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But, southward bound, It's sooo much funnier that your point was missed. It was the best today. (Now, there will be a lengthy explanation of how it was stated correctly by the op and there were no mistakes.)
I am teaching a class in a classroom my company rented that happens to be in a local union hall. On the whiteboard are production statistics in two columns. One is entitled, "WHERE WE WAS" and the other, "NOW WERE HERE."
I am teaching a class in a classroom my company rented that happens to be in a local union hall. On the whiteboard are production statistics in two columns. One is entitled, "WHERE WE WAS" and the other, "NOW WERE HERE."
Like me, I'm sure that most of you can remember when people actually knew how to spell, "congratulations", and--if they wanted to abbreviate that word--they spelled it as, "congrats".
I believe that I can identify the culprit in this dumbing-down of America, and it is the greeting card industry.
Sometime around the early '90s, I began to see greeting cards for graduates that tried to be cute by converting, "Congratulations, graduate", to, "Congradulations (sic)".
I believe that a decade or so of this, "cuteness" was all that was necessary to convince many people that, "congradulations" was a legitimate word, and that, "congrads", was an acceptable abbreviation for that non-word.
I just find this to be...very sad.
Last edited by Retriever; 05-23-2013 at 05:48 PM..
Technically, jtur88 should have written 'there is an extra letter (the letter A), not there is an extra A.
Saying there is an extra A suggests that there is at least one A already in the word.
(not to fan the flames, or anything LOL)
I was merely making it clear that the A was the extra letter.
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