I can't take it anymore. Part 2 (meaning, quote, difference, stories)
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A comment on the viral video of the two kittens being "catfished" out of the Warrior River in Alabama (they have a loving home and are doing fine now, btw, and the fishermen did not find any additional abandoned kittens when they re-checked the area):
"I believe a cat bares 4 children per pregnancy or something like that".
Funny, I've never noticed any nekkid kids around expectant mama cats...
I went to an estate sale this morning. The kind where you go inside the house and wander rooms full of. "Stuff" for sale.
Big sign on the entrance door:
"IF YOU BARKE IT WE WILL BE SAD
BUT IF YOU BARKE IT YOU BOUGHT IT"
I thought it was odd, so I asked the elderly lady inside what it meant, although I was pretty sure. She told me it meant "If you break it....". I said, "Oh! But it says. Bark!" She said, "Well, I never was good in school..."
I went to an estate sale this morning. The kind where you go inside the house and wander rooms full of. "Stuff" for sale.
Big sign on the entrance door:
"IF YOU BARKE IT WE WILL BE SAD
BUT IF YOU BARKE IT YOU BOUGHT IT"
I thought it was odd, so I asked the elderly lady inside what it meant, although I was pretty sure. She told me it meant "If you break it....". I said, "Oh! But it says. Bark!" She said, "Well, I never was good in school..."
Although the internet makes poor grammar and bizarre spelling more visible than it was years ago, the reality is that there have always been people who were poor students.
Yes, I know that it is fashionable to claim that schools are not teaching what is needed nowadays, but--in fact--you could have found people from every generation who could not spell properly, and/or could not construct a complete sentence, and/or could not do basic math.
I don't know about the area where you folks live, but the current crop of extremely young newscasters in NYC can't pronounce Edinburgh properly, and--to a man (or woman)--they all pronounce it as Edin-Berg. (For those who might be puzzled, the correct pronunciation is Edin-Boro.
However, this geographic ignorance is--unfortunately--not really a new trend. For many years, the "dean" of the local newscasters at WCBS in NYC was Jim Jensen. When our forces invaded the island of Grenada during the Reagan administration, Jim told his viewers that our forces had invaded Granada. I can remember thinking...Why did Ronnie declare war on Spain?...until I saw the news in print and realized that we had actually invaded the Caribbean island with a similar spelling and a different pronunciation of its name.
And, just to continue the theme of newscaster bashing...Why do so many of them continue to show their phony smile while reporting a story that is tragic?
Just this morning, the young woman doing the local news on WCBS smiled through about 75% of a news story that she was reading, and that event about which she was reporting had resulted in multiple deaths! It was as if she finally realized the inappropriateness of that smile toward the very end of the piece, when her expression suddenly became...deadpan.
Do these talking heads read news stories without actually understanding what they are reading?
I will say that some confusion because there are cities in towns in the US named after "foreign" cities, but they are no longer pronounced the original way. Here in Illinois there is a San Jose (pronounced San Joze), an Athens (pronounced Aaythens, and a Cairo (pronounced Kayro, like the syrup).
Although the internet makes poor grammar and bizarre spelling more visible than it was years ago, the reality is that there have always been people who were poor students.
Yes, I know that it is fashionable to claim that schools are not teaching what is needed nowadays, but--in fact--you could have found people from every generation who could not spell properly, and/or could not construct a complete sentence, and/or could not do basic math.
...just a thought to contemplate...
You know, this is true. And also, this is south Louisiana. It's entirely possible that this woman never went beyond grade school. I've had customers in retail here who actually can't read or write their names. I had an old woman come into the store I worked at a few years ago and have me read the greeting cards to her, as she could not read.
I had an old woman come into the store I worked at a few years ago and have me read the greeting cards to her, as she could not read.
It's kind of sad.
If she was a Great Depression kid.... there's a possibility she had to drop out of school. In some areas of the country the schools went broke and closed. Kids had no chance to learn to read and write. Many families were so flat-busted broke the kids had to drop out to help support the family.
It's very sad because most of them are/were quite ashamed of the fact they had so little education. A circumstance they could not control. They were victims of their times.
Last edited by DewDropInn; 09-05-2015 at 06:33 PM..
I will say that some confusion because there are cities in towns in the US named after "foreign" cities, but they are no longer pronounced the original way. Here in Illinois there is a San Jose (pronounced San Joze), an Athens (pronounced Aaythens, and a Cairo (pronounced Kayro, like the syrup).
In NYC, we have Houston Street, which is pronounced locally as "House-ton". In my town, there is a road named Jacques Lane, and the local tradition is to pronounce it as "Jakes" Lane. However, I was talking about names from world geography, with which I would hope that an adult would have some familiarity.
I can tell you that, as an elementary school kid, I knew the difference between Grenada and Granada, and I also knew how to properly pronounce Edinburgh. Yes, I was a geography and history nerd , but if I knew these things by the age of 11 or 12, shouldn't a college-educated adult whose livelihood depends on pronouncing words correctly have this knowledge? Isn't this part of the broad cultural knowledge that people should have if they are going to read news stories to us?
"There are allot of scams that are associated with that phraise."
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