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Of course, back in the old days, mistakes like that could get you a switching from the schoolmistress, with her hair in a tight bun....and her cheeks all flushed and...... ![]()
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Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE!I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama Last edited by richlevy; 01-06-2006 at 05:38 PM. |
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lobber of scimitars
Join Date: Jul 2001
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Today, I signed a commitment warrant for a woman who wrote that her son had "tryed to cute my throuathe."
I finally figured it out, and her son really was crazy, but the whole idea of her being barely able to express herself in written English was more frightening than her son's behavior.
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I visited Franklin's Post Office and exhibit and reading the samples of writing there required some translation.
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Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE!I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama |
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lobber of scimitars
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I honestly don't think this lady was having a purfuit of happineff moment.
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Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE!I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama |
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still says videotape
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lobber of scimitars
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I always loved that Stan Freberg bit, but the opportunities to use it in conversation are few and far between, even for me.
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Larger than life and twice as ugly.
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SCENE CLEAN - with their mascot - The Grim Sweeper. Real company. Cleans up murder, suicide, accident, ect. scenes. Better than having the family pick pieces of brain off the wall. ----------- Back to the origin of the thread, I used to work in a hardware store, and I got the entire staff pronouncing the word as - "Al-u-min-i-um". 5 separate sounds. It was great watching the purchasing agent place an order. ----------- "Massive two tits." Massachusetts. But, of course, "I won't cum in your mouth" is often mispronounced as "Oops".
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We must all go through a rite of passage. It must be physical, it must be painful, and it must leave a mark. I have no knowledge of the events which you are describing, and if I did have knowledge of them, I would be unable to discuss them with you now or at any future period. ![]() ![]() Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years |
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lobber of scimitars
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I know someone who does the crime scene clean up gig in one of the Carolinas. There's a lot of money in that.
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
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How do you pronounce a sentence like, "It isn't going to matter one way or the other?"
I'm horrible about diction in some cases -- when I say that, it sounds like "Iddingonma'er one wayathothr". If I try to pronounce it correctly, I don't like the way all the "s" and "th" sounds feel in my mouth -- it makes my teeth itch. Neuroses, I've got a few.
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King Of Wishful Thinking
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The question mark is probably wrong, however, if it is a statement. However, according to this link, it is grammatically correct to place a question mark on an interrogative statement. Quote:
A) I fact check before posting on the Cellar. B) Even guys with English degrees forget or never bothered learning all of the rules. C) The first rule of 'proper English grammer' is that there are too many exceptions to rules. In the end, punctation is more about conveying inflection or pace than applying strict structure. E. E. Cummings was right.
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Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE!I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama Last edited by richlevy; 01-09-2006 at 06:40 PM. |
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Has Body Temperature
Join Date: Oct 2003
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I have trouble when speaking i think it comes from my father who was a stutterer.
If i have to say two words together sometimes i get the second letter of the second word mixed into the second letter of the first word. Its very frusterating. Examples: "Forest Floor" becomes "Florest Floor" "Sylvester Stallone" becomes "Stylvester Stalone"
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Person who doesn't update the user title
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And mishandled homonyms are something RichLevy and I agree on: solecisms are bad. Native English speakers do not have an excuse for mistaking your for you're, nor to and too [make yore]. I remember a real groaner of a bit of substandard writing I saw on a little sign in a military building I worked in at Misawa Air Base: "you'r" the poor SOB wrote.
![]() Loose/Lose aren't even homonyms. Perhaps the explanation is that "loose" is really a typo? ------ Don't get me started on the ignoramuses who don't decline their pronouns as English should, and in all seeming innocence deliver themselves of phrases like "between her and I" -- in real English, pronouns have a predicate case, an objective form, dammit! "Wanna be perfect, like I?" Where were these people hiding during English class?
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