03-12-2021, 09:51 AM
it is one of the reasons the forum could ideally have separate discussion spaces to hide away some of the social stuff beyond 7s. This, the Austin 7 jokes and so on bring to mind my elderly grandfather's tatty copy of Frank Muir next to the lav in the smallest room... on top of the Readers Digests.
The forum is so valuable but I'm not sure it isn't one of many things which caters for the luvvies - the old guard - and not the new ones we need to attract, many who will be brought up with txtspk and will just want to fnd info pls, perhaps in a slightly curt way. I've had to gradually learn not to have inner disdain when seeing the state of my eldest's handwriting and grammar. Fortunately his school deals with this more objectively than me by properly assessing his thinking, and his mock results now show that the system has a good way to assess intelligence beyond being dyslexic - and having obvious outward signs of this.
The forum is so valuable but I'm not sure it isn't one of many things which caters for the luvvies - the old guard - and not the new ones we need to attract, many who will be brought up with txtspk and will just want to fnd info pls, perhaps in a slightly curt way. I've had to gradually learn not to have inner disdain when seeing the state of my eldest's handwriting and grammar. Fortunately his school deals with this more objectively than me by properly assessing his thinking, and his mock results now show that the system has a good way to assess intelligence beyond being dyslexic - and having obvious outward signs of this.