Hatred Against America

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omg chill out grammar police!!! I'm typing shit off the top of my head, not a freaking bookreport.

yea I know what you were talking about I just was making the point that I'm not checking all my errors when i post, I just type whatever and click to submit

badd spellar> ...much less worry about the difference beteen "its" and "it's"...

I complained about education in the U.S., and I couldn't even spell "beteween" correctly. I guess I'm an example.

That's just due to the fact that you were distracted by the cute UPS guy at your door

grammer police? what are you talking about?

i was referring to your reply about its being it is...err nevermind. smooches about about we stop this and you just start talking sexy to me. what are you wearing babe?

That would be grammar, not grammer.

When you just "type whatever, off the top of your head", you're making everyone who reads your post suffer. The world won't spin off its [no apostrophe] axis if you take an extra thirty seconds before hitting the "post it" button. Think of it in utilitarianism terms: the cost of one person's composing [note how the possessive precedes the gerund] a grammatical post is small compared to the cost of everyone stumbling through something that's barely readable. Plus it's good practice, unless you do a lot of writing off this site.I presume you have a full keyboard in front of you. It has two shift keys for your convenience.

you too amanda? what are you wearing huh...

honestly when have you not understood any of my posts? take away my grammatical errors, missing capitalizations and missing apostrophe's and tell me you can't read my posts. I could also say the same thing back to you right? will the world spin off its axis if i didnt write a post worthy of being turned in as a college term paper? (ok bad example but you get the idea)

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Well, you guys don't exactly write like Shakespeare. Language evolves, and the English language evolves more rapidly than most. It's a lot easier for a contemporary French speaker to read something in 15th-century French than it is for a contemporary English speaker to read something in 15th-century English. I mean, those old English guys were whacked, going around and speaking Old English.
How do you think we spell "league"? We spell it the same way that you do, whether we're describing an organization or a measure of distance. "Neighbor" got its American spelling long before people were using computers. First of all, the "u" is completely useless. We're busy building a powerful economy, and we don't have a lot of time to waste on useless letters. Secondly, we don't want to sound as French as you do, so we choose to spell in a less Gallic manner.
Spelling and accents diverged because the U.S. and England spent a long time in relative isolation. Increased communication has slowed the divergence, but unfortunately for England, the American dialect has become the world standard. Please don't hate us for that. Ask a Scandinavian, many of whom can write better English than a lot of UK'ers or Americans.

Lmao that shit is so funny how one person is trying to correct the other and there grammar is wrong. sorry i just had to laugh at that

We're not instant-messaging on a cell phone here, so taking a moment to capitalize and punctuate show respect for your reader; no one expects perfection. It's like greeting someone when you enter their house. It's the polite thing to do. Plus it makes you seem smarter and more authoritative, people will like you, and maybe you'll get elected president (I understand the job comes with good health benefits).

dude its NOT like greating someone when they enter my house. you guys are complete strangers!! until today, not a single person has ever hijacked my thread saying my grammar sucks and stuff. Polite thing to do??? not a single person on this board has ever said "abc123 you are rude for not checking your grammar and spelling" This IS like instant messaging, the conversations are informal. Heck i could have came in here and started typing in txt msg format saying stuff like "hey u wat did u do 2day?" and I'm sure everyone would still understand what the heck i typed.

hijacked my threadThis is your thread?> "abc123 you are rude for not checking your grammar and spelling"Sometimes things aren't said, but impressions are still left.> Heck i could have came in here and started typing in txt msg format saying stuff like "hey u wat did u do 2day?"You could have, and you would have been thought a retard, as is everyone else who confuses their computer keyboard with their phone keypad.A while back, someone posted:In reply to:hi all i just like to know how many male's get turned by any ting to do with anel play cos im a little wored i realy like woman and im sure im not bi or gay but im realy turned on by any ting to do with anel play taughts.It was followed by a lot of "What'd he say?"'s. So I translated it...In reply to:"Hi all, I'd just like to know how many males get turned on by anything to do with anal play, because I'm a little worried. I really like women, and I'm sure I'm not bi or gay, but I'm really turned on by anything to do with anal play thoughts."But thepouncer had already posted a spot-on answer, as if the question were in something like English.

This is your thread?no this isnt my thread, I'm talking about MY THREADS. not a single person has ever came onto MY thread and mentioned anything about my grammar,etc.>Sometimes things aren't said, but impressions are still left.again. not a single person has ever said hey, your grammar sucks get outta hereas for your example of that someone comfusing their keyboard with a phone keypad....dude that guys isnt typing in txt msg format, most of his mistakes where spelling errors.

In reply to: been thought a retard, EXCUSE ME! EXCUSE ME! THAT'S NOT POLITCALLY CORRECT!! but oh well...i was just teasing

in txt msg formatOK, that wan't an example of the IM-lazy dialect (Get it? I-am-lazy) of English, but it was pretty funny anyway. I guarantee you, if you post stuff in IM format, peeps wil giv u crap neway u cn bet onit.>> Sometimes things aren't said, but impressions are still left.> again. not a single person has ever said hey, your grammar sucks get outta hereAgain, sometimes things aren't said, but impressions are still left. Since the message board comprises the postings of proper ladies and gentlemen, no one would brash enough to castigate you for your torturing of the English language. Except me. I'm no gentleman, I'll have u no.Hopefully the above has given u a hard time, but Its ok with u i dont know because my comments most likely wont hurt u enough for u to get mad and/or depressed to cause them to go kill urself or anything like that. its all for fun.

Amusingly, the American Heritage Dictionary calls the noun form of the word "offensive slang". Their second definition is: "A person considered to be foolish or socially inept."

you sure have fun using past posts as references dont you? Are you a librarian? I get the feeling you know every single member one this board and their lives just from reading all the old posts.