OT; Education

At least there was a "thank you".

My spelling is terrible but I do know the general form of the word that I am trying to type.

Very, judging by some of the Facebook posts I see.

You can't make that assumption. We've just come back from a month in China where we had contact with quite a number of guides and drivers who all, apart from one, had Anglicised names like, for example, 'Tony'. The same choice is often made over here with it being easier to swap to a 'local' name than to explain/spell the real name.

The same also applies to call centre droids in places like India.

tee hee Glasgow slang is wursur ......

"Jim GM4DHJ in the trailer park ..." wrote in message news:mikok1$9g6$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me...

I know that one of those who uses a VERY english name, that the reason she does is because the class where she learned to speak english in China started off just telling every member of the class what english name they would have.

Quite bizarre IMO but that is the way they do it.

Back in the very early 70s, we had one chinese fellow who glorified in the name of Blunden Butt. We made snide remarks about him having overdosed on westerns while waiting to get a visa. I notice he is still around on LinkedIn.

I think that says more about who uses facebook.

Interesting, I recall my early French lessons where everyone was given a French name and this was always used to address us in French lessons. I can't remember mine!

Never had that myself and I was forced to do all of French, German and Russian at different times.

so what's the nationality of (one time world cycling champion) Tony Martin then?

tim

This last bit may be more key than many realise. Its the first time in history in which large swathes of jo public get to have their written communications "published" for the world to see. In the past, many that were poor at written communications would have avoided doing so as far as possible. Now, not so much!

The Medway Handyman scribbled

Having seen the result of the election...

Nothing to do with the education system.

Cute - but a little snobby.

Round my way, FB is used as the defacto local forum and everyone from the councillors to old retired dudes are on it.

I had one in Spanish - Manuel IIRC, or might have been Miguel.

But not in French. Sadly I was never enthused by either language and they would not let me do German because "it was too hard".

In general, not as bad as it is in the US of A. However, that's not saying very much and I'm rather of the opinion that the standard has been dropping over the past half century or so here in the UK (or at least in England, I shouldn't presume anything about the other nations' educational system's merits).

I booted FB off about 4 years ago. I think I may have sent a couple of messages on it. The quality and intelligence of the users depressed me. By coincidence I rejoined today. Nothing seems to have changed. Thing is that some of the people there have a brain, but they put it to sleep when they log on. When I have finished being nosey I'll boot it off again.

Even though the Facebook Ts&Cs mean they own you.