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I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad.
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After being out of college for 15 years and not using my English skills I've noticed my grammar is probably back to 8th grade level. Is this something I should be concerned about? It wouldn't be this way if my life needed better writing skills? Has this happened to you? Should I even put on a resume that I have a college degree since this has happened to me?

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Re: I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad. [Re: kent101] * 4
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They're is Autocrat.

Edit: Fucking autocorrect. I meant to say there is autocorrect.

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Re: I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad. [Re: xbloodwhipx] * 2
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We only allow college-level grammar skills on this forum. :lol:

The fact that you're aware of your lacking grammar is a great start, you never get better if you don't realize you suck.
Practice is all you can really do. Read a difficult book and study the sentence structure and punctuation.


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Re: I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad. [Re: kent101]
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It still seems to be better than 98% of the retards on the internet.  So you have that going for you.

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Re: I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad. [Re: UpSyndrome] * 2
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Interesting that you say "retards on the internet" when your avatar is literally a retard on the internet.
Was this intended?

:didyouseethat:


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Re: I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad. [Re: UpSyndrome]
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OP your post displays terrible grammar.

Revoke your college degree.
Quit your job.


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Re: I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad. [Re: hTx]
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My grammar wouldn't be this bad if my job had required me to write more. I'm not sure if it's wise to include a college degree on a resume after 15 years?

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Re: I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad. [Re: UpSyndrome]
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Thanks, do you think they point out people's bad grammar because their grammar is around third grade level?

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Re: I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad. [Re: kent101]
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kent101 said:
I'm not sure if it's wise to include a college degree on a resume after 15 years?


College degrees are for life bro.


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Re: I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad. [Re: Tmethyl]
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I was looking at my college "A Writer's Reference" book the other day and I didn't even remember what an Adjective is.

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Re: I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad. [Re: Tmethyl] * 1
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Tmethyl said:
kent101 said:
I'm not sure if it's wise to include a college degree on a resume after 15 years?


College degrees are for life bro.


Wrong, once you use "there" wrongly instead of "they're", your degree becomes immediately invalid.


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Re: I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad. [Re: Nifflerz] * 2
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:holyfuckdude:


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Re: I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad. [Re: Tmethyl]
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And it's not just that one, either. That's just an example. I used "your" instead of "you're" by accident in an email and my degree was deleted. And I was fired.


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Re: I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad. [Re: Nifflerz]
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What if you graduated with a 2.0 GPA?

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Re: I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad. [Re: Tmethyl]
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Not every college major emphasizes English. From what I hear a lot of companies are upset that college graduates they hire lack writing skills.

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Re: I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad. [Re: kent101]
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I have mostly been able to avoid doing any courses that involve essays writing so far in my university career. I like to think that my writing is fairly decent though.

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Re: I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad. [Re: psi]
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I'm about to graduate. My grammar has always been okay but my spelling has always sucked. College writing courses tend to focus on creating an argument and supporting it in writing.

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Re: I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad. [Re: kent101]
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kent101 said:
After being out of college for 15 years and not using my English skills I've noticed my grammar is probably back to 8th grade level. Is this something I should be concerned about? It wouldn't be this way if my life needed better writing skills? Has this happened to you? Should I even put on a resume that I have a college degree since this has happened to me?




Although I am enrolled in an online master's program, it's not the same as a brick and mortar.  Universities nowadays will accept any moron (such as myself) willing to pay outrageous tuition costs. 


More so than my grammar, I have noticed my vocabulary has suffered dramatically.  I used to be quite the sesquipedalian -- now I speak like a high school dropout.  :facepalm:


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Re: I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad. [Re: Asclepius]
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I think using the internet will make English language skills worse since most activities online aren't requiring good writing skills. I bet texting has decimated a lot of people's English language skills. Do you talk a lot with other students in your program online and do they have bad grammar?

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Re: I notice after being out of college for 15 years my grammar sucks pretty bad. [Re: kent101]
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kent101 said:
Do you talk a lot with other students in your program online and do they have bad grammar?


:awesomenod: You have no idea.


To make matters worse, the people at my last job treated me like I was pompous whenever I used a word that had three or more syllables.  :facepalm:


I've always felt that I had to speak in a manner that even the lowest common denominator can understand... It was fucking low at my last job, let me tell you.  I was with the same company for nearly 5 years.  Ugh!  5 years of hell!


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