wow ease up. It was a joke. I require multiple foils to keep things interesting.
The "I'm so done with" thread
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Watched it on delay so I could skip commercials, but yes.
I'm so done with the English language and people's inability to speak and write it correctly.
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We've already gotten into the you're/your, they're/their, it's/its discussion on another thread. Contractions are pretty damn easy, people. The apostrophe represents a letter that has been removed when the two words were combined. That's it. Yes, apostrophes are used to show possession for other words: Dick's bike, Mary's doll, etc. But apostrophes are never used to show possession for pronouns.
Speaking of pronouns, people suck at reflexive pronouns. "If you have any questions, please ask Mary or myself." NO. NO NO NO NO NO. Myself is a reflexive pronoun and is only used when the subject of the sentence is "I." For example, "I asked myself many questions." In the example above, you need a direct object which would simply be "me." As in, "If you have any questions, please ask Mary or me." The ironic thing is people probably starting inserting "myself" to try to sound smarter.
Don't even get me started on people using "I" as a direct or indirect object. They were probably all scarred as children for using "me" as a subject ("Dick and me are going to the game") and so just started using "I" any time they refer to another person plus themselves.
The other one that has starting popping up everywhere is the incorrect usage of the verb "go." When using past participle, the correct verb is "gone." For example, saying "If Kobe had went to Carolina" makes my skin crawl. "If Kobe had gone to Carolina" is correct.
Last but not least, I'd like to take on the word sneak. The past tense of sneak is sneaked. At least it used to be, until so many dumbasses started saying "snuck" that dictionary editors everywhere just gave up and decided to give it a pass. So while we're at it, I suggest we change every other similarly spelled verb for consistency. You tell me whether these sound idiotic:
creak/creaked: "That chair cruck every time grandpa rocked in it."
freak/freaked: "Mary fruck out when she saw the snake."
leak/leaked: "The faucet luck for three days before the plumber could repair it."
squeak/squeaked: "The mouse squuck late at night." (<--- this one is my favorite)
There, now you know how stupid it sounds when I hear somebody say snuck.
Oh, and Tar Heel is two words you hoodlums.
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[rant]
We've already gotten into the you're/your, they're/their, it's/its discussion on another thread. Contractions are pretty damn easy, people. The apostrophe represents a letter that has been removed when the two words were combined. That's it. Yes, apostrophes are used to show possession for other words: Dick's bike, Mary's doll, etc. But apostrophes are never used to show possession for pronouns.
Speaking of pronouns, people suck at reflexive pronouns. "If you have any questions, please ask Mary or myself." NO. NO NO NO NO NO. Myself is a reflexive pronoun and is only used when the subject of the sentence is "I." For example, "I asked myself many questions." In the example above, you need a direct object which would simply be "me." As in, "If you have any questions, please ask Mary or me." The ironic thing is people probably starting inserting "myself" to try to sound smarter.
Don't even get me started on people using "I" as a direct or indirect object. They were probably all scarred as children for using "me" as a subject ("Dick and me are going to the game") and so just started using "I" any time they refer to another person plus themselves.
The other one that has starting popping up everywhere is the incorrect usage of the verb "go." When using past participle, the correct verb is "gone." For example, saying "If Kobe had went to Carolina" makes my skin crawl. "If Kobe had gone to Carolina" is correct.
Last but not least, I'd like to take on the word sneak. The past tense of sneak is sneaked. At least it used to be, until so many dumbasses started saying "snuck" that dictionary editors everywhere just gave up and decided to give it a pass. So while we're at it, I suggest we change every other similarly spelled verb for consistency. You tell me whether these sound idiotic:
creak/creaked: "That chair cruck every time grandpa rocked in it."
freak/freaked: "Mary fruck out when she saw the snake."
leak/leaked: "The faucet luck for three days before the plumber could repair it."
squeak/squeaked: "The mouse squuck late at night." (<--- this one is my favorite)
There, now you know how stupid it sounds when I hear somebody say snuck.
Oh, and Tar Heel is two words you hoodlums.
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And now that me knows how much it bothers you, Im going too be doing it alot.
Wow that rant really snuck up on me
Things like that are definitely annoying, but I don't mind them as much because it really is more advanced English (if that makes sense) to know when to use I or me or myself in that context.
What pisses me off more is the mispronounciation of words. Expresso instead of espresso. Aks instead of ask. Mine's instead of mine. And incorrect verb tenses, "we is going" "they is going".
Can you be more pacific?Wow that rant really snuck up on me
Things like that are definitely annoying, but I don't mind them as much because it really is more advanced English (if that makes sense) to know when to use I or me or myself in that context.
What pisses me off more is the mispronounciation of words. Expresso instead of espresso. Aks instead of ask. Mine's instead of mine. And incorrect verb tenses, "we is going" "they is going".
I will disembowel you and strangle you with your own intestines.Wow that rant really snuck up on me
I remember it because I've had parts of speech drilled into me. But I heard a really simple way to know whether to say I or me. Just imagine how you would say the sentence if nobody else were included.
For example: "Dick, Mary, and ____ signed up for the class. The professor gave extra credit to Dick and ____."
You would say, "I signed up for the class. The professor gave extra credit to me." So those are the correct first person pronouns to use.
Ugggghhhh. This is definitely a Southernism. This part of the country definitely commits the worst abuses of written and spoken English.
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