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[Y.A.G Si Ye Nots]

I'm pretty sure that everyone posting on this thread knows the difference between:

You're-your
Two-too-to
We'll-will
Etc.


The mistakes made on this thread aren't coming from anyone who wouldn't know to correct them if they reread what they wrote.
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I am more than pretty sure he wouldn't . . . or his brain just doesn't work fast enough to allow him to think about what he is typing while properly using grammar. It isn't a misstroke of a key, it is a brain issue.

What makes me think that? He has butchered you're/your twice within the last week. He has butchered its/it's twice within the last week (using each of them incorrectly). He has butchered to/too within the last week.

If he does know the difference - which I am not sure he does - perhaps he needs to slow down his brain since it clearly isn't developed enough to properly use grammar.

Both of my mistakes were obviously the result of pounding out a post on a tiny keyboard and not proofreading it - same as yours.
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That's total bullshit. Nobody on this entire board doesn't know the difference between "showed" and "shoved." That is clearly a misstroke on a keyboard. There are plenty of people who routinely mess up the mistakes you have, and those frequent grammar gaffes aren't all simply big fingers/small keyboard related.

It is odd; you don't make any other typing mistakes other than words that are commonly messed up by people who don't know the difference. Just a huge coincidence?

 

[ThunderCat98]

I am more than pretty sure he wouldn't . . . or his brain just doesn't work fast enough to allow him to think about what he is typing while properly using grammar.

Nobody on this entire board doesn't know the difference between "showed" and "shoved."

It is odd; you don't make any other typing mistakes other than words that are commonly messed up by people who don't know the difference.

I'm sorry. I'm not going to engage in a grammar fight with someone that uses a double negative in every other sentence. If your writing ability or vocabulary isn't advanced enough to avoid improper sentence structure, you probably should avoid casting stones with regard to another's mistakes.

 

[ThunderCat98]

(Although I will give you the first sentence isn't a "true" double negative since it is a separate notion and split by an ellipsis.)

 

[Y.A.G Si Ye Nots]

I'm sorry. I'm not going to engage in a grammar fight with someone that uses a double negative in every other sentence. If your writing ability or vocabulary isn't advanced enough to avoid improper sentence structure, you probably should avoid casting stones with regard to another's mistakes.

Exactly what I mean. These West Virginians grow up hearing rules drilled in their heads as schoolchildren and continue that incorrect thinking throughout their lives. It is never explained or corrected.

This is the same exact thing that happened years and years ago when somebody tried calling me out for ending a sentence with a preposition. I had to post numerous links explaining why that "rule" isn't correct many times. But since they were taught to never end a sentence with a preposition in 7th grade, they carried it with them years later to look like a fool.

Double-negatives in many cases are completely fine to use. They are discouraged in other uses to avoid confusion.

 

[extragreen]

Ain't no way.

 

[herdfan06]

I teach 4th grade grammar and reading.

I think it's fair to distinguish between those who make grammar mistakes because they don't proofread and edit and those who do so because they don't know. I'm pretty sure that everyone posting on this thread knows the difference between:

You're-your
Two-too-to
We'll-will
Etc.

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True, HerdFever has yet to posted on this thread.

 

[ThunderCat98]

Exactly what I mean. These West Virginians grow up hearing rules drilled in their heads as schoolchildren and continue that incorrect thinking throughout their lives. It is never explained or corrected.

This is the same exact thing that happened years and years ago when somebody tried calling me out for ending a sentence with a preposition. I had to post numerous links explaining why that "rule" isn't correct many times. But since they were taught to never end a sentence with a preposition in 7th grade, they carried it with them years later to look like a fool.

Double-negatives in many cases are completely fine to use. They are discouraged in other uses to avoid confusion.

"Nobody . . . doesn't . . . ." You're telling me that one's appropriate? You really are full of shit. Lololololololol

 

[GK4Herd]

Exactly what I mean. These West Virginians grow up hearing rules drilled in their heads as schoolchildren and continue that incorrect thinking throughout their lives. It is never explained or corrected.

This is the same exact thing that happened years and years ago when somebody tried calling me out for ending a sentence with a preposition. I had to post numerous links explaining why that "rule" isn't correct many times. But since they were taught to never end a sentence with a preposition in 7th grade, they carried it with them years later to look like a fool.

Double-negatives in many cases are completely fine to use. They are discouraged in other uses to avoid confusion.

The same is true about starting sentences with coordinating conjunctions (which I do all the time on the board). Well known literature is filled with examples of authors starting sentences with "and" or "but". The rules taught in elementary school is that "and", "but", and "or" are used to link independent clauses to create compound sentences, or used to link dependent and independent clauses to form complex sentences. But when I use back to back compound or complex sentences it creates awkward and cumbersome reading. ( I started the last sentence with "but". Imagine how wordy the sentence would be if I combined it with the prior sentence.) Varying the length of sentences makes reading easier.

Here's a good article talking about famous authors who used double negatives (validation for rifle), run on sentences, starting sentences with coordinating conjunctions, etc...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/20/grammar-rules_n_4768485.html

 

[Y.A.G Si Ye Nots]

I also frequently start sentences with "but" and "and" when it is appropriate. Years ago, a wvu fan tried calling me out on it on their political board, but I shut them down with a number of links from grammar sites giving examples of when it is correct.

I am familiar with all of these rules. I, too, had them drilled into my head, but they are incorrect in many (and with some, most) cases.

 

[GK4Herd]

I also frequently start sentences with "but" and "and" when it is appropriate. Years ago, a wvu fan tried calling me out on it on their political board, but I shut them down with a number of links from grammar sites giving examples of when it is correct.

I am familiar with all of these rules. I, too, had them drilled into my head, but they are incorrect in many (and with some, most) cases.

The county champion for the WV Young Writer's Contest has come out of my classroom three out of the last four years. I teach the "purist" view of grammar for the contest, because I'm sure the judges are going be looking for grammatical and syntax misuse when trying to decide. But I make sure the kids understand that there are examples in literature that become the trademark style of the author.

I have a library in my classroom with 65 classic literature books (abridged versions) where the students are introduced to Twain, Poe, Dickens, Verne, Wells, etc. Kids need to experience a variety of literary styles. That, in my opinion, sets the stage for learning to write. The students beg me to recite the opening of Dickens' Christmas Carol..."Marley was dead to begin with..." I love this opening and can recite the entire first page, but the first sentence ends with a preposition.

Another Dickens' book, A Tale of Two Cities, opens with a massive run on/comma spliced sentence..."It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity..." I mean...that's a serious misuse of a supposed rule. But here I am quoting an author who's still remembered two centuries after he wrote it.

 

[Rock98Dog]

By the way, the Jordan analogy is misguided and not relevant.