grrrrrrr...ammar
i hate mispronunciations. like "mispronounciation". i hate wrongly constructed words with unnecessary prefixes. or incorrect prefixes. like innecessary. these things are intolerable to me and it requires every drop of restraint to not correct these kinds of blunders when performed by near-strangers. and it changes how i perceive people. (as i write this, i am beginning to think that i already wrote an entry about this issue. but no bother, i am irritated enough by the situation to write about it regularly.)
occasionally i will find myself utterly disillusioned by a person i had previously believed to be brilliant standing up and publicly declaring that something is the way it is irregardless of something else. WHAT?! but i respected you! how dare you?! why haven't any of your intelligent friends told you about this faux pas? i feel particularly irritable when i am speaking to someone who insists on giving every word significantly fewer syllables than it is supposed to have. (not LESS syllables, thank you!) and why can't target get that right. 8 items or less? what? do they mean 8 items of "stuff" or less "stuff" than that? and don't even get me started on the superfluous apostrophes (apostrophe's?) present in the english-speaking universe. anyway, the syllables. if someone offered some serp to put on your pancakes, would you know how to reply? is serp something we like or something we don't like? i don't know. and realater? what is a realater? is it a person who sells a house? or some kind of diet drug? (relacor, for those who don't watch as much cable television as i do) why is it so hard to pronounce words in a way that respects the letters in the order in which they appear? and don't tell me that you "shoont" have to or "coont" have done something. a contraction makes two words into one WORD not always one syllable. occasionally i encounter the extra syllables. equally annoying. when i was younger, i was quite an athalete. impressive. i want to say "and how were you at the more academic elements of high school?"
i could go on for days. but instead i'll just write another entry about this issue at a later date. for now i will conclude with the confession that i try as hard as i can to avoid the use of the words "that" and "which" because i know there are rules dictating their appropriate applications, and i have never known those rules. well, one time my friend Mac taught me the rules, but there were also 2 or 3 bottles of wine involved... but "supposably" i knew the rules for a day.
* special note* grammatical annoyances not included in this criticism include: refusal to capitalize, beginning sentences with "and" or "but" or "because", the use of periods other than at the end of complete sentences, and any other inappropriate usage i might demonstrate on a regular basis. when i do these things, i choose to declare my inalienable right to poetic licensure.
occasionally i will find myself utterly disillusioned by a person i had previously believed to be brilliant standing up and publicly declaring that something is the way it is irregardless of something else. WHAT?! but i respected you! how dare you?! why haven't any of your intelligent friends told you about this faux pas? i feel particularly irritable when i am speaking to someone who insists on giving every word significantly fewer syllables than it is supposed to have. (not LESS syllables, thank you!) and why can't target get that right. 8 items or less? what? do they mean 8 items of "stuff" or less "stuff" than that? and don't even get me started on the superfluous apostrophes (apostrophe's?) present in the english-speaking universe. anyway, the syllables. if someone offered some serp to put on your pancakes, would you know how to reply? is serp something we like or something we don't like? i don't know. and realater? what is a realater? is it a person who sells a house? or some kind of diet drug? (relacor, for those who don't watch as much cable television as i do) why is it so hard to pronounce words in a way that respects the letters in the order in which they appear? and don't tell me that you "shoont" have to or "coont" have done something. a contraction makes two words into one WORD not always one syllable. occasionally i encounter the extra syllables. equally annoying. when i was younger, i was quite an athalete. impressive. i want to say "and how were you at the more academic elements of high school?"
i could go on for days. but instead i'll just write another entry about this issue at a later date. for now i will conclude with the confession that i try as hard as i can to avoid the use of the words "that" and "which" because i know there are rules dictating their appropriate applications, and i have never known those rules. well, one time my friend Mac taught me the rules, but there were also 2 or 3 bottles of wine involved... but "supposably" i knew the rules for a day.
* special note* grammatical annoyances not included in this criticism include: refusal to capitalize, beginning sentences with "and" or "but" or "because", the use of periods other than at the end of complete sentences, and any other inappropriate usage i might demonstrate on a regular basis. when i do these things, i choose to declare my inalienable right to poetic licensure.
posted by shelly at 2/23/2006 07:56:00 PM
1 Comments:
"Supposably" is a word. I used to make fun of someone for using in verbal and written language until I took the time to look it up. This person meant to say "Supposedly". My point is this...words confuse me. Not to hard to do.
Do you still respect me because I start some sentences with and on the blog?
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