[Grumpy Martha]

Look smart by avoiding common grammatical erros.

[jenjen]

Come on, your taking all the fun out of it. I acert my right to be ungrammatical.

[Grumpy Martha]

I misspelled eros in my post above.

[teasethedog]

[Dante]

Y'all shud git yrself a copee of this her buk: LINK

[Sister Mary English]

You mean Skunk and Wide's "Elephants of Gramma"?

[Dante]

I lyke Skunk and Whyt cuz theyr buk iz shoret. I don't read so gud.

[MooseAndSquirrel]

Yes, we all know English can be a screwy language, with perplexing grammar rules. But upon some reflection a very interesting and fascinating one. H.L. Mencken, in The American Language, 1919, said "A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small haemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die." Ralph Waldo Emerson observed that "The English language is the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven." A great book about the language is The Story of English, published in 1986 by Viking Press, co-authored by Robert McCrum, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil (of the old PBS MacNeil & Lehrer Report). I hated (and still do!) grammar in school but this is a really enthralling look into the language. It's based on a PBS TV series.

[marzsit]

aye bet i reed werse then yoo doo... huked on fonx reely werks well...

[irunremis]

I don't think anyone knows what a comptroller is. I think I was told to see the comptroller once or twice, but that was in school and someone had to point out who it was. Comptrollers sit in front of terminals and have noisy printers nearby. This board probably needs a comptroller to weed out the trolls that get posted.