The Open University Internet bulletin board specific to the current module (A103) of my course carries two posts in particular that have irritated the hell out of me.<\/p>\n
I suppose being irritated by only two posts out of so many isn’t that bad really, but bear with me for a moment.<\/p>\n
One is a post from a chap who is looking for some assistance. Fair enough, we’re all keen to help each other.<\/p>\n
But in his post he goes on to say: ‘I hope you can advice me<\/em>‘.<\/p>\n Ffs, get a grip man!<\/p>\n You’re studying for a degree in English Literature and Language and you don’t even have the ability to distinguish ‘advice’ from ‘advise’?<\/p>\n When I was at school one would be on the receiving end of a swingeing punishment for such an awful use of grammar.<\/p>\n The other irritation scratching away like\u00a0an itch below a piece of flaky skin originates in a thread that was begun\u00a0to identify students in the Birmingham area.<\/p>\n After several responses from different people a woman responded with ‘Hello Brummies<\/em>‘.<\/p>\n What the hell?<\/p>\n By what bizarrely twisted version of logic can she even begin to believe that everyone attending study group in the Birmingham area is a Brummie?<\/p>\n Brummie: a native of Birmingham<\/em><\/p>\n Has she not heard of (wait for it) travel<\/em>?<\/p>\n To me her salutation speaks volumes about the cosy, narrow, suburban, white middle-class, sheltered existence that she lives within.<\/p>\n She has clearly experienced so little of life.<\/p>\n B<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Open University Internet bulletin board specific to the current module (A103) of my course carries two posts in particular that have irritated the hell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}