Grammar nazis and mastering crap

[SMOGZINN]

Apostrophes - You are not smart enough to read between the lines? regardless of how something is wrote, doesn't it read the same?

I'm sure you are trolling with this, but:

The Apostrophe is the difference between:
A company that knows it's shit
and
A company that knows its shit.

 

[Texashiker]

The Apostrophe is the difference between:
A company that knows it's shit
and
A company that knows its shit.

That is what I am referring to about english being crap.

Whether it's a pit bull, or the lab, it's still a dead dog on the side of the road.

 

[Rakewell]

That is what I am referring to about english being crap.

Whether it's a pit bull, or the lab, it's still a dead dog on the side of the road.

I just don't understand your argument. Smogzinn's example is spot on, and each sentence means something entirely different. How is that a "dead dog"?

 

[Texashiker]

I just don't understand your argument. Smogzinn's example is spot on, and each sentence means something entirely different. How is that a "dead dog"?

Why does english have to have so many rules?

Wouldn't it easier if the language was simpler?

 

[Phoenix86]

This thread is like a very crude dissertation on why Tex has been underemployed his entire adult life.

It's all he could muster with his grasp of the language.

 

[Texashiker]

It's all he could muster with his grasp of the language.

Lets do some english vs math

Math: 2+2=4

English: 2+2=4, unless you are talking about eggs, then its 2+2=5, if its milk its 2+2=6.

Can we not think outside the box? Or do yall have to puke up what yall have been told your whole life?

Its not about grasping the language, its about why does the language have to be so complicated?

 

[destrekor]

Lets do some english vs math

Math: 2+2=4

English: 2+2=4, unless you are talking about eggs, then its 2+2=5, if its milk its 2+2=6.

Can we not think outside the box? Or do yall have to puke up what yall have been told your whole life?

Its not about grasping the language, its about why does the language have to be so complicated?

Because we think and behave in complicated ways?


And, let's be clear here: are you complaining about the ENGLISH LANGUAGE, or are you complaining about LANGUAGE IN GENERAL ?

There is no language out there that can demonstrate all complex ideas with ease and actually be called a simple and easy language, at least any more so than the major languages out there today.

 

[SheHateMe]

I love English.

 

[Phoenix86]

Lets do some english vs math

Math: 2+2=4

English: 2+2=4, unless you are talking about eggs, then its 2+2=5, if its milk its 2+2=6.

Can we not think outside the box? Or do yall have to puke up what yall have been told your whole life?

Its not about grasping the language, its about why does the language have to be so complicated?

Higher education can help with understanding these things. There's actually specific classes that deal with the evolution of languages.

Have you tried to learn jive in stead?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0j2dVuhr6s#t=1m

 

[drebo]

If english was not so complicated, imagine how much time and money we could save in schools? Why teach kids english from the time they start school all the way through college?

Wouldn't it be a better idea to adopt something that was easier to learn?

Through the entire education system, how much time, money and resources are wasted on the english language? How many trees were cut down to make the text books, how much ink had to be make to print the books, how much fuel to transport the books?

If english was easier, we could probably shave years off the education system, and save billions of tax payers money.

The majority of "English" taught in primary and secondary schools is vocabulary and literature. Whether it be French, German, or Aboriginal, the time required to teach vocabulary and literature would be the same.

Grammar is a small, small fraction of the time spent in an "English" classroom. I learned most of my English grammar in French class.

Also, all languages have irregularities.

 

[Rakewell]

Why does english have to have so many rules?

Wouldn't it easier if the language was simpler?

Lemme try to understand what you're saying here.

So in Smogzinn's example, you would prefer that the contraction it's be simply "it is", and keep the possessive pronoun its the way it is?

So the sentences would read:

"A company that knows it is shit"

and

"A company that knows its shit."

Is this an example of English being "crap"?

 

[Vic Vega]

The english language sucks. Why should someone strive to understand, or master crap?

Why would someone get a masters degree in operating a cotton gin? Its outdated technology, so your just throwing your time and money away.

Why master english when all you are learning is a crap language?

Do we dress up a bloated dead dog on the side of the road? No, we recognize it for what it is, a dead, bloated, stinking dog.

Grammar nazis are like pointing out a dead dog. Yea, its a dead dog, so what?

Didn't you go to school? I have done exactly zero English language study post high school and don't seem to have a problem.

Who let you on the Internet anyway?

Is it so difficult to understand the difference between you're and your?

 

[Vic Vega]

How many years of english do you think you took from 1st grade all the way through college?

My estimation is that I have fewer than 6 months total accumulated time learning English over my entire academic career. You make it sound like people literally spent years and years immersed in this language and did nothing else. Honestly, using you as an example, perhaps we SHOULD do this and maybe then people like you wouldn't be such taffards.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Why does english have to have so many rules?

Wouldn't it easier if the language was simpler?

Deal with it.

Go try learning some Mandarin if you think English is so hard.

Proper English isn't that hard. You're just lazy

 

[Phoenix86]

Didn't you go to school? I have done exactly zero English language study post high school and don't seem to have a problem.

Who let you on the Internet anyway?

Is it so difficult to understand the difference between you're and your?

I thought both were reduced to ur these days. SEE simple.

 

[Jodell88]

Grammar Nazis - 1
OP - 0

 

[Doppel]

It's and you're.

Lawl

 

[Texashiker]

Higher education can help with understanding these things. ]

So people have to pay to understand something that should be a basic concept?

Didn't you go to school?

Yes, finished high school and took 2 literature classes in college.

Truth be told, literature and english were some of my favorite classes. However, there is no reason for the language to be so difficult.

 

[Phoenix86]

It's like talking to a box of hammers.

 

[Rakewell]

It's like talking to a box of hammers.

It's very difficult to make a case with the OP's argument. It's like arguing with someone who asks "why doesn't CAT spell DOG?"

 

[Red Squirrel]

Grammar nazis reside in parents' basements, have nowhere to go in life because they tried to master in useless stuff like arts and language, so they feel powerful when they can correct someone's mistake. Its fun to purposely make mistakes, get's them really riled up!

 

[Gibsons]

 

[Murloc]

If english was not so complicated, imagine how much time and money we could save in schools?

>english
>complicated
HAHAHAHA
everyone abroad learns English because it's the easiest language on Earth and it's very flexible.
Spelling should be fixed but apart from that it's cool.
As a matter of fact, only native speakers of English do stupid errors like its/it's their/they're. It's a good auxiliary language but it's difficult for natives, go figure.

 

[Texashiker]

everyone abroad learns English because it's the easiest language on Earth

If its easy why do spammers make so many mistakes?

 

[IronWing]

If its easy why do spammers make so many mistakes?

it's

Nothing draws attention to a message like poor grammar does.