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#12970772 - 07/29/10 07:08 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Why can't people get it right?!?!?!
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 TTT
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Re: then/than your/you're there/their/they're to/too [Re: conan] 1
#12970779 - 07/29/10 07:12 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Because the US education system is a failure in the first place, and then there is those of us who never attended it.
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Re: then/than your/you're there/their/they're to/too [Re: TTT]
#12970788 - 07/29/10 07:15 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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TTT said:
Because the US education system is a failure in the first place, and then there is those of us who never attended it.
I was born with the knowledge of grammar. I done never not need no learnin me
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Re: then/than your/you're there/their/they're to/too [Re: conan]
#12970794 - 07/29/10 07:18 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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conan said:
Why can't people get it right?!?!?!
because i hated school and i smoke too much weed to pay attention.
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Re: then/than your/you're there/their/they're to/too [Re: hidekie80]
#12970807 - 07/29/10 07:23 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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We have a fucked up language. It grew up that way, all scraggly.
We would save billions of dollars and countless hours of study if we switched to Spanish or German.
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conan
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Re: then/than your/you're there/their/they're to/too [Re: Doc_T]
#12970820 - 07/29/10 07:34 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Doc_T said:
We have a fucked up language. It grew up that way, all scraggly.
We would save billions of dollars and countless hours of study if we switched to Spanish or German.
I happen to like English, and have learned Spanish. I also go to school with hundreds and hundreds of foreigners who have thick ass accents but understand our grammar and structure better than the locals around them.
Is that statistic your own conjecture or is there something backing it up?
The words in the thread title are different words with different meanings. It's like asking for a tomato and getting an apple. Wouldn't you say wtf dumb ass, I said a TOMATO! Don't you know what a tomato is?!!
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Re: then/than your/you're there/their/they're to/too [Re: conan]
#12970838 - 07/29/10 07:47 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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it alwaes staends owt to
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Doc_T
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Re: then/than your/you're there/their/they're to/too [Re: conan]
#12970843 - 07/29/10 07:50 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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conan said:
Is that statistic your own conjecture or is there something backing it up?
Professional guesstimate, I'm trained in linguistics.
I like English too, and sure lots of people learn it, and it's way easier than Chinese.
But if you speak Spanish, you already know what I mean.
You spent about 30 minutes on spelling, right? Total.
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badchad
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Re: then/than your/you're there/their/they're to/too [Re: conan]
#12970857 - 07/29/10 07:57 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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People don't get it right because they don't care enough to.
Secondly, the development of the internet has ushered in a number of lol's OMFG's, and moar ways to b srsly typin.
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Smith, P. Bull. Menninger Clinic (1959) 23:20-27; p. 27.
...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely.
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Re: then/than your/you're there/their/they're to/too [Re: badchad] 1
#12970869 - 07/29/10 08:04 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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I hate it too man. I especially hate when they mix up where/were.
The good thing is.. when I meet somebody illiterate on the internet I direct them promptly to this page --->
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Re: then/than your/you're there/their/they're to/too [Re: conan]
#12970886 - 07/29/10 08:09 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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I see you went to public schools too
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conan
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Re: then/than your/you're there/their/they're to/too [Re: badchad]
#12970893 - 07/29/10 08:14 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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badchad said:
People don't get it right because they don't care enough to.
Secondly, the development of the internet has ushered in a number of lol's OMFG's, and moar ways to b srsly typin.
Yeah you're right, so I guess my real question is why don't people care? Communication reflects SO much about the person, and people know this. The development that you are talking about shouldn't have led to laziness. People used to dab quills in ink and write long ass letters, it should have been these people who adapted to shorthand jibberish instead of the people who can type 60 words per minute at 12 years old.
Doc_T linguistics is the shit, that's cool you've been able to study it. I'd like to be fluent in a couple more languages but being that I already speak English I can communicate with a fuckton of people already so I don't have the drive that a Swedish person would.
What's cooler than knowing a language is studying how a language shapes that society, or how the society has shaped the language, I don't know enough about it to engage in any dialog. Fun stuff to read on.
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conan
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Re: then/than your/you're there/their/they're to/too [Re: NewWavePeace]
#12970899 - 07/29/10 08:19 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Haha bad ass! That was like a narration of my mind.
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Re: then/than your/you're there/their/they're to/too [Re: conan]
#12970995 - 07/29/10 08:58 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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I'M TYPING ON THE INTERNET 
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TheMushroomJesus said:
"Doesnt that actually make the most sense? These are intelligent beings that are capable of creating anything, including what you call 'science'. And the suicide cults are a sacrifice to these intelligent beings."
"If any of you knew about Applewhite you would know that he represented JESUS..as we all do. He believed he and all of us were jesus to the point he would kill himself to get the message out...while your here..typing away pointless thoughts on a website pretending to make a difference, when in reality, you will never come close to making as much of a difference as even Applewhite."
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Re: then/than your/you're there/their/they're to/too [Re: the bizzle] 1
#12971079 - 07/29/10 09:17 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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As long as we are bitching about grammar, here's something I've noticed recently. It seems that many many people these days have come to think that a statement like "Jason and I" is always correct and "Jason and me" is always incorrect as people will say things like "That's okay with Jasona and I," or something similar without any clue as to the difference between a subject and an object.
Really irks me for some reason.
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And they bring them to the factory where the heart attack machine
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Re: then/than your/you're there/their/they're to/too [Re: Senor_Doobie]
#12971112 - 07/29/10 09:25 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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I always try to use proper grammar. Sometimes it gets botched when you're not paying attention, but for the most part when people can't spell simple words properly it gives the impression that they're very poorly educated. I guess the exception is IMs where no one really gives a shit, but even so I try to type in a way that reflects that my brain is actually functioning.
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Re: then/than your/you're there/their/they're to/too [Re: conan]
#12971170 - 07/29/10 09:36 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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conan said:
People used to dab quills in ink and write long ass letters, it should have been these people who adapted to shorthand jibberish instead of the people who can type 60 words per minute at 12 years old.
It really is amazing to read over journals and letters from olden times because of how sophisticated everybody seems to have been with their use of language. It is as though any one of the people who kept journals as members of the Donner party, for example, could have been a top-notch novelist from a perspective of lingual capability.
I suppose that in those times the literacy rate was a lot lower than it is today. Knowledge of how to read and write was probably something that had to be pursued in a way that today is nonexistent. If you are simply enrolled in school you are going to come away with at least a rudimentary ability to communicate through the written word, whether you care or not. In the past, those who did not care likely never learned even the rudimentary skills that we label as lazy today.
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At midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone that knows more than they do
And they bring them to the factory where the heart attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders and then the kerosene
Is brought down from the castles by insurance men who go
Make sure that no one is escaping from Desolation Row
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Re: then/than your/you're there/their/they're to/too [Re: conan]
#12971188 - 07/29/10 09:39 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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their is too reasons
you're education system is less good then it used to be
there to lazy too spellcheck
house dat!
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Doc_T
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Re: then/than your/you're there/their/they're to/too [Re: conan]
#12971218 - 07/29/10 09:44 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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conan said:
Doc_T linguistics is the shit, that's cool you've been able to study it. I'd like to be fluent in a couple more languages .
Most of my study was in the context of computer languages, I don't know as many people languages.
But it's all the same from a meta-linguistic viewpoint.
Take apostrophes, a pet peeve of mine. Misue is rampant, and nobody cares.
Spanish solves the issue in the most elegant fasion possible; you do not use apostrophes.
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Re: then/than your/you're there/their/they're to/too [Re: conan]
#12971219 - 07/29/10 09:44 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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conan said:
Why can't people get it right?!?!?!
I used to be a real snob about this as well
But after nearly a decade of drug abuse ive realized that as long as you can understand the message then its all good.
Language is one big mystery anyways...
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