Monday, February 18, 2013

We’re Cambridge ESOL. We’re experts. Give us your money!

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Here is Cambridge English Language Assessment’s mission statement: “To be the experts in language assessment: delivering excellence and innovation.”

Here are errors that I found in Cambridge English Young Learners (YLE):  A guide for parents. Good job delivering all that excellence, Cambridge. What would the world do without illiterate and greedy fuckwads like you to dumb down the language. Again, good job! You’re so awesome.

“[T]hat” is the wrong pronoun. It should be “who.”

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This is an agreement error. “[C]hild” is a singular noun. “[T]heir” is plural pronoun.

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“[T]hat” is the wrong pronoun. It should be “who.”

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This is an agreement error. “[C]hild” is a singular noun. “[T]heir” is plural pronoun.

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This is an agreement error. “[C]hild” is a singular noun. “[T]heir” is plural pronoun.

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  • Support is not something that can be purchased on ebay by the lot. The author means “a lot.”
  • Agreement error. “[C]hild” is a singular noun. “[T]heir” is plural pronoun.

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The pronoun “they” has no antecedent.

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What is “The three Cambridge English?” Is that the name for the broken English that is used at Cambridge ESOL?

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This is an agreement error. “[C]hild” is a singular noun, and it is being used with plural pronouns.

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Don’t be so proud, Germaine Teh Jhee Wei. You got conned by a bunch of illiterate riffraff masquerading as educators. I would take that certificate and use it to wipe your ass. That’s what it’s worth.

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Original PDF location: http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams-and-qualifications/young-learners/

Location of the copy that I made from the original source: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByAKBmn_5EuJbFNTS01hMUZ4OUk/edit?usp=sharing

Young Learners webpage: http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams-and-qualifications/young-learners/

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