Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

I be guessin' I must bees okay den.
1 posted on 03/03/2015 7:43:40 AM PST by rktman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-35 last
To: rktman
She claims that demanding that everyone speak proper English grammar is “grammar snobbery”

Sounds like a lot of Freepers here who complain about the "Grammar Nazis."

But seriously, this article is further evidence that attending the moron factories formerly known as "college" is an absolute waste of time and money, unless you are a STEM major, and your classes aren't taught by professors/teaching assistants who teach that man-made global warming has been proven by science.

28 posted on 03/03/2015 8:00:52 AM PST by Maceman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rktman

You mean cuz I don’t got good grammar it’s goodley now?.


42 posted on 03/03/2015 8:16:46 AM PST by Vaduz
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rktman
If too high a percentage of the people in a "protected class" cannot meet a standard, then the standard is decreed to be racist/sexist/whatever.

It can NEVER be the case the the "protected class" members need to try harder, or else admit that they have lots of people who can never meet the standard at the same level as white/Asian males.

47 posted on 03/03/2015 8:27:10 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rktman

I don’t have much of a problem with this actually.

I may not be perfect in my grammar, but I take it seriously and think I do pretty well relative to the rest of the general population. And I’m always trying to improve.

I’m instilling the same seriousness and discipline in my kids. Who are both considered amongst the top writers in their grades. Which will, in the long run, put them at a major competative advantage over the kids being “taught” by teachers such as this. Because her stupid little proglodyte mindset doesn’t, and will never, fly in the real world of corporate and business operations.


49 posted on 03/03/2015 8:35:23 AM PST by tanknetter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rktman

Yet they attacked Megan Trainor for her “blackcent.” It’s racist for white people to expect proper grammar, and racist when white people speak black. Smh.


51 posted on 03/03/2015 8:51:28 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rktman
because blacks understand it and are able to communicate with other blacks, why should they be forced to learn what the white man considers proper English grammar:

Because it is simply a fact of reality that in a modern free rational society, survival and life proper to a rational being requires certain skills,knowledge, abilities,and virtues.Being able to speak and write proper English is one of those abilities.And to evade a fact of reality is irrational.

54 posted on 03/03/2015 9:03:49 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rktman
This is all about removing the stigma of poor school performance.

They still want the outcomes of jobs and wages, but they don't want to lay the foundation of a basic education first. They don't want to add and subtract for themselves, they don't want to know how the world works around them, and now they don't even want to be bothered with communicating with others.

Just give them stuff.

-PJ

56 posted on 03/03/2015 9:11:47 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rktman

Naw, MoFo, days bee seein yous bees ah creepyass cracka.


59 posted on 03/03/2015 9:25:08 AM PST by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rktman

The problem with this attitude is consistency. The English language and its grammar have developed over years, and rules establish consistency and clarity of communication.

Ebonics snips off and simplifies so much vocabulary and syntax that it is imprecise. Worse, it’s not codified. I doubt that today’s ebonics speaker could be understood by one 20 years from now.

Contracts in ebonics will be a real trip.


60 posted on 03/03/2015 9:25:44 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rktman

A PLAN FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF ENGLISH SPELLING
by Mark Twain

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter “c” would be dropped to be replased either by “k” or “s”, and likewise “x” would no longer be part of the alphabet.

The only kase in which “c” would be retained would be the “ch” formation, which will be dealt with later.

Year 2 might reform “w” spelling, so that “which” and “one” would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish “y” replasing it with “i” and iear 4 might fiks the “g/j” anomali wonse and for all.

Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.

Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez “c”, “y” and “x” — bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez — tu riplais “ch”, “sh”, and “th” rispektivli.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.


70 posted on 03/03/2015 10:04:52 AM PST by onedoug
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rktman

The United States is circling the bowl and going down.


71 posted on 03/03/2015 10:05:49 AM PST by Jack Hammer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rktman

The stupidity of the clowns defending Ebonics miss the point that even if the people speaking Ebonics can understand each other, nobody else can. Ebonics speakers are virtually unemployable in the market place.


75 posted on 03/03/2015 11:05:07 AM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rktman
In addition, because blacks understand it and are able to communicate with other blacks, why should they be forced to learn what the white man considers proper English grammar

Because not everyone a black American will come into contact with in their lives, INCLUDING many other black Americans, WILL be speaking or comprehending "black" English!

I've watched degreed, ill-educated Americans try to communicate with their slang-ridden, sloppy English (written or spoken) with foreign born speakers whose English was flawless and easy to understand...these Americans were supposedly privileged and white...but they were just...ill-educated...
78 posted on 03/03/2015 11:33:39 AM PST by Nepeta
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rktman
In addition, because blacks understand it and are able to communicate with other blacks, why should they be forced to learn what the white man considers proper English grammar

Because not everyone a black American will come into contact with in their lives, INCLUDING many other black Americans, WILL be speaking or comprehending "black" English!

I've watched degreed, ill-educated Americans try to communicate with their slang-ridden, sloppy English (written or spoken) with foreign born speakers whose English was flawless and easy to understand...these Americans were supposedly privileged and white...but they were just...ill-educated...
79 posted on 03/03/2015 11:38:24 AM PST by Nepeta
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

How’s this for proper English grammar? A beautiful love ballad from Dr. Dre, a Democrat homey. Warning! Do not open link if you’re offended by filth. And this guy is worth millions.

http://www.songlyrics.com/dr-dre/bitches-ain-t-shit-featuring-snoop-dogg-dat-nigg-lyrics/

And this from Obama’s homey Jay-Z who attended Obama’s fiftieth birthday. Nice, real nice!

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jayz/moneycashhoes.html

FYI: I just googled the words “rap bitch hoe” and got 1,480,000 hits. Nice going guys.


82 posted on 03/03/2015 12:39:50 PM PST by donaldo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-35 last

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


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