Politically Motivated Cutting?

[Tangled up in Blue]

Length of teaching doesn't prove value

How about over thirty years teaching experience.:unsure:

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

How about over thirty years teaching experience.:unsure:

Presumably not on how to use an apostrophe:sad:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

It's a bit early to make up one's mind about the next election isn't it?

Not for me.:winking:Nor I imagine for the hundreds of thousands of students who voted for the LIbDems in highly marginal seats and won't next time round.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Presumably not on how to use an apostrophe:sad:

You've heard of the grocer's apostrophe I imagine.:smiles:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

A) Sounds like a great party.
B) I'm glad I don't go to parties where the guests are categorised by their political affiliation.

Actually it was nice to meet up with people who share similar values to myself ie Lefty teachers etc.The most interesting person I met wasn't a teacher though, he's the editor of Público.
www.publico.es

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

You've heard of the grocer's apostrophe I imagine.:smiles:

As I imagine you have taught more than one grocer incorrectly, the correct phrase is grocers' apostrophe.

You have thirty years of teaching experience. It is therefore thirty years' teaching experience.

Now what was Pubey saying about length of teaching not proving value?

 

[Uncle Leo]

Not for me.:winking:Nor I imagine for the hundreds of thousands of students who voted for the LIbDems in highly marginal seats and won't next time round.

It's that sort of tribalism that I can't be having. Why not vote for who you think will do the best job of running the country rather than always voting for the same party regardless? What if Labour issued a manifesto with which you totally disagreed?

As for those students, they say now they'll vote Labour, but maybe they'll feel differently in a few years. Far better to keep an open mind than be stubbornly fixed on an idea for almost the entire length of a parliament.

 

[Pubey]

How about over thirty years teaching experience.:unsure:

Length of teaching doesn't prove value.

 

[osymandus]

As I imagine you have taught more than one grocer incorrectly, the correct phrase is grocers' apostrophe.

You have thirty years of teaching experience. It is therefore thirty years' teaching experience.

Now what was Pubey saying about length of teaching not proving value?

You are aware that grammatical tools are not universal constance and can fall out of popular use ?

 

[Uncle Leo]

You are aware that grammatical tools are not universal constance and can fall out of popular use ?

Thank **** for that eh Osy?

 

[osymandus]

Thank **** for that eh Osy?

Yeah i know , ****ing pandas walking into restaurants . Mind you they taste good . Everyone eat a Panda today and cook its corpse on bonfire made from this book http://www.google.co.uk/products/ca...aYCZOF-AaL_J2BBA&sa=title&ved=0CBAQ8wIwATgA#p
(of course buy it first , read it then use it for said purpose )

(please note no tasty pandas were eaten in this post , nor is book burning encouraged (unless for survivalist purposes) , and ex English literature graduates, who no longer work in academia should really be a bit less precious about a living evolving part of society ))

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

As I imagine you have taught more than one grocer incorrectly, the correct phrase is grocers' apostrophe.

You have thirty years of teaching experience. It is therefore thirty years' teaching experience.

Now what was Pubey saying about length of teaching not proving value?

Actually,I think you'll find the correct phrase is the greengrocers' apostrophe.You'll find (if you take the trouble to check)that modern and highly repected linguists like David Crystal really don't fuss too much about this sort of thing anymore(at least in TEFL).
In any case perhaps it's a good thing that I (mainly ) teach oral English.:smile:
btw apart from undergraduates at the UAB, I usually teach top business executives.Can't think of any grocers.Did some simultaneous translation for a visiting group of Danish butchers once though.Hard work.:winking:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Length of teaching doesn't prove value.

And what would or does IYO?:unsure:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

It's that sort of tribalism that I can't be having. Why not vote for who you think will do the best job of running the country rather than always voting for the same party regardless? What if Labour issued a manifesto with which you totally disagreed?

As for those students, they say now they'll vote Labour, but maybe they'll feel differently in a few years. Far better to keep an open mind than be stubbornly fixed on an idea for almost the enrie length of a parliament.

As I mentioned once before the last time I was able to vote in a UK election in 1997, I didn't vote Labour(for the first time in my life at a GE).

I don't think so but I hope to keep in touch.They weren't students btw but young graduates,both in work.

 

[Mad Cyril]

And what would or does IYO?:unsure:

One or more of your pupils winning Going For Gold.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Actually,I think you'll find the correct phrase is the greengrocers' apostrophe.You'll find (if you take the trouble to check)that modern and highly repected linguists like David Crystal really don't fuss too much about this sort of thing anymore(at least in TEFL).
In any case perhaps it's a good thing that I (mainly ) teach oral English.:smile:
btw apart from undergraduates at the UAB, I usually teach top business executives.Can't think of any grocers.Did some simultaneous translation for a visiting group of Danish butchers once though.Hard work.:winking:

Apologies you appear to be correct.

Your beloved Grauniad refers to grocers' apostrophes, so like a defence facing Big Bad Barry Corr, I'm prepared to concede as they never get anything right.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Apologies you appear to be correct.QUOTE]

Blimey.Not often I (or anyone else for that matter) get an apology from you.:raspberry:

 

[EastStandBlue]

Blimey.Not often I (or anyone else for that matter) get an apology from you.:raspberry:

It's not often that you're correct.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

It's not often that you're correct.

Or anyone else?:unsure:

 

[Uncle Leo]

They weren't students btw but young graduates,both in work.

But Osy said everyone was a student. I didn't think I still was, but I did watch Countdown on a day off recently.