...then blood did...what?
Posted on 08/30/2015 10:38:18 AM PDT by B4Ranch
Yep! And whaddabout bullet for cartridge?
“go ahead and...” drives me crazy.
...then blood did...what?
The writer forgot who/whom and should have/should of. And that’s not even counting the nigh universal PC use of the plurals “they” and “their” for the singular “everyone” or “everybody.”
>> if you can clearly understand what was written...it served its function <<
Seems like a corollary to perhaps the greatest lesson I’ve ever learned about writing. The advice came from the late James J. Kirkpatrick, who said something to the effect that if the reader needs to pause and figure out what you mean by some particular phrase, you’ve failed in your job as a writer.
I will slide a little on grammar but I am strict on spelling. I tend to judge someones intelligence on how well they can spell. Make too many errors and I will stop reading. I don’t give fools much of my time.
Come at me with Ebonics and I leave the area. I refuse to tolerate that nonsense.
“See my tag line lol!”
Years ago, pre-Chernobyl, I saw a guy in LAX wearing a sandwich board that said, ‘More people have died in Ted Kennedy’s car than in nuclear power station accidents.’
Googling “younz”.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Younz
This has it right as my friends who used this are from that area.
Loose/lose.
#296 All this could be solved by a Edith button at forums... : )
No, no, no...there is nothing ‘un’ about you... ;)
People are hanged.
That is funny
But it isn’t grammatical
My Webster's does not indicate any alternative to pronouncing the "h" in "historical" (where the "h" is in an unstressed syllable), but for the word "vehicle" it allows both pronunciations (in fact putting the alternative where the "h" is silent first)...likewise for "vehemence" (where the "h" is in an unstressed syllable).
Spelling is not an indicator of intelligence. It is an indicator of specialized memory. Intelligence is indicated by problem solving ability in a void of previous knowledge of the problem.
where you be at? ebonics made easy
This is probably the most common mistake I see on social media, in text messages and in emails.
I think yer wrong about that.
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