Is anyone bothered by this?

[Wildkat]

Hey TC

Look what I found!

The "further" vs. "farther" difference

Americans use the word farther when describing distance, e.g. "Let's not drive any farther today". Whereas when describing a process, the word further is used, e.g. "Let's not take this matter any further today".

In the Commonwealth, only the word further is used in all instances.

http://www.classroomlink.net/frontend/index.php?tid=hilaryteske&pid=193

[trbig]

While I can see how your fingers would be working faster than your brain

While I recognize this weak attempt at an insult, you are a taken woman Wildkat. And as such... my fast fingers and my "O's" are NONE of your concern! lol.. (I know.. don't start sentences with AND)




As for this...

(Why bite my tongue? Because the thoughts are more vulgar than I care to admit.)

Who's aren't?? lol

Tod

[Wildkat]

Lame attempt??

I was TRYING to be nice!


It's all good... I'm saving up for something REALLY special... One of these days... when you least expect it...

I've said it before and I'll say it again...
Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha

*sneaking off to plan my attack*

[Czekus21]

I type two fingered and most of the time proofread. I became a member of this fine bunch of XS owners because I think the XS11 is the best motorcycle ever produced, not to have my grammer or puncuations ridiculed. The brief time I spent in school ( Dropped out, had to go to work to make $$ to eat ) I did take typing. That's where the chicks were. Home Ec. as well. That's where the chicks were. I learned how to sew buttons in the Army. I may not be able to spell and properly puncuate as well as folks with the " college degree " , But, I can turn a wrench, use common sense, and ride my bike whenever and wherever I want. I've found out that with increase in knowledge ( ie: the profesional student and some university professors) ( My uncle and dad ) the greater the technical knowledge the lessor the common sense. I'll take the common sense by far. I don't like being judged on my technical and riding ability because of a few miss-spelled words. I work in the cable industry and have XSelled XSesivlly in the last few years. Passed up alot of people that did there time in college learning the field that I think is just " COMMON SENSE ". I apologise if this reply is taken offensivlly by anyone but if the shoe fits??
Sometimes lifes lessons are a better teacher then ANY school.

[Pat Kelly]

The first sentance Constitution of the United States s a grammatical error.

".... in order to form a more perfect Union....."

more perfect? If it perfect then how can it be more perfect?

Maybe the Consitiution should be changed to appease English teachers.

[prometheus578]

"Let he without syntax cast the first stone."

so, you can spell and write a purty sentence, you aint got a Harley- you aint sh!t."

"No, you boob, it's because I can spell and write that I don't own a Harley. Not only are you dumb enough to buy one of these machines, you're not even bright enough to read the manual so that you can fix it yourself." (This assumes that GNEPIG was speaking of his customers)

[Meri]

Eye halve a spelling checker
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My checker tolled me sew.

- unknown

[mro]

Hey Burl, ...hello....HELLO ... you out there?
You started this thread and seems you’ve been chased away?
May have gotten the impression we were “dissing” you?
Well..... this is the “Members Lounge” so I don’t feel so bad as when I highjack a thread in the discussion side.
Don’t feel bad then either.

Type a little ditty so we know your still there.



mro

[Burly1]

Just came back in after trying to get a start at putting up a fence in the wet snow. That's enough of that for one day!
Well.... My friend Randy thinks I need to lighten up. Dude. I got your dude right here. Any how, It's not that I really care that much, not to the point where I grimace when reading these "newspeak" types of posts. I think that doing your best with grammar, spelling and punctuation is like holding a door open for someone. It's just the right thing to do and it doesn't cost you a thing. You might even gain something from the exercise, like respect and credibility.
Wildkat got it right. I certainly don't expect perfection. Hey, even when I think I'm right I can still be wrong. Big surprise, huh? I think that people owe it to themselves and others, to do as well as they are able. Nothing more. If you don't posess the tools, you can't change the carbs, and I believe I have the ability recognize and accept when that might occur on these pages. It's called mutual respect. Even if I don't know and can't see you, I would still like you to think kindly of me.
And lastly, Pat, solver of many problems related to the two wheeled beast. Pat, honestly, If expecting a little effort from my fellow man is going to leave me in the dust of the future, I guess I'll just have to wrap one of those well worn bandana's in my collection around my cake hole and try not to choke. IMHO, these types of shortcuts do everyone a disservice, and reasonable people will recognize "newspeak" as nothing more than laziness brought on by apathy. No Pat. I don't have a hard time understanding the point but I do have a hard time understanding why anyone would choose to communicate in such a ragtag fashion when they have the ability to do so very much better.
I find that I have a hard time, occasionally, caring about things that well and truly need to be cared about. It's a character flaw of mine. This is one of the subjects about which I care a little, and endeavored to state an honest opinion regarding. Anal about It I ain't. Recognize the problem I do. Understand it I don't. It is comforting to know that I'm not alone in my views.
I sure as the world never expected a three pager!

I'd rather be riding, Burl

[Burly1]

I just re-read the post from my fellow XSive to the South, Czekus. I agree wholeheartedly that common sense can mean a great deal more, in many instances, than whatever grade you might have achieved in school.
For the record, I did get a high school diploma, and attended college. A trade school, to learn to be a mechanic. If I seem to be holding myself high and mighty over ANYONE, that was surely not my intent.
The entire content of my original post was intended as a jab at what readers of George Orwell's "1984" will recognise as "newspeak". For those who haven't read the book, "newspeak" is a term used to describe a type of speaking, developed in the future, in which nouns and verbs are virtually the only words used, and punctuation is all but forgotten. Some of our internet authors are coming eerily close to what Orwell described.
Czekus my friend, the "shoe" as you have cobbled it, don't fit at all. As for taking offense, you couldn't offend me with a baseball bat in person. We are probably more of a kind than either of us would care to admit.
I hope the weather in Madison is better than here, because it looks like a long time before the motorcycle will see the asphalt in my neighborhood again.
Burl

[prometheus578]

"Jibber jabber jibberish"

Newspeak, ebonics...
Language is dynamic. But just 'cause some words are now considered "common usage" and some clown puts them in the new dictionary editions, doesn't mean I have to use them and sound like a low-grade moron.
Role models... that's what's missing. There are no role models today to teach our young'uns proper grammer and enunciation. "Words have syllables, Pal, try using all of them."
Oh, we're too busy to teach our chillen' the basics. Much easier to set them in front of the "One Eyed God all day.
"Maury... I's fo-hunnert precent shor He my baby daddy!"
"Jerry... dis toof-less bitch be a ho!"

"Hey, who left my tools all over the floor?"
"Sorry Pops, my bad."
Your what?
And civility... what has become of that?
I got off work today, and said to myself(in proper english, no less), "I think I'll rent a video."
I'm standing there trying to find a good "G" rated movie for myself... not close to the rack, but back a few feet so as not to encumber the selection of other patrons. Would you believe that everyone walking that aisle walked right in front of me, instead of walking behind? Of course you would... just as you'll believe that not one of them said, "Please, excuse me.", or "Please, pardon me."
(The only thing that spared them my wrath was that neither of my sons were with me. I will not hesitate to point out to others their lack of common courtesy and obvious low-breeding. It's a bonus to me when my sons can witness this, as I feel it reenforces in them good manners and also reenforces that Pop's a little off balance and the next time he hears "My bad" around the house someone's likely to get back-handed. (No... not bitch-slapped... backhanded, like the first time your father heard you cuss at the table.)
Or was your father the type to cuss at the table... and around women and small children?

That metal faced girl at Harbor Freight... her of the green hair and Ubangi lip plate...
"How can I help you?"
"I was wondering that, myself."
"Huh?"
"The phrase is, 'How may I help you'."

Ok, it's late and I'm obviously over tired. (But I feel better)
Oh, and hey, cowboy... take off that stetson when you enter my house. That goes for those stupid ball-caps, too. (and if you wear the thing backwards or sideways, don't even step on my front porch)

[Wildkat]

Ain't, ain't a word

But just 'cause some words are now considered "common usage" and some clown puts them in the new dictionary editions

THANK you!

My Mom was an English teacher... grammar and its correct usage pounded into my head on a daily basis (luckily with a rubber mallet and nothing harder). Some of it has carried over to my older, wiser ways (I do slip once in a great while) and a few things still bug me... My daughter using the word "ain't" is one of them.
(Why do they put an apostrophe between the "n" and "t" when there are more letters missing before said consonants?)

It just ain't right I tell you!
Oops... my bad...

[Special Ed]

Who are the Grammer Police?

It is my undestanding that the word "ain't" was once an acceptable contraction for 'I am not," as in: "I ain't going to town." It was so commonly misused , however that the Grammer Police outlawed its use entirely.
I frequently type my messages in "Word" and then "cut and paste" onto this site. I do this partly so I can spell- check, and partly because I have lost too many long elaborate messages because my "log- in" had apparently timed out and the message was lost in cyber-space. Man, is that ANNOYING!
Anyway, can we lighten up just a tad on this subject? But for an unfortunate twist of fate we would be speaking Scots English and spelling everything differently anyway.
E.Liberty

[Pat Kelly]

American Sign Language which has been around for over 400 years, using terms from Europe (as does most American English). It forgoes using every word that might be spoken for any particular phrase.
Most basic example:
We would say "How are you?"
We would sign "How you?"
There is a sign for the word "are" but that is 'see sign' and would get you chastised by anyone over 30 years old for using it.
It may surprise you Burly but I do agree with you. My Wifes family is from Oklahoma and it grates on my nerves when they say "ain't got no (insert word)". I correct my children when they say it but I leave the in-laws alone (I get along with them quite well).
E Lib. wouldn't that contraction be "I amn't goig to town?

[dmac82]

As you can see, I am not one to post much, I feel posting takes time from lurking at new posts or searching for specific topics on older posts. This is a personal choice but may not e the correct choice.

Having said that;

I appreciate all who do take the time to post and I never judge the writing skills. I really appreciate our friends in other countrys that have the courage to do the best they can with our version of english, I have yet to see a post that I was unable to determine the author's intentions.

To sum it all up,

I don't give a damn how it looks, ya'all keep them coming!!!!!!