That's right, I did it on purpose. Because we native Spanish speakers can't help but think "definitively".

 

Being illiterate is a new trend?
It's too late for me, I graduated on college too long ago...

 

Yes, we Germans do, too... "definitiv"!
I just wanted to point out: de-finite-ly <- finite <- finitus (lat). As a mnemonic ;)

 

As a child of the 8 track I cannot help but do my best to punctuate and correctly spell, it being literally drilled into me at PS 175 as a wee child with the Dick, Jane and Sally (not to forget Spot, their dog) books in the 1st grade. Even before that I dove deeply on my own from a very old copy from my West Virginia grandpa from, if I remember correctly, a1908 edition of McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader where I found, after a spell to pick up a thing or two. It took me a good while to become used to the roughshod freedoms that those who don't have grey or graying hair take out on innocent letters and punctuation marks these last 15 years or so, but I've since come to appreciate the artistic and creative aspect of the new and novel ways people communicate with the written word. After all, as a poet I take license all the time in the pursuit of creativity and should not be such an old snob about it.

On a side note...

My 17 year old daughter's first language by default is Swiss German (though is on the English immersion track taking most of her courses in me, her dad's native tongue) but in school the kids (in our region, though in the French and Italian parts of the country...) learn to read, speak and write in High German. What seems to have saved the written form of Swiss German has been texting. People never really wrote as they spoke until everybody had mobile phones which is very interesting as well as odd to me. It's cool.

A screenshot of the first few pages of McGuffey's.

 

So, Non-Native English speakers.

They don't understand proper structuring of sentences, or what "words" mean(definition of a used word),
They use words in the wrong context, or lack basic comprehension of words/sentences.

The Non-Native English speakers want to give a class in grammar complaining about "Proper Grammar"

 

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They? You are not a native english speaker yourself. Your grammar, punctuation and capitalization is so fucked up, even google translator users notice it. Please spare me a reply or your negatively charged teachings in general. This is a lounge thread. We're here to have fun. Thank you.

 

He's not trying to reason.

 

Lmfao, Non-Native English speakers attacking me.


Definition of they
1 those ones : those people, animals, or things

2 - used to refer to people in a general way or to a group of people who are not specified.

3 - a—used with a singular indefinite pronoun antecedent.
b—used with a singular antecedent to refer to an unknown or unspecified person.

Non-Native English speakers = They


This is basic English.

Examples:

1) They(Non-Native English)Lack abilities of sentence composition.
2)Some of the forum users, They(Non-Native English) lack basic understanding of Synonyms & Antonyms and need a Thesarus.

 

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Ooo, you're/your/yore/yaw hard!

 

You mean a Thesaurus right?

 

Is there any Synonym for the word Synonym?
Yes! -> Poecilonym

Why is it pronounced "PEE-si-lo-nim" tho?
I would have said it more like "ou" as in Poe, Edgar Allan Poe..

 

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No criticisms 'at all' for @Sinus Well posting the above example - purpose understood - but now take a look at it.

One of my pet hates is when teaching resources have NOT been checked adequately for ambiguities and errors and may therefore confuse students.

The first question can be answered correctly using either 'They' or 'We'.

The person writing the question intended it to be answered using 'They' but then failed to notice how 'We' would be entirely acceptable. I would not be surprised if some pedantic idiot teacher gave a fail grade when a student answered it (appropriately) using 'We'.

In the last section we are invited to rewrite the following sentences using either 'We' or 'The'.
The 'The' is clearly a typo and should have been 'They'.
How confused would I be if confronted with a similar typo in a lesson where I was trying to learn Mandarin?

I do not care at all about scruffy and/or inventive use of language as long as the thoughts are coherent and enable communication. Language has always evolved creatively - that's wonderful.

But it drives me nuts when the context is some teaching resource explicitly designed to teach about the correct use of language. In that context errors like those above are entirely unforgivable.

Errors or language improvs in a forum - who gives a shit?
Errors in teaching resources that have not been scrutinised for quality - someone should be fired!

The is same kind of rage I feel when I see garbage trotted out in the name of music theory.

p.s.
@Ŧยχøя - best Thesaurus I've ever seen - I'm stealing that

 

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@Ad Heesive Oops... You're right! I did not even notice, but now that you mention it.... GOOD EYE!

 

LMFAO @ some of the tryhards!
I equate people who whine, moan and get their panties bunched up over grammar usage as pathetic lifeless losers.

 

They already have.
It's to do with attention.
And because they are focusing outward all the time, they can't focus attention inward. That function atrophies.
Meditation, for instance, is impossible then.
So the younger generation are already being programmed for the Idiocracy future that was mentioned above, whilst the older generations are dealing with the ever changing problems...

Born into it now. Knowing nothing different. Unless we tell them...

But at least we can understand them perfectly!
Language is quite useful, no?
But only as long as we all communicate properly and can understand each other.

Apart from this Lounge Forum, I'd say a lot of the AS forums are precisely that: a knowledge base.

 

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Guys, is it possible to keep this thread friendly?
Please, don't get extreme. Dot.
lol ( how do you punctuate lol?)

 

You don't.
If you punctuated it, it would mean you were being sarcastic and not lol'ing.
'lol'.

 

Need some help here please
Does 'Dot' mean Don't Over Threaten or Don't Over Think?

Better not to punctuate lol just spell it out
Lots of Love - back at ya Oly

 

Unbelievable, but in 2010 I knew a woman who did actually think that lol meant lots of love!
I watched her on FB for years, lol'ing at people who had cancer or whatever!
Her face when I told her...
I watched her retrace in her mind all that she had responded to with lol!
So funny.