The Importance Of Good Penmanship And Grammar

As the title states.

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[triniguy999]

This is an interesting debate and has been raging in Trinidad for a long time. Do we Trinidadians speak "Broken English?" I prefer to say that I speak "Proper Trinidadian English." I hate to be chastized by people (especially the older folks) for speaking in my mother tongue. I can speak and write Standard English just as well as anyone, but sometimes I prefer to say things in my vernacular- to capitulate to Standard English would be to lose coloUrfulness and meaning in many situations.

[TheDreamReborn]

My grandfather was from Barbados(lived in Trinidad most of his life) and anytime he heard me speaking in the Trini dialect he would say, "You're going to start writing the way you speak." Although it has never happened to me, I've seen others do it.

LoL at "coloUrfulness". Americans are always correcting me when I write in Standard English.They fail to realise that they modified the language just as we did in Trinidad & Tobago.Technically, American English is also a dialect of Standard English.

[triniguy999]

As soon as I heard your voice, I was going to write "Big up to the Trini." But, I listened and I heard of your distate for slang, so instead I'll say; "Acknowledgement, support and encouragement to all of the Trinidadians residing away from home. Make us proud!"

[TheDreamReborn]

I wouldn't say I have a distaste for slang. There's just a time and place for it, and this is what many people don't understand. I actually love slang. It's creative and a lot more personal.

[RadarGuidedVermin]

Ah, so your displaying our white President as someone who can't write or speak. By your own argument, that makes you a racist. What a hypocrite! Your done. It often happens that the biggest whiner is the biggest hater. That means you in case you didn't catch it the first time.

[TheDreamReborn]

...but it's true.

[DanMorgan98]

British English was not standardized until very recently. Among the educated classes in the early modern era spelling was not very important. If you read many early works in English in their original form the spelling of many words vary. American English is not a bastardization of British English it was just a variant that caught on in the colonies and was standardized through the last two centuries.

[KateGladstone]

For a history and comparative study of American and British English, I refer you to the book THE STORIES OF ENGLISH by Dr. David Crystal, the consultant for pronunciation and language at the UK's rebuilt Globe Theatre. Dr. Crystal has found that American English retains many usages and pronunciations that UK English rejects (but that belonged to 17th-century English, the common ancestor of present-day UK and American English). So the UK,, far more than the US, has "bastardized" our langauge.

[SirVoranam]

You make a lot of good points here. Good job!

I do want to argue one point, though. I don't think the distinction between cursive and print handwriting is synonymous with the distinction between good and bad handwriting. Print that is good-looking and neatly written can in my opinion be better than a messily-written cursive. Of course, a neat cursive is better than a sloppy print, but that's exactly my point. It goes both ways.

[AntiGraduate]

I have excellent speaking skills, but my penmanship is TERRIBLE. I think it's because of Dyslexia, though. Dyslexia messes your penmanship.

o_o;

Oooh, so realized is spelled with a z. Shoot, I always spelled it with and s.

[MrsThatcher74]

THE DREAM REBORN:

They certainly produce a higher calibre of idiot in the West Indies.

[poklar]

Lol, "I has a hat". Too funny.