Ignorance of the English language

[SloppyShooter]

I should quite my job and get some kaepernick shoes.

Don't judge a man until you've kneeled a mile in his shoes. ( I wish I could be in his ungrateful ass shoes.)

BTW: Another common little slip.... "Quiet means shut up, 'quite' common when people mean quite."

 

[Sam7sf]

Yeah, he’s had it rough. Getting taken care of by a well off family is really traumatizing.

 

[SloppyShooter]

I really don't understand how the hell people were taught to spell the English language in school. I KNOW the proper way it SHOULD be taught, but how did they teach it? Memorization?

 

[TexasBrandon]

As long as you use proper English when communicating with clients I don't really care. This is just one of many things that have changed over the course of decades and I'm not going to stress or get upset over something I have no control over. My kids will use proper English and that is the best I can do.

 

[karlac]

Little Cajun kids use the word "bring" for "take" ... "Bring it over there."
Wasn't quite sure the difference until grammar school.
Still say it ... and get called on it.

 

[Sam7sf]

As long as you use proper English when communicating with clients I don't really care. This is just one of many things that have changed over the course of decades and I'm not going to stress or get upset over something I have no control over. My kids will use proper English and that is the best I can do.

To add to what you said, customer service and wanting to produce good products have taken a nose dive. It amazes me in manufacturing how something can leave a persons hands and they won’t care if it’s shit or not. Or want a customer to walk away feeling like their product or where they got their product has a guy behind the counter who will make things right regardless of company policies.

If they don’t care about this I won’t expect them to give a shit about communication at work

 

[SloppyShooter]

BTW: My excessive use of capitlization of whole words is due to a technical problem I am working on. I just want to use bold print for one word, but then getting back to normal print feels like trying to get a pardon, as it wants to bold print the rest of my post.

I just have to nail down the proper procedure to easily isolate that one word. (It just works much differently than what I am used to, and my inherent laziness makes whole world capitalization too easy.)

 

[AustinN4]

I been hurrrr

Ben hur? That is a movie!

 

[karlac]

Best misspelling I heard around here lately is "Bay-Toe".
Kudos to whoever that was ...

 

[Noggin]

Even way back in the early 60s I can remember lower class kids in the UK saying "I'm going to learn him a lesson" so poor English has been around for quite a while. What I do see more of nowadays is bad English produced by the supposedly educated members of our society.

One of my personal irritations is this new word aircrafts, it is common on U Tube documentaries and has also found it's way into some Hollywood movie scripts. I eagerly await to hear someone talk about a flock of sheeps.

 

[BRD@66]

Their, there, they're. It'll proly be all right.

 

[karlac]

Their, there, they're. It'll proly be all right.

On some web sight for sure...

 

[SloppyShooter]

On some web sight for sure...

That reminds me, I need to site in my rifle.

 

[Kingarthur777]

That reminds me of a sign I would pass by after work. It said, "Puppy's". It made me wonder what exactly belonged to the puppy?

 

[Kingarthur777]

Calmete vato calmete

!Y no te huites tambien! LOL

 

[SloppyShooter]

That reminds me of a sign I would pass by after work. It said, "Puppy's". It made me wonder what exactly belonged to the puppy?

Mmmmm.....best Alpo sammiches in town!

 

[Vaquero]

I appreciate the dialect of different areas of our country.

People seldom ask what state I'm from.
They ask, "what part of Texas are you from?"
I miss listening to my papaw.
He dressed like Tom Landry, talked like Snuffy Smith.

 

[oldag]

Some schools no longer teach grammar at all.

 

[kyletxria1911a1]

Say what dawg

 

[deemus]

I have to axe for all these prescriptions that I can spell, but have never heard spoken verbally. By the 3rd or 4th grade you should have learned to spell washer, whether hardware or clothes, enunciation, or ACCENT can be easily overlooked, and should not show up in the printed word, ( unless intentionally).

I think a ton of it is due to rural speaking. My grandparents (very white) talked like the old black man at the feed store. It's a country thing.

I remember saying something my grandpa used to say. It was overheard by a black lady who thought I was making fun of her. I hadn't heard her say a word.

I have a professional certification and a masters degree. But when I get around my country family sometimes my country talking comes out.

I think it's a country thing, but also a southern thing. Because there are hundreds of thousands of folks like me that moved to the city thinking it was better where corn don't grow. It ain't.