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To: MHT
"And add sentence diagramming. Unless you understand the structure of your native language, you will not use it correctly or properly understand any foreign language."

Heck, I'd be happy if people would just stop putting an apostrophe before every 's' at the end of plural forms of words. When did that idiotic practice catch on? It's become epidemic.

If you have two apples, you don't have two apple's, for example. Drives me crazy. People have become essentially illiterate.

13 posted on 02/01/2017 8:28:14 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: noiseman

There used to be a carryout fish and chicken place around here that had a hand-painted menu board like that. Among the items were frog leg’s and french fries’.


18 posted on 02/01/2017 9:43:11 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: noiseman

I love the incorrect use of pronouns. “Jennifer waved to him and I.”


29 posted on 02/02/2017 5:53:12 AM PST by MHT (,`)
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