grammar

[JP]

We don't have to be perfect on a public forum as long as you get the jest of things, who are we to judge each other on this really, but when the majority of the users cannot spell most words, yes I said MOST words correctly, it kinda makes my skin crawl, I wish that site would add spell check, it would be such a beautiful thing. The thing is, most of the moderators cannot spell so its a moot point.
...JP

The JEST or the GIST?  And don't get me started on run-on sentences  .

My firefox spellchecker ketches grammer jist fine so I ain't got no 'scuse.




Run on sentences are acceptable on forums, you're simply trying to get your message out and it aint being graded, or its not being graded whichever you prefer, jest or gist you get the point and spell check missed that one, ha!


...JP

[kathyp]

i was 1st down in spelling bees.  that gave me time to read whatever book i was into while the other kids competed.  when i came to writing, i was always at the top of the class....except for being marked down for spelling...

i don't know why you don't like run-on sentences because sometimes we have a lot to say and we don't want to break up the flow and so we keep writing even though we know we should make sentences but it's easier to keep writing and finish the thought or we'd lose it!

[Cindi]

Kathy, bravo!!!  well done, girl!!!  Beautiful day in this great life, Cindi

[Jerrymac]

A spell checker will not catch a properly spelled word that is used out of place.

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What really needs work around here is the misuse of same sounding words.

There. Their. They're

Our. Or. Are. Hour

Here. Hear.

Which. Witch.

I know there are others, just can't think of them now.

To, too, and two.  I guess we could include Jim Tew in there as well.   

Where, wear, and I've even seen were...and that doesn't even sound the same, or at least in my local dialect.

What's wrong with this sentence?  "I two have too remember two wear to shoes."

By Golly, that's a lot of Tews.

[reinbeau]

I'm reading it, Cindi, but I've been sitting on my hands so I don't jump in and correct every single error! 

[Irwin]

I get the hint

[Scadsobees]

I doesn't rilly care how anybudy spels their mesages as long as most of it is rite.  I figgered I'd point sum stuff out sinse this is an thred on grammer.  It is a bit agrivating wen their is a conserted lak of efort to git sum of the werds right or to even giv halve an efort to spel things rite.

my goodness but it was sure difficult writing that!!!

[asprince]

I doesn't rilly care how anybudy spels their mesages as long as most of it is rite.  I figgered I'd point sum stuff out sinse this is an thred on grammer.  It is a bit agrivating wen their is a conserted lak of efort to git sum of the werds right or to even giv halve an efort to spel things rite.

my goodness but it was sure difficult writing that!!!

Sad, but it looked good to me.

Steve

[KONASDAD]

spelling while typing is hard when your hands are twice the size of a keyboard! I usually dont use the spell check either. My personal favorite is malapropisms. For example, a reporter was interviewing an NBA player. Said he worked hard in the offseason, and could now drive with his left hand in adddition to right. NBA player responded, 'That's right, I can go left, I can go right, I am amphibious."  and another I just love, I paid to have two men move a very heavy piece of furniture up 4 stories in a previous home. It was heavy, and the steps were very steep. They also had 3 turns at each level. On the last turn, sweating and exhausted, the guy on the bottom asked for a rest. The item was now balanced on his thigh, and he was pinned against the wall. He yells at his friend, "If you move this darn thing one more inch, you'll crush my gentiles." It was all I could do from not laughing at them!!!!

[Brian D. Bray]

i was 1st down in spelling bees.  that gave me time to read whatever book i was into while the other kids competed.  when i came to writing, i was always at the top of the class....except for being marked down for spelling...

i don't know why you don't like run-on sentences because sometimes we have a lot to say and we don't want to break up the flow and so we keep writing even though we know we should make sentences but it's easier to keep writing and finish the thought or we'd lose it!

Oh, come on, a run on sentence to a writer is like a lesser included offenses to a criminal where you can get rape reduced to following to close.

What really needs work around here is the misuse of same sounding words.

There. Their. They're

Our. Or. Are. Hour

Here. Hear.

Which. Witch.

I know there are others, just can't think of them now.

To, too, and two.  I guess we could include Jim Tew in there as well.  

Where, wear, and I've even seen were...and that doesn't even sound the same, or at least in my local dialect.

What's wrong with this sentence?  "I two have too remember two wear to shoes."

By Golly, that's a lot of Tews.

And then there's weather, whether, and wether.  But the only one that can be fixed is the wether.
Where, wear, and .....The lost word is ware as in silverware. As in; Wherever silverware is over used it will soon wear out.
A lot of people can't remember which to,too,two, to use where.  I like Jim Tews has too remember that he must wear twos shoes.
I remember it is the way my grandmother taught me;  To be or not to0 be when Two is also a number.  Or, in otherwords, One O but two O's means also.

I doesn't rilly care how anybudy spels their mesages as long as most of it is rite.  I figgered I'd point sum stuff out sinse this is an thred on grammer.  It is a bit agrivating wen their is a conserted lak of efort to git sum of the werds right or to even giv halve an efort to spel things rite.

It don't look right but it reads right and it sounds right, so I say, as long as what you write reads write, why worry.  But truefully, I don't begrudge minor errors, I make them and often forget to spell check function, but personal pride should motivate a person to attempt to write closer to correct English.  I mean, a well thought out dangling participle is a work of art. 

[Cindi]

I mean, a well thought out dangling participle is a work of art.

What the dillywackerdadoodalcadoodalhopper is a dangling participle?  Sounds something like a danglion!!!  Smiling,    Beautiful day in this great life, we all live, love and share, health.  Cindi

[Jerrymac]

I never knew what a dangling participle was. Or what a dangling participle is. I wasn't no good in the English class.

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...I like Jim Tews has too remember that he must wear twos shoes.

   That's great.   

I mean, a well thought out dangling participle is a work of art.

What the dillywackerdadoodalcadoodalhopper is a dangling participle? 

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/d.html


This is an amusing example of a misplaced modifier:  "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I don't know."   (Exerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_modifier) 

What the dillywackerdadoodalcadoodalhopper... 

Auugghh!  Cindi!     Such Language!      

[BjornBee]

My daughter who is in kindergarden, came home last week with a new saying. Now, every thing she says, includes a "Oh my Gosh!"  She sounds like a 16 year old valley girl from twenty years ago. She still has not mastered the "th" sound as in the word "the", but can clearly pick up cliche sayings. 

[Jerrymac]

What is a dangling participle

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/d.html

Oh Yeah. I've had some danglies.

[kathyp]

My daughter who is in kindergarden, came home last week with a new saying.

if that's the worst she comes home with, count yourself lucky.  i remember the first time my oldest said "sh**".  of course it wasn't at home, but in front of a bunch of my mothers friends. 

[Jerrymac]

My first born was about two when at a friends house he was trying to climb onto their daughter's high chair. The chair fell over and he said the sh** word. I believe it was his first word.

I just don't know where they get it from.