Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.218.70.24-20150317164438/@comment-4010415-20150412223557

Should probably elaborate on that "grammar and sentence structure" thing, actually. By "sentence structure," I mean we learned how to pick apart a sentence and identify the pieces. Like, "This is a prepositional phrase. This is the subject. This is an article. This is what an adverb is" blablablah.

And I'm just gonna randomly say, one of my biggest pet peeves in high school was when we read out loud and someone came across a word they've never seen before and proceeded to just take letters out and throw random letters in and say a made-up word that sounds nothing like how that word is spelled. It made me want to scream things like "Does it fucking look like there's a D in that word?!!!"

Honestly, do people really need to be taught to sound a word out every couple years until it sticks in their brain?! It's so simple!

It's like, if someone came across the word... *Goes to dictionary.com and checks the word of the day* caseous, but said catsus or cashis or some stupid bullshit. My attempt would be cass-ee-us. *Checks actual pronunciation* It's apparently key-see-us because English plays by its own damn rules, but the point still stands that I would at least make a fucking effort to sound it out instead of vomiting sounds.