Losing the Art (A literate generation?)

Name: Waikie

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Product:	A literate generation?
Date:	24/06/01 (27 review reads)
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Advantages: Reading opens the mind

Disadvantages: Public Libraries are poor

I don't know what's happened - maybe teenagers never cared, but nowadays, the 'yoof kultcha' seems obsessed with wearing the right tracksuit or buying the correctly sized gold shell earrings, and don;t seem to give a damn about reading or learning anything of use.

I am forever listening to loud abusive kids on buses, who can hardly string a sentence together, and seem to speak in a manner that would indicate they'd find reading The Sun newspaper a challenge. Even the kids from the local Grammer schools which are supposed to provide a better standard for them seem to be inane fashion junkies.

Are they any different from teenagers of yore? The fashions and topics change, but they always seem to have the same rebellious streak - and would never read a book unless forced to. I admit that when i was a teenager at school, the thought of Shakespeare would make me cringe, but i do profess to enjoying reading at least one novel a week. Any decent book in a library (even science-fiction!) is well written and contains plenty of grammar and long sentences containing lots of big words (bad sentence there!) that will hopefully imprint on your mind and improve your English.

With the advent of the Net and Computer games in ever more dizzying varieties, kids have less reason to read thesedays, and parents seem to care less - maybe they've now discovered it's easiest to blame poor school standards, or maybe they care less about reading now.

The average intelligibility of a citizen is decreasing - more and more people are losing accents and speaking 'estuary english', we are becoming homogenised into lazy, noisy, mobile phone toting people. Maybe that's just what the tabloids say?!, or is it the tabloids fault for being written so poorly? Oh, no I've started a new argument now...

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