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  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
    5·
    1 year ago

    For sure, but they won’t practice their perfect paper English outside of your courses. The PDFs they submit will be (mostly) correct, but I doubt they’ll put as much effort into their emails, let alone emails to anyone else. It’s not like customer support will correct you on your they’re/their/there/deer mistakes.

    • CaptObvious@literature.cafe
      1·
      1 year ago

      Maybe customer support should take a stronger stance on understanding and being understood using standard dialect. At least the CSRs that I usually seem to talk with could use a good basic communication course.

      Students will use what they learn from me more than you think if they want a degree. If they don’t want one… well, we have several excellent nearby trade schools where they can learn a skill that won’t require formal standard English and will make them a whole lot more money in the long run (I’m honestly saying this respectfully).