| 3/8/2008 11:04:02 AM | Is English that hard to speak? | |
hanoverjoe
Harrison, MI
age: 54
| I have a question for you.Well,
2 questions.
When using the first person, you will need to conjegate the verb are in the present participle and say "I see you are online". You may throw the word that in there if you feel the need to waste a word. Either way, the sentence is now correct.
I wish we could stop mutilating pronouns, twisting verbs, destroying preposition and shackling our sentences to stones so that may be drawn and quartered. I want the English language back.
How do you spell conjegate?
I was taught its spelled conjugate.
2.You may throw the word that in there if you feel
the need to waste a word.Is that correct?
Shouldn't it have been typed like so:
You may throw the word (that) in there if you
feel the need to waste a word.
Before you throw stones at someone,make
sure you are correct.
|
| 3/8/2008 11:18:53 AM | Is English that hard to speak? | |
lin37
Comstock Park, MI
age: 38
| i am a bad speller...you're right. the last part though is correct. that is something that can be said correctly in more than one way.
I'm not trying to sound rude here. I am simply making a point. I would hope people wouldn't read into the words as typed and hear me condensendingly and harshly when that's not how I heard me type the words. Inflection is done on the receiving end.
|
| 3/8/2008 11:29:07 AM | Is English that hard to speak? | |
jimmy61
Titusville, FL
age: 47
| In this non-3D world, lin, you do come off as condescending. In this day and age, I see a lot of articulate folks doing some pretty tawdry things. I look at the substance in the message not the penmanship. Some people have a hard time typing, spelling, etc., while trying to express their thoughts. JMO
|
| 3/8/2008 11:32:58 AM | Is English that hard to speak? | |
mmaru
Erie, PA
age: 24
| I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way... I'm a little less particular, I think, but what really gets on my nerves are the people who refuse to just type out a word. For example, "i want 2 get 2 no u." The chatspeak thing gets under my skin. Spelling and grammar errors are unpleasant, but unless the entire message requires a translator, it doesn't generally bother me. I've been playing a text-based RPG since high school, and many of the players are from other countries, so I'm rather used to that, and considering how badly I would undoubtedly butcher Spanish or French even with my limited study of each, I can forgive those sorts of mistakes. The chatspeak, though, just shows that a person doesn't give a damn or can't be bothered.
|
| 3/8/2008 12:45:21 PM | Is English that hard to speak? | |
lin37
Comstock Park, MI
age: 38
| Well I'm glad we've sparked some conversation about all this. Really I am, no matter how I come off in the end.  I don't usually condensend in the real world and I would hope to be able to carry some of the real world along with me into this non 3-D world of ours. That's one of the problems with the internet...it's more black and white than we are outside of this.
I'm not in any way trying to condensend anyone here. So let me clear that up.
|
| 3/8/2008 12:56:22 PM | Is English that hard to speak? | |
bigeasy741
Bay, AR
age: 45
| Sounds to me like you are making a piss poor excuse.
Most people I read that complain about this shit are just as bad.
|
| 3/8/2008 1:04:36 PM | Is English that hard to speak? | |
hanoverjoe
Harrison, MI
age: 54
| Condensend,your right you can't
spell.
condescend,see we all make
mistakes,no one is perfect.
|
| 3/8/2008 1:07:28 PM | Is English that hard to speak? | |
virgomomof1
Brunswick, ME
age: 36
| Good post!!! I also get thse too. I am also known as darling and sweetheart and love...it creeps me out, but like what others on here say, block and delete.
|
| 3/8/2008 1:07:36 PM | Is English that hard to speak? | |
jimmy61
Titusville, FL
age: 47
| I think I get what you are trying to say, lin. All I can say is that this is an MTV world we live in. One has the look past the idiocycracies of different peoples' communicative form to what they are trying to convey. Society has been butchering the King's English for a long time. I have a pet-peeve against text-talk, myself. I grew up with a rotary dial phone and 3 channels on the t.v.(if the wind was right). It is frustrating at times, but what isn't? By the way, my football coach was my high school English teacher, too. Hence, good grades or else!!!
|
| 3/8/2008 1:14:41 PM | Is English that hard to speak? | |
1pinkstar
Omaha, NE
age: 54
| I happen to agree with you 100%, Lin. Learning how to spell correlates with doing well in school and in life.
Being an excellent speller enables a child and an adult do well in language arts, their careers and furthering their education. Closing the gap from being unable to spell to being able to spell requires some thought, some education and dedication and perseverance.
One tip: Turn off the television and read for pleasure. You need to see your words in use. Reading is the best way to see words and practice spotting their sounds.
Too bad people do not realize how uneducated they appear when they cannot spell or write a sentence clearly. Back at the turn of the century this did not seem as important as it is today, and there is simply no excuse for it now.
|
| 3/8/2008 1:16:35 PM | Is English that hard to speak? | |
1pinkstar
Omaha, NE
age: 54
| And Hanover, as long as you are playing editor: the word is you're. Not your.
|
| 3/8/2008 3:39:39 PM | Is English that hard to speak? | |
oletafive
Rattan, OK
age: 61
| What a lovely and refreshing page. It has been many years since I was able to attend any formal English classes--so this is a great opportunity to take a refresher course. I do hope you all will continue to reinvigorate the vernacular to those of us non-pedantic commoners who seem to possess the predisposition to butcher sentences and paragraphs. Oh my, I do hope I spelled everything properly.
--=Oletafive=--
|
| 3/8/2008 3:48:41 PM | Is English that hard to speak? | |
oletafive
Rattan, OK
age: 61
| I must apologise for that outburst folks, I just get carried away sometimes. Have fun here words make sense to some people and not others.
[Edited 3/8/2008 3:52:45 PM]
|
| 3/8/2008 3:48:48 PM | Is English that hard to speak? | |
hanoverjoe
Harrison, MI
age: 54
| Pink, I make mistakes,not
perfect.
|
| 3/8/2008 4:12:02 PM | Is English that hard to speak? | |
lin37
Comstock Park, MI
age: 38
| i know. i have admitted the spelling needs work. you're missing the point and the inflection with which it was intended.
|