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I actually had to stop and listen to this..old school.
I actually had to stop and listen to this..old school.
But, but....my mom....
But, but....my mom....
Damn!
awkward silence
haha
I wasn't born here.
Don't blame me. But I do try. Sometimes I miss.
I think you do just fine.I wasn't born here.
Don't blame me. But I do try. Sometimes I miss.
For being foreign.
I think you suck!
I think you're ing annoying. You're like a little kid running around spewing out random, stupid because no one will pay attention to you.
off.
Hey wait a second. I thought Katy said the same thing to me. How did you steal my thunder PM5K? You didn't sleep with her did you?
You should say "I wouldn't exactly call it sleeping.
I wouldn't exactly call it sleeping...
I'd call it hate sex, the best I've ever had....
People, A LOT is two words. Also, it's I couldn't care less.
I feel better now. Back to you, CF!
Man, that song was wack. I agree with your point about the commas and all; punctuation is critical to showing the syntactic structure required to make a sentence grammatical (in the sense that it follows our universal grammar and is therefore understandable). As for some of the other complaints like your vs. you're and looser vs loser, I could care less; none of that pertains to grammar, so their meanings are almost always easily inferred from context.
I could/couldn't care less is an idiom, and both mean the same thing. Any natural language is filled with these kind of phrases that don't make sense when broken down to their cons uents. One great example right off hand is caerse bien in Spanish, used to say you like someone (non-sexually). It doesn't make any sense in terms of its cons uents though, because caer is the verb for to fall. A literal word-by-word translation of it would be something like he/she/you/them/etc falls well with me/you/him/her/them/etc.
Last edited by baseline bum; 10-30-2009 at 06:22 PM.
I don't get bothered by by bad grammar or spelling except when it makes it impossible to understand what someone is trying to say.
Having said that, one of my grammar pet peeves is when people get "I" and "me" mixed up. One is objective. The other is subjective. I hate to hear/read "This dog came to live with my husband and I 3 years ago." Also people constantly use the word "their" as a singular word when it's plural.
"I could care less" bothers me in certain contexts, just because it changes the meaning of the phrase.
Doesn't particularly bother me here, though. Nor does the your/you're or their/they're/there mixups. It bothers me when reading papers at school, for obvious reasons, but otherwise it falls into a category of something that I notice but don't necessarily mind.
None of the above has anything to do with why I started this thread, though, as those mistakes very seldom make a post completely unreadable. I started the thread after reading about five or six posts in a row in which the statements were assembled so poorly that I literally couldn't figure out what the the person was trying to say. Not even through context cues.
Just call out the moron with bad grammar.
As a matter of style, I wouldn't break up the auxiliary verbs with an adverb.
(sorry, CF--I couldn't resist)
If so, she shouldn't have capitalized "Is".
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