I used to jump people's azzes all the time about their grammatical errors, but then it dawned on me that when people speak to you, in person, they never misspell a word. One of the worst offenders is no longer with us. He's with his father in heaven. I'd put up with all of his grammatical shortcomings just to have him back in our fold. This kind of criticism is counterproductive and scares away a lot of good people that we would consider an attribute to G&G. Maybe I'm just getting old, but can't we all just get along?
I look at it this way. 1) I am a high school drop out. 2) No college nor any chance due to no book smarts 3) I was in the General Math class in all school grades 4) Always fell asleep in English class 5) Saw my dad work all his life and knew I was destined to do the same. So that's what I have done. Yeah I know the basics, I have street smarts rather than book smarts (and I sure hope I put that thar than in the right place). Street smarts have searved me well. It has kept my wits about me and has kept me out of trouble. I was raised where I can be the bumpkin or I can dress down and fake it with the high and mighty. My mom gave up on my manors years ago. I like being who I am and what I am. My speach and manorisioms are what makes up my personallity.
Yeah I misspell words. I do like I was taught in school to sound them out. Well that is a 50/50 crap shoot. When it comes to math I went thru school doin the numbers game on my fingers. Then glory be some smart guy built a calculator. But let me tell ya, using adding, subtracting, or multipucation, I can get ya from point A to point B and your paper logs will look good. That's street smarts in a semi truck using a calculator. And the load will be on time and look legal.
So the bottom line is, I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer but I ain't the dullest either. Would you rather hang in the places I have been with the book smart guy, or with me that can get out of a situation bein street smart? I have hung with the 1%'ers and I have hung with the very rich. I had a dear friend who passed who would talk to me on my playing field while holding a meeting in his home with Japaneese investers in Armonie suits. Then intentionally blow a million dollar deal and look at me and tell me there was a part of the contract he didn't like. Sure nough they would call him back and rewrite the contract.
So yeah the street smarts have paid off. If there is something I don't know I fake it. Give an excuse, take papers with me and look it up, and give them an answer in the morning (oh dam there's the Meat Loaf song, what is it Love By The Dash Board Lights?)
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the dullest either. I am just me and livin happy in life.
I look at it this way. 1) I am a high school drop out. 2) No college nor any chance due to no book smarts 3) I was in the General Math class in all school grades 4) Always fell asleep in English class 5) Saw my dad work all his life and knew I was destined to do the same. So that's what I have done. Yeah I know the basics, I have street smarts rather than book smarts (and I sure hope I put that thar than in the right place). Street smarts have searved me well. It has kept my wits about me and has kept me out of trouble. I was raised where I can be the bumpkin or I can dress down and fake it with the high and mighty. My mom gave up on my manors years ago. I like being who I am and what I am. My speach and manorisioms are what makes up my personallity.
Yeah I misspell words. I do like I was taught in school to sound them out. Well that is a 50/50 crap shoot. When it comes to math I went thru school doin the numbers game on my fingers. Then glory be some smart guy built a calculator. But let me tell ya, using adding, subtracting, or multipucation, I can get ya from point A to point B and your paper logs will look good. That's street smarts in a semi truck using a calculator. And the load will be on time and look legal.
So the bottom line is, I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer but I ain't the dullest either. Would you rather hang in the places I have been with the book smart guy, or with me that can get out of a situation bein street smart? I have hung with the 1%'ers and I have hung with the very rich. I had a dear friend who passed who would talk to me on my playing field while holding a meeting in his home with Japaneese investers in Armonie suits. Then intentionally blow a million dollar deal and look at me and tell me there was a part of the contract he didn't like. Sure nough they would call him back and rewrite the contract.
So yeah the street smarts have paid off. If there is something I don't know I fake it. Give an excuse, take papers with me and look it up, and give them an answer in the morning (oh dam there's the Meat Loaf song, what is it Love By The Dash Board Lights?)
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the dullest either. I am just me and livin happy in life.
I'm college educated, but I'd rather hang with people that exhibit common sense and logic than rub arms with folks that possess more degrees than a thermometer.
I'm college educated, but I'd rather hang with people that exhibit common sense and logic than rub arms with folks that possess more degrees than a thermometer.
BroBob, that friend of mine who passed was an artist. When me and his son were in high school he did the advertisements for Jackman Wheels. You might have seen some of his work. If you have seen the movie Cars (the first one) he drew all the main carictors in movie. He was drawing Tow-Mater and asked me who Larry The Cable Guy was. I told him to go rent one of Larrys DVD's. He did, and you have Tow-Mater. His name was Dave Deal, and his name is on the credits. Disney brought him into thier studieo to teach the Disney artist how to draw like he did. I think he spent 2 weeks teaching the disney artist, and the rest of his work he did at home. Then I think he was doing a little work on Cars 2, I do know that his son had to make some contracts right that were started after he passed. One thing he was working on was a machine that could strip a floor and rewax it. Rather than the old fashioned way of hand stripping and rewaxing with a mop. He had a patton on it and was taking it to Japan to work with a firm that would build it. I never found out if that deal went thru or not. He passed in 2010. Me and his son Travis have been friends since high school. He is a friend who I can call and talk to him like we just saw each other yesterday. Travis is an architect, but can draw just like and as good as his dad. When we were in school Travis would hang with me. I would get us into trouble, but a man of my word I would get us out.
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i hate thees threads i come on here to read and post on mostly meaning less stuff and get called out on my spelling. what dose it rally matter in the grand seem of things . can you really not understand what im trying to say because i used a wrong letter?
as for as what the anti es think who gives a **** let them sit in the corner and blow snot bubbles about my truck with the shot gun behind the seat im a redneck who cant spell but there is little else in this world i cant do
i do try very hard to git it right i spend as much time on spell check as i do typing my post
Meh.
Then don't click on them.
I never mind them because lots of times someone will post some little memory trick that will stick with me and help me out...like I did up there ^^.
It's not life-altering. It's just the internet. Relax.
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I read these threads to see if anything funny was said, and usually I'm uplifted with laughter over the comments! I do make an attempt to use proper grammar and puncuation, but I'm only human and occasionally do slip up and crash on something! I can cipher just about anything written here, so I don't have a problem with it. One of my very bestest friends on here was a BAD speller, but a WONDERFUL human being, and I'm glad I could get past the bad grammar and get to know the man behind it. He explained that he wasn't that great in school, but held a job all the way to retirement. I have friends who are college gards, and friends who never finished school. My parents only made it to the 8th grade and they did well in life, and raised me to be who and what I am today. I dropped out of high school in order to enlist and serve my country, and ended up in language school with a bunch of college boys. They couldn't believe it when I told them I was a drop out, and just as good as they were with their sheepskin diplomas!
Do dare jump in or not? Do I dare? I am after all one of them. Heck yes!
Misspell a word or two, sure I can still understand your post. Tpyos? Not a problem. Invent a word? Absatively OK. forget to capitalize a word, No Problem! Misplace a, comma and it, might be a bump in the road, jogging, my mind for a second as I try to see what thoughts you have, connected or disconnected, but usually I can continue along. But sometimes the 'than's and 'then's and the like make my mind stop and backup and have to analyze for a second and I do in fact lose your point. 'to' and 'too' errors occur a lot (2 words) too, another small bump, but a bump none-the-less. Alright (all right -2 words), has changed from incorrect to 'non-standard' so the language is evolving.
So, yes, to a degree bad grammar does indeed make it harder to know what you are getting at. I want to read your nuggets of wisdom or bowls of humor and not have to analyze them.
funnie spellin and eddumakating is a hole different bawl of whacks, and is expectorated from the nutz hear.
We jump on the new immigrants about learning English, what excuse do we have? Exceptions for [insert your State here] allowed.
Part of getting along is understanding what the other person is means, as opposed to what he says.
Meh.
Then don't click on them.
I never mind them because lots of times someone will post some little memory trick that will stick with me and help me out...like I did up there ^^.
It's not life-altering. It's just the internet. Relax.
you are right and i apologize hate is a strong word
but it just misspelled words like you said its not life altering its just the Internet
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We probably shouldn't get started with there/their/they're and your/you're...
I don't like being a grammar nazi and I don't point out mistakes, but when someone tries to make an argument using a 1st grade writing level, it just irritates me.
You think English is easy??? Read to the end ... a new twist
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produceproduce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dovedove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row ...
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people not computers and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why when the stars are out they are visible but when the lights are out they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ?
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this .
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP'
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report ?
We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP,look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP,you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP.. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP...When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so........it is time to shut UP!
Oh . . . one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night? U. P.
Those who care about their language heritage will already be showing it.
Those that don't care, won't ever.
It is a matter of pride and self-respect.
Lack of education is hardly an excuse, especially when anyone can find endless public resources, at no expense, to help them read and write correctly if they want to put any effort into it.
Mostly, I view it as a sign of laziness and/or lack of personal motivation to strive for excellence. The general attitude of "it's good enough" is quite prevalent these days.
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