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consequenceofsound · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject: The English Language

I know this is really anal retentive of me, but I get a perverse pleasure from correcting grammar. It's kind of sick. I hate when people misuse the English language and I love correcting them. That goes for correcting people when they speak and editing their papers. Haha I know.... that's really incredibly lame, but I need to know that I'm not the only one whose a stickler for syntax. Very Happy

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**lymikimmie** · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:52 pm Post subject:

Im SoRrY gUys!1!1! DoEs ThSi bOtHeR u/ i will makes sure that i dont done it eber agan. word to the hizzle.

lol

It took me five minutes to write that! I am not that anal retentive. I will correct my students because I believe that they need to at least talk to adults in a correct and respectful manner. I try my best to write and speak using correct grammar and I will try for ya'll.

Or is it you all?

Or just you?
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**Molly** · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:56 pm Post subject:

It seems that we have more in common than a name and a love for Twilight!

Yeah, bad grammar is painful. I especially hate when people use "ain't" (oddly, Firefox doesn't say that's spelled wrong but it says "okay" isn't correct...), and I live in an area where people use that "word" all the time!
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**lymikimmie** · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:02 am Post subject:

Some people aregue that it is the contraction of am not and it is in the dictionary. However, my teacher said that just because it is in teh dictionary does not mean that you need to say it.

lymi kimmie
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essa01 · Jane’s Victim Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 546

ANAL RETENTIVES UNITEEEE!

I don't have any strong feelings with regards to the word "ain't" but I realize that I don't use it, either Razz

It sounds a little too southern hick for me. And don't get me wrong, I love Southern hicks! Sweet Home Alabama! I love how they speak and everything. I'd just rather not apply it to myself. (:
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StrawberryMina · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:20 am Post subject:

YES! I honestly thought I was the only one. I am little by little using more internet lingo when on the internet but concerning speaking or writing a paper, I have to correct poor grammar. Ahh my one friend always confuses than and then and I get so frustrated. And when people confuse your and you're.... most of the time I don't correct other's mistakes, though. I just inwardly cringe.
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consequenceofsound · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:20 am Post subject:

Ya'll is fine with me. I sometimes find myself using it, but that's because my roommate is from the south and says it all the time. Very Happy

YAy Molly for our awesomeness!

The football team at Western has these shirts that say "Not one of us is as strong as all of us." It drives me crazy!
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**lymikimmie** · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:36 am Post subject:

I'm the same way with cringing thing. I edit my resident;'s papers because I am nice sometimes. But, it is like sticking needles in my eyes. I sit and wonder sometimes if they ever wrote a paper in high school. They don't have thesis statements or citations! It is frustrating! This is why I went into math, I would deprive the world of red pens.
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**Lexiani** · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:23 am Post subject: Re: The English Language

**MyMidnightSun** · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:30 am Post subject:

My pet hate? The people who cannot, well, do not use your and you're properly. That I get from my mother. She's anal like that Wink

On facebook, I'm part of the group 'If You Cannot Tell The Difference Between Your and You're You Deserve To Die.

Another one is they're, their and there. Drives me mad!!
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schoffie7 · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:35 am Post subject:

Oh yes, I am really picky about grammar and spelling. Probably because my dad is an English teacher and pretty much drilled the correct usage into my head. I cannot help being so picky, lol. I had to try and help some kids in an English class edit their papers...and I so badly wanted to bust out a teacher pen and fix things.

Oh me and my OCD tendencies... Razz

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**Molly** · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:38 am Post subject:

Woot! Molly power!

Y'all is fine with me, too. Being from KY and having every relative except my two brothers being born below the southern TN border, I can't avoid saying some things. Y'all is one of them. Stuff like not pronouncing the "g" on -ing words and sometimes dropping the "th" in them just happens when I speak.

**lymikimmie** · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:40 am Post subject:

You know that is true. We are told in our Education classes not to use red. I was going to say purple, but I did not think that anyone else would know what I was talking about! Smile

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**MyMidnightSun** · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:54 am Post subject:

My mum gets really cross at me, cos I sometimes at an 's' to the end of sentences when they are not needed.. like saying 'Anyways...". And she cannot stand when people say New Year's, without putting the 'eve' into it. So that's been drilled into me a bit.

That's what you get though, for having a mother who is British AND a teacher...

Why does red ink wound children's egos? What's the difference between writing an F in red or an F in purple? You still get an F!
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