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[theinevitable]

my grammar usage is getting worse. In everyday speech, at least. I am lately big on saying things are "real bad" or "real tasty" or such.

also, my official Thing that Pisses me Off is that my Writing 1 teacher corrects all these things that aren't incorrect. Such as "I do not know where they were going to." that isn't a literal example, but she gets all pissy about the dangling preposition. As certain of us are fond of saying, English is Not Latin.

Also, the whole issue of singular/plural verbs with Group nouns. Specifically "none of us are" vs "none of us is."

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Also, the whole issue of singular/plural verbs with Group nouns. Specifically "none of us are" vs "none of us is."

Sorry to say it, but that's another thing y'all Yanks get routinely wrong. Goddamnit!
Oh, it was someone here pointed it out I'm sure, complaining about the Mythbusters narrator (who irritates the hell out of me, but at least he uses English properly... FNAR)!

[CortJstr]

Sorry to say it, but that's another thing y'all Yanks get routinely wrong. Goddamnit!
Oh, it was someone here pointed it out I'm sure, complaining about the Mythbusters narrator (who irritates the hell out of me, but at least he uses English properly... FNAR)!

That was me. He speaks british, but when the show is aired in England they dub over him with somebody else and I don't get why. Maybe it's the accent.

Every time he says, "the team are" I want to reach into the TV and slap him. The entire point of collective nouns is to refer to a group as a singular unit! Singular!

[Ruta Bagas]

my grammar usage is getting worse. In everyday speech, at least. I am lately big on saying things are "real bad" or "real tasty" or such.

also, my official Thing that Pisses me Off is that my Writing 1 teacher corrects all these things that aren't incorrect. Such as "I do not know where they were going to." that isn't a literal example, but she gets all pissy about the dangling preposition. As certain of us are fond of saying, English is Not Latin

Why is that a problem in everyday speech?

I'm assured by the professor who takes my linguistics classes that the terminal preposition "rule", along with a great many others, rose to popular use because some shockingly cynical bloke realised that he could make a mint by exploiting the insecurities of the emerging middle class, who desperately wanted to speak "properly" and hence would swallow whatever bollocks he concocted for his usage guides. I can't decide whether to hate that man with a passion or admire his cunning.

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Every time he says, "the team are" I want to reach into the TV and slap him. The entire point of collective nouns is to refer to a group as a singular unit! Singular!

The opposite, by and large, makes me want to do the same. I think one of their producers, or quite possibly writers, is British. They've had some things crop up online narrated by a British guy who isn't the awful turd who redubs it over here.

[RMJ12345]

I have a question for Rumjay.  Where is the link to this webcomic you speak of. And we're gonna need to see those rude titties because as Lil Falls explained, we ain't gonna like it unless you are hot.

Heh. I have to make it actually good and funny before I can start promoting it. But soon, hopefully.

I've started dropping my g's since I moved to the South (I know SW VA isn't the South Proper, or The Dirty South, but it's plenty Southern to me). I guess my grammar's gotten a little worse, but I prefer to think of phrases such as "real bad" etc. as "colloquialisms".

[Golfhaus]

I've started dropping my g's since I moved to the South (I know SW VA isn't the South Proper, or The Dirty South, but it's plenty Southern to me). I guess my grammar's gotten a little worse, but I prefer to think of phrases such as "real bad" etc. as "colloquialisms".

RMJ, my wife is from Lynchburg. You are plenty in the South.

[AugustWest]

I have a dear friend from law school who is from that area.  It's an interesting area.  SW VA, if I understand correctly, is comparable to Eastern Ky.  Southern Appalachia.

Mountain folk are different from you and me.

[CortJstr]

Heh. I have to make it actually good and funny before I can start promoting it. But soon, hopefully.

I've started dropping my g's since I moved to the South (I know SW VA isn't the South Proper, or The Dirty South, but it's plenty Southern to me). I guess my grammar's gotten a little worse, but I prefer to think of phrases such as "real bad" etc. as "colloquialisms".

They have a place called "Troutville" and pronounce Buchanan as buh-can-an so I'd say that qualifies as the south. It also qualifies as "part of the state that keeps screwing things up in the legislature for NoVa"

[littlefallsmets]

Heh. I have to make it actually good and funny before I can start promoting it. But soon, hopefully.

There is an extent to which putting your work out there somewhat flawed and just... rolling forward with it, getting better as you go along, getting feedback, getting a reputation and proving you can keep it up week in and week out... is sometimes more important than getting it perfect.

I tell you this because this is pretty much why I am going nowhere as a writer, I don't have the guts to release things that aren't perfect in my eyes and then... you know... I don't have anything to try and get myself out there.

This is pretty much why I am not rich yet. Learn from my mistakes. Earn this, Private Ryan, earn this.