Steering wheel wiggles on my Town & Country

Hi...

Yikes, one of my very favorites... irregardless.

Now even more so, just for the heck of it I spell checked it and
it's OK

I feel like such a looser

Take care.

Ken

 

Ken Weitzel wrote:

Definately.

 

Your prolly right.
(couldn't resist)

 

Write on!!!!

 

I think there IS a rule. Apostrophes are for contractions or
possessives, and the plural of an acronym is neither of those.
Therefore, it shouldn't have an apostrophe.

Not that I really care- I often do the same thing. If I happen to stop
and think, I always find myself removing the apostrophe and thinking,
"Well, that sure LOOKS wrong, but I'm following the rules."

I try not to be too much of a pedantic pissant when reading usenet posts
because a Fundamental Rule of the Internet is that every post
criticizing grammar or spelling will itself have a spelling or grammar
error. But sheesh, sometimes its hard to resist. People have been
screwing up "your and you're" for years, I can almost live with that.
But when I see those un-punctuated run-on sentences with no verbs or
capital letters (or all-caps), or when I see people write, "I'm going to
sale this car," or putting "4 sell" in a subject line, my fear for the
future of civilization really goes up. :-/

 

By whom? This is how "low" and "high" German evolved, which were
unshakable class identifiers. We have this in the US these days, as
well...just go down South or to your local ghetto. Incidentally,
"codify" is misused here, as well. Codification means, literally,
"making legal by code," as through legislative action. By whose
authority did that happen, anyway?

One does have to compliment the French. They DO codify changes to
their language through official government action, thus preventing
such amorphism of language that is happening at an alarming rate in
the USA. I've noticed the trend has worsened since our "Bumbler In
Chief" was "selected" in 2000.

"Your" does not express the second person singular declension of the
verb, "to be"...period. The miswriting of contractive forms of the
verbs "to be" and "to have" will infiltrate a language already
overpopulated with homonyms which already lead to clouded meaning and
lack of succinct expression in English, one of the most difficult and
illogical languages extant.

Other telling common miscues of late: "threw" for through, "breaks"
for brakes, "set" for sat, "sell" for sale, along with the omnipresent
"your" for you're. All of these are quite common in the South now,
where education is traditionally of poor quality.

GRAMMAR. Also, I'm not criticizing grammar; I'm criticizing misuse of
homonyms.

....pronounced by the speaker, "tuhhr." Bush's abuses of the American
English dialect are the worst of any US president, making Yogi Berra
seem statesmanlike in comparison. Favorite "Berraism" on TV of late:
"It pays you cash...which is as good as real money!"

Latest polls: Bush will be a pretty lame duck next week. One can
only hope his goose will be cooked. He's a "fowl" president, at best.
Perhaps he gets his counsel from Big Bird masquerading as Condo Rice?

 

Another common case of poor usage by Americans: "press", as in
"...what the press says." Correct usage would be, "...what the press
SAY." Press is an inclusive plural in this case. You'll note the
English are sticklers on this issue.

Limbaugh...well, he's a deluded buffoon, so not much is expected from
him by anyone with an intelligence quotient over room temperature in
Fahrenheit. According to what the media are saying today, his attack
on Michael J. Fox is blowing up in his face rather nicely. Have some
more OxyContin, Flush! Care for a smuggled Viagra with that?

 

Bush and Carter.

Limbaugh's using 'media' as a collective noun there - possibly to
emphasize his feeling that they often act as one in the context of
whatever point he's making. As in "The drive-by media is always doing
that sort of thing".

Whatever he meant, I disagree.

Bill Putney
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address with the letter 'x')

 

My favorite is "That's a hella mod you did to your Civic!"

I guess 'hella' is a contraction of "hell of a"? I wonder if those kids
even realize that.

Another one: "That landau roof looks like ass". I have to admit, it
does creata a mind picture.

Bill Putney
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address with the letter 'x')

 

Look up "collective noun". You're one of those people who let your
politics sway your comments about otherwise objective things, and it
always comes across as fundamental dishonesty.

You could say "The flock is..." or "The flock are..." depending on
whether what you're getting ready to say about the flock is a collective
action or several different actions (by individuals in the flock. Again
- look up "colective noun".

Now I've got to get the flock out of here.

Bill Putney
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address with the letter 'x')

 

I love my Grammar! (She always gives mwe candy.)

Bill Putney
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address with the letter 'x')

 

Carter was so long ago I don't recall that...besides I thought he
had been forgotten.

Of course...but he's using a plural noun. More apt would be "the
company is" versus the "the company are" (as in corporation, not
soldiers).

But I'm just too easy.

 

Wish I'd read this before I responded to the previous. Not sure that
there'd ever be more than one flock....mulling.

Now, that's an old one.

 

I wonder why Bob doesn't comment on his own errors in misspelling
fastidious and resplendent. Does his errors make him an idiot, too?

 

Some generational slang like that doesn't bother me too much. But
generational slang that is just outright rotten grammar does.

That one's too ambiguous... it can mean anything, depending on WHOSE ass
it looks like. ;-)

 

How fun!! (shudder)

 

You've chosen to have the flock all doing one thing (collectively),
therefore singular in that particular case.

It's simple:
(1) The flock were running in all directions.
(2) The flock was heading over the hill to where the farmer was putting
out feed.

Bill Putney
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address with the letter 'x')

 

OK - here's one for you: "Some firewalls will block .jpg's and .exe's".
Definitely looks wrong this way: "Some firewalls will block .jpgs and
..exes". (Let's pretend you can't re-write the sentence as a work-around
- like: "Some firewalls will block JPEG's and executables".)

Bill Putney
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address with the letter 'x')

 

My solution is usually to capitalize the acronym and use a lowercase
"s". Ergo, "Some firewalls will block JPGs and EXEs."

Still looks silly, but feels better (to me, anyway).

 

And what the heck does this crap have to do with that ladies town and
country? BTW