English Lessons

I figure this is something a lot of posters on this board could REALLY use.

Lesson 1.

Sentences have a subject and a verb. Sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a period, exclamation point or question mark, whichever is most appropriate.

Fine, proper English is used for professional things or for papers you are writing for school. This is BWW, this is the internet, this is suppposed to be down, relaxing time- why must we have proper English?

How hard is this to understand?

I went to skool 2day and i saw my freind gettin into the ambulance.

I mean, come on... we are not getting graded for our English here, leave well enough alone. If you can understand what a person is saying- than it's fine.

There is also a study done, I have the e-mail somewhere; where if you have a paragraph of words and the first and last letter of each word stay in place but every other letter in between is switched around, you will still be able to read the paragraph.

Or- I learned this in my sign language class.

I th__k w_en I let my d_g o_tsi__ thi_ mor_ing, he f__nd a _ead mo_s_ and br_ug_t it t_ me. It w_s sooo n_st_ that I wai__d fo_ my hu_b_nd t_ com_ _ome and c__an it _p.

Most of you should be able to figure out what that says....and for those who critisize all the English errors and mistakes we make here, let it go... your getting pissed off over something very trivial.

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You know why I'd prefer that people use proper English? Because I damn well don't want to get a headache trying to comprehend what a post means. There shouldn't be any decoding involved in reading- I absolutely hate it. Bad enough that I spend hours each day reading legalese. I don't need to spend my relaxation time being slowed down by the time it takes to figure out what the latest acronym or mispelling-disguised-as-a-neologism stands for. Language is intended to communicate. Why is it too much to ask that people facilitate that by using standard English?

If a spellcheck program was available within this Web site, I'd use it. I refuse to type a chat reply in Word, check spelling, and then copy it over to this site just so people with nothing more to worry about could be happy

If a reply has too many spelling errors and is that difficult for you to read, move on to the next response - it's that easy.

Tiff- I'm reading Sullivan and Gunther's Constitutional Law all semester. Lots of rulings to go through. And right now I'm reading Words That Wound, which isn't really legalese but is taking me a while nonetheless.

Oh, and good luck on your LSATs, Tiff! Here, have some gummy grapefruit. Sugar is always good.

And like I said before, I don't want to have to strain my eyes to read during my relaxation time. So I'll tell you what- you save your time by not typing in that extra letter or two- though heaven knows a lot of net-speak doesn't really save time at all- and I'll save time by not reading what you write. Sound fair?

Updated On: 2/8/05 at 11:42 PM

*grabs the grapefruit and ravages it*

I adore constitutional law! If I don't get into law school, that's what I'm planning to write my Honours thesis on. (Well, the Canadian equivalent - Charter law.) Do you have any programs that shorten and summarize the rulings? It will save you a lot of headaches. I use quicklaw.com but it may just be a Canadian program.

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Oh, thank you, Emcee. I knew there was a reason I loved you.
I am very rarely miffed by a typo in any form. I have no problem with that and often get a little too type happy and end up with a crossed couple of letters myself.
However, I do have a problem when people show a continual inability to comprehend the difference between a contraction and another word that sounds the same.
There is a definite difference between your/you're and there/their/they're.
Figure it out and use them correctly. It's not so hard...and god knows a lot less people might vote for Bush if they could spell better than he.

oh, and Bwaysinger, I knew there was a reason I loved you.

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I recently received a 100% on my English test, and I feel like bragging.

Besides, even though you may feel like just relaxing, soon the typos will start to show up in your everyday speech. I think you should use correct grammar always, for it'll improve more and more everyday. Humans were created with intelligent complex minds! Use them!

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Well, I'm not saying you can't make a mistake...but don't make hundreds of mistakes in one little sentence.

2day today....hmmm, 'twas easier to type today....

Maybe y'all aren't typing correctly...

"Republicans are most often more educated than democrats"

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Numerous studies have shown that the more educated a person is, the more liberal they are likely to be.

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