Adesmar123
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A Freudian slip, perhaps.Locally, I know of a lawyer who prepared a lengthy brief (a s e xual matter, possibly assault or rape) and it was replete with errors that confused "causal relationship" with "casual relationship."
What does a German tripping on a banana peel have to do with any of this?A Freudian slip, perhaps.
Ach, you are zliding on der zlippery zlope.What does a German tripping on a banana peel have to do with any of this?
Al is poking fun at the Grammar Police,
Huh?
I think he's poking fun at the kids from the smart-phone generation who have no idea how to write.
Agreed.
Truth. EVERYone knew how to write before smart phones arrived.... Which is why I never understood Churchill's "Up with which I will not put." Makes no sense, since everyone knew how to write before smart phones...
ThisJustIn said:Truth. EVERYone knew how to write before smart phones arrived.... Which is why I never understood Churchill's "Up with which I will not put." Makes no sense, since everyone knew how to write before smart phones...
Well just saying would be "which I will not put up with" which is incorrect because you're ending the sentence with a preposition.
In the current vernacular the rules regarding prepositional phrases and so forth are essentially forgotten unfortunately though the Churchill quote does sound very archaic
And the rule is:
"Never use a preposition to end a sentence with."
And a couple more:
"Avoid cliches like the plague."And there are dozens more where these came from.
"Remember to never split an infinitive."
"Never, ever use repetitive redundancies."
"Use parallel structure when you write and in speaking."
"The rigid rule of 'i before e except after c' raises spelling to a sceince."
As youse know, me written some stuff. Me characters ain't great examples of good grammar. Never use grammar check,ever. It just doesn't get using bad grammar to further characterization. No doubt as u and me no, Weird Al is definitely having so fun with the text only generation.Correct grammar is good, in its place, but so is incorrect grammer in its. Can you imagine;
"I can't get any satisfaction"
"Bobby McGee and I"
"To go boldly where no one has gone before."
"There isn't any more cane on the Brazos."
"Whoopee ki yi yo, get along little dogies, it's your misfortune it is not any of my own."
"I have you, Babe."
"It isn't me, Babe."
"Julio and I down by the schoolyard."
"You aren't anything but a hound dog!"
etc.
or you could argue that because the Latin could not be split, therefore the English should not be split