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Friday, March 12th, 2004 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanOne of the joys* of this job is the propensity for new and shinier idiots to appear on the scene just as things have settled down from last time.
I have on my desk, a printed copy of a poorly scanned letter which is essentially a two page sentence written in something approximating to English (it is too recognisable to be Tok Pisin; it's clearly not a pidgin, but it may be a creole. My favoured explanation, however, is illiteracy overlying dialect.) and displaying a calligraphic talent that would make my six year old niece wince in shame.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Yet another alumnus of the Great British Education System ™** has been moved to put wax crayon to cardboard and "write" to his/her/its MP complaining about…
…Actually, we aren't entirely clear about the subject of his/her/its rage. Certainly the words, rent, council tax, and rates appear with alarming regularity, together with one that may or may not read "rhubarb".
This enraged correspondent is from Haringey. I think that pretty much says it all.
*Italicised because I do not know how to do funky dropcaps in LJ to illustrate sarcasm or irony.
**Which is, of course not great, educational or a system. But, dammit, it is British.
I have on my desk, a printed copy of a poorly scanned letter which is essentially a two page sentence written in something approximating to English (it is too recognisable to be Tok Pisin; it's clearly not a pidgin, but it may be a creole. My favoured explanation, however, is illiteracy overlying dialect.) and displaying a calligraphic talent that would make my six year old niece wince in shame.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Yet another alumnus of the Great British Education System ™** has been moved to put wax crayon to cardboard and "write" to his/her/its MP complaining about…
…Actually, we aren't entirely clear about the subject of his/her/its rage. Certainly the words, rent, council tax, and rates appear with alarming regularity, together with one that may or may not read "rhubarb".
This enraged correspondent is from Haringey. I think that pretty much says it all.
*Italicised because I do not know how to do funky dropcaps in LJ to illustrate sarcasm or irony.
**Which is, of course not great, educational or a system. But, dammit, it is British.