not well-educated

[namloan]

1. People who race cars or motorbikes illegally are so uneducated or not well-educated. They should be caught by the police and sweep trash on the street for a month.

- Are these two sentences grammatical and natural?

Thank you very much, members and teachers

[Tdol]

You could race motorbikes illegally if you had a PhD, so I wouldn't use either of those terms. It could be rude/inconsiderate/anti-social, etc.

[namloan]

Dear Tdol and other members!

- Thanks for your opinions. But everthing here in my country is different from yours, so are my original sentences grammatical?

Thank you very much

[JMurray]

1. People who race cars or motorbikes illegally are so uneducated or not well-educated. They should be caught by the police and sweep trash on the street for a month.

namloan.
Apart from the point made by Tdol, I think there are some other problems. I don't think you need to repeat the reference to education, and it all might work better as a single sentence.

"People who race cars or motorbikes illegally are so uneducated, they should be caught by the police and made to sweep trash on the street for a month".

not a teacher

[Raymott]

But everthing here in my country is different from yours,

In that case, wouldn't time in a re-education camp be a better punishment than sweeping the streets, given that lack of education is the supposed cause?

[Tdol]

Dear Tdol and other members!

- Thanks for your opinions. But everthing here in my country is different from yours, so are my original sentences grammatical?

That's not very important- your suggested solution does not involve education but punishment. If you use antisocial, you would get the intended meaning better in English. Your sentence doesn't work with the word you're choosing. You could say that it is grammatical, but that doesn't make it meaningful. Choice of adjective is not a question of grammar but of meaning/style, etc, and uneducated doesn't do the job in English IMO.

[TheParser]

1. People who race cars or motorbikes illegally are so uneducated or not well-educated. They should be caught by the police and sweep trash on the street for a month.

- Are these two sentences grammatical and natural?

Thank you very much, members and teachers

***** NOT A TEACHER *****


(1) Besides the great answers that the other posters have

given you, may I add a cultural and language tip (idea)?

(2) If you ever visit Latin America, never tell anyone that

s/he is "uneducated" -- even if you are speaking in English.

I certainly do not speak Spanish, but I think that if you tell

someone that s/he no es educado, you are telling that person

that s/he is rude and does not have good manners. I hear that

people in Latin America consider those words very insulting.

[Raymott]

'Maleducato' in Italian means rude or ill-mannered too. It's a false friend.

[riquecohen]

'Maleducato' in Italian means rude or ill-mannered too. It's a false friend.

It's the same in Portuguese (and, presumably, in Spanish.)