Way? Hell we're there and even farther along. That movie is so damn insightful. Hate giving Hollyweird any credit but boy, did they predict our current state of stupidity.
Sadly this didn't start with COVID. Having worked as an editor in the early 2000s, I became sensitive to poor writing to the point I just can't read anything without mentally red-lining. I can't remember the last time I read anything that supposedly passed through an editor that didn't have multiple spelling and grammatical errors. I think it was before the Great Recession in '08. All Hail the wonderful education system that stunningly gets worse each year. To put my comments into context, my formal training was as an engineer -- you know that profession that is typically not filled with great writers!
It was in the mid-aughties that millennials were coming up, and helicopter parents insisted that red-lining be done away with, because it hurt Little Susie's fee fees. And now, Susie is in the professional world, doing a journalism!
Sadly it's not just there, I've noticed lately that more and more there are not only spelling (not to bad), but grammatical errors in magazine articles, many by noted authors.
That's par for the course with Smokey Barn. I've written them emails thanking them for keeping up Robertson County's 'inbred & retarded hillbillies' look, in order to keep city folks away. The publisher/editor apparently never made it to fourth grade. --Tennessee Budd
I remember you telling me that 4-5 years ago when I linked them. Somebody needs to tell them why some of their words have red lines under them before they publish their stories.
I received an invitation to my sister's Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary.... ..."Your invited!". . The mid-40s daughter-in-law inviter is home-schooling their three children.
Watch the movie idiocracy. We are well on our way
ReplyDeleteWay? Hell we're there and even farther along. That movie is so damn insightful. Hate giving Hollyweird any credit but boy, did they predict our current state of stupidity.
DeleteAnd then there's the movie 'Shooter', released the year after Idiocracy. It absolutely nails the political corruption and FBI malfeasance of today.
DeleteI sea this all the tyme and it drives me nuts.
ReplyDeleteGood won!
DeleteYou spelled nuts wrong. Its knuts.
DeleteNo, I remember from History of the World...it's NVTS!
DeleteThe harvest of 'woke' CA "education" system?
ReplyDeleteOl' Chuck looks older than his mother. And has by far less sense.
ReplyDeleteCorrection: cents! Yore welcome.
DeleteSadly this didn't start with COVID. Having worked as an editor in the early 2000s, I became sensitive to poor writing to the point I just can't read anything without mentally red-lining. I can't remember the last time I read anything that supposedly passed through an editor that didn't have multiple spelling and grammatical errors. I think it was before the Great Recession in '08. All Hail the wonderful education system that stunningly gets worse each year. To put my comments into context, my formal training was as an engineer -- you know that profession that is typically not filled with great writers!
ReplyDeleteSo my bro axed me what I wanted for my berfday so I tolds him that we wuz kangs an shit. Werd
DeleteIt was in the mid-aughties that millennials were coming up, and helicopter parents insisted that red-lining be done away with, because it hurt Little Susie's fee fees. And now, Susie is in the professional world, doing a journalism!
DeleteYou spelt sheeeit wrong. No need to thank me.
DeleteSadly it's not just there, I've noticed lately that more and more there are not only spelling (not to bad), but grammatical errors in magazine articles, many by noted authors.
ReplyDeleteThat's par for the course with Smokey Barn. I've written them emails thanking them for keeping up Robertson County's 'inbred & retarded hillbillies' look, in order to keep city folks away. The publisher/editor apparently never made it to fourth grade.
ReplyDelete--Tennessee Budd
I remember you telling me that 4-5 years ago when I linked them. Somebody needs to tell them why some of their words have red lines under them before they publish their stories.
DeleteI remember when journalists (TV or print) had impeccable grammar and spelling. This just makes me sick.
ReplyDeleteI received an invitation to my sister's Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary....
ReplyDelete..."Your invited!".
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The mid-40s daughter-in-law inviter is home-schooling their three children.