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English is a waste of life. (4 Viewers)

Lolsmith

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English, of all subjects, should certainly not be a compulsory subject. At least, not in the form it's in now. They should either be entirely elective, or focus more on the actually use of language in day-to-day life: spelling, sentence structure, etc.

I really enjoy English as a subject, but in geographical areas where people need their HSC to get into a trade, English is incredibly useless in its current form. Especially if they don't complete their HSC because of English.
 

gella

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haha maybe if you guys weren't illiterate, you wouldn't feel this way about english
 

kawaiinlove

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Shakespeare would be cut if he knew how English was treating his plays...
 

supercalamari

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Shakespeare would be cut if he knew how English was treating his plays...
I reckon he'd be at first amused, then extremely pissed off.

Something else about green eyed monsters and surly wenches would then be written by him, with reference to us...
 

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Not really as long as you acknowledge that there is an inescapable difference between a good essay and a "HSC essay."
 

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i hate english because it renders me with the inability to read something without analysing it or hightlighting 'quotations'
it totally ruins the experience of just simply reading a book!
for example, i am reading jane eyre and like a paragraph into it i am already identifing techniques....
I HATE ENGLISH!!!!!!!!:evilfire:
 

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