I can't take it anymore. (sentence, grammar, speech, quote)
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This actually made me laugh. You can't make this stuff up.
Got a smirk out of me, too. At least he or she spelled "butt" and "ox" correctly. You know, those are the oxen who keep saying, " Does this prairie make my ass look fat?"
As an educator reading missives from parents, at first I thought that some of them were being very cute and inventive when they used the term, "flustrated", in the course of describing their child's feelings toward mastering the curriculum. (You know--sort of an amalgam of "flustered" and "frustrated".)
However, after a few years of reading this...unique...term, as well as hearing it spoken by some parents, I came to the realization that they apparently did not know the correct word, "frustrated", and actually thought that the correct word was, "flustrated".
As you can probably guess, one of my recommendations was that the parents should NOT help their child with his/her homework.
In case you want to know the locale, this took place over a period of 35 years in central NJ, in Woodbridge Township.
Last edited by Retriever; 12-09-2012 at 05:14 PM..
As an educator reading missives from parents, at first I thought that some of them were being very cute and inventive when they used the term, "flustrated", in the course of describing their child's feelings toward mastering the curriculum. (You know--sort of an amalgam of "flustered" and "frustrated".)
However, after a few years of reading this...unique...term, as well as hearing it spoken by some parents, I came to the realization that they apparently did not know the correct word, "frustrated", and actually thought that the correct word was, "flustrated".
As you can probably guess, one of my recommendations was that the parents should NOT help their child with his/her homework.
In case you want to know the locale, this took place over a period of 35 years in central NJ, in Woodbridge Township.
My mother's friend has always used that term. I always thought it was a mixup between "frustrated" and "flustered". Sort of the like the current "ginormous".
The first sentence in a recent Star-Ledger feature story reads as follows:
"Ever wonder who hold's the world record for the number of menorahs lit in one place, at one time?"
Does the author of that gem think that a possessive is appropriate in this context?
Or, does she think that, "hold's", is a contraction? (As if, "hold is", would make any sense...)
If this is the quality of newspaper writing nowadays, then things have become quite bleak, IMHO.
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Just spotted in C-D: "....telling them I had 2 atoms apples" instead of Adam's apples. 
