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OT: Grammar got run over by a reindeer.

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  • LycanthropeXLycanthropeX Posts: 2,287
    edited December 1969

    Rareth said:
    LycanthropeX said:
    got to love regional dialects

    I like to tell people that in Northern Michigan they may see "Tree Deer", and they often look at me incredulously, not believing that such a creature exists. And thats when I tell them the story my cousin told me

    "Ya I was out der drivin and I looks off da side of da road der and I sees deeze tree deer. Dey was jus a standin der on da side off da road. Jus deeze tree deer standin der by deeze tree trees. out der on da side of root turdy tree."

    Your gonna make me break out mah redneck dictionary arntcha.....

    not redneck, dats Yooper donchaknow

  • DestinysGardenDestinysGarden Posts: 2,550
    edited December 1969

    FirstBastion said:
    not grammatical per se, but the use of "prolly" as a replacement for "probably", annoys me for some strange reason. Yes, okay, I admit it, I'm officially old now, or at least I will be, in a few weeks.

    U prolly also dont like it when peeps type stuff like "I here wot u r sayin tho" either, huh?
    Examples like the above sentence annoy the heck out of me as well.
    I liked the Alot post quite a lot.
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,505
    edited August 2013

    DestinysGarden said:
    ...
    I liked the Alot post quite a lot.

    And we're back full circle! Yea! :-)

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,049
    edited December 1969

    Grammar doesn't bother me as much as people writing a book for their post. We read probably several hundred posts a day so when I come to one that looks like a page out of a book My head just falls in defeat.

  • FirstBastionFirstBastion Posts: 7,760
    edited December 1969

    DestinysGarden said:
    FirstBastion said:
    not grammatical per se, but the use of "prolly" as a replacement for "probably", annoys me for some strange reason. Yes, okay, I admit it, I'm officially old now, or at least I will be, in a few weeks.

    U prolly also dont like it when peeps type stuff like "I here wot u r sayin tho" either, huh?
    Examples like the above sentence annoy the heck out of me as well.
    I liked the Alot post quite a lot.

    No, just prolly, texting shortcuts don't get riled up at all.

    and ditto on the "alot", a lot! :-)

  • robkelkrobkelk Posts: 3,259
    edited December 1969

    LeatherGryphon said:
    DestinysGarden said:
    ...
    I liked the Alot post quite a lot.

    And we're back full circle! Yea! :-)

    Does that mean I have to get out the dictionary and look up "literally" again?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,505
    edited August 2013

    robkelk said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    DestinysGarden said:
    ...
    I liked the Alot post quite a lot.

    And we're back full circle! Yea! :-)


    Does that mean I have to get out the dictionary and look up "literally" again?

    You can if you want to, but I thought "literally" is how one disposes of trash from one's car while driving.

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • robkelkrobkelk Posts: 3,259
    edited December 1969

    LeatherGryphon said:
    robkelk said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    DestinysGarden said:
    ...
    I liked the Alot post quite a lot.

    And we're back full circle! Yea! :-)


    Does that mean I have to get out the dictionary and look up "literally" again?

    You can if you want to, but I thought "literally" is how one disposes of trash from one's car while driving.
    Hey, I didn't say I'd succeed in looking it up...

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,505
    edited December 1969

    Hmmm... perhaps I know why grammar got run over by the reindeer. She may have been wired. 8-o
    http://www.nbcnews.com/science/humans-wired-grammar-birth-6C10403133

  • IceScribeIceScribe Posts: 694
    edited December 1969

    Henglish is not the same as 50 years ago. I bought a 1952 Noah Webster dictionary and a colleague at worked asked me why didn't I buty a 'new' one. Cause I read stuff written before I was born, and have to know what some of those words mean, or used to mean.

    How do you know when you are getting old? You get solicitations for funeral arrangements in the mail shortly after the AARP ask for membership.

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