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Rat Finkenstein said:
Badly is an adverb. So to say you feel badly would be saying that the mechanism which allows you to feel is broken. . . :D

(I know it is a movie quote, but it works)
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Danke Herr Grammar Nazi! :p

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Rat Finkenstein said:
Badly is an adverb. So to say you feel badly would be saying that the mechanism which allows you to feel is broken. . . :D

(I know it is a movie quote, but it works)
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No - I think he is just a defender of the language. Bravo!! I mean if we do not defend our own language soon it will be press 3 before you get something you can understand...

Here in minnesota people mess this one up - a lot!!...

"Hey - borrow that to me will ya"

I am not kidding......
 
Amy-0 said:
OK....The 0 (Amy) is getting perturbed......I worked all day yesterday sorting thru all of the e-mails....oh yea I have a new list...why must some of you send 50 e-mails.......:confused::confused: Anyways, I started e-mailing today....not alot but some...I had a meeting today that I had to attend at 3:00 pm so I went to work VERY early to finish up processing so I could get a start.....

In the older days of Busse it would take (I am not kidding) 2 weeks to get a response but We try very hard to make EVERYONE happy:)


so I will begin tomorrow AM sending more e-mails.....but it is gonna take at least 3- 4 days to finish.

We appreciate you all so much but please be patient...I AM BEGGING YOU:)

Amy-0

I hope this does not sound like I am being mean but....It is alot of work and we try so much to make everyone happy:)



Amy-0
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1) You send more than 1 email - you loose

2) It takes time to get through this mess - and Amy really does have other things to do.... Lunch comes to mind :)

3) I am happy - I am very happy - THANKS AMY!!:thumbup::D
 
TurnerIII said:
No - I think he is just a defender of the language. Bravo!! I mean if we do not defend our own language soon it will be press 3 before you get something you can understand...

Here in minnesota people mess this one up - a lot!!...

"Hey - borrow that to me will ya"

I am not kidding......
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just a couple gems that i get quite a bit.

"where do you live?"

a: barely right there.


"where were you born?"

a: right here.

"here? on the street or on the sidewalk?"
 
I live across from Detroit so I get to hear people say "axe" instead of "ask" all the time. Drives me nuts!
 
TurnerIII said:
No - I think he is just a defender of the language. Bravo!! I mean if we do not defend our own language soon it will be press 3 before you get something you can understand...

Here in minnesota people mess this one up - a lot!!...

"Hey - borrow that to me will ya"

I am not kidding......
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Before we get carried away here, take some of Amy's advice and chill out. If you're seriously talking about imposing grammar restrictions on Bladeforums, you'd be left with about three posters, and all the discussions would be about dangling modifiers, predicate nominatives, and the big debate would be gerunds versus infinitives.

I'll go toe-to-toe with anyone here regarding grammatical knowledge, but I'm not always going to post in the Queen's English. It's a discussion board, not a final exam. I honestly knew I was posting "incorrect" English, but I did it anyway because I sometimes say "I felt badly" in ordinary speech. If I were posting a cover letter for a job, I'd write "I felt bad."

As far as grammars, there are prescriptive grammars, descriptive grammars, "deep" grammars, transformational grammars, transformational generative grammars, and so on. If you really want to talk about grammar, writing/grammar research, and usage, I'll be happy to converse with you. In Standard English even. But claims about defending the language are pretty silly IMO when it involves an informal discussion board. Language is organic and situational.

My situation involved an address to (what I assumed to be) laid-back people on the Busse forum. I see errors in standard English here all the time here. I don't go around correcting them because I don't want to come across as an uptight grammar Nazi. YMMV.

That said, I think Rat F was just giving me some crap, and I took it as such. But if you're serious about monitoring proper grammar on the forums, good luck. :p :p
 
Guyon said:
Before we get carried away here, take some of Amy's advice and chill out. If you're seriously talking about imposing grammar restrictions on Bladeforums, you'd be left with about three posters, and all the discussions would be about dangling modifiers, predicate nominatives, and the big debate would be gerunds versus infinitives.

I'll go toe-to-toe with anyone here regarding grammatical knowledge, but I'm not always going to post in the Queen's English. It's a discussion board, not a final exam. I honestly knew I was posting "incorrect" English, but I did it anyway because I sometimes say "I felt badly" in ordinary speech. If I were posting a cover letter for a job, I'd write "I felt bad."

As far as grammars, there are prescriptive grammars, descriptive grammars, "deep" grammars, transformational grammars, transformational generative grammars, and so on. If you really want to talk about grammar, writing/grammar research, and usage, I'll be happy to converse with you. In Standard English even. But claims about defending the language are pretty silly IMO when it involves an informal discussion board. Language is organic and situational.

My situation involved an address to (what I assumed to be) laid back people on the Busse forum. I see errors in standard English all the time here. I don't go around correcting them because I don't want to come across as an uptight grammar Nazi. YMMV.
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No ill intent - and I am in no way directing anything at you or anyone - lord knows I live in minnesota - no one here can or should throw stones about anything!

[Heck they go sliding with sleds in the winter and kids play duck- duck... Grey duck!! (not goose) ]

And please I mistype and misspell - very often ... so I am not calling the kettle black for sure :)
 
That's nothin, I live in GA and have ta lisen to people talk tha way Ido.


Thanks for all you do Amy! Without a dought, you most certainly... ROCK!!!
 
Waiting is half the fun! Keep up the great work, Amy. My fingers are crossed and my scotch glass is full. Life is good.
 
This is why I don’t post as much as I use to. By the time I spell check, grammar check, reread and edit every post I may as well just reread old post by Skunk and try to figure out what the heck he was trying to say. :p



Guyon said:
Before we get carried away here, take some of Amy's advice and chill out. If you're seriously talking about imposing grammar restrictions on Bladeforums, you'd be left with about three posters, and all the discussions would be about dangling modifiers, predicate nominatives, and the big debate would be gerunds versus infinitives.

I'll go toe-to-toe with anyone here regarding grammatical knowledge, but I'm not always going to post in the Queen's English. It's a discussion board, not a final exam. I honestly knew I was posting "incorrect" English, but I did it anyway because I sometimes say "I felt badly" in ordinary speech. If I were posting a cover letter for a job, I'd write "I felt bad."

As far as grammars, there are prescriptive grammars, descriptive grammars, "deep" grammars, transformational grammars, transformational generative grammars, and so on. If you really want to talk about grammar, writing/grammar research, and usage, I'll be happy to converse with you. In Standard English even. But claims about defending the language are pretty silly IMO when it involves an informal discussion board. Language is organic and situational.

My situation involved an address to (what I assumed to be) laid-back people on the Busse forum. I see errors in standard English here all the time here. I don't go around correcting them because I don't want to come across as an uptight grammar Nazi. YMMV.

That said, I think Rat F was just giving me some crap, and I took it as such. But if you're serious about monitoring proper grammar on the forums, good luck. :p :p
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TurnerIII said:
No ill intent - and I am in no way directing anything at you or anyone - lord knows I live in minnesota - no one here can or should throw stones about anything!
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None taken. Gets my dander up a bit when grammar is involved, but honestly, like anyone else, I have consistent grammatical slips, and I have my grammatical pet peeves. I sometimes bite my tongue in informal situations. I saw a certain moderator in another subforum consistently misspelling losing as loosing, and it was all I could do to keep from cracking on him. :D

Tony G said:
This is why I don’t post as much as I use to. By the time I spell check, grammar check, reread and edit every post I may as well just reread old post by Skunk and try to figure out what the heck he was trying to say. :p
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Skunk actually posts in a "transformational-inebriated" grammar. Very hard to translate, and sometimes it leaves you a little dizzy just from the fumes it imparts.
 
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