The situation with writingwhatilike

[nice90sguy]

that ain't such a bad thing

Aside from that shocking misuse of English, I agree with your post

 

[Comshaw]

Aside from that shocking misuse of English, I agree with your post

If you are speaking of my use of "ain't" I must protest. Used as it is in colloquial language it replaces almost every contraction in the English language and thereby relieves the speaker (or writer) of trying to decide whether to use the full-word version or the contraction thusly eliminating the headache or the arguement of which is needed or required. Besides, I are a writer, I are smart!

Comshaw

 

[nice90sguy]

I really think it was pretty clear I was joking, so, maybe that's something to work on too, besides your grammar

 

[MillieDynamite]

In conversation, if not a majority, at least a plurality of people use poor grammar to one degree or another. I try to write realistic conversations. That means not everyone who speaks in one of my stories uses perfect grammar (if any do). They leave out words often. They misuse I and me. They say, ain't, 't'ain't, and 'tisn't and such. I often use triple contractions, "I shouldn't've done that."

Plurality isn't really used properly here. So sue me, cause I don't care.

 

[mypenname3000]

Not to me, it doesn't. It's one of those constructs, like "me and clyde went hunting," that shows a shortfall in one's English-language training. And this is a writer's board.

Or I'm writing informally on a message board, not writing prose in a literature novel or a formal essay. I'm just quickly typing out words in my natural dialect. Still, Grammar is just one dialect of English imposing a hegemony on other dialects of English declaring I am the right version of it and you are wrong because I say so. There is no "true" or "correct" English. There are different flavors of it that change year after year. Holding back the change of language is like stopping the tide.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I also didn't get it was a joke. Maybe it's you and not us.

I really think it was pretty clear I was joking, so, maybe that's something to work on too, besides your grammar

 

[nice90sguy]

We're divided by a common langauge

 

[KeithD]

Or I'm writing informally on a message board, not writing prose in a literature novel or a formal essay. I'm just quickly typing out words in my natural dialect. Still, Grammar is just one dialect of English imposing a hegemony on other dialects of English declaring I am the right version of it and you are wrong because I say so. There is no "true" or "correct" English. There are different flavors of it that change year after year. Holding back the change of language is like stopping the tide.

I'll stick with what you quoted from me.

 

[Comshaw]

I really think it was pretty clear I was joking, so, maybe that's something to work on too, besides your grammar

Really??? Perhaps you should reread what I posted with an eye to understanding that maybe I too was joking. As far as grammar, in staid, egotistic company it is fun to play the fool, to violate the "rules" as dictated by those who are not flexible enough to understand they are guidelines and not sacrosanct. Besides, if I can't laugh at myself, in what world do I have the right to laugh at anyone else? A humorless existence would be akin to living in a sexless one.


Comshaw

 

[AG31]

Yeah, but less hoops sounds better and since languages evolve by how people like things to sound, today's grammar violation is tomorrows accepted practice. Since this isn't formal writing, but an informal forum why not write like i speak.

"Less" doesn't sound better to some of us. It just sounds wrong.

 

[Comshaw]

I also didn't get it was a joke. Maybe it's you and not us.

I did and I responded in kind. Or at least I thought I did. If not mayhaps my flippin' age is creeping in on me.

Comshaw

 

[Sinstories]

They say, ain't, 't'ain't, and 'tisn't and such.

I remember from my childhood..

Don't say ain't, cause ain't ain't a word and ain't ain't in the dictionary

 

[M_K_Babalon]

it may look alive, but I promise it isn't.

When you start losing count of them, you know it's dead.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I knew you were joking, I couldn't tell he was joking.

I did and I responded in kind. Or at least I thought I did. If not mayhaps my flippin' age is creeping in on me.

Comshaw