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 12/01/2010 03:16:42 PM · #1
Is it considered rude to correct glaring spelling errors on cover letters and send them back to the applicants? It would be doing them a favour, right?

And these are graduates of the fancy-pants universities. How did these kids even get accepted?

Sheesh !

ETA, don't these kids even use spell check? "learnt" isn't a word, is it?

"I quickly learnt the importance of effective communication, and the value of developing strong relationships."

What an ironic sentence. :-D

Message edited by author 2010-12-01 15:19:38.
 12/01/2010 03:21:39 PM · #2
OMG, I just looked up learnt. It's a form of learned. I guess I'm the idiot here, haha!
 12/01/2010 03:22:15 PM · #3
That'll teach me for attending a second-rate university. :-/
 12/01/2010 03:24:38 PM · #4
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
That'll teach me for attending a second-rate university. :-/


That explains the use of the term "fancy-pants".

12/01/2010 03:25:07 PM · #5
I just saw a cube truck in Burlington with these gigantic words painted on it: "GI-OCEAN: IMPORTATORS OF FISH"
 12/01/2010 03:29:38 PM · #6
I see you are also quite capable of having a conversation with yourself. That's not a skill learnt in a fancy pants university.

BTW, the Firefox spellchecker underlined learnt as a misspelled word.
 12/01/2010 03:30:36 PM · #7
Never misunderestimate the power of higher education.
 12/01/2010 03:43:47 PM · #8
It's a "Britishism", the Queen's English. I'm surprised, you being a Canadian, that you didn't know that. You being a putative subject of the Queen and all...

R.
 12/01/2010 03:48:04 PM · #9
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
It's a "Britishism", the Queen's English. I'm surprised, you being a Canadian, that you didn't know that. You being a putative subject of the Queen and all...

R.

I'm a transplant from the USA. After high school I moved north for university. ;-) My wife (born Canadian) has always said "learnt" and I've always corrected her... oops! Well, she's always ignored me anyway.

Message edited by author 2010-12-01 15:48:57.
 12/01/2010 04:58:18 PM · #10
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Never misunderestimate the power of higher education.

If you want a higher education you ought to come to Oakland ...
12/01/2010 05:10:06 PM · #11
Originally posted by GeneralE:
If you want a higher education you ought to come to Oakland ...

Been there, inhaled that. I grew up in San Jose in the 70's. :)
 01/02/2011 08:39:58 PM · #12
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
OMG, I just looked up learnt. It's a form of learned. I guess I'm the idiot here, haha!
"Learnt" aside, you're not the only person to read a job application with terrible spelling and grammar. It seems to be an epidemic these days. Maybe an overuse of e-mail style abbreviations and such?
 01/02/2011 09:34:56 PM · #13
It's more likely a direct result of the mush-minded liberal thinking prevalent in our school systems, typified by the asinine "No Child Left Behind" act and Obama's "Race to the Top" silliness. We have a bunch of delusional morons in charge of deciding how and what our children are taught.


01/02/2011 09:37:36 PM · #14
Originally posted by Mick:
It's more likely a direct result of the mush-minded liberal thinking prevalent in our school systems, typified by the asinine "No Child Left Behind" act and Obama's "Race to the Top" silliness. We have a bunch of delusional morons in charge of deciding how and what our children are taught.


umm... no child left behind was a republican stupidity passed during Bush's presidency. And why are we responding to old threads renewed by a user registered today and only looking at old rants? Seems silly.

Message edited by author 2011-01-02 21:38:50.
 01/03/2011 05:44:09 AM · #15
Originally posted by vawendy:
umm... no child left behind was a republican stupidity passed during Bush's presidency.

NCLB was originally proposed by the Bush administration, and it was co-authored and pushed through the Senate by Ted Kennedy. It's just another version of Johnson's Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Clinton's Improving America's Schools Act.

Originally posted by vawendy:
And why are we responding to old threads renewed by a user registered today and only looking at old rants? Seems silly.

Happens all the time. :)

01/04/2011 06:33:15 PM · #16
Guess I learned something too, but I don't like it. Another Yank in Canada; I thought I had learnt all the Canadian spellings when all my freshman papers came back with red marks.

More alarming than errant spelling is dressed up non-content. I do not bleeve appalling-speak is exclusive to any part of the political spectrum. Recently the newly and ill-advisedly privatized BC Ferries announced a public meeting which made for wonderful dramatic reading out loud. And while my victims did laugh, perhaps out of politeness and respect for their elders, hardly anyone was so appalled as I was. I was told that there were courses that taught you to speak and write like that.

Prolly not a coincidence that in both fancy and baggy pants universities they are still arguing about the existence of truth and meaning.

So. Be appalled. Be very appalled.
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