English 15 and 16 year olds have an average reading age of about 11 (maybe)
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[QUOTE=Jsm;38475660]Indeed, if you start doing that you ruin it for the people who aren't below average.[/QUOTE]
And the average would be sinking steadily until you're down to using sms language in textbooks.
[QUOTE=Desuh;38475611]u wot m8[/QUOTE]
u avin a giggle m8
[QUOTE=deltasquid;38475391]When looking at that programme, I just get the impression that adults are retarded[/QUOTE]
Yeah, the adults are retarded because they didn't get a chance to study before hand on exactly what is going to be asked about on the program. Hint: [sp] The kids are told the answers before they go on the show. [/sp]
I have a better vocabulary than my English instructor.
I don't get it.
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[QUOTE=Pat4ever;38475689]Yeah, the adults are retarded because they didn't get a chance to study before hand on exactly what is going to be asked about on the program. Hint: [sp] The kids are told the answers before they go on the show. [/sp][/QUOTE]
That doesn't explain the guys who have difficulty counting on their hands or figuring out what a prime number is among the choices 10, 6, and 3.
I would love to see how this compares to the US' and Canada's ages for 15 and 16-year olds. I've seen some dumb people here.
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Probably even dumber than the dumb ones in the UK, to be honest.
[QUOTE=Pat4ever;38475689]Yeah, the adults are retarded because they didn't get a chance to study before hand on exactly what is going to be asked about on the program. Hint: [sp] The kids are told the answers before they go on the show. [/sp][/QUOTE]
Doesn't take a genius to spell "xylophone" correctly.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgDKiu__oGI[/url]
If you listen to the average 15-year-old talk or write you can see why their reading isn't up to scratch
"O M G did u c dat? Rachel totally fanceis him Oh My GOD"
[QUOTE=CAPSMAN!;38475646]You shouldn't lower the expectations of education just because their skills go down.[/QUOTE]
The education system is conservative and that's not a bad thing, but change doesn't necessarily mean deterioration.
Reading and writing is becoming more irrelevant as other media become more available.
I am very appreciative for my mind, along with my parents good sense to spend pretty much every penny they had keeping me out of the state education system until college.
[QUOTE=ThePuska;38475846]The education system is conservative and that's not a bad thing, but change doesn't necessarily mean deterioration.
Reading and writing is becoming more irrelevant as other media become more available.[/QUOTE]
Um.
Are you serious?
Reading and writing only become MORE important as technology and science become more prominent.
I was and still am, surprised too that my age group back when I was in high school didn't read and write as well as I could, everybody's reading age back in my classes were or 10 or 11 year olds, and I was reading as that of a 19 year old o.O
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[QUOTE=ThePuska;38475846]The education system is conservative and that's not a bad thing, but change doesn't necessarily mean deterioration.
Reading and writing is becoming more irrelevant as other media become more available.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, who needs to read when you have the newscaster reading the telepro-- Oh wait
[QUOTE=rinoaff33;38475863]Um.
Are you serious?
Reading and writing only become MORE important as technology and science become more prominent.[/QUOTE]
Doubtful. Small static symbols are pretty bad at conveying information compared to other means we have. It's just inefficient. Logos and icons rarely contain words. Ads have much less text than they used to. I think the trend is going to continue.
[QUOTE=ThePuska;38475902]Doubtful. Small static symbols are pretty bad at conveying information compared to other means we have. It's just inefficient. Logos and icons rarely contain words. Ads have much less text than they used to. I think the trend is going to continue.[/QUOTE]
so evntuly were gona typ lke dis n t wll b prop inglesh bc who da fck reads?
No. Reading and writing will [I]always[/I] be important for archival, scientific, and artistic purposes at the very least. Speech is transient, while written text is physical. Images that convey direct meaning are impractical and serve the same purpose as symbols/hieroglyphics once they're common enough.
This doesn't surprise me, when I was in my last year of school 4-5 years ago half of my year were atrocious at reading/writing, a lot of them couldn't spell loads of simple words as well as getting stuff like there/their/they're wrong all the time.
Reading is fucking easy, it's creating your own work that's the hard part
I think my reading age was probably highest when I was like 15 and is steadily dropping since then.
Reading is for nerds.
[QUOTE=ThePuska;38475902]Doubtful. Small static symbols are pretty bad at conveying information compared to other means we have. It's just inefficient. Logos and icons rarely contain words. Ads have much less text than they used to. I think the trend is going to continue.[/QUOTE]
Every skill based job requires very strong reading and writing abilities. Most unskilled jobs also require pretty good reading and writing too.
[QUOTE=rinoaff33;38475926]so evntuly were gona typ lke dis n t wll b prop inglesh.[/QUOTE]
Yikes. Didn't apply any possible logic to that statement, did y'? He's talking about a reduction of words, so the hyperbolic extrapolation would be newspeak, not life suddenly becoming the film Idiocracy.
It's like you didn't even [I]read[/I].
[QUOTE=ThePuska;38475846]The education system is conservative and that's not a bad thing, but change doesn't necessarily mean deterioration.
Reading and writing is becoming more irrelevant as other media become more available.[/QUOTE]
Reading and writing is never irrelevant, what the fuck are you talking about?
when I was ten I had the reading age of an 18-year old.
[QUOTE=rinoaff33;38475926]so evntuly were gona typ lke dis n t wll b prop inglesh bc who da fck reads?
No. Reading and writing will [I]always[/I] be important for archival, scientific, and artistic purposes at the very least. Speech is transient, while written text is physical. Images that convey direct meaning are impractical and serve the same purpose as symbols/hieroglyphics once they're common enough.[/QUOTE]
You're forgetting the part where the average person doesn't do any of those things. And the part where that's not what he said at all.
[QUOTE=BlkDucky;38476099]You're forgetting the part where the average person doesn't do any of those things. And the part where that's not what he said at all.[/QUOTE]
Archival: Every single thing you write or type is a form of archiving, because text remains until erased or deleted.
Scientific: Maybe less common but still important.
Artistic: We've all read stories and poems before.
What he was saying is that the trend of people speaking terrible English would get worse and that it would somehow be replaced by some other medium as if text was becoming less common.
[QUOTE=rinoaff33;38476122]Archival: Every single thing you write or type is a form of archiving, because text remains until erased or deleted.
Scientific: Maybe less common but still important.
Artistic: We've all read stories and poems before.[/QUOTE]
Okay fine, but that doesn't remove the fact that that isn't what he said.
Cnt reed wot dis fred woz abut can sum1 tel me plees?
I always felt clever as fuck when we had to read aloud in class
[QUOTE=rinoaff33;38476122]Archival: Every single thing you write or type is a form of archiving, because text remains until erased or deleted.
Scientific: Maybe less common but still important.
Artistic: We've all read stories and poems before.
[B]What he was saying is that the trend of people speaking terrible English would get worse and that it would somehow be replaced by some other medium.[/B][/QUOTE]
I don't think so but I don't care or agree with him enough to argue this.
That explains "lods of emone"
[QUOTE=OrionChronicles;38476053]when I was ten I had the reading age of an 18-year old.[/QUOTE]
you probably didnt though
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