I know that you believe you understood what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
"Less" and "Fewer," Does It Matter?
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Pretty sure I lose 0.001244826 of a pipe from teeth marks on the stem every time I smoke...
To some extent, fewer is less than more but lesser than a greater quantity of some if some were fewer than less would be...more or less.
On balance I’m more bothered with people who can’t distinguish between “to, two and too” and “there, their, and they’re”.
Their you go, making me two agitated too write good. I want to go two they're house where there speaking well English.
I never want to become so involved in how people say or write something that I am not making an effort to understand what they are trying to say.
Sentence a difficult simple isn't writing.
Oh, so you do not be happy with me as the translator of the books of you?
"Still, for anyone who has been around long enough to cultivate a particular usage, the "wrong" diction can really grate. "
I'm forever dismayed that Americans have lost the ability to pronounce the letter 'T' in many words as thus....
"In twenny twenny the democradic pardy did their doody and voded for Biden in the baddle of the pardies".
Having heard American speech from the earliest available recordings, this seems to have been a relatively recent thing.
Regards,
Jay.?
I'm forever dismayed that Americans have lost the ability to pronounce the letter 'T' in many words as thus....
"In twenny twenny the democradic pardy did their doody and voded for Biden in the baddle of the pardies".
Having heard American speech from the earliest available recordings, this seems to have been a relatively recent thing.
Regards,
Jay.?
Tut-tut, Tonto! Some of us are familiar with pronouncing our T's.
Though I am reminded of a College Prof pronounce a nation as "Iddalee"
Though I am reminded of a College Prof pronounce a nation as "Iddalee"
I had a shipmate in the Navy from Rome, Georgia, who did a great imitation of Yankee-speak. He just hit all the consonants hard and talked fast. He was good. He'd have made it in New York City right off the bus. I grew up in Chicago, but the family's Massachusetts roots stuck in my speech. A kid with a great Chicago accent, like Richard J. Daley, asked me if I was from Europe. Richard J. Daley was totally Irish, but had an odd chewing way of speaking, and I finally decided he'd grown up with a lot of Polish kids who had that accent. There was no lyrical Irish roll to Daley's speech whatever. Such is life.
What's even worse is my wife's (for instance) tendency to switch the subject she's talking about in the middle of a sentence about something else, without warning. She's been doing this all the years we've known each other.
Small wonder I find it hard to listen to her.
Small wonder I find it hard to listen to her.
Some people have a mastery of the English language, and some people not english so good.
I think I lost the family Massachusetts enunciation when I kicked around the country in school and military, and came out with an accent that Chicagoans hear as Southern, but no Southerner would recognize as native South. But when I talk to my cousins, two of whom are adopted, they all still have that New England thing, and it makes me smile, and repress a laugh, just from the familiarity of it. Sounds like my parents.
America is too large and unique to make and keep any hard grammer rules. Language and dialect change over time. Even great authors and poets have bent and down right broken strict accepted rules of written grammer.
To nit pick someone's grammer or pronunciation, is just saying, "how I was taught is right and how you were taught is wrong".
To nit pick someone's grammer or pronunciation, is just saying, "how I was taught is right and how you were taught is wrong".
"To nit pick someone's grammer or pronunciation, is just saying, "how I was taught is right and how you were taught is wrong"."
JMcQ, the word you are looking for is grammar so I can confidently say that you were indeed 'taught wrong' ?
Regards,
Jay.?
JMcQ, the word you are looking for is grammar so I can confidently say that you were indeed 'taught wrong' ?
Regards,
Jay.?
Couldn't disagree more; grammar is relatively stable over time. Now, local idioms, pronunciations, and specific meanings of some words are not subject to uniformity across the nation, across some states, even some cities.
I see very little nit-picking of grammar here, and of course, no pronunciation nagging.
John, "of course" being an appositive phrase, it needs a comma before, as well as after. I put some extras in the other sentence so feel free to use one of those of course!
And then add the “glottal stop” that replaces “T”s. Yowzer!
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