Topic: “um actually it’s *you’re”
+ducky !MwWb.dJjRc — 11 years ago #42,971
said the 14 year old white girl smugly as she smiled to herself knowing that she had won the argument by default with her superior grammar skills alone
+The Robot — 11 years ago, 1 hour later[T] [B] #468,143
beep bop boop
+Anonymous C — 11 years ago, 58 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #468,145
@OPCorrect grammar is structural racism. As a dictator, I can confirm this.
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+Anonymous D — 11 years ago, 12 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #468,146
+Frederick Chilton — 11 years ago, 12 hours later, 15 hours after the original post[T] [B] #468,169
Sure is Sock Puppet Central in here.+Anonymous F — 11 years ago, 8 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #468,191
@previous (Frederick Chilton )
> Sure is Sock Puppet Central in here.
sure is unfunny faggot in here
guess which one you are
in before "u seem upset"
> Sure is Sock Puppet Central in here.
sure is unfunny faggot in here
guess which one you are
in before "u seem upset"
+Anonymous G — 10.9 years ago, 4 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #468,193
+In the words of Mark Twain — 10.9 years ago, 6 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #468,196
@468,146 (D)
The Rules of Grammar
"I am almost sure by witness of my ear, but cannot be positive, for I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules. A generation ago I knew the rules-knew them by heart, word for word, though not their meanings-and I still know one of them: the one which says---but never mind, it will come back to me presently."
"There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares."
"...ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word of the lot locating the source of the theft and preserving the memory of the revered crime."
"SPELLING"
"I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. I have a correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive new kind of a cow."
The Rules of Grammar
"I am almost sure by witness of my ear, but cannot be positive, for I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules. A generation ago I knew the rules
"There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares."
"...ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word of the lot locating the source of the theft and preserving the memory of the revered crime."
"SPELLING"
"I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. I have a correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive new kind of a cow."
·Anonymous D — 10.9 years ago, 49 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #468,198
+Anonymous I — 10.9 years ago, 1 day later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #468,264
your're*
·Frederick Chilton — 10.9 years ago, 39 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #468,272
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