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New Zealand To Allow 'Text-Speak' On Exams
ScentCone writes "New Zealand's Qualification Authority (which sets testing standards for the public schools) is confident that those grading papers will understand the meaning of students' responses, even if they use phone/IM-style text-speak. From the article: 'credit will be given if the answer "clearly shows the required understanding," even if it contains text-speak.' Many teachers are not amused, and critics say that the move will devalue NZ's equivalent of a high school diploma." Not to mention that graders will need to be restrained so they don't gouge their own eyes out. While in the medium of text messages, some shorthand might be in order, but I didn't realize that world paper, pencil, and ink shortages were so severe so that text-speak is necessary everywhere.
what about l33t sp33k?
t3h kn33 b0n3 15 c0nn3ct3d t0 teh th1g|-| b0n3!
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Proper spelling and grammar are unnatural constructs foisted upon the world by upper class tits that needed another way to make themselves feel special.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
I 4 1 wlcm our txtg ovrlrds ...and let the stupid texting jokes begin!
Given your views on the matter, CowboyNeal, have you suggested to Rob Malda that spelling matters and aids effective communication? He'll probably fire you on the spot.
and yet you condone it by using it in your post, you should stop writing altogether if it upsets you so much :)
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that frst pst is worth +5, insightful in New Zealand?
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"...some sort of devolvation..."
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It looks like it's already devolving now.
Pah, spelling and grammar is a holdover from stuffy, old academic rigidity. It has no place in today's classroom. We need to be moving forward as educators and leave all that 'history' behind. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a class on "Group sex: sharing can be caring" to teach to third graders.
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
ORLY WTF?
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You spelling and grammar knowlegde is perfectly fine, as far as I can tell (I'm a non english speaker though). On the other hand, you have serious problems with comprehension.
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That's simply because "devolvation" is not dictionarified yet. But you comprehense it anyway.
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I could not have said it any more eloquently. Er, word up, homie. (hitting myself in head with a brick repeatedly until the feeling passes.)
text speak? Such as "u r an 1d10t" or "u fail it"
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I am an english major.
In some poor parts of the world an English degree means studying how to spell and speak properly.
This is exceedingly unfortunate because the true value of an appreciation of English comes from the ability to understand the nuances of a persons expressions, and in turn to control ones own nuances.
As a Comp Sci major I think the best way to explain this would be to say that it adds bandwidth to people's ability to communicate, before I became an English major I thought it would add bandwidth in the way facial expressions do. Now I understand that a true understanding of English adds more bandwidth than anything short of the original use of language.
This is difficult to explain to people who are so used to people using casual expressions and syntax and choosing topics without enough thought.
When an author puts a word on a page that is the word he has chosen and he has chosen it for a reason, he chose it instead of every other word there is.
Anyway, I'm disgusted with New Zealanders, fortunately in my country approx 50-60% of people end up going to university, and they call it university because your forced to take English.
Cheers!
On the other hand, you have serious problems with comprehension.
What?
I fixed it for you guys.
Dear Christ, I find myself greatly disturbed that I understood scrambled l337. I need to go outside more.
Note: I am an American high school student.
The poster knows what he's talking about, his people butchered the English language a long time ago.
If you're using Hungarian as an excuse, shouldn't that read:
advSorry prpFor prnMy nGrammar
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
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Once (guess why only once) on a math test I wrote 0 "zeros" with a slash in them. I found it more clear to read and harder to confuse with O "letter O".
I got F on that test as my math teacher thought that I was writing theta...
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a class on "Group sex: sharing can be caring" to teach to third graders.
Don't you work at an all boys school?
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Proper spelling and grammar are unnatural constructs foisted upon the world by upper class tits that needed another way to make themselves feel special.
I think you misspelled "employed".
"Professor, why did you give my English paper a failing grade?
"Sure, you asked for a ten page paper on the topic, and the paper I passed in was only two pages, but the existance
of your requirement causes this paper to also serve as a test of my mathematics ability, specifically my ability
to count, and thus grades beyond the course's syllabus."