Should we just give in ?

[bobmac]

Are we fighting a losing battle ?
More and more people seem to have given in and have accepted defeat.
You see and hear more and more evidence of it every day, people openly giving in without thought or remorse.
What am I talking about?
The American language.
Now we watch movies not films, we have favorite stores in the local mall, we authorize, we take vacations, doctors perform autopsys on Morse for goodness sake. We like a good read, a must have or I'm golfing with a friend Tuesday.
Not to mention your local KFC or McDonald's drive thru.
Should we carry on the good fight and try and protect punctuation, the noun, the verb and the adjective from the slap dash and lazy Americanisms or just accept the inevitable change as each new generation passes.
RIP English teachers

More ramblings to follow

 

[DCB]

Bob, your lucky you don't have to watch the Disney Channel and see the resulting effect on our youngsters. What hope have we got ?

 

[Khamelion]

Bob, your lucky you don't have to watch the Disney Channel and see the resulting effect on our youngsters. What hope have we got ?

Yes, definatley with you on that one, the Disney channel has a lot to answer for, bring back Saturday Swap Shop!!!!!!

 

[CMAC]

Bob, it would be unfair, and quite ironic, to point out your use of the first person participle and subjunctive omissions in your post about the correct use of the English language oo:

:ears:

 

[thecraw]

Nothing wrong in heading down the Mall for a Coke!

God Bless.

 

[bobmac]

Bob, it would be unfair, and quite ironic, to point out

Well don't then :ears:

 

[CliveW]

More annoying to me is the use of "me" instead of "I" and phrases such as "Me and Edd..." instead of "Edd and I..." to quote Mike Brewer.
(My other bugbear is the missuse of the apostophe.)

 

[CMAC]

More annoying to me is the use of "me" instead of "I" and phrases such as "Me and Edd..." instead of "Edd and I..." to quote Mike Brewer.
(My other bugbear is the missuse of the apostophe.)

..and the blatant ignoring of the poor letter 'r'

 

[Doon frae Troon]

My 7 year old grandson asked me to put some rubbish in the 'trash can' the other day.

I greatly dislike hearing folk say: sand trap, back 9, double eagle etc. No sense of history.
And any one who mentions PAIRS competition has no understanding about golf whatsoever.

AHHHHHH that's better.

 

[bobmac]

For example.
I saw this question on Facebook this morning from a lady who is bringing up 2 young children.....

What time does the tip shut. In sleaford 2day doess any. One. No.

 

[Rooter]

My 7 year old grandson asked me to put some rubbish in the 'trash can' the other day.

I greatly dislike hearing folk say: sand trap, back 9, double eagle etc. No sense of history.
And any one who mentions PAIRS competition has no understanding about golf whatsoever.

AHHHHHH that's better.

A least they called it rubbish! My daughter called it garbage the other day! Keep drilling it ino them its zed not zee also.. Damn americanisms...

 

[MashieNiblick]

I greatly dislike hearing folk say: sand trap, back 9, double eagle etc. No sense of history.
And any one who mentions PAIRS competition has no understanding about golf whatsoever.

AHHHHHH that's better.

My understanding was that "birdie" and "eagle" are also Americanisms. Why can't folks just say "2 under bogey"!

One that does grate though is when people say they are "gaming" the new TMs or what ever.

 

[louise_a]

In fairness if people get a decent education, they will spell and speak correctly.

 

[stevie_r]

One that does grate though is when people say they are "gaming" the new TMs or what ever.

I agree, it is incredibly irritating and sounds ridiculous. Which muppet woke up one day and thought 'I know, I'll turn the word game into a verb'.

 

[Rooter]

I agree, it is incredibly irritating and sound ridiculous. Which muppet woke up one day and thought 'I know, I'll turn the word game into a verb'.

Yeh it's stupid isn't it! See signature...

 

[bobmac]

Pan fry
Oven roasted
fry off
cool down
reverse backwards
rise up
ect

tee ball
home hole
4 par

the investigation is still on going

I could go on............

 

[stevie_r]

Yeh it's stupid isn't it! See signature...

oops

Was it you that started it?

 

[stevie_r]

In fairness if people get a decent education, they will spell and speak correctly.

Encouraging kids in having a healthy interest in books is the key to decent grammar and good vocabulary.

 

[Ethan]

Pan fry
Oven roasted
fry off
cool down
reverse backwards
rise up
ect

tee ball
home hole
4 par

the investigation is still on going

I could go on............

how did you golf your ball on the backside, dude?

 

[Rooter]

oops

Was it you that started it?

Yeh dude, I was walking down the sidewalk, saw some garbage next to the trash can, so picked it up and put it in the trunk of my car. That's when I thought to myself, this is dope. I though how can I get verb-ier. So I came up with gaming, was wearing my nikeeey sneakers and had my dollars in my fanny pack. Damn that day was whack.