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You've got to up your game.
The snake/hand feeding was pretty nasty, but this one...well, you know.
Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:" "She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."
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I know. This is definetely not my best but i promise a very crazy video for sunday.
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OK. But watch your grammar and spelling. Capitalize the "I," and the "S" in Sunday. And..."definitely."
Rock on.
Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:" "She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."
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Oh great now Sunil is the Grammar police I'm screwed..
I believe in catch and release. I catch then release to the grease.. BG. CSBG. LMB. HSB. RES.
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Oh great now Sunil is the Grammar police I'm screwed.. The moderators have been trying to avoid this, but ... Somebody had to step up and take charge of the situation. It ain't gonna be easy, but somebodys gotta do it. Sunil is obliviously the dude to do it.
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Capitalize the "I," and the "S" in Sunday. You're missing the point. He's got that e.e. cummings thing going.
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i aint gonna put no more videos up if theirs a gramar police
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i aint gonna put no more videos up if theirs a gramar police See what I mean, Sunil? You're dealing with an unconscious lyric poet, Texas style. This is as opposed to an unconscious lyric poet, Nashville style, in whom we count apneic events to determine if he needs to be intubated.
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i aint gonna put no more videos up if theirs a gramar police You may be right on with that!
Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:" "She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."
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After teaching high school and community college English for 30 years, I'm ruined. I can't read a blessed thing that I don't "grade." I'm also adept at reading "Dumb" and can figure out almost any word or phrase. My masters in Medieval literature really took me far with freshman Basic English. Personally, I'm just an old stump jumper from southern Illinois, and my wife (another English teacher---yes, our kids are really, really screwed up) is a reformed Chicagoan. I was into literature; she was into grammar. I hated her correcting my grammar all the time and decided that the only way to shut her up was to get better at it than she. It worked, and we've lived happily ever after.
Oh, and there's always that vernacular excuse---as well as colloquialisms. By the way, here in God's country, we UNTHAW our meat. What do the rest of you do? We also say SHERBERT, not sherBET. We also put rocks in a bucket, not stones in a pail.
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All I gots is I shoulda paid more attention in English class...Major weak spot for me...
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] Oh great now Sunil is the Grammar police I'm screwed.. Don't feel lonesome BGK.
If you ain't gonna fart, why eat the beans? . RES,HBG,YP,HSB,SMB,CC,and FHM. .seasonal trout.
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If you ain't gonna fart, why eat the beans? . RES,HBG,YP,HSB,SMB,CC,and FHM. .seasonal trout.
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Education is important. Fish videos are importanter!
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UHOH, dangling participles and gerunds are coming next.
Last edited by Dave Davidson1; 05/30/13 05:40 AM.
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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I have three sisters - all were school teachers - I talk Texas redneck around them - drives them nuts. I have found it very useful to be able to make a presentation to a high level corporate board and to be equally comfortable to be right at home talkin' to a rancher across a bob-ware fence... I speeal lak I talk - on occasion.... G/
N.E. Texas 2 acre and 1/4 acre ponds Original george #173 (22 June 2002)
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Brook:
When you go to the grocery store, do you ask for a bag or a sack?
When asking for a diet drink, is it soda or pop?
Your wife and I can relate; I'm a transplanted south sider.
Gar King, re-read what George1 wrote. Good grammar (both written and speaking) will really help you in the corporate or business world, no matter what you decide on for a job or a career.
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Maybe and maybe not Scott. The oldest trick is to know your listener or audience.
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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After teaching high school and community college English for 30 years, I'm ruined. I can't read a blessed thing that I don't "grade." I'm also adept at reading "Dumb" and can figure out almost any word or phrase. My masters in Medieval literature really took me far with freshman Basic English. Personally, I'm just an old stump jumper from southern Illinois, and my wife (another English teacher---yes, our kids are really, really screwed up) is a reformed Chicagoan. I'm a chicagoan who moved to southern illinois to get my degree in linguistics/etymology and become an exacting grammarian at SIUE. I then spent the second stage of my career (about 4 years) as a copy editor for a range of companies re-writing the horrid copy of several copy writers, "journalists" and other microsoft-word-enabled professionals. I feel your pain. It hurts so bad that i completely refuse to type in proper grammar, capitalization or punctuation any longer (with the exception of oxford commas or hyphens...i hate them both) when communicating in a casual sense (obviously a resume or a cover letter or something official would get my full attention....forum posts, however, are subject to over-use of parentheses and ellipses, and complete disregard for the length of a sentence). side note - it bugs me to no end that a gym teacher gets to be an "ologist" but i (and you) only achieve the rank of "ian." nothing against kinesiologists, it is a fine trade with a really difficult set of rules and physiological aspects of the human body to understand. It just bothered me that the football coach, with no formal kinesiology education, got to be a kinesiologist, while I, with several advanced degrees, were i to teach english, could only at best call myself a grammarian. an "ologist" is a professional in the study of, while an "ian" means adherence to. In fact, grammarians are usually better than "ologists," since not only do they study the "ology" of grammar, but they are also usually strict adherents to the laws thereof. I have decided that people like you and I need a new rank. "grammareologistician."
Trying to help with 7.5 Acres in the Chain of Lakes Illinois - - The fish would stay out of trouble if it could just keep its fool mouth shut. Turns out there is a lot I should be learning from the fish.
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Man 1: Where are you from? Man 2: From a place where we do not end sentences with prepositions. Man 1: Okay, where are you from, jackass? ~Author Unknown
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Paradigms Lost: Reflections on Literacy by John Simon
I read it years ago, but it made me sleepy.
I'll add social media to whatever chapter you want. It has changed conversational writing forever.
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Many of my employees came on board believing that an email correspondence was not truly a business letter. Those who couldn't understand the folly of their ways are not working here anymore.
Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:" "She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."
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WOW, I keep getting dumber the more I read this thread?.. Or would that me more dumb?..Oh wait, more stupid...
I have actually been asked to write blogs for a couple of forums I used to frequent because I love to share my stories...
The problem is exactly what you guys are talking about... Didn't pay attention in school and lack the ability to write properly...So always declined because I am embarrassed of my use of proper grammer and punctuation...
Anyone ever notice the ... or should I say period, period, period!
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Many of my employees came on board believing that an email correspondence was not truly a business letter. Those who couldn't understand the folly of their ways are not working here anymore. Hey Sunil, I was getting use to this not being perfect here. Guess we have to crank the standards up a bit! If someone complains about, or incorrect info...???
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