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Bill_R Loc: Southeastern Wisconsin

For years, I have been using the same rule!

FotoHam

Jerry, maybe they meant to imply that
"they gave an award to Bill and I got one too".
(Just pullin' your leg)!

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

We don't need to discuss photography in this part of the forum. It's for "general chit-chat."

It's amazing how many folks in broadcasting here in the Carolinas can't write and recite proper English for newscasts. I wish I ran air check reels just to catch the bloopers.

There's a weather reporter here who can't say 'precipitation' about half the time. It comes out 'percipatayshun' or she gives up and just says, "rain." One night it was 'percipatittyun.' She covered her mouth and her eyes went wide after that one.

watebo

What irritates me is "me and her......."

TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA

Been using that rule for more than 70 years.

edrobinsonjr Loc: Boise, Idaho

Tom,
This is the "General Chit-Chat (non-photography talk)" section. All topics are fair game. At least that's how me understands it...

Ed

Fifer Loc: Ontario, Canada

Two of my pet peeves.
1. People who say/write "the number of cases are dropping" instead of "the number of cases is dropping". They don't seem to realize that it is the number that is dropping, not the cases.
2. Related to the singular/plural issue, I have heard this many times. "The criteria for success is ...", or "The total solar eclipse was a phenomena."
Whatever happened to subject/verb agreement? Of course in the second example, the writer/speaker doesn't even know that criteria and phenomena are plurals!

Dannj

Or “him and me” but…at least that puts the other person first😳

DeanS Loc: Capital City area of North Carolina

Was taught this in 6th through 8th grade English abt 1948-50. Still practice this rule.

carlberg

After being corrected for writing a sentence that ended in a preposition, Churchill was quoted as saying something like, "That is something up with which I will not put."

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

I try to write with some precision, and usually do. But I've learned that even those who don't speak what is termed, "proper English," follow a mental set of their own grammatical rules. And somehow, if we listen intently enough, or if we read carefully enough, their meanings come through.

My kids are at least as good writers as I am. But my twins also are fluent in American Ebonics, the language of inner city Southern Blacks. They went to "minority majority" magnet schools and learned to speak as their peers spoke. They can walk into a room of those they went to school with and immediately shift gears. Their peers are equally adept at middle class "white speak".

Seeing that always reminds me of a summer job I had in a textile mill in a tiny rural South Carolina town. There were four of us college students, five technicians from Accrington and Oldham, England, a technician from Pakistan, and five mill "fixers" from Enoree, SC, the mill town.

We four students became translators. Everyone supposedly spoke English. But with six different accents and regional dialects among us, it was hard to understand, "Ah don' lak thot. 'An me thot spahnah," if you were a local mill fixer. The same meaning in their dialect was, "Thayut suh-ux. Gimme dat day-ur ree-unch. Of course, in "standard English," whatever the hell that is, they both meant, "Please hand me my four millimeter wrench!"

By the end of the summer, we all understood most of each others' meanings, when we could hear through our earplugs and over the roar of the several acres of machines. It was a revealing experience, an exercise in tolerance and sympathy, and a lesson in why communications is 100% the responsibility of BOTH receiver and sender!

SteveR Loc: Michigan

When studying Greek, diagramming the sentences helped us to become aware of the options available .

Picture Taker Loc: Michigan Thumb

"Dannj" Yes, you put your self last. That bothers me or I also.

Dannj

Gotta love Winnie😂