Author Topic: Box of choc question. (Read 18464 times)

aveit101 · « **Reply #60 on:** October 25, 2004, 01:38:06 pm »

I LOVE CHOCOLATE

oldspice · « **Reply #61 on:** October 25, 2004, 02:15:32 pm »

Aveit, spelling and grammar does sometimes matter. For example, did you know that nine out of ten job applications sent in by young people are rejected within first glance because of basic spelling and grammar errors?

chocolate chick · « **Reply #62 on:** October 25, 2004, 06:40:49 pm »

sorry guys. I didn't check before I posted.

« **Reply #63 on:** October 25, 2004, 09:48:03 pm »

That's true in some cases, no doubt Spicey. Never the less I work for a large international company employing 4,000 people with a turn over of £125 million and they will employ anyone, even if they are semi literate. It largely depends on what job they are expected to do. Some jobs, i.e automated picking, require next to no literacy skills.

loulou · « **Reply #64 on:** October 26, 2004, 01:57:13 am »

I am very picky about spellings but promise not to pick anymore.

Bad handwriting is worse than bad spelling and as we can only type on here i can't tell who is a neat writer and who isn't.

« **Reply #65 on:** October 26, 2004, 09:17:31 am »

My handwriting is atrocious -- the original spider that's stepped in a bottle of ink.

loulou · « **Reply #66 on:** October 26, 2004, 01:07:14 pm »

bounty do you write like a doctor?

oldspice · « **Reply #67 on:** October 26, 2004, 01:27:26 pm »

I don't think spelling and grammar are important on the Forum but I would not like young people to think it does not matter at all. People with low literacy and numeracy skills generally earn less and their children are generally more likely to have lower skills themselves and thus a low income and so it goes on.

« **Reply #68 on:** October 26, 2004, 02:05:11 pm »

But how do you encourage the lower classes to take a greater interest in education, when it's so uncool? Surely we have to accept that the poverty of choice is always going to be there.

oldspice · « **Reply #69 on:** October 26, 2004, 05:25:44 pm »

With respect Bounty, please do not confuse low levels of literacy with class. Of course, it is true that people with poor literacy skills are more likely to come from the so-called lower classes - but it is not always a matter of choice but opportunity and access. It's an enormously complex issue, and one that is currently being tackled by the government.

Anyway, back to chocolate - I saw KitKat Blood Orange in Woolies today but resisted the urge to buy one. Actually, there was no urge if I'm honest.

smurfboy · « **Reply #70 on:** October 26, 2004, 05:46:25 pm »

It's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure I fancy eating anything with 'blood' in the name...

« **Reply #71 on:** October 26, 2004, 09:37:02 pm »

Thanks Spicey, the correlation to which you elude is of course what I meant, not that to be in the lower classes automatically confers poor literacy.

loulou · « **Reply #72 on:** October 27, 2004, 01:08:29 am »

oldspice · « **Reply #73 on:** October 27, 2004, 11:37:38 am »

Bounty, your syntax is wonderful.

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