it taint not that important :
hmmmm…fucked up, that is, yyesss?
Evidently not to the younger generations, if you’ve ever gotten a text from a fifteen year old.
When you say text you mean a fax right?
My favorite example: “I’m going to go help my Uncle, Jack, off his horse.”
I don’t know about you, but bad grammar is just the tip of the iceberg. I’d say a good 30% of the things I read on the Internet simply make no sense at all - no structure and no discernible thesis. It’s just a confused jumble of words, like the aftermath of a liter of vodka and a bowl of alphabet soup.
if all we had for the last 30 years were texts, and someone came along with voice, people would be wetting themselves with excitement. 8)
ain’t that not truthfulness
I’m waiting for somebody to reintroduce dial telephones with cords.
They have an iphone app now that lets you dial a simulated rotary. I’m not sure how I feel about that.
Also, why aren’t shoe phones all the rage by now?
how about just picking it up and talking to someone. You need some help from someone named Mabel.
This was funny as all hell.
Airplane! (1980)
First Jive Dude: Shiiiiit, maaaaan. That honky muf’ be messin’ mah old lady… got to be runnin’ cold upside down his head, you know?
Second Jive Dude: Hey home’, I can dig it. Know ain’t gonna lay no mo’ big rap up on you, man!
First Jive Dude: I say hey, sky… subba say I wan’ see…
Second Jive Dude: Uh-huh.
First Jive Dude: …pray to J I did the same ol’ same ol’!
Second Jive Dude: Hey… knock a self a pro, Slick! That gray matter backlot perform us DOWN, I take TCB-in’, man!
First Jive Dude: Hey, you know what they say: see a broad to get dat booty yak 'em…
First Jive Dude, Second Jive Dude: …leg 'er down a smack 'em yak ‘em!
First Jive Dude: COL’ got to be! Y’know? Shiiiiit.
Funny that this topic was started by a guy who said this (my emphasis):
Maybe they need to change that pie chart to include audio post production types . . . ;D
“Effect” is a perfectly fine verb, but only in the less commonly employed sense of instigation, as in to effect a certain change. Affect is the verb most folk are seeking usually!
My in-laws still have a rotary dial phone on their kitchen wall. I told them to check their bill and make sure ATT isn’t still charging them a $2/ mo rental fee.
“Excuse me, Stewardess, I speak jive. Can I help?”
There
Their
They’re
I never mess those up when I’m writing, but when I’m typing I do it all of the time. Obviously my hand knows the difference, my fingers don’t.
I never understood “they’re” I always just write they are. Writing an a is just as easy.
That’s how it was in my small town when I was a kid. I remember 2 digit phone numbers.
I was an English major in college, and that’s one I still get wrong almost every time!