The Sheltered Life of University?
When you’re in school you’re aware that things are done differently in the real world. Accounting policy decisions are never as clear-cut as they are in textbooks… most people take this for granted and don’t think about it much.
I’ve been thinking about it lately.
I’ve been corresponding with a lot of non-university people through email lately, and I’m struck by the lack of spelling and grammar skills. I don’t profess to be perfect in this regard (there are probably a number of obvious mistakes within this blog) but these are really terrible.
An example: “Hello, my name IS James Berry I am riting today because have a interesting offer too propose too you. I saw that you bided on a Apple computer system, I am riting too make you a offer on that Item this deal will be fyprw secure and legit. So if you are interesting please read info.”
First of all, what the hell is “fyprw”?
Second, why do I have to be interesting to read further?
Third, would anyone in their right mind buy something from this retard?
Anyways, I started wondering if this is normal, general-population-level spelling and grammar skills. My first reaction is “no”, but then I think to myself that all the friends I correspond with via email are university graduates/attendees. Am I living in a sheltered, good-grammar university cocoon? Does it matter? Does anyone else care?
Deep, deep questions.