U.C.D students are semi literate

Blush_01

Pardon?

princess-sprkle

too long, didn't read

Tan Princess

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=36&si=1796241&issue_id=15387
It says here he said it on the pat kenny show. Would there be a podcast of that?

Blush_01

princess-sprkle wrote:

too long, didn't read

Thanks for clearing that up.

Tan Princess: I'm not sure. RTÉ have been cutting down on some of the podcasts they've been doing recently. It's worth checking out though. If you find one, can you post a link?

cast_iron

Blush_01 wrote:

It's worth checking out though. If you find one, can you post a link?

It appears only the last 5 programs are available to listen online. So we are two days too late in looking for it now:mad:.

Stabshauptmann

Quite honestly, an awful lot of them are semi-literate, and it's not just the spelling, either.

He does say its not just the spelling, but a larger inability to comprehend (and I presume communicate).

I'd agree tbh. He's not putting any mad % estimates on it, just that theres a lot. IMO, at university level it doesnt take a huge amount of semi-literates in a class for it to be considered a lot or too many (as opposed to, say primary school). Fairly subjective I know, but I bet everyone here can think of maybe 10 people in their course who are semi-literate.

smallthing

Place the word "arts" in between "ucd" and "student" n he definately has a point......

Blush_01

Do you speak from experience?

Sangre

smallthing wrote:

Place the words arts in between "ucd" and "student" n he definately has a point......

Seriously, it must be an internet rule by now that those who insult others' English have some spelling/grammatical error in their post.

Sangre's Law anyone?

Blush_01

Kaptain Redeye wrote:

He does say its not just the spelling, but a larger inability to comprehend (and I presume communicate).

I'd agree tbh. He's not putting any mad % estimates on it, just that theres a lot. IMO, at university level it doesnt take a huge amount of semi-literates in a class for it to be considered a lot or too many (as opposed to, say primary school). Fairly subjective I know, but I bet everyone here can think of maybe 10 people in their course who are semi-literate.

I can't. Nor could I in my undergraduate class. I'm probably the only person from my class (past or present) who could feasibly be termed semi-literate, and at that I'd consider you to have insulted me.

Sangre - I can't see why not!

Sangre

Congratulations, you're the exception that proves the rule...

griffdaddy

smallthing wrote:

Place the words arts in between "ucd" and "student" n he definately has a point......

yeah, no doubt man. The one course made up almost exclusively of subjects involving huge amounts of reading and writing has the highest proportion of semi-literate students. I also heard the engineers are shít at maths and sure half the vets couldn't tell you the difference between a cat and a dog.