Do you know what an apostrophe (uh-POSS-truh-fee) is? Do you know what it is used for? Do you know what plural and possessive are? (HINT: They're two different things.) Oooh, such big words!
Do you know the differences among its, it's and it is?
You don't need an advanced English degree to know what these are. I learned them in the second grade, back during the Sputnik era. You graduated from the second grade, didn't you? Of course you did! You should therefore be familiar with the use of these basic components of the English language.
Below is a refresher course for those of you who need one:
If shit like this is bothering you on a discussion board in 2012, you'll give yourself a heart attack soon, either stop giving a shit or limit your internet use to healthy levels.
It does make me laugh how seriously people take these things. OK, it's LOSE and not LOOSE OK? Lose means you lost. Loose means you can't keep your pants on. OK, maybe that's settled now?
Seriously, I am of two minds... we live in such a stunningly anti-intellectual time, it's nice to read something that is written correctly. But people really shouldn't be such putzes about it. Keep in mind not everyone speaks English as their primary language.
But generally writing correctly makes things clearer for your audience... plus it demonstrates that you care.
Do you know what an apostrophe (uh-POSS-truh-fee) is? Do you know what it is used for? Do you know what plural and possessive are? (HINT: They're two different things.) Oooh, such big words!
Do you know the differences among its, it's and it is?
You don't need an advanced English degree to know what these are. I learned them in the second grade, back during the Sputnik era. You graduated from the second grade, didn't you? Of course you did! You should therefore be familiar with the use of these basic components of the English language.
Below is a refresher course for those of you who need one:
It doesn't bother me as such, but I lose a little respect for everyone who uses "your" for "you're" and so on.
What makes me despair a little is shop signs advertising things like "CD's" or worse "computer's" (one could make the argument for the ' filling in for missing letters).
If you've hired someone to write signs for you, and you don't have the basic English required to correct their mistakes, you probably shouldn't be running a shop!
The problem is not so much on bulletin boards, but more that this is real life. We get letters from official bodies with bad grammar - to point it out is pedantic, but would you trust a bank with your money if they can't even write a letter correctly?
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It doesn't bother me as such, but I lose a little respect for everyone who uses "your" for "you're" and so on.
The internets are global. There is no guarantee the person on the other end is a native speaker. How many languages do y'all speak yourselves?
Again, I get the bigger point, there are people who are just plain lazy with language, but when you lump everyone together and simply judge according to whether or not someone understands a contaction then I think that says something about you.
Do you know what an apostrophe (uh-POSS-truh-fee) is? Do you know what it is used for? Do you know what plural and possessive are? (HINT: They're two different things.) Oooh, such big words!
Do you know the differences among its, it's and it is?
You don't need an advanced English degree to know what these are. I learned them in the second grade, back during the Sputnik era. You graduated from the second grade, didn't you? Of course you did! You should therefore be familiar with the use of these basic components of the English language.
Below is a refresher course for those of you who need one:
It would bother me too if I let it. Each time it starts to get to me I read Baltazar Gracian's, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". It's brilliant re how to deal with changing times and communication styles even though it was written centuries ago. I hope I used my apostrophes correctly in my post, .
"Propellerhead" is the software company that makes Reason. Not "Propellerheads." And "Ableton" is the company that makes "Live." "Ableton" isn't a DAW.
So, you're not "making beats with Ableton." You're "programming drum samples with Live." And probably poorly-- if your attention to detail with regard to English is an any way indicative of your overall aptitude.
Last edited by chaseofbase; 12th October 2012 at 12:34 AM..
Reason: Embarrassing/ironic typo
The internets are global. There is no guarantee the person on the other end is a native speaker. How many languages do y'all speak yourselves?
Again, I get the bigger point, there are people who are just plain lazy with language, but when you lump everyone together and simply judge according to whether or not someone understands a contaction then I think that says something about you.
I should have added a caveat...when I see a NATIVE speaker who doesn't know the difference..obviously people speaking a 2nd language get a bye!
Again, I get the bigger point, there are people who are just plain lazy with language, but when you lump everyone together and simply judge according to whether or not someone understands a contraction then I think that says something about you.
If shit like this is bothering you on a discussion board in 2012, you'll give yourself a heart attack soon, either stop giving a shit or limit your internet use to healthy levels...
It doesn't bother me personally, but it's REALLY hard to take a person's post seriously when they say, "Your not gonna believe how good a vocal sounds when you run it threw a good compressor."
As a teacher who has taught both, native speakers are far worse in general.
On a number of occasions I've read through clearly expressed internet posts without noticing any misused homonyms or grammatical errors, and then come to a disclaimer at the end saying "sorry for my English, I'm not a native speaker." When you can't make out what the heck someone is writing about, they are generally native English speakers!
Another Thing I Sound Like An Old Timer Talking About To My Kids, #1042 in a series...
Way back when... if you saw something "printed," like, you know-- in a font, in a newspaper, on a billboard, on a sign in a window... it had gone through a vetting process of some description, and that seemed to be the chokehold point between what my teachers in school would approve of and what me and my friends would concoct of our own devices... I remember a rule book we published for our "gang" of pre-teen miscreants, and though it had authentic staples it was more like a transcribed manuscript of the Middle Ages than a legitimate comic book, say, or a micro-novel you'd find in a Cracker Jack box.
Dawn the age of computers, and suddenly you could see, laid out nicely in various colors and with every intimation of legitimacy, text on a screen/and/or/printed out that YOU HAD DONE YOURSELF!
That was the beginning of the end, I'm telling you...
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"Propellerhead" is the software company that makes Reason. Not "Propellerheads."
For more good measure...it's "tc electronic", not "tc electronics".
And definitely not "tc electronic's"...unless you're saying something like "I don't know what tc electronic's problem is. Why don't they use capital letters?".
An apostrophe is the "crux of the biscuit", according to Frank Zappa.
You beat me to it.
It should be easy to see
The crux of the biscuit
Is the Apostrophe(')
Well, you know
The man who was talkin' to the dog
Looked at the dog an' he said: (sort of staring in disbelief)
"You can't say that!"
He said:
"IT DOESN'T, 'n YOU CAN'T!
I WON'T, 'n IT DON'T!
IT HASN'T, IT ISN'T, IT EVEN AIN'T
'N IT SHOULDN'T . . .
IT COULDN'T!"
He told me NO NO NO!
I told him YES YES YES!
I said: "I do it all the time . . .
Ain't this boogie a mess!"
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Of all the posts I read, it seems like most of the well written ones come from the most intelligent writers. Therefore, it's pretty acceptable to ignore most of the ill written posts.
It's not hard to tell weather a person is just not trying, and when English is their second language.
Of all the posts I read, it seems like most of the well written ones come from the most intelligent writers. Therefore, it's pretty acceptable to ignore most of the ill written posts.
It's not hard to tell weather a person is just not trying, and when English is their second language.
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