TWITTER YE MAY.

I'm sure if Frankie Howerd were still alive, twittering would have become a useful subject for his humorous mickey taking.

The recently relinquished moral high ground of what we called the free world, the western nations, has irrevocably slid beyond the pale. We can put this down to whatever suits one's standpoint. The media, particularly television, has much for which to answer i.e the violence therein which is generally associated with bad language. It is the overflow of the expletives that could be doing the most damage, along with the misuse of the most universal of languages. We have to speak to a foreigner, in most cases, to listen to English being spoken correctly.

Many of the verbal responses from the recently successful pupils, following their A's and A*'s, was pathetic to say the least. Their vocabulary appeared as a hybrid, mixing all the worst words from a number of pathetic TV programmes. Surprisingly, some of the these students had acquired good grades in English. How can this be so?

We can safely summise from the evidence which surrounds us, that youngsters are influenced by the media rather than education. We have work to do.





YADDA-YADDA SHOULD SOON BE IN GENERAL USE !