[CFrance]

Originally Posted by kittygilchrist

The English Police edited your post, to wit:
Upon my having become illuminated as to the discomfiture caused to superior grammarians by their perpetual reading of illiterately contrived missives...etc.
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Come on now, I don't think anybody is losing sleep over the minor annoyance of having the King's English slain. I'm proud that I can mispell misspell. You have to override spellcheck but it can be done.

Did you think Parker was being serious? I thought he/she was joking.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I can still say my linking verbs.

Be; Look; Feel; Taste; Smell; Sound; Seem; Appear; Get; Become; Grow; Stay; Keep; Turn; Prove; Go; Remain; Resemble; Run; Lie

I used to get in trouble with my aunt for saying "It looks like rain."

[kittygilchrist]

Originally Posted by CFrance

Wait just a minute! I was an editor, and I say "snuck." Even Merriam-Webster doesn’t make the distinction in its online definition and fully recognizes “snuck” as a past tense and past participle of “sneak."

The rules of the English language constantly evolve with usage, and I believe that's as it should be. Otherwise we would still be saying thee and thy. Although I do object to The Ox adding the insipid Rachael Ray's EVOO to the dictionary.

Peter Jennings... I'm happy to be lumped with him as one of the "snuckers."

Cyndy, you are so dear...
I know, I know about evolving linguistics, I just wish it were slow enough that I don't have to watch. Here I am standing on a rule about -ly on adverbs and they change it BECAUSE more people screw it up than get it right. If they could change it SLOW--LY, after I'm gone???

About thee and thy, I adore my King James Bible, and am from a Tennessee lineage where the old timers still said "tisn't and t'wern't nary"...
I would love to hear someone say "I love ye." No one ever said that to me but my mother.

If there's a word that grates Little Miss Red Pen all over, and there is, it's "snuck."

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by kittygilchrist

Cyndy, you are so dear...
I know, I know about evolving linguistics, I just wish it were slow enough that I don't have to watch. Here I am standing on a rule about -ly on adverbs and they change it BECAUSE more people screw it up than get it right. If they could change it SLOW--LY, after I'm gone???

About thee and thy, I adore my King James Bible, and am from a Tennessee lineage where the old timers still said "tisn't and t'wern't nary"...
I would love to hear someone say "I love ye." No one ever said that to me but my mother.

If there's a word that grates Little Miss Red Pen all over, and there is, it's "snuck."

You didn't grow up having snuck around!

I do agree with you about grammar evolving too quickly. But I'm glad for some changes, for instance, being able to end a sentence with a preposition--in some cases, such as, "Where did you come from?"

My son (also a grammar aficionado) loves this work-around... "Where did you come from?" "Don't end a sentence with a preposition!" "Okay, where did you come from, b**ch?"

[kittygilchrist]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I can still say my linking verbs.

in Latin,
and it feels like a curse.

[kittygilchrist]

Originally Posted by CFrance

You didn't grow up having snuck around!

I do agree with you about grammar evolving too quickly. But I'm glad for some changes, for instance, being able to end a sentence with a preposition--in some cases, such as, "Where did you come from?"

My son (also a grammar aficionado) loves this work-around... "Where did you come from?" "Don't end a sentence with a preposition!" "Okay, where did you come from, b**ch?"

Oh your son, I love...
it's enjoyable to manipulate the words so as to satisfy the preposition rule, as in:
"That is more than up with which I will put"...

[DandyGirl]

Getting board.

[kittygilchrist]

Originally Posted by DandyGirl

Getting board.

Bored is more fun.

[stroglass]

If that all you have to be depressed about then you got a pretty good life
don't sweat the small stuff

[DougB]

Originally Posted by stroglass

If that all you have to be depressed about then you got a pretty good life
don't sweat the small stuff

Now we have to add run on sentences to proper spelling. Thanks a lot!

[Patty55]

Love it when panhandlers are out of "werk".

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by dotti105

seriously!! I am a dyslexic typist. I never learned to type and now have to pay the price and so do those who read my emails and posts. It is, what it is.

I will often go back and edit, edit, edit, and sometimes I just don't have the energy. I have much more important things to think about. Sorry if it annoys anyone. I am the first to admit I am a lousy, lousy typist!!!!

Like Gracie said, Noone should be grading my paters at this point in my life!!!!

dotti Winston Churchill was dyslexic and one of the brightest statesman ever

[kittygilchrist]

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[rubicon]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I have hemorrhoids.

GG sorry to hear that and truly understand since I suffer with adenoids

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I can still say my linking verbs.

GG I like verbs too