[quote]JokerFMJ wrote:
Lonnie123 wrote:
The only one that really gets me is “I could care less” … The correct way to do it is “I couldnt care less.” The first one implies that you do in fact care, and COULD care less than you currently do, while the second implies you care so little, it would not be possible to care less than you do.
I correct people on that all the time and usually they argue with me… It’s quite funny actually. =D
I think one that bothers me the most is “supposebly”…[/quote]
Aarg! I hate that one. My nephew uses that and I yell at him every time.
One that gets my goat is a lady friend of mine uses ‘aron’ when she means ‘errand.’ Drives me absolutely batty, but I love her anyway.
[quote]JokerFMJ wrote:
JohnnyBlaze wrote:
If you’ve ever looked at any of those profiles on Myspace, Bebo, etc. by the younger generations, and the comments written on them, you’ll see how widespread this has become…
Look at some of these actual comments left by friends on each other’s profiles. If you want a headache, try to read them, lol.
"sup bub how u been l8ly lol afta l8 nyt ohh man da car broke dwn an i was nrly hme lol man so now i gtz 2 gt a water pum 4 da car cz i fuk da wun datz in it now lol so yeh get yo Ps so we cn go kruzin well ill let u go now babez ill txt u or sumfng wen i gtz crdt…
I’ve seen specials about how kids are actually turning in hand written papers to their teachers that are written like your examples. They don’t know the difference between that little “text speak” or whatever it is and proper english.
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That’s infuriating.
I admit that I use shortened words and abbreviations when sending text messages from my phone, because of the limitations of the technology. With a numerical keypad, and with the character limits of an sms message, you have to shorten your words in order to meet the character limits of a message and save your call credits - otherwise a text message will cost twice as much as it should.
However, with a full QWERTY keyboard in front of you and no character limits when typing into a regular program, there is NO EXCUSE to be that lazy and shorten words, omit punctuation, and so forth. It’s okay to spell a word differently in a creative way if you are taking free license with your writing, as long as you know the proper way, but it’s not okay to mangle the English language beyond recognition through ignorance and laziness!
If English is your first language, then I BELIEVE that you have to achieve at least a basic mastery of it and know how to comprehend it and use it properly.
[quote]JohnnyBlaze wrote:
Oh yeah, another thing that gets on my nerves - when someone says “aks” instead of “ask”.[/quote]
My dad says aks. He has always been interested in the local history and dialect of our part of the state, and deliberately sprinkles his speach with odd words and pronunciations. For example instead of ghost he’ll say “haint.”
I don’t think I would be able to handle that. I might spontaneously combust - or at least give out a bunch of F’s. I’m particularly puzzled as to when numbers crept into the alphabet.
[quote]I don’t think I would be able to handle that. I might spontaneously combust - or at least give out a bunch of F’s.
I’m particularly puzzled as to when numbers crept into the alphabet.[/quote]
I don’t know, perhaps what we are witnessing here is the evolution of a far more advanced form of English than what we have ever seen before. It looks like the kids are starting to incorporate binary code into their language. lol.
[quote]Contrl wrote:
Your and you’re. For fuck’s sake, most people here graduated high school. Is it too much to ask for people to put to use 12+ years of education?
I could plop my scrotum on the keyboard and make more grammatical sense than 20% of some people.
This is not a joke, my left nut works for Merriam-Webster.[/quote]
Thanks. I almost ruined my keyboard spraying hot tea on it after reading your post laughing.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
I know this isn’t grammar but it can be funny when people say common phrases wrong. I worked with this one guy who was so chronic with butchering of phrases we began to call them Davidisms.
“Resting on our laurels” became… (and he was arguing with someone at the time) “I am not here sitting on my loins.” (oooh I laughed at that.)
“Things have gone awry” now… “things have gone aloof.”
“flagrant disregard” now… “fragrant disregard”
there was a huge list that I wish I still had[/quote]
That’s why I come here.