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User:	savant (458469)
Name:	feather of truth
Website:	livejournal
Location:	United States
Bio	The following journal is friends only. Why? Well... well, it was really just because I wanted to "fit in" and then it just kind of stuck around for a bit. I find it easier to just click the little arrow on my entries that mark them as "friends only" nowadays than keeping them public. And besides, it not only makes me feel cool, and thereby popular, but it also gives me a heady sense of control in a world where control is a nuclear waste product given to the egomaniacal thugs in power. This journal is, for the most part, a real dulling read. It's not that I go on about my day or find it difficult to spell words properly... It's just that I can't entertain worth a damn. It has something to do with the fact that I am stuck on myself and utterly selfish, so I assume that someone is reading the garbage I publish in my online journal. Now that you've heard it from the source, onwards and forwards and don't let the e-door hit your e-ass on its way out. "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." - Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) And maybe chance is all played out, and a better man would have figured how to finally understand and turn around, but my better man just won't come out. A PAGE IN THE BOOK OF DR. CATHERINE'S GRAMMATICAL TREATISE... I think one of the BIGGEST problems is that so many native English speakers CANNOT SPEAK THEIR OWN FUCKING LANGUAGE. I'm noticing more and more that in daily written communication, people are confusing homonyms, using blatantly incorrect syntax, and generally having absolutely no idea of how the English language is used. So I wrote up a handy little guide to your OWN LANGUAGE. And I am a student at a music college, where the English language is not highly regarded. So that should tell you how pathetically idiotic these grammatical errors really are. I have done this before to a lesser extent, but apparently it didn't receive the national attention it should have... I have expanded this one to include the issues of possessive vs. pluralized nouns, as well as double negatives. Your pronoun, possessive prenominal adjective Correct: Learn to speak your language, please. Incorrect: Your a fucking dumbass for not understanding third grade grammar. You're contraction of "you are". Correct: You're a big fucking skidmark on the intellectual underpants of this country. Incorrect: I'm going to kick you're ass if you ever confuse these words again. Their pronoun, possessive prenominal adjective Correct: The bums I talked to the other day have their shit more together than you do. Incorrect: Their is no excuse at all for this. It's contraction of "it is". Correct: It's really sad that I'm having to explain this. Incorrect: The little girl screamed because the minute she looked at the monkey in the cage it grabbed it's wang. Its pronoun, possessive prenominal adjective Correct: I laughed when my dog licked my friend on the face because the dog had just been licking its nuts. Incorrect: Its apparent to me that this problem we are having with language is indicative of a much larger issue. Pluralization vs. Possession Pluralization is an indication that more than one subject is in question. Possession indicates that a particular object belongs to a person. The grammatical indications of these situations are similar, but very easy to differentiate. Pluralization Chairs, tables, brains, morons, idiots. NO APOSTROPHE. This indicates that there is more than one chair, table, brain, moron, and idiot in question. Possession Chair's, table's, brain's, moron's, idiot's. THIS IS WHERE YOU USE THE APOSTROPHE. This indicates that you are mentioning something belonging to the chair, the table, the brain, the moron, or the idiot. For instance, the chair's leg, the brain's synapses, and the idiot's hand down his pants. Confusion of these two things People often use an apostrophe to attempt to indicate pluralization, which is just stupid. It is absolutely incorrect to say "I stole a bunch of chair's from the trash heap in front of 20 Hemenway Street." Double negatives double negatives are the use of two negatives, i.e. not, none, don't, used together in a single grammatical construction. Proper Traditionally, double negatives are constructed so that they form an affirmative statement i.e. "You can't not do anything," or "That weird Israeli guy is a not infrequent visitor to Bernice's bedroom." The purpose of this is to put forth a slightly less aggressively affirmative statement. For instance, to say someone is a "not infrequent visitor" implies that he visits slightly less than it would imply if you were to say that he is a frequent visitor. Also keep in mind that there is a difference between saying "a not infrequent visitor" and "not an infrequent visitor". Believe it or not, the more correct of the two in this circumstance would be the first, as they have slightly different implications. Improper As awkward as double negative are in proper speech, they are absolutely improper when used to convey a negative suggestion, i.e. "I don't want no damn peas, woman," or "I didn't say nothing." This is bad. Don't do it. Have vs. of Another issue that I'd like to point out is the confusion of "of" and have", i.e. "could have" vs. "could of". The proper word to use is HAVE. This confusion is a result of the slack-jawed slurred way in which we speak the language (not that it's bad, it's just the way it is), and our inability to apply basic common sense to our written language (which is bad), in this case the knowledge that "could of" makes no sense. In other words, it's a result of the lack of education or interest in the language coupled with an inherent inability to translate what WE SAY. Tres pathetique, no? Correct: You should have skipped school less frequently, because you sound like a moron. Incorrect: You shouldn't of done so many fucking drugs. Furthermore, it is: Correct: Tomorrow Incorrect: Tomarrow, tommorrow, or tommarrow. Correct: Necessary. Incorrect: Nesessary, necassary, or necassery. The following are NOT grammatically acceptable words or phrases: 1. ain't 2. analyzation 3. for shizzle my nizzle, I be in the hizzle Well that has been the latest edition of Dr. Catherine's grammatical primer. Shape the fuck up, folks!
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