fett on 29/3/2009 at 18:06

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You guys laugh, but I'm taking on online course right now where we're required to post in discussion forums. I never cease to be awed by the ineptitude of college students to communicate in written word. Run-on sentences with no verbs, unrelated prepositions, tense inconsistencies, and use of words with absolute ignorance of what they mean. As far as I can tell, the instructor never addresses this, but it's so epidemic that if I point it out, I'll surely be ridiculed as a grammar Nazi.

Examples from this week include:

" I beginning to think that some of the people during that era were just a little bit cik in the head."

"I am so thankful for the women that stood up and fighted for our rights, rights to be treated like a human being."

"I never knew that women crimes against women being illegal started so long ago. I imagine it would be hard to prove, just like many laws today they are only as good as those who inforce them."

"Did you know that the government run a program for many companies to create a pandemic flu recovery plan. Our Bank participated in this excercise and it was eye-opening. The program had three stages, and we had to answer many "If" questions. This excercise allowed us to have a plan in case that a pandemic, or any kind of catastrophy hit us. It was my understanding that the decision of this excercise was made after Hurricane Catherine hit New Orleans, and many banks were closed for weeks."

And my personal fav:

"God has placed test on many nations-but from what I have read the church had many inside issues that reach far beyond the God I have come to love."

These posts are graded both for content and quality, and I don't think any of these folks have lower than a B. Either my college sucks, or college in general sucks.