Bad Grammar

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Bad grammar annoys me. I have actually heard people say 'he don't'. It drives me insane. People who speak like that sound like they have had no education.

It also annoys me when people don't pronounce words correctly. The one I hear most often is 'recognise'. I hate it when people say 'rec-on-ize'. Don't they know it should be 'rec-oG-nize'?

I use "y'all" because it's part of the local dialect and, come on, English needs a you plural!

I'm also happy I can follow y'all's (hehehe) conversation about chavs. CNN did a brief piece on them once so this American isn't completely out of the loop.

I'm not really sure the subleties of English were killed by illiterate peasants, since I don't think the Anglo-Saxon invaders were very educated themselves and managed to have a complex grammar. English has been influenced by so many languages over the last 1500 years it's no wonder we've got the weird grammar we do today. Between Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Norman French, Scandanavian, Latin, and bits picked up from Indian, Chinese, African languages, North American Indian languages, modern German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian, original English subleties were bound to disappear. But we've also developed our own subtleties.

Again, I think I'm being too serious and going off on little professor rants.

who let the english professors outta their cages. put em back
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We're out hunting for food. And you forgot to Cap your W, and the E in English. Plus, you forgot a question mark and an apostrophe. And. a. period.

Y'know what another probem with English is (and this is NOT directed to anyone)? Our conversational grammar is bleeding into our writing style. We're so used to speaking a certain way that we can't help but write that way also. And since you don't punctuate when you speak, you don't think about punctuating in writing either:

see what i mean this is how i talk to someone on the internet like im talking to them in person its quicker to type but its harder to read cuz you dont know where 1 sentence ends and the other begins

Punctuation breaks up the monotony. Livens up the page a bit. And it's fun to use, too. :^)

- Your Linguistic Zed, who does NOT want to get started on apostrophes right now

I find poor grammar unattractive. I also tend to dislike any accent that deviates from proper enunciation. I realize that these are my own personal quirks, though, and I try to avoid letting others' occasional mistakes bother me. After all, I make occasional grammatical errors, myself. Unfortunately, I have much more difficulty accepting people who are utterly incapable of grasping grammatical structure in general.

Some strong words. Beautifully punctuated, too .

These things don't bother me too much. Each persons style of writing is part of their on-line personality, so to speak. Anyway, to be honest, I don't know all the rules of grammar and punctuation and was never taught them at school. I just observe how others write, and adapt accordingly.

Hmmm... think I missed a few apostrophes in there somewhere... jeez I'm getting edgy, what must people think?

Oh, a thought... perhaps one of the grammar gurus could give us an idiots guide and get it stickied to the top of the page.

I don't give much about Grammer either, but they tell me he was great on Frasier.

somebody told me once that a good writer, writes how they speak. As on the internet, grammar is unneccisary. Just look at all the little abbreviations and etiquite we have to follow.
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