I call it “making people more readily employable”.
When I was in the position of hiring people, many folks were not even interviewed if they submitted a resume and cover letter that revealed language issues. One example that I saw on multiple occasions was… “I am responding to your add”.
If someone doesn’t know the difference between the abbreviation for “advertisement” and one of the 4 basic functions of math, I don’t think that I want to employ him/her for a job that requires good language skills.
Wow, this thread has really gone everywhere. I will agree with OP @VTMongo that this is an automotive forum, and that everyone should know that the devices on your car/truck/suv are brakes.
Our Finance Director put out shameless confusing and misspelled memos. When we tried to tell him to proof his work, he just got the deer in the headlights look and didn’t seem to understand.
This thread has swerved from brakes vs. breaks to the Space Shuttle and orbiting telescopes, far from the original topic, but unfortunately that’s to be expected, owing to human nature. Deliberate misdirection is not.
As for new posters, I most frequently see the error of “breaks” vs. “brakes” committed by new posters, those who are least likely to be knowledgeable and least likely to speak “mechanic.” Further, I most often see such criticism leveled at new posters. I have trouble believing the OP was leveling his criticism at long time posters or professional mechanics.
It’s only been four days since the OP’s last post. Let’s not put out an APB just yet. He may have simply gotten bored, he may not have gotten the response he wanted, or he might actually have a life, unlike the rest of us.
… or, after his virtual storm of posts that used nonsensical fractured English as an extreme example of language problems, he may have worn-out his welcome with the moderators.
And some people shouldn’t be allowed to email. I have a friend, financially successful, many friends, outgoing personality, handwriting looks like Calligraphy it’s so beautiful. But when I get an email from them it has no capitalization or none of the 14 common punctuation marks. I have to read and re-read the email many times to decipher it. And the spelling is a sin.
It does.
Open the poster’s profile and click on the “normal” button.
Maybe someone has already mentioned this later in the thread, but I don’t have the focus to read the whole thing.
As it happens, to the best of my knowledge, you’re the first to mention it. FWIW, I stopped following this thread when it veered off onto the Space Shuttle, except to reply to posts specifically directed at me. Thanks. I may need to take advantage of it one of these days.
OK, I get the picture and prefer standard English iffin’ ya don’t mind. One of my worst subjects was English Lit. Everything was written in Old English and I couldn’t hardly understand a word of it.
