Guest Texas Jack Black Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 ????? As one who spends a chunk of her time teaching children to read.... and to spell.... It's the teacher's fault??? Just funnen around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom, SASS #54973 Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Just funnen around Yea...yer a rye-it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griff Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Buck, In truckin' we call 'em "CB Rambos"... Ready and willing to challenge those who've somehow offended their delicate sensibilities. I have two typing skills... good like now. when I'm at rest, parked and able to use two hands... other times... at 70mph trying to also contain some semblence of control over 80K lbs. of truck and freight... it's all one-handed. Typos occur. Deal with it. Oh yeah, don't cut me off in traffic. I might not see ya until contact is made! Like that last college kid that kept telling the police officer that, "...but, I had my turn signal on!" Like that'd somehow help me see his Honda Accord next to my right front steer tire, which he then proceeded to run into. Actually, I blame it on the scantily clad female on my left side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Texas Jack Black Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Yea...yer a rye-it. Thank you pantum, you are also quite humorous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Dog, SASS #20401 Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Buck, I have no trepidations about broaching folks face to face. Do it all the time, but most "ex"-specially (as the kiddoes these days say) if they are saying calvary when they talking about the cavalry. That exspecially or eckspecially sometimes causes me to pipe up. We had a high school student come to one of our VFW meetings asking for scholarship money. Her impassioned pleas peppered with her pronouncing it eXpecially several times. As the Officer of the Day I opened the door for her as she left and escorted her safely to her vehicle. As we walked I tried to explain to her that there was no such word as eXspecially and the correct pronunciation is eSpecially. She looked at me like I was the one without a clue and went on her way without furthur speaking. Doesn't bother me to chime in anytime anywhere to anybody. I'm yer huckleberry. I know you have cautioned me before that doing so is the equivalent to calling someone a dumb@$$ but I don't see it that way. If everyone turns a blind eye and keeps silent the epidemic dumbing down of America continues apace. It behooves each and all of us to do our part to help our fellow citizens. Those who don't appreciate altruistic efforts to help them and take umbrage should examine their own attitudes. So no, it's not keyboard courage in my case. I'm the same in person. And a coward of the first stripe in both realms. Discretion is the better part of valor is my motto. I always enjoy being corrected meowndangself. If I am messing up, I would hope someone would enlighten me so I could enjoy the benefit not only of their knowledge but their willingness to edify me. Thanks to all that do that have and that will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wylie Harp, #21158L Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Hukt on foniks werkt fer me ~:Wylie:~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iditarod Hammergun 24311 Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I have several old letters written by a few of my family ancestors during the 1850 to 1900 time period. Regardless of their locale; Texas, California, Oregon, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico, none of them use the slang or misspellings that some folks believe to be correct for that time period. From their letters and from books I have inherited, it is apparent that they all learned from the excellent McGuffey Readers series of books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allie Mo, SASS No. 25217 Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I have several old letters written by a few of my family ancestors during the 1850 to 1900 time period. Regardless of their locale; Texas, California, Oregon, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico, none of them use the slang or misspellings that some folks believe to be correct for that time period. From their letters and from books I have inherited, it is apparent that they all learned from the excellent McGuffey Readers series of books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Canyon Kid #43974 Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Buck, I have no trepidations about broaching folks face to face. Do it all the time, but most "ex"-specially (as the kiddoes these days say) if they are saying calvary when they talking about the cavalry. That exspecially or eckspecially sometimes causes me to pipe up. We had a high school student come to one of our VFW meetings asking for scholarship money. Her impassioned pleas peppered with her pronouncing it eXpecially several times. As the Officer of the Day I opened the door for her as she left and escorted her safely to her vehicle. As we walked I tried to explain to her that there was no such word as eXspecially and the correct pronunciation is eSpecially. She looked at me like I was the one without a clue and went on her way without furthur speaking. Doesn't bother me to chime in anytime anywhere to anybody. I'm yer huckleberry. I know you have cautioned me before that doing so is the equivalent to calling someone a dumb@$$ but I don't see it that way. If everyone turns a blind eye and keeps silent the epidemic dumbing down of America continues apace. It behooves each and all of us to do our part to help our fellow citizens. Those who don't appreciate altruistic efforts to help them and take umbrage should examine their own attitudes. So no, it's not keyboard courage in my case. I'm the same in person. And a coward of the first stripe in both realms. Discretion is the better part of valor is my motto. I always enjoy being corrected meowndangself. If I am messing up, I would hope someone would enlighten me so I could enjoy the benefit not only of their knowledge but their willingness to edify me. Thanks to all that do that have and that will. What a rude person! Lucky you haven't been knocked out doing this face to face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pukin Dog, SASS#55356-Life Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 What if we are. You going to look down your nose at us??? Can we not come on here and enjoy the wire also??? Or could be that our education is just in other areas. Naw I don't look down my nose at ya, but then again I wouldn't be proud of admitting that you slept through your English classes. Seems kind of lazy to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griff Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 What a rude person! Lucky you haven't been knocked out doing this face to face. After writing several reports and having them rejected by various and sundry District Attorney types, (if they even make it past your sergeant), you oughta quickly learn that mispellings and incorrect word usage will land you in the "idiot" list at their office and your cases fall on deaf ears. Especially when their own "idiots" go ahead with filing them and then have the COURT reject them. Then when you become the sergeant, and have to read the goobledigook others try to foist off as a "report", you just might become a little less tolerant. Habits learned thru your professional career become second nature and carry over easily to civilian life. Having been chastised by superior officers for using crude, abusive and vulgar language to certain miscreants in the past, I found it useful (not to mention "self-serving"), to simply say, "...I was speaking in the venacular they have become accustomed to hearing. I wanted there to be no misunderstandings." As I'm sure Lone Dog is, I'm quite conversant in such venacular. It would be unseemly to use such language skills here. Just as when I questioned the need to begin learning Spanish in the 1st grade; the principal (& owner of the school), said, if you expect to be understood by those who will be carrying out your instructions, it's best to do so in the language they understand. Nothing rude about it. Ignorance is curable... And one of the first lessons I learned as a street cop... there are NO Marquis de Queensbury rules in play. Getting "knocked out" isn't an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anvil Al #59168 Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Naw I don't look down my nose at ya, but then again I wouldn't be proud of admitting that you slept through your English classes. Seems kind of lazy to me. Not lazy. Not proud. Just the way it was. Don't care if you think it lazy or not. Just did not care for it. Still don't. Remembering back. Think I got low B's in those type classes. So did not do that bad. But could have done a lot better if I would have paid attention. They just did not hold my attention at all. A lot of what I did learn, I did not retain. It was just not important to me. I remembered it just enough to get through the test at the time. Then it was out of my mind. Now SHOP classes. Lucky my school had a lot of nice shop type classes. I could not wait to get to those. Made stuff for many of the teachers. All the book cases in the new Principal's office in wood shop. The big sign in front of the school in metals shop. Anything that needed done my shop teachers would have me do it. Senior year I got out at noon everyday. Worked in a cabinet shop from 1 until 6 every day. Then went to work at another place from 6:30-7 until 10 or 11 each night. Those shop classes paid off a lot more for me over the years than remembering when to use there, or their. Or misspelling a few words now and then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabez Cowboy,SASS # 50129 Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 ????? As one who spends a chunk of her time teaching children to read.... and to spell.... It's the teacher's fault??? Ya looks like a right fine teacher ,,,,Ta me !!! Blonde and has guns !!! Ah might need a closer look to comment futher on yer other assettets...... But Ya seem right fine ta me ... My oldest daughter is an English Fesser ... Jabez Cowboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sawyer#34250 Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 I bet the poor spellers are good shooters, hard workers while on the range and have hearts of gold. Those are the qualities I like the best in SASS members. I bet that when it comes time to stand and beg for the forgiveness of one's sins that spelling is not even mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheyenne Culpepper 32827 Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Actually I do know proper english and my spelling skills are rather well tuned. Having said that, I may well be one of the biggest culprits when writing here on the wire. Why do I do it then? Because I can and in certain instances I want to. However, would I berate someone for a mistake in proper uses of the english language, me thinks not! And why not you may ask? I do not know if they were tryng for a rise out of someone or if they simply made a mistake, whether intentional or not. I know lots of fine folk who may not have had the advantage of education beyond elementary school level, and I would shake at the idea of belittling them in such a fashion. Some folk have said they don't like trying to "cypher" what I read, well, it hasn't changed me much has it? Iffn yu wunt tu b a correktur of fine anglish thin becum an anglish teechur tu make sure avurwun larns tu spell and huse propur anglish! Cheyenne, whu larnt frum Cherokee Beeg Dawg (a bonified anglish teechur) Culpepper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Actually I do know proper english and my spelling skills are rather well tuned. Having said that, I may well be one of the biggest culprits when writing here on the wire. Why do I do it then? Because I can and in certain instances I want to. However, would I berate someone for a mistake in proper uses of the english language, me thinks not! And why not you may ask? I do not know if they were tryng for a rise out of someone or if they simply made a mistake, whether intentional or not. I know lots of fine folk who may not have had the advantage of education beyond elementary school level, and I would shake at the idea of belittling them in such a fashion. Some folk have said they don't like trying to "cypher" what I read, well, it hasn't changed me much has it? Iffn yu wunt tu b a correktur of fine anglish thin becum an anglish teechur tu make sure avurwun larns tu spell and huse propur anglish! Cheyenne, whu larnt frum Cherokee Beeg Dawg (a bonified anglish teechur) Culpepper with ya pard! I actually have fun deciphering your posts GG ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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