Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: traumer
He's completely right, we are losing our beautiful language. Just look at the posts on this forum.

Not only do we not use flowery and elegant language anymore, but most people these days can barely write a coherent sentence.

Don't even get me started on punctuation or misspelled words.

Examples:

Then and Than

Too To Two

Your You're Ur

There Their They're

Last but not least: putting apostrophes at the end of every word that ends with the letter "S"

11 posted on 10/27/2011 10:16:37 PM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

You forgot “noone.”


14 posted on 10/27/2011 10:38:22 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

“Your You’re Ur”

Ur. Isn’t that Chaldean?


16 posted on 10/27/2011 10:51:11 PM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

your right people dont write good any more


20 posted on 10/28/2011 12:17:26 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
Then I crushed him, rather than hit him too. Where will they take him to? I hope it is not the two towers (OMG!!).

Your in-laws tell me you're fat on Tuesdays and skinny on Wednesdays--UR? Hell I didn't know. There are too many others out there that are either fat all week or skinny all month. Their bodies just know they're either fat or skinny.

Now let's talk about the multiple apostrophes' curviest nature shall we?

ROTFL!

Not too bad for a Masters' in Creative Writing--in this day in age. Especially given all the politics and no teaching of skills even at higher level education. Now my grammar. Hell I admit to being in and out of even caring many days. Guilty as charged there. LOL.

21 posted on 10/28/2011 1:51:42 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes; Allegra

Don’t forget “lose” and “loose”...that’s one of my biggest pet peeves because it just indicates laziness, stupidity or both...


45 posted on 10/28/2011 12:56:44 PM PDT by wazoo1031
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson