http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/dumbest-things-ever-said-on-the-internet

Just love the one about rain in Australia !!! 'Spose that means NZ doesn't get any either !!

Thank you Jeffery for your post, it made me laugh out loud seveal times which was slightly embarassing as i read it whilst travelling on the tram!! 

Isn't it astonishing that people can be that dumb?

Such stupidity doesn’t surprise me any longer nor do I find it amusing.  Countries in the so-called “developing” world struggle to provide basic education for all while a nation considered to be a “leader” among its peers pours time, effort and tax payers’ hard-earned money into a system which churns out ignoramuses of the sort.

Bah!  But I admit it: I am an old hat.

R.

Ritchie - Don't think you are an old hat - I think people have forgotten how to read - ANYTHING !!

Perhaps it isn't taught I am not sure...technology may be part of it then again I embrace technology in my day to day search for knowledge. I just think young peope these days are inherently lazy when it comes to acquiring any sort of knowledge which I agree is not amusing. I could go on but it is difficult sometimes to articulate my frustrations on the subject !!

Jeffrey - oh cn I coll u Jamal?

It meens that Noo zeeland get the rane nsted bcoz wen it rane in oztralia it fall out the botom of the cuntry (soz tat is a rood word but cunt fink of anuffa wrd 4 the cuntry whore me anzestrz liv) and then they is unda oztralia so thy is gettin' the rane nsted, innit.

iz u spd or summat? but gud u cn spl "spose" - wkd!!

Apparently - that is how they now speak in many areas of the UK (and in the US with a slightly different dialect twist).

I write this as as a social observation and not meant to offend anyone.  

But it IS sad to label "the younger generation" or "Amercian Yooff" with stuff like this as they're not "all like that" and it's a reflection on the (lack of) education and at the end of the day - it's the Governments who are to blame.

And you voted for them, people!!

Be careful what you wish for. 

On ya Carolyn !!

I have sent these on to my various students [various nationalities that is] in the hope that the comments will amuse them, and point out to them just how stupid some people can be, whilst they are simultaneously reading the English

Pointless famous assasignations"

Armstrong : "Who was assasignated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas"

Contestant : "JR"

;-)

Seems geography knowledge has gone down hill too, on both sides of the pond.

http://www.boredpanda.com/americans-place-european-countries-on-map/

http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/its-thanksgiving-so-we-asked-some-brits-to-label-the-us-stat

Sent the original posting on world-wide, America, Australia, SA, should make them all laugh

I'm loving all these funnies!! Cheers me right up!! :)

“My mom is frustrated with me …”

Maybe your English teacher is too.

And just out of my curiosity, why do you ask about my linguistic ability?

In any case, there is little point in knowing several languages if one speaks and/or writes all of them ungrammatically. Better by far to know one language really well and then add a good knowledge of other languages,  one at a time.

Unfortunately, many polyglots fall short when accuracy and precision are imperative and this can impair their employability in many disciplines.

And should you still be interested – which I’m sure you’re not – I can’t use a sewing-machine or even thread a needle with ease.  I never wanted to, always found a way of not needing to, and don’t  care!  I don’t stuff mushrooms either, but I can word-process. Well, a little bit and that’s much more fun.

Best, R.

I would use a capital letter ‘N’ if I want to say that a person was  a member of the German fascist political party that Adolf Hitler brought to power in the 1930’s.

But if I want to say that a person has fascist behaviour or views that resemble those of the Hitler régime, I would write the letter ‘n’ in lower case.

R.

Thank you for your reply, which has not worked me up.

Unfortunately, we are at cross-purposes so I feel it will be in everyone’s interest if I refrain from further comment.

All the best to you, R.

Suspect that means 1;-)

I'd love to reply to john c and Lisa V - but the energy created by stifling the MOST MASSIVE YAWN EVER just overcame me.......so I couldn't .....sorry ......innit....

Dear Carolyn:

You have been fully understood and totally exonerated so have a good night,

R.

Ok kiddies...this started out as a Friday funny...was it something I said ??????

some ppl clearly didn't read the subject title. Back to topic, some more stupid answers written by students. 

1.  Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.

2.  The Bible is full of interesting caricatures.  In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree.  One of their children, Cain, asked "Am I my brother's son?"

3.  Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients.  Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments.  He died before he ever reached Canada.

4.  Solomon had 300 wives and 700 porcupines.

5.  The Greeks were highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have any history. The Greeks also had myths.  A myth is a female moth.

6.  Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.

7. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice.  They killed him.  Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.  After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.

8.  In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled biscuits, and threw java.

9.  Eventually , the Romans conquered the Greeks.  History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long.

10.  Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul.  The Ides of  March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king.  Dying, he gasped out: "Tee Hee, Brutus."

11.  Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects by playing the fiddle to them.

12.  Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by Bernard Shaw.

13.  Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offense.

14.  In midevil times most people were alliterate.  The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature.

15.  Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head.

Thanks G.....excellent !!

It is indeed John !!