Has anyone on this community offered help to the littles, or ASKED them questions, concerning the way they talk? I mean, I've been reading the posts here, and decided to make a journal so I could comment on them. Of course. There are quite a few adults in our system who spend lots of time with the children and help them out with things. Now that our system communication is at a better level, our kids have made great improvement. However, we do not feel it is our place to interfere with other systems' children unless specifically asked - that is the responsibility of their adult system members.
It really bothers me that people are getting so frustrated, uncomfortable, and generally pissed off at the littles' posts. First, let me say, why can't the littles post too? they have something to say like everyone else. I don't think anyone is getting frustrated, uncomfortable, or pissed off by the fact that children are posting in the community. Rather, the adoption of "lilspeak" is what gets under the skin. No one said that children couldn't or shouldn't post, and no one even said they couldn't post in "lilspeak" - just that it might help anyone, old or young, to strive towards learning how to type in correct English when posting.
WHY WON'T ANYONE OFFER THEM THE HELP THAT YOU PEOPLE SEEM TO THINK THEY NEED? Again, that's not the general public's responsibility, or really their business to butt in like that. Those adults in the system who are in charge of the children should take care of that obligation. However, I've already seen a lot of the commenters in the other thread offering help and suggestions when asked, so I don't think it's fair to say that no one is willing to help children learn to spell and type.
yeah, I know sometimes lilspeak is fake, I know that. But, sometimes it's not. and no one else seems to know the difference. If you haven't already read this post (http://www.livejournal.com/community/multiplicity/288351.html), you probably should. There is a difference between lilspeak and errors in spelling and grammar. No one is saying that when kids make normal spelling mistakes that it's fake - but actual lilspeak is so obviously contrived and deviant from all patterns of learning in children that there is no possible way it can be real. The other problem with lilspeak is that while the spelling is all wonky and unadvanced, the rest of the sentence structure is so advanced that it doesn't match the intellectual level of the spelling. Anyway, just read that, the author does a much better job at explaining the difference than I can.
I'm gonna make a new community. I'm gonna ask Rick to help(because he's out more than me) like he helped me spell and LEARN TO SPELL when I was a little kid. Good luck with your community. That's great that you have an adult in your system who helped you learn to spell - I think all system children should be lucky enough to have adults like that in their own systems to help them.
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Of course. There are quite a few adults in our system who spend lots of time with the children and help them out with things. Now that our system communication is at a better level, our kids have made great improvement. However, we do not feel it is our place to interfere with other systems' children unless specifically asked - that is the responsibility of their adult system members.
It really bothers me that people are getting so frustrated, uncomfortable, and generally pissed off at the littles' posts. First, let me say, why can't the littles post too? they have something to say like everyone else.
I don't think anyone is getting frustrated, uncomfortable, or pissed off by the fact that children are posting in the community. Rather, the adoption of "lilspeak" is what gets under the skin. No one said that children couldn't or shouldn't post, and no one even said they couldn't post in "lilspeak" - just that it might help anyone, old or young, to strive towards learning how to type in correct English when posting.
WHY WON'T ANYONE OFFER THEM THE HELP THAT YOU PEOPLE SEEM TO THINK THEY NEED?
Again, that's not the general public's responsibility, or really their business to butt in like that. Those adults in the system who are in charge of the children should take care of that obligation. However, I've already seen a lot of the commenters in the other thread offering help and suggestions when asked, so I don't think it's fair to say that no one is willing to help children learn to spell and type.
yeah, I know sometimes lilspeak is fake, I know that. But, sometimes it's not. and no one else seems to know the difference.
If you haven't already read this post (http://www.livejournal.com/community/multiplicity/288351.html), you probably should. There is a difference between lilspeak and errors in spelling and grammar. No one is saying that when kids make normal spelling mistakes that it's fake - but actual lilspeak is so obviously contrived and deviant from all patterns of learning in children that there is no possible way it can be real. The other problem with lilspeak is that while the spelling is all wonky and unadvanced, the rest of the sentence structure is so advanced that it doesn't match the intellectual level of the spelling. Anyway, just read that, the author does a much better job at explaining the difference than I can.
I'm gonna make a new community. I'm gonna ask Rick to help(because he's out more than me) like he helped me spell and LEARN TO SPELL when I was a little kid.
Good luck with your community. That's great that you have an adult in your system who helped you learn to spell - I think all system children should be lucky enough to have adults like that in their own systems to help them.
~Adryssa