I just knew I misspelled some words in that post. I checked and double checked. Oh well it ain't no big thang.
Actually "School" is a verb. If you check in the oxford dictionary you will find that "School" is a noun and verb. To "school" somebody is to teach them. In that sense it is a verb. Rather like the word match, which can be a verb,noun or descriptive noun. As for Websters, I will never understand why america adopted a dictionary from a man that couldn't spell. Ie, color should be colour, jeweler should be jeweller, oxidation should be oxidisation and so on. If you want to know about the English language ask an englishman, this is one of the instances where americans fall on their faces. Of course, if america had kept paying taxes to king George we would have English type education and English taxes. I think I'd rather have Webster.
As long as you do it in a grammatically correct manner. My pet peeve is the lack of proper adverb use. Didn't anyone watch schoolhouse rock? "Lolly, lolly, lolly, get your adverb here!" Didn't Tom Brokaw do a series called "The dumbing of America" several years back lamenting the loss of basic knowledge such as grammer, punctuation, and spelling? I agree with an earlier posting that proper use of the written word is a reflection on yourself. It's simply attention to detail. Of course, many people weren't taught correctly to begin with, so they may not have the skills to fall back on. I too despise the run on, all-in-one-big-blurb paragraphs without punctuation. The poor grammar and spelling are just salt in the wound at that point & I typically won't bother with them unless it's an area I'm really interested in. Snobbery I guess. Here's a great website: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
Has anyone ever thought about the Yellow Power Ranger? I mean, yellow is the color of of cowards! Yet he wears yellow and fights the forces of evil on a daily basis! Do you think he laments the fact his costume is yellow? I'll bet in the Power Ranger locker room (after a big battle) his fellow Power Ranger team mates tease him about "being yellow" despite the fact that he blew up the evil ***** robot. On another note....Scotch. Im curious about the stain that is on my current chair. I haven't yet lowered my nostrols and sniffed....cause honestly it scares me. No matter, we are mving to the Mcmullen/Argus building tomorrow.
"Has anyone ever thought about the Yellow Power Ranger? I mean, yellow is the color of of cowards! Yet he wears yellow and fights the forces of evil on a daily basis! Do you think he laments the fact his costume is yellow? I'll bet in the Power Ranger locker room (after a big battle) his fellow Power Ranger team mates tease him about "being yellow" despite the fact that he blew up the evil ***** robot. " piss yellow at that...
I've got the entire Schoolhouse Rock grammar ("conjunction junction"), math ("mean ole number nine!"), & government ("shot heard 'round the world") on VHS several years ago when it first came out so my son can watch it (he's only 3, so he's got a way to go just yet).
It's "you're ". I agree with C9...if you're going to spend time trying to communicate with people, through the written word, at least TRY to use the right words. A little slang, here and there, is fine. A little bad punctuation is fine. The occasional mis-spelled word is fine...but Geeze-jus...some of these things are just basic English! The only people that are going to get upset about this subject are the ones that feel they are guilty of "crimes" being listed. Learn the difference between...their, there, they're and to, too, two. It's just common courtesy to the people you're talking to...and don't get me started on the "me first" mentality that seems to be permeating (sp?) America these days. All of this boils down to a simple concept...try thinking about the "other person" first once in awhile.
School is a verb... " school (2) v, 1. kirj, opettaa, saada opetusta jstk He is ~ed in the basic techniques of sculpture Hän saa opetusta kuvanveiston perustekniikoista, ~ oneself kouluttautua, 2. am, ylät br kouluttaa (käyttää koulussa), kasvattaa, sivistää, 3. valmentaa (hevosta); of the old school vanhan koulukunnan a gentleman ~ vanhan koulukunnan kasvatti " But what the hell I know, I trust in my dictionary... Old School rules! Or should it be skool?
My pet peeve is when people don't use the word "panchot" properly. You can't say: "You panchot motherf*****!" You CAN say: "You motherf***ing panchot!"
I can see your point C9, but I tend to feel I have enough education, intelligence and imagination that I can work out what most people are saying, even though their grammar and spelling may not be perfect. Not all people have had the benefit of a full education, and some are just not capable of writing any better than they do. Some basic rules: 1) Avoid alliteration. Always. 2) Prepositions are not words to end sentences with. 3) Avoid clichés like the plague. (They're old hat.) 4) Employ the vernacular. 5) Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc. 6) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. 7) It is wrong to ever split an infinitive. 8) Contractions aren't necessary. 9) Foreign words and phrases are not apropos, di ba? 10) One should never generalize. 11) Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." 12) Comparisons are as bad as clichés. 13) Don't be redundant and don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous to say the same thing over and over time and time again. 14) Profanity ****s the big one. 15) Be more or less specific. 16) Understatement is always best. 17) Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement. 18) One-word sentences? No. Never. Eliminate. 19) ****ogies in writing are like feathers on a snake. 20) The p***ive voice is to be avoided. 21) Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms. 22) Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed. 23) Who needs rhetorical questions? 24) All ways run yer werk threw a spell cheker. 25) "Your" and "you're" are different words. Make sure you're writings use the correct one.
Ok folks,Its time to climb down your high horses and kindly remove the foreign objects that seem to be shoved up your corn shoots.what the **** is this place, The Hokey *** School Board???
26) Always keep a big jar of 'Grey Poupon'in your glovebox 27) Always start a sentence with another person with 'Jolly Good Show Old Chap'or What a kick in the knickers ole boy 28)Some exlax,and enema,somthing to clear up the blockage that you suffer when ******* and moaning about a few misspelled words or slang terms.
Funny stuff Morrisman - and it's apparent that some will have it fly over their head without a hair being moved out of place..... Mutt
This IS a good thread. The subject of g-e-n-e-r-a-l grammer and spelling needed a 'tune-up'. Now, for you 'cute,funny type's' that continue to "School Me" in spite of this educational thread need just that. It would be so easy to flame the ignorant response's, to the point they shall 'self-implode'. This is the 'information highway', correct? Do you recall learning to cross the street as a child? "Stop. Look. And Listen".
It would appear that some are afraid that if they stop talking their brain might start working. Good post Jay.
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