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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/14 12:13:40 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby SteveStrummerUK 2015/04/19 10:07:14
Oh yes. Then there's answering every question starting with 'So,' and ending on the upward inflective.
 
'What are you studying at college?'
 
'So, I'm doing media studies?'
 

 

 
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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/14 13:07:44 (permalink)
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*(So, like, when I totally need a, you know, 1337 decoder ring to decrypt these acronyms that, like, are literally impossible to translate, like, I mean, literally harder than algebra, which no one can figure out, and I'm like, "What?" and the teacher's like, "Yeah," and I'm like, "Whatever," and then, you know, we're in English class and the teacher's, like totally rambling about stuff that, literally, makes no sense at all like run on sentences, and stuff and then, hey, there's my phone, and I get an F on my paper because she said it was, like, nonsensical, as if that meant anything and I'm like, "Nuh uh," and she's like, "Yeah," and I'm like, "What?" and she's like, literally, the most unreasonable person in the world, except for that guy at the McDonald's drive through who totally refused to give us free fries that one time, even though we literally said, "Please," except, you know, we didn't, because, duh, right?)
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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/14 13:22:56 (permalink)
LOL Bubba
.....if we never saw your writings, you'd be quite convincing.....literally speaking.
 
So, like when I saw the OP on this thread like, I was like Bubba's a genius man and like he'll have a field day like totally......for reals.
 
 

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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/14 13:40:21 (permalink)
So, you are literally too kind? (...And I mean that literally.)
 
Words have meanings. I taught my kids this and I'm proud of the fact that they hold to this standard and say what they mean. Literally.
 
 
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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/14 13:45:39 (permalink)
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*(So, like, when I totally need a, you know, 1337 decoder ring to decrypt these acronyms that, like, are literally impossible to translate, like, I mean, literally harder than algebra, which no one can figure out, and I'm like, "What?" and the teacher's like, "Yeah," and I'm like, "Whatever," and then, you know, we're in English class and the teacher's, like totally rambling about stuff that, literally, makes no sense at all like run on sentences, and stuff and then, hey, there's my phone, and I get an F on my paper because she said it was, like, nonsensical, as if that meant anything and I'm like, "Nuh uh," and she's like, "Yeah," and I'm like, "What?" and she's like, literally, the most unreasonable person in the world, except for that guy at the McDonald's drive through who totally refused to give us free fries that one time, even though we literally said, "Please," except, you know, we didn't, because, duh, right?)





 


 
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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/14 13:49:32 (permalink)
Yes......we've been teaching our little ones to let your yea be yea and your nay be nay.
Life's already confusing enough as it is....

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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/14 16:29:01 (permalink)


 
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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/14 18:26:50 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby SteveStrummerUK 2015/04/19 10:07:41
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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/15 06:57:25 (permalink)
I'm going to have a piece off of the next grammar Nazi who corrects me.

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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/15 09:31:09 (permalink)
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I'm no grammar genius, but does anybody notice how often people destroy the use of "and I" vs "and me" in the English language? I think American public schools have a tendency to say "ALWAYS 'and I' " without really giving a reason, and NEVER really teaching the alternative.
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Right ... start with the educational system!
 
I came to America when I was 16 and they placed me on the 9th grade ... rest of high school, junior college, university ... do you know how many grammar classes I had?
 
NONE
 
Took me 9 years to be able to get through Junior College to be able to get into UCSB, which was a bit of a push and scary, since my grades were not good, because I had no English to work with ... to make the grade passable! But when I graduated from UCSB in 1982, I can tell you that it was my highest grade point ever ... 3.25GPA ... although the theater department ripped me off what should have been a BFA instead of a generic steaming heap of a BA degree!

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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/15 09:49:00 (permalink)
So, like we all need more BS peeps in the world with BS degrees like to be smarter and stuff and  like anyone can draw you know lik Scooter and whatever.......just get a BA degree and be done with it like for real coz I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world.....

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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/15 13:59:53 (permalink)
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So, like we all need more BS peeps in the world with BS degrees like to be smarter and stuff and  like anyone can draw you know lik Scooter and whatever.......just get a BA degree and be done with it like for real coz I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world.....




it just tells you the BS from American Universities everywhere ... it's not about the students, unless they are in this and that place and supposedly did this and that ... at which point the school is not a part of the process at all ... !!!
 
It's a bad joke!

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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/15 14:18:31 (permalink)
We all know what BS is, MS is just More of the Same, and PhD is just Piled Higher and Deeper. 

 
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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/15 14:21:30 (permalink)
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So, like we all need more BS peeps in the world with BS degrees like to be smarter and stuff and  like anyone can draw you know lik Scooter and whatever.......just get a BA degree and be done with it like for real coz I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world.....




it just tells you the BS from American Universities everywhere ... it's not about the students, unless they are in this and that place and supposedly did this and that ... at which point the school is not a part of the process at all ... !!!
 
It's a bad joke!


Apart from the jokes......unlike other countries, the subject content that's taught at Uni's in the US are rarely connected (if at all). You just have to get a good grade in any particular subject and any previous or future classes in that subject are only remotely linked (especially obvious in mathematics). So you end up becoming a somewhat rounded jack of all trades, but master of none.
 
In most other countries (that had the old British system), there's a very steady and methodical system set up where you have to completely understand your studies. If you don't understand a particular year's subject matter, you simply got left behind and won't get accepted or are unable to go to the next class level (until you finish the previous material). This system works well as from grade 1 until college is completed, the "dots are connected".     

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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/15 18:40:48 (permalink)
My all-time favorite intentional use of bad grammar was done by Gore Vidal.  In the novel Duluth, he had a pretentious butler answer the phone and ask "Whom shall I say is calling she?".
 
OT, but one of my pet gripes about misuse of the language is: "such and such increased to a crescendo".  All kinds of journalists do this, and not just sports commentators.
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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/15 19:54:41 (permalink)
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Oh yes. Then there's answering every question starting with 'So,' and ending on the upward inflective.
 
'What are you studying at college?'
 
'So, I'm doing media studies?'
 

 




So?

 
 
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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/15 19:59:36 (permalink)
The colours of this topic turned out to be quite colorful. Maybe a little shade off center though nonetheless quite centred.
 
Edited to correct spelling - FWIW

 
 
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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/15 20:10:19 (permalink)
"So and so and me". makes me mental
 
It seems regional as many intelligent and learned people I know say that but they are from Michigan fwiw.
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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/16 06:08:07 (permalink)
Two of my "favorites" () are "meteoric rise" and "could care less" but the ones that are really annoying are "sup" and "where you at?"

 
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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/16 06:32:48 (permalink)
So I have to refer to my own post #40 which was so subtle (but incorrect) that everyone missed it.

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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/16 06:42:15 (permalink)
It's its and it's that drives me bananas.  Or does it drive I bananas?
 
I'm gonna start a campaign to make 'its' the plural form of 'it', m'wuhahahaa!
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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/16 10:42:32 (permalink)
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We all know what BS is, MS is just More of the Same, and PhD is just Piled Higher and Deeper. 



Old joke! We were hearing that at UCSB in 1982 ... you need some rejuvenating in your jokes!

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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/16 11:11:26 (permalink)
At the risk of starting a UK versus US free-for-all, it's always annoyed me when Americans say "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less." It's blatantly wrong.
 
If you're trying to emphasize how little you care, saying that you could care less hardly achieves that end.

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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/16 11:17:46 (permalink)
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At the risk of starting a UK versus US free-for-all, it's always annoyed me when Americans say "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less." It's blatantly wrong.
 
If you're trying to emphasize how little you care, saying that you could care less hardly achieves that end.




I guess that all depends on what you mean by it.
 
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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/16 11:17:54 (permalink)
That reminds me of:
 
"It's the least I could do"
 
vs
 
"It's the most I could do"
 
One usually uses the 'least' variant, implying that the recipient was deserving of far more than what one offered, but you could take a more negative slant on it by interpreting it as, "I could easily have done so much more, but I did the absolute minimum".
 
Maybe the American 'care' thing works something like that?
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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/16 11:25:56 (permalink)
Many years ago, I heard a former athlete (now a sportscaster) providing a running commentary during a basketball game. He cried out, "It's really hotting up in here!" At the time, I attributed this odd turn of phrase to the fact that he was, after all, a former athlete and forming a complete sentence was about all that could be expected of him. Later, I discovered that this is a valid expression in the UK and that I, as a relatively illiterate American was wrong to mock him. 
 
I still think, however, that his usage was not due to his extensive global awareness but was instead caused by stark raving idiocy. 
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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/16 16:33:45 (permalink)
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We all know what BS is, MS is just More of the Same, and PhD is just Piled Higher and Deeper. 



Old joke! We were hearing that at UCSB in 1982 ... you need some rejuvenating in your jokes!




*Pfft...* I was probably telling it at SDSU (where I was taking a couple of classes) in 1982.  About seven or eight colleges later, when I was working on my PhD (never finished), I'm sure I was still telling the joke!

 
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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/19 10:03:28 (permalink)
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Oh yes. Then there's answering every question starting with 'So,' and ending on the upward inflective.
 
'What are you studying at college?'
 
'So, I'm doing media studies?'
 

 




That completely does my head in.
 
Whatever's wrong with the occasional "well..." at the start of a sentence to disguise the fact that one is rapidly trying to form a literate response to a question.
 
Mind you, this current and quite horrible use of "so" seems to be automatic with some. I long for the opportunity to interrogate someone who uses it so* to find out why they use it.
 
I'd put it up there as a grammatical and conversational annoyance with the upward inflection some add at the end of a sentence which makes every statement sound more like a question.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: Bad grammar and I 2015/04/19 10:06:05 (permalink)
 
 
Not to mention the syntactical abortion that is "A whole 'nother..."
 
Or the quite revolting "Irregardless"

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