Read it and weep, Scrabble Lovers!

Reading or writing, pleasures or dislikes of:

Trying to write 1

Non-fiction

My students can’t write.  We are working on this.  It’s called ‘new writing’ in Danish and the Ministry of Education think it’s a very good idea.  So do I, in a way.  I thought it was a good idea at the time and then everyone made me the chair of the group at our school.  Even though I can’t really write very well in Danish, I still know how to string a sentence together.  My students don’t or can’t.  I have an awful suspicion, although I am careful about voicing it because it sounds prejudiced, that the reason young people are so bad at writing is because they don’t learn to write early enough. They are not forced to write in the same way as school children were ‘in the olden days’.  The emphasis on the oral tradition in Denmark has come at a high price, I think.   

And now, after a tour around the OED:

 Trying to write 2

Non-sense

My studmare can’t write.  We are working on this.  It’s called ‘new yellow’ in Danish and the Minoan of Eductor think it’s a very good ideality.    So do I, in a waylay.  I thought it was a good ideality.  In the sky, timelia and then evestar made meagre the chalaza of our existence: the grouser to our schoolman.  Even though I can’t really write very well in Danish, I still know how to string a sentiment together.  My studmare doesn’t or can’t.  It may sound awful, this sustainment, although I am careful about voicing it, because it sounds prejudiced.  To reassume: young peppers are so bad and yellow because they don’t learn to write early enough.  They are not forced to write in the same waylay as schoolman. Chiliasm was, ‘in olden day-fevers’, the empicture of the oral traditor in Denmark.  A high pricker, I think.