real_username56@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 day agoDid you learn phonics in school?message-squaremessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up131arrow-down1message-squareDid you learn phonics in school?real_username56@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 day agomessage-square45fedilinkfile-text
Apparently, some schools in the U.S. didn’t teach phonics until recently (2014). Did anyone here learn phonics in school?
minus-squareover_clox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down12·edit-22 days agoBack in the day, we learned phonics and syllables, and the general proper way to spell, pronounce and enunciate words. Today people are lazy, and say shit like ROTFLMFAO, and expect everyone else to know what that letter salad means.
minus-squareover_clox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 days agoI said back in the day. I was born in 1982, back when people Xeroxed their memes and knew how to spell out things like Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Fucking Ass Off.
minus-squareArghblarg@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-22 days agoXerox?! In my day we only had those faded-ass mimeographs, stinky sheets of blurry purple letters :P …and we learned phonics in Canada in the late 70s.
minus-squareAltima NEO@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoBack when you had to upload your memes via scantron
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days ago stinky sheets of blurry purple letters Hey now, the fresh ones smelled pretty good!
minus-squareover_clox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoAh, we actually had those purple mimeographs in gradeschool! Yep, the quality was shit, but it worked. I just figured more people would remember Xerox. 🤷♂️
Back in the day, we learned phonics and syllables, and the general proper way to spell, pronounce and enunciate words.
Today people are lazy, and say shit like ROTFLMFAO, and expect everyone else to know what that letter salad means.
That’s early 00s speak tho.
I said back in the day. I was born in 1982, back when people Xeroxed their memes and knew how to spell out things like Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Fucking Ass Off.
Xerox?! In my day we only had those faded-ass mimeographs, stinky sheets of blurry purple letters :P
…and we learned phonics in Canada in the late 70s.
Back when you had to upload your memes via scantron
Hey now, the fresh ones smelled pretty good!
Ah, we actually had those purple mimeographs in gradeschool! Yep, the quality was shit, but it worked.
I just figured more people would remember Xerox. 🤷♂️