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linda's avatar

That's so true , Sarah , our language has been diluted . i've noticed here in the UK where i live that many younger people don't use commas or full stops at all . it feels very strange and doesn't make any sense , when reading something that continually runs from one sentence or paragraph into another . It shows how our education system has really been "dumbed down" . Our language was far richer and far more descriptive , even in the 1970s , watching old tv shows or just ordinary people in the street talking , people spoke far clearer , with far more feeling and weren't afraid to be clear and eloquent . I think it shows how afraid we've become of being ourselves . We've been reduced , i think , on purpose , as people , especially in The West .

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Carl R Williams's avatar

I certainly agree with your "on purpose" observation. I doubt vocabulary lessons are part of school curricula anymore.

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Eric Robson's avatar

We all had a weekly list of vocabulary words throughout elementary school growing up. That's gone now. They also don't teach all good old American songs in grade school anymore, either, lest we offend the people who don't belong here.

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Carl R Williams's avatar

It is sad, indeed. At six years of age in the late summer of 1960 I started attending first grade. Each morning began with us standing by our desk; the teacher said a prayer; we placed our right hands over our hearts and said the Pledge of Allegiance; and we sang "America the Beautiful," or something similar. The teacher taught us these songs and the pledge by rote, because most of us knew only the words we learned from the Alice and Jerry reading primer.

Those practices are looked down on now. Yet, on the whole, they turned out better citizens than the schools produce in the current age.

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linda's avatar

Hi, thank you , i agree with you , it's changed so much here in the UK , Take care .

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