Ghetto Resume--would you hire her?

[lady_zana]

Originally posted by RICHARD


I know people who are Third, fourth and fifth generation Americans that have been to school, graduated and they cant speak or spell a lick....

Sadly, I have to admit I'm one of those Americans who can't spell...and I majored in English!

The internet isn't helping with 'chatspeak' and 'l33t speak.' (I think I got l33t the way they say/spell it...I'm so glad Pet Talk doesn't allow that kind of spelling on their boards.

I saw a siggy one time that said, "You: It's a pronoun, not a letter. Savvy?" I just loved that because I'm so sick of reading posts that say things like 'u r so kool.' Maybe it's cute to some but it doesn't help that someday they will be out in the 'real' world and if they don't learn to speak and write clearly now, they will never get ahead.

Sorry, but chatspeak just ANNOYS me to no end! It's the English major in me coming out!
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(I hope I didn't spell any words wrong in this post; that'd make me feel really stupid, wouldn't it? )

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by lady_zana
Sadly, I have to admit I'm one of those Americans who can't spell...and I majored in English!

But you know enough to see that something isn't correct, right?


I cringe when I see an e mail that is CC'ed to a bunch of people and not only the spelling, but the grammar and punctuation is fricking atrocious.....

I do the "run on sentences" and improper grammar or spelling, But I can assure you that I pick it up to 150% IF I am going to send out a professional communication. I don't judge a post on PT like I judge a post on my work e mail.


One day I got this in an email....."Vica Viscera"

I think she meant to say vice versa.....This person can probably make a silk purse from a mother board, So I can honestly say that when she picked the spelling/grammar option for that e mail, the machine probably freaked out, So she doesn't check it anymore.

Instead of raising the standards, we lower the bar to make Johnny feel better about himself and let him know that a 60 percent effort is good enough.

We do not challenge ourselves and our children enough.

And it shows.....so until we start to take education seriously,
it will get worse.

We care so much we want god, the Star Spangled Banner and children's rights out of our school.......but the real education suffers because we don't have the huevos to fail a few kids.

We are more worried about protecting them from failure-
so we let them fail and it's quite alright for a child not to be able to spell, read or write a sentence that makes sense...


Spelling in a fun forum isn't critical.

It's when you send out an email to your coworkers and they snicker about your spelling.......

Or vice versa....

[Pit Chick]

I'm glad I could spark some controversy into the Dog House.

Now, iffens y'all don't mind, I gotsta git back to werk urning my fab-u-less paycheck.

Who am I kidding, I'm not here to work, I'm here to play on the internet with you guys.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by Pit Chick


Who am I kidding, I'm not here to work, I'm here to play on the internet with you guys.

Tag, you are IT!

[Pit Chick]

Originally posted by RICHARD
Tag, you are IT!

TAG! you're it.....no tag backs.

[cali]

lol I always thought my spelling and grammer were awful, then I read "a complicated kindness" an award winning novel...the grammer is so bad I could hardly understand what was going it, like in a single sentance she would go from present to past, no puncuation at all, I was so confused, here is an example of the kind of thing I mean "as I was walking around the block I was a little girl talking to my mother in the living room" like, huh? it is so hard to read a book like that, I was constantly stuck on differnt parts trying to figer out what the heck they were trying to say. and that book has won AWARDS?!

[lbaker]

That's what I love about this site! What started out as a rather lame attempt at racist humor - IMO - evolved into a discussion of grammatics and elocution in general. What an eclectic group of PetTalkers we are. Fascinating and encouraging AND educational!

[LKPike]

Originally posted by lbaker
That's what I love about this site! What started out as a rather lame attempt at racist humor - IMO - evolved into a discussion of grammatics and elocution in general. What an eclectic group of PetTalkers we are. Fascinating and encouraging AND educational!

and yet some of us are STILL too proud to admitt our mistakes and back off or do something Mature like oh, say, apologize to the original poster for basicly calling her racist.

[Twisterdog]

I know people who are Third, fourth and fifth generation Americans that have been to school, graduated and they cant speak or spell a lick....

Amen!



Oh come on, people .... lighten up already. If it would have been titled "White Trash Resume" or "Southern Resume" .... no one would have been screeching about racism - it would have just been funny. What's the difference?

Not only do all races live in the ghetto, literally .... "Ghetto" has become a slang term, an adjective to describe all kinds of things that have absolutely nothing to do with a literal ghetto. And it's not necessarily a negative adjective either. My teenage son and his friends have called my car the "Ghetto Beetle" because it has a quite bright color-change paint job and lots of chrome - and they love this car. And this is in a little town in Wyoming .... we don't HAVE any ghettos.

[Pit Chick]

Originally posted by lbaker
That's what I love about this site! What started out as a rather lame attempt at racist humor

I still want to know what's racist about it? Where is race mentioned in the joke?

Oh come on, people .... lighten up already. If it would have been titled "White Trash Resume" or "Southern Resume" .... no one would have been screeching about racism - it would have just been funny. What's the difference?

Kinda like all of Jeff Foxworthy's "you might be a redneck if......" jokes or his Blue Collar TV show. No one screams racism then, cause they're too busy laughing.

"Those that can laugh at themselves, will never cease to be amused."

[lbaker]

"Screeching" ? I thought my last post was a compliment to this site. Non-personal and kudos for all that have posted here. It was for the idea that the "DogHouse" was a forum for contrary opinions with respect for differences. I think PitChick is a great person and I appreciate her humor and views. Just because I don't agree with all of them should not make me a shrew. PC, I'll be happy to pour you a drink at the bar and viva la difference in some thoughts. Sometimes RICHARD and I disagree. But we love each other and surely don't take it personally. "Admit a mistake"?? Is it a mistake to state an honest opinion? PC and I have no problems (I hope) What's yours?? By the way, admit is spelled with one "T" at the end. Not two. Hooboy, I guess I'm in for it now:rolleyes

[LKPike]

Originally posted by lbaker
What started out as a rather lame attempt at racist humor -

right, I guess I'm just mistaken to see that as, not a compliment.

I don't have a problem. I don't respond to jokes I don't agree with or like, as thats what the X at the top was made for. I also know how to apologize and admiT when I'm wrong....

Instead of continuing to argue to the point of nit-picking someones spelling because "I" refuse to be wrong.

[Pit Chick]

Originally posted by lbaker
"Screeching" ? I thought my last post was a compliment to this site. Non-personal and kudos for all that have posted here. It was for the idea that the "DogHouse" was a forum for contrary opinions with respect for differences. I think PitChick is a great person and I appreciate her humor and views. Just because I don't agree with all of them should not make me a shrew. PC, I'll be happy to pour you a drink at the bar and viva la difference in some thoughts. Sometimes RICHARD and I disagree. But we love each other and surely don't take it personally. "Admit a mistake"?? Is it a mistake to state an honest opinion? PC and I have no problems (I hope) What's yours?? By the way, admit is spelled with one "T" at the end. Not two. Hooboy, I guess I'm in for it now:rolleyes

And I have no problems with you either. If you didn't like the joke that's fine, but I STILL want to know how it is considered racist? No one has managed to answer that one yet. I'm not going to admit I was wrong when I don't feel I was. I'm not attacking anyone for their opinions, either you liked it or you didn't.

[lbaker]

Thank you PC, I thought we were OK.. I appreciate it

[Vio&Juni]

I liked the joke.

It was interesting to read all the comments. Personally, I couldn't find anything offending in this joke. (Nor did I in so many about blondes, and as you all know I am blonde).

I also don't find it racist. Not at all.

I just still don't understand why you wouldn't hire her? (I am asking this seriously and not). I really think, that even people with less education and less writing abilities should be given a chance, and not only in their own ghetto.