Most of you cannot spell.

[boswell]

Another case when 'keeping it real goes wrong'. Its cool 2 B real, accept when its wrong!

 

[Jakemo]

i say write how you talk .. it may not be grammatically correct, but at least its real

Yes, I also *speak* like I am illiterate and uneducated.

FWIW:
"real" - adj. - Actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed.

Grammar actually occurs in fact and is not imagined, therefore speaking "real" would be speaking with proper grammar.

 

[Hang Glider]

Another case when 'keeping it real goes wrong'. Its cool 2 B real, accept when its wrong!

I'm NOT going to accept when it's wrong. Do it over and turn it in on time!

 

[cadarnell]

Yes, I also *speak* like I am illiterate and uneducated.

FWIW:
"real" - adj. - Actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed.

Grammar actually occurs in fact and is not imagined, therefore speaking "real" would be speaking with proper grammar.

just trying to keep it real .. liten up

 

[Jakemo]

just trying to keep it real .. liten up

Chiers brough. Idtsz aul guhd. Ieem litend.

 

[Dan]

-Sorry for the long post.. didnt mean to
My wife is from Hawaii. Interesting when all of her family get together. They are well educated; among them is a Registered Nurse, Mechanical Engineer, Veterinarian, Dentist, College professor, a school teacher and a very wealthy Entrepreneur. Besides the above mentioned everybody but Grandma has at least a Bachelors degree with a few Masters degrees disbursed as well. But holy cow when they get together they revert back to their island pigeon speak comfort zone. It's hilarious! I wonder what their professional counterparts would think if they heard them speak this way.

I was amazed when I heard my wife's nephew give a speech at a graduation ceremony because all I ever heard out of that boy was pigeon. His speech was well thought out, organized and eloquent; I never would have guessed such a nice presentation would come out of his mouth. Just goes to show you people might speak or even write differently depending on the situation.

I don't take a person's occasional misspelled word or lack of a comma here or there as ignorance. Sometimes just in hurry, and more than likely on a forums like this, just excited to add something that they are proud of or worried about. It is very easy to make mistakes in writing that you might catch with a couple of proofreads but not everybody is worried about that, not in this arena.

More power to you if you can write a quick comment without a typo or punctuation error. Sorry, kind of rambled a bit. (I wonder how many grammar and spelling errors I just made?)

 

[SenorPepe]

*pidgin

man, I'm a dick. Agree with your points though.

 

[Dan]

*pidgin

man, I'm a dick. Agree with your points though.

LOL... you're right! How could pigeon be spelled correctly in pidgin?!

 

[iaefebs]

Spell check doesn't like the words fermentor or fermenter.

 

[clamflats]

there are no Sea Gulls or Canadian Geese in any bird book

 

[Dr. Francois]

You missed one:

Go help your uncle, Jack, off the horse.

The comma is necessary to indicate that you are naming your uncle.

(/pedant)

Commas here would indicate you only had one uncle. Non-restrictive information.

Rephrasing works better. Dismount is a great word.

 

[emjay]

Commas here would indicate you only had one uncle. Non-restrictive information.

Rephrasing works better. Dismount is a great word.

The sentence doesn't need commas. It's about punctuation.

Go help your uncle jack off the horse.

Go help your uncle Jack off the horse.

See the difference? Sure, rephrasing will work too, but it misses the point entirely. Although, so does pointing out that it would mean you have only one uncle... as long as that's a possibility, the actual circumstances are irrelevant.

 

[Dr. Francois]

The sentence doesn't need commas. It's about punctuation.

Go help your uncle jack off the horse.

Go help your uncle Jack off the horse.

See the difference? Sure, rephrasing will work too, but it misses the point entirely. Although, so does pointing out that it would mean you have only one uncle... as long as that's a possibility, the actual circumstances are irrelevant.

I was commenting that adding an additional comma does not necessarily solve the problem as neatly as the contributor hoped. The point here, I read, is that commas can modify meaning. Adding an extra comma here has the possibility to change meaning in a different capacity. This example seems to be as much about capitalization as punctuation, perhaps more.

On second thought, I withdraw all of my comments. I teach and critique writing for a living, and I come to this site as part of a hobby. I am going to go read more about grain.

 

[emjay]

I was commenting that adding an additional comma does not necessarily solve the problem as neatly as the contributor hoped. The point here, I read, is that commas can modify meaning. Adding an extra comma here has the possibility to change meaning in a different capacity. This example seems to be as much about capitalization as punctuation, perhaps more.

On second thought, I withdraw all of my comments. I teach and critique writing for a living, and I come to this site as part of a hobby. I am going to go read more about grain.

You're right. It's about capitalization, as I demonstrated in the examples. Not sure why I wrote punctuation

 

[Jakemo]

I was commenting that adding an additional comma does not necessarily solve the problem as neatly as the contributor hoped. The point here, I read, is that commas can modify meaning. Adding an extra comma here has the possibility to change meaning in a different capacity. This example seems to be as much about capitalization as punctuation, perhaps more.

On second thought, I withdraw all of my comments. I teach and critique writing for a living, and I come to this site as part of a hobby. I am going to go read more about grain.

Haha I think you've got the right idea. I can be pedantic with some of my friends, perhaps I'll save it for them.

I'll dismount my pedantic steed (sans jack) and go back to reading about the awesome things people are doing with homebrew