proficiency (they simply don’t know it). And that is dangerous and unpardonable!
Before you accuse me of being ”too known” hear my side of the story.
Because I don’t know the correct spelling of every word or the grammatical correctness of every sentence, I use the dictionary countless times while writing. That makes me look like I know, right?
The good thing about this is that it stops me from mis-educating the public especially those I teach! In addition, it earns me some semblance of respect, so to speak.
Dear folks, let’s teach right through good example. You can’t give what you don’t have. If you can’t spell words correctly your students can’t do otherwise…