Writing that really pisses me off

I don't know about "toeing lines" or what was the other one "octopus"or "octopi" but I'm pretty sure I ain't the poster child for proper grammer. Sorry if i offend but some people have bad breath,talk on cell phones when they are driving,interrupt when others are talking,or are just plain pains in the asses and them things bother me so I guess none of us are perfect. Have a nice day.

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come on you painter,you piper,you prisoner,and shine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some of us do things like design bridges or brain surgery. It's good to use the rite werds wen dewin stuf thet kin kil peepul.

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Activist != Expert.

Sorry, you're absolutely right. I just really, really dislike that one. Probably due to Rex Stout.

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Activist != Expert.

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When Bucks Fizz’s tour bus crashed they all survived. When Metallica's bus crashed Cliff Burton died. Why?

I personally save it to be a smart arse to rude people. I'll show them what snooty is!!

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Interviewer: "So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?"
Frank Zappa: "You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?"

I bet you crook ( bend) your little finger when drinking a cup of tea and passing round the cucumber sandwiches

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj7f3B1VCYM

Ralph, come out from under the table and play the violin for us. Chop Chop now!!!

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Interviewer: "So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?"
Frank Zappa: "You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?"

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Activist != Expert.

Gah!


My best friend in the entire world has terrible grammar.
We were passing notes in class the other day (so we're juvenile, but this class sucks) and she wrote "their-selves"

That was a total zomg moment.

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“Our steak and martinis is draft beer with weenies.” -George Jones

Or their=they're.

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Activist != Expert.

or your you're

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Not Now John might not be me, but he wishes he was.

Those last two are so common among my students...

But it's only natural, they're learners after all.

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"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"

Solo work

Band

Hmmm...interesting thread...and any other time I probably would HAVE (NOT "of") been a frequent poster. However, attending university as a mature student, part-evenings while working full-time has been whoopin' a serious hurtin' on my hindquarters.

Unsurprisingly, I would tend to agree with the "sloppiness of expression, reflecting commensurate thought" principle, and also with the desire to preserve the vibrant, rich and highly flexible language that is English, of whatever flavour.

I understand that it is a living thing, language, and realise, ironically, that American English is actually the one more rooted in the past - with it's late 18C benchmarking - while British English continues to evolve.

One last thing... it's HAVE, NEVER EVER EVER of, as in...

...you could HAVE done without saying "should of" stchrissie.

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Count me in on the journey, don't expect me to stay.

Awesome thread. I've went through lines of thinking many times about such things. I've seen this from a few different perspectives. I was raised in the ghetto, went to the worst schools possible. The "ebonics" or what ever thing was coming LONG before the burbs became aware of it. MTV; and you got all that coming to your sub-division, as your trying to raise your kid above all of that. I live in the suburbs now myself. I pay large amounts of property tax in the hopes that my kids won't have that problem. Tonight, my 9yr. old son and I were on the phone, and I was informed that my end wasn't," transmiting" properly. I was pleased! Now. It may well be, that the fellow that uses CAD to design the bridge and such, has a lexicon that came as a benifit from his education and station in life, but the guys welding that bridge together walking the steel, have their own,too I got out of the ghetto gaining employment as a Fireman. I may be cutting a hole in your house one day, or pushing cardio drugs on your mother on the way to the hospital the next night. I may not have the expressive wit to write the next, "Old Man and The Sea." I do good work and communicate well enough with my peers. Someone has to mop the floor and scrub the toilets. Although needed tasks, I would not ask these salt of the Earth folks for an explanation on makinds marriage of man and theology. I couldn't design your bridge, and you'd fall of the high steel before lunch. The common denominator; when I was a kid, if I could beat your ass down, I was better than you. With or without an "a" in math or english. As for humor; it makes me laugh when I can tell someone is using, "street," talk for humor, but when I get emails from supervisors that are SO just poorly done? just hit F-7 people. We all have our stations in life. I'm thinking of one of my favorite stone songs, right now. "raise a glass, to the hard working people