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The English teacher in me goes absolutely crazy with a mistake that many make here at AA; the super smart ones and the not so super smart ones, both! Maybe it's typing errors. I surely can undersatnd that, I can't type to save my butt...so here goes:Your-possesive...Sentence usage: I love your pretty ass, may I use it sometime to carry wood down to the shed?
You're-You are, Sentence usage: You're so beautiful, may I kiss your ass?
Hope I didn't offend anyone!
Of course, there's Appalachian spelling: Yoor, covers both usages, and then, to complicate things, there's yore, as in yesterday (pertaining to history): In days of yore when you met a whore, you'd pull out a copper or two. If that didn't do to get you a screw then a penny more might suffice.
Follow Ups:
Hello,First, I learned the three "R's" in school from my teachers. Reading, Riting and Rethmitic. Then some PHd fiqures out how to use the phonetic of words to teach spelling and starts a whole new language. I won't mention "Hackers" and thier use of the qwerty keyboard. And what about, dare I say it? "EBONICS". So you wonder what has happened?
Well bro, here in da hood weez learnz dats "Fonix wurkz adn wurkz damn fine"
Best Regards,
Paul A.Catchy signature coming soon!
I thought I was the only one who cared about standard usage anymore. That's why I hang around AA. So many erudite people.Though I enjoy the internet, computer-speak and the internet have done more damage to the English language than anything else in the past 25 years. Example: functionality. "-ity" is a prefix meaning "state of". Therefore, functionality would be "state of function". Huh??!!???!!? What is meant is function. Of course, "reinvent" can't be blamed on the computer folks. Invent meants to produce something previously unknown. Once it is known, it can't be unknown again. To reinvent is impossible. The word wanted is transform, in almost all cases.
As a final note, the disasterous decline in standard usage can be placed squarely on the shoulders of my fellow teachers, who for years have refused to correct students oral language and often do not correct written errors either.
I have to stop now, or I may scream.
Whore (n) 1. A prostitute. 2. A person considered sexually promiscuous. 3. A person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain.who're (pron) Contraction for "who are"; The persons that.
"Some people believe that Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears, who're pop singers, are quite talented."
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Wow, the last thing I wanted to do was impugn the reputation of those two lovely ladies, whore just trying to make an honest living.
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...go axe your father?
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:-)
You're (notice I got it correct) on a roll. Keep it comin'.
effect, to cause to happen, Sentence usage: The effect I had in that ass's back breaking is too much to bear...it has affected my belief in myself!affect, to have an influence, Sentence usage: It is very possible that writing about my vinyl collecting mania has affected others so that they too, have too many LP's.
How about their ( as in: It is their ass!), they're (as in, They're coming over with their ass!) and there (as in: Put the ass over there.)...or how about accept (O.K., I'll accept the fact that kissing an ass is weird) or except (I'd kiss her ass, except she might slap my head off!)
Who's having a party and inving that ass?
Whose party is this, anyway?The English language is filled with homonyms, which are words that sound alike but mean different things...that's the joy and the frustration of and with the language!
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It comes from my mother, she was a lady's lady when in public, and let it all hang out when she got home...but I think I've told you about her, haven't I?
I'd go on but it would cost you $200 an hour.
by the way, a little pet peeve of mine:a lot is two words....there is no such word as alot.
I am guilty of the "your" thing every now and then, but I have to tell you it is just laziness.
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But that's a lot for most people to remember.
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Very unique! (Something is either unique, or it is not.)
Disinterested (when trying to say "uninterested").
Fortuitous (means "by chance", NOT "fortunate")
Tortuous (means "having many twists and turns", NOT painful or difficult)
See, Mike? Your not the only one who can play this game! Though we're always glad to have you're help...
I really must check out the history of that F.U. in an OED someday!
Like Mr. B's feet...I could care less
should be:
I couldn't care less.Oh and people who say underwears instead of underwear
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Out here the kids say "For reals". I tell them reality is singular - for most people.
K-Mark or Wal-Mark or sometimes add an "S"...K-MarksPoosh the car up against them booshes.
"I'd like to take him to raise" when speaking of a good kid...aurally misinterpreted, the question from outsider's like us is, "Where's Ray's?"
half of the people I talk to in a day would look at me as though I grew a third eye, if I used those words, correctly or incorrectly in conversation.:o)
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When I moved here in '74, I had spent, without much interruption, the previous 7 years in a collegiate atmosphere*. I was asked by a "local" if I came from a foreign country because he didn't understand anything I said. "Yes, I speak a foreign language," I said to him...I didn't have the heart to finish and say that Standard American English was, and still is for the most part, a foreign language for anyone who was educated in the Chambersburg School District.The most frightening thing that I see/hear are teachers who speak more poorly than some of their students...all were educated in the school district that I live in and went to college 11 miles away at Shippensburg University, thereby ensuring they did not have "the college liberalization." I don't mean "being liberal" for those who know not of the idea, I speak of the many "outside" ideas that going to college brings to one...IF they don't attend a college where they stay close to Mommy and their highschool buddies and remain exactly who and where they were on highschool graduation day! One can learn that liberalization in a local college, but they have to submerge themselves in activities different from what they did in highschool...where the influence of their next door neighbor is diluted.
*I received a B.A. in English in 1996, my 9th college...I had switched majors so many times that the total of the credits I'd taken were more than the equivalent of 3 PhD's! Anyone top THAT hippie act!
It took me 7 years to get my B.S. (no comments, please) and my total units were well into the graduate level.The usage of teachers I work with is appalling. The worst part is that they don't care. The profession insists on misusing words. For example, they speak of strategies when they mean techniques or methods. One of the worst is the use of "rubric", meaning category. In teaching it is used when criteria is meant. How can rubric possibly be so egregiously misused? To top it off, when I've pointed this out to several colleagues, almost all have merely shrugged it off and acted almost completely disinterested. I'm the only teacher I know who uses good and well properly. Yes, dammit, I say properly, not "in a standard way". Sorry, but I think some things in a language should be considered right and wrong when people are in a position of influence such as teachers, lawyers, broadcasters, et al.
End of rant - for the moment. Hey, I think this should be the purpose of Inmate Central. Good grammar rules, dude and dudette!
In my school system, the new pc word for homework is now "homelearning." It really fries my noodle...."work" is now a bad thing. We don't want the parents to think we gave their children "work" to do. "OK boys and girls, please take out your home learning." Is that even grammatically correct?....I don't think so.mp
...what's with these damn Brits, anyway? Guys like Chris Redmond? "Colour" and "flavour" and stuff like that there? I've said it before and I'll say it again--It's about time those people larnt to speak our language!
or having a worldly perspective/outlook. It avoids the confusion.When I was speaking of the half of individuals I talked to in a day...
well, I was speaking of my fellow teachers.mp
You say "potayto"
And I say "potahto"
You say "tomayto"
And I say "tomahto"
Potayto, potahto
Tomayto, tomahto
Let's call the whole thing off!
Yes, scary, huh? "Worldly" doesn't do justice to the ideas that people from different parts of the country and/or world give each other in the college atmosphere...but then we get back to that thinking thing: abstract thought, don't we? IT'S ALL A CIRCLE...HELP! I'M STUCK IN A CIRCLE!Damn, when are those damn scientists going to give us transportation devices! These conversations are too good and too much fun to be limited by my 35 wpm typing skills.
...half the people you talk to in a day are, what, 8 years old?
(By the way, a third eye on you would be really HOT!)
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O.K.!!!it's- a contraction of it is or it has, Sentence usage: It's damn near impossible to kiss an ass when it's been loaded to carry wood to the shed.
its-possesive, Sentence usage: I kissed that ass right upon its ass!
Ain't English with Mikee fun?
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