That's fair. Simply not knowing the term is not elitist, but it is elitist to act high and mighty and condescend someone else for using a term they don't know
See, this is something rarely discussed anymore, especially when discussing education (or the illusion thereof); understanding the context of what is presented.
Far too often, people who supposedly have at least a high school diploma are mouthing sounds rather than conveying actual meaning. "I should of been pane more attention; their not radio tires."
I've been noticing much more than typos, autocorrect nightmares, and commonly misspelled words. People seem massively incapable of putting a proper English sentence together: bad grammar, wrong words (often misspelled), it's terrible.
The latest victim of bad English? "Whoa." People keep spelling it "woah." wth?
As with math; there are rules that must be memorized, without which neither numbers nor words can be used properly. Not learning the basics because the "answers" are on a smart phone has given us a generation of functional illiterates.
My favorite word peeve remains people with items "for sell" that they "must sale", followed closely by those who routinely apostrophize plurals, presumably because their spill chucker told them to.
I'm also quite frustrated by people who think rifles with muzzle breaks are safe to shoot, and suspect that the term "brick" (as in, "it's bricked") arose from people not knowing whether to use 'brake', 'break', 'broke', or 'broken'.
Didn't you know grasping the meaning from context clues is racist? Nect you'll tell me people can infer information without having it spelled out directly for them.
I've never really heard the term to be honest, but have enough common sense to know what it means without even looking it up.
That's fair. Simply not knowing the term is not elitist, but it is elitist to act high and mighty and condescend someone else for using a term they don't know
I only heard about it in the past few years; whenever our gorgeous GEOTUS started pointing it out.
The coyote lady is a huge dumbass. But, she's a liberal politician, so that's a given.
See, this is something rarely discussed anymore, especially when discussing education (or the illusion thereof); understanding the context of what is presented.
Far too often, people who supposedly have at least a high school diploma are mouthing sounds rather than conveying actual meaning. "I should of been pane more attention; their not radio tires."
I've been noticing much more than typos, autocorrect nightmares, and commonly misspelled words. People seem massively incapable of putting a proper English sentence together: bad grammar, wrong words (often misspelled), it's terrible.
The latest victim of bad English? "Whoa." People keep spelling it "woah." wth?
As with math; there are rules that must be memorized, without which neither numbers nor words can be used properly. Not learning the basics because the "answers" are on a smart phone has given us a generation of functional illiterates.
My favorite word peeve remains people with items "for sell" that they "must sale", followed closely by those who routinely apostrophize plurals, presumably because their spill chucker told them to.
I'm also quite frustrated by people who think rifles with muzzle breaks are safe to shoot, and suspect that the term "brick" (as in, "it's bricked") arose from people not knowing whether to use 'brake', 'break', 'broke', or 'broken'.
Didn't you know grasping the meaning from context clues is racist? Nect you'll tell me people can infer information without having it spelled out directly for them.