Clover
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All my cars are defiantly not green!
What is an apostrophe?
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LocuMob
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In don't know whonwas the dricing force behind it, but we learned our granddaughter in the 2nd grade, will have a spelling list custom twilored to her level of spelling, each kid will hqve a different list of words, no standardizations anymore. I just shook my head.
Mid70's Chrysler Fanatic
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Holy ****: she's a time traveler! Hidden in her residence is her original 1949 birth certificate.
Damn... I promised myself that I wouldn't be like those "seniors" who looked down on me when I was 20+ years younger than I am now.
Mid70's Chrysler Fanatic
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This thread's great! I'm still under the pernicious influence of hardass English teachers and Schoolhouse Rock.
I hate the trend of using adjectives as nouns, nouns as verbs, etc. Centrum Vitamins has a TV ad with the tagline, "Restoring your awesome, on the daily."
Morons.
I hate the trend of using adjectives as nouns, nouns as verbs, etc. Centrum Vitamins has a TV ad with the tagline, "Restoring your awesome, on the daily."
Morons.
3C's & a D?
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Are you cereal? Regarding your actual statement, not the way you delivered it.
3C's & a D?
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1Fury1
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There's a downside to being anal about this stuff. I am continuously in trouble with the Mrs 1F1 for correcting her spelling, grammar, and sentence structure. It's at the point where she won't type or write anything in front of me anymore. She makes me write out all the birthday cards because I don't make spelling mistakes, and that sucks.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
How much witout?
Wit is in general use, now.
Wit is in general use, now.
300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
*witout*
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Yah. I wrote witout and autocorrect fixed it without me seeing. I noticed it after it posted and I went back and uncorrected it. We crossed lines.
He spelled centre wrong as well sheesh
LocuMob
Fluid Technician with a hat
I make cereal. I am serious, I heard it two days ago, maybe three. The 2nd grader had some trouble last year, maybe it was the fact that both her parents work full time jobs, and have three other jobs they do throughout the week. Good folks, just need to prioritize for their children a little bit more. We do our part to make sure she's as smart as she can be.
commando1
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tbm3fan
Old Man with a Hat
so is it 80s, or 80's, or '80s, or '80's...?
I'm just going to go it is from the eighties.
I'm just going to go it is from the eighties.
Just my observations...
Ten years ago, I ran across lots of folks who couldn't functionally read. They may have met the expectation required to graduate high school, but that's been meaningless for a long time.
Today, I seldom run across the same problem... they can't spell, they can't think logically (even worse than before)... but they can read directions, and then choose not to follow them.
Texting and cell phones are responsible for the improvement. It ain't much better, but it is a whole different problem. One person, a guy in his mid 50's, still refuses to go near a computer. By all appearances, he seemed to be functionally illiterate, but now texts all day long... he has discovered pornographic internet memes with his phone and abused the discovery enough I had to block his number. He has no concept about how connected he already is via his phone, and thinks he'd need to take a class to turn on a desktop.
These problems aren't limited to young folks, anybody who doesn't care if they appear stupid can do it. I screw up a bunch, I'm mostly a two finger pecker (which should make my longer posts that much more impressive), I would make you run out of red ink trying to correct all of my grammatical errors... but at least I don't want to look like an idiot.
Ten years ago, I ran across lots of folks who couldn't functionally read. They may have met the expectation required to graduate high school, but that's been meaningless for a long time.
Today, I seldom run across the same problem... they can't spell, they can't think logically (even worse than before)... but they can read directions, and then choose not to follow them.
Texting and cell phones are responsible for the improvement. It ain't much better, but it is a whole different problem. One person, a guy in his mid 50's, still refuses to go near a computer. By all appearances, he seemed to be functionally illiterate, but now texts all day long... he has discovered pornographic internet memes with his phone and abused the discovery enough I had to block his number. He has no concept about how connected he already is via his phone, and thinks he'd need to take a class to turn on a desktop.
These problems aren't limited to young folks, anybody who doesn't care if they appear stupid can do it. I screw up a bunch, I'm mostly a two finger pecker (which should make my longer posts that much more impressive), I would make you run out of red ink trying to correct all of my grammatical errors... but at least I don't want to look like an idiot.
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Meh...
moparjenny
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The '80s.
Though, I guess if '80s was somehow being used as a possessive, it'd be '80's. But I'd try to avoid the double apostrophe then simply because it looks odd to me and use 1980's.
rapidtrans
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There really is no excuse if you're sending a formal letter.
It takes about 5 seconds to find "Proper use of a comma" or apostrophe, etc on the interweb.
It takes about 5 seconds to find "Proper use of a comma" or apostrophe, etc on the interweb.
GJS
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YES.
Also things like: "FIND YOUR HAPPY PLACE."
Bite me.
I (as usual) blame a whole lot of this on the internet. Specifically Web 2.0 and social media marketing trends. The whole ding a ling, ditsy, 'the future is friendly' dumbing down of everything. I knew as soon as that crap started it would spill over into everyday speech and it did. It's really easy to get ideas out on the web and now these linguistic trends (and so much other poorly thought out tripe) spread faster than wild fire in So Cal.
Greased rails.
