Y'all are crackin' me up!

Slaughtered English
 

The Weird Al piece is wonderful!! It moves so quickly, however that it deserves at least a second, if not a third, viewing.

Most of today’s problems are a result of what many of us refer to as “government schools”. It’s more likely that they’ll be discussing sex education than teaching, what most of us old timers refer to as, proper English. There is a very popular morning radio show here in Omaha and two of the best announcers/talk people consistently use a comparative in place of the correct superlative, such as “They were the better team . . .”, when there are dozens of teams instead of only two. Lately, on the evening news, I’ve heard two or three of the most prominent weather personalities say, “you can expect ‘seasonable’ weather today”, instead of ‘seasonal’. And the list could go on.

My mother was an English teacher so she pounded The King’s English into my head. Being slightly OCD anyway I am embarrassed when I make errors of any kind and have given all of my friends, and particularly my wife, permission to correct me, in fact, I ask them to. For whatever it is worth, I am giving any/all who read my posts permission to let me know when I mess up. I have always learned best from my errors.

Even though in my own little world I am still controlled by my addiction to correctness, it is vastly more important that accurate communication be taking place than it is to always be grammatically correct. I try to keep that in mind each time I hear proper English being mutilated and disrespected.

Ironically, at this moment the post directly under this one is missing An apostrophe.
Let's....be honest.
For peace of mind, I had to pretty much give up using my red pen and let it go.

wandatime, that sign down on the road that goes past the entrance to Brownwood is wrong! (The one that says "Ya'all come back, ya hear?" Or however it's spelled.) Darn developer's advertiser doesn't know how to spell y'all!

:a20:

If you come to Boston, you will see one of those lighted signs, on the highway, that reads "If yah wannah change lanes, use yah blinkahs" Hmmm, do we really talk like that in Boston?

Improper use of apostrophes?...check out many many family names on sign posts all around the area. The Brown's... I think not.

Exactly. Who cares? Those that are upset about correct english probably couldn't trig an angle and again who cares.

The one thing that drives me nuts is
Your and you're
I've gotten "professional" invitations with that mistake
Argh

Musta been some Yankee made the sign. :crap2:

BTW, I would like to thank all y'all for making this a fun thread.

Irish names
 

The opposite is the lack of use when people leave it out, or worse when it's not allowed in your name. O'Hara, O'Toole, O'Connor etc. have an apostrophe, always have, and now you often can't use it. I've had problems with airline tickets against my passport and being found in a data base. It was never an issue for the first 50 years or so but today it is often a problem.

I don't know. I'm thinking the thread's about dog poop and smoker's is way more important than a thread on apostrophe's. :1rotfl::1rotfl:

There are so many more important things on which to focus.

As long as I can understand the intent, isn't that what really matter??

Yeah. To often two many people try too make things two serious.