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LJH · Apr 2, 2014

ddb123 · Apr 2, 2014

LOL, amazing

Dr_Zinj · Apr 2, 2014

It's a crying shame there are so many ignorant, poorly educated young people nowadays.

I joined the military, spent 22 years in, got 2 Associate of Science and 1 Bachelor of Science degrees while I was in, and got my Master of Science in Management on my G.I Bill after I 'retired'.

Military service is still the best means of upward mobility for the poor, minorities, and immigrants; as long as you at least graduated from high school, which is a pretty low bar. Yeah, you run the risk of getting killed or crippled for life; but it's still worth it.

trktrman · Apr 2, 2014

I think it's very funny. Those of you who do not think it's funny just do not understand it.
Nothing inappropriate there. Thanks for sharing OP!!

k0ua · Apr 2, 2014

Good post, I enjoyed it!

Gary Fowler · Apr 2, 2014

trktrman said:
I think it's very funny. Those of you who do not think it's funny just do not understand it.
Nothing inappropriate there. Thanks for sharing OP!!

My thoughts exactly. Amazing how many folks don't know the difference between "THERE" (a place) and THEY'RE (contraction for they are) and THEIR (showing possessive) and many of them are college grads.

I am also amazed at the folks on TBN that use "PROLLY" rather than "probably" in their post. What it is saving is typing 8 letters to show comprehension of the English language rather than 6 that some illiterate person would use for internet slang.

k0ua · Apr 2, 2014

Gary Fowler said:
My thoughts exactly. Amazing how many folks don't know the difference between "THERE" (a place) and THEY'RE (contraction for they are) and THEIR (showing possessive) and many of them are college grads.

I am also amazed at the folks on TBN that use "PROLLY" rather than "probably" in their post. I have never heard of the word PROLLY and really doubt its existence in a dictionary.

I encountered PROLLY about 5 years ago, in a "text". It then seemed to migrate into speech at about the same time. Several of our speech patterns have been changed due to the texting phenomenon.

trktrman · Apr 2, 2014

Hmmmm. Seems like there's some preexisting beef between the OP and a criticizing replier.

AchingBack · Apr 2, 2014

Gary Fowler said:
My thoughts exactly. Amazing how many folks don't know the difference between "THERE" (a place) and THEY'RE (contraction for they are) and THEIR (showing possessive) and many of them are college grads.

I am also amazed at the folks on TBN that use "PROLLY" rather than "probably" in their post. I have never heard of the word PROLLY and really doubt its existence in a dictionary.

And, comfterble is pronounced comfortable.

smstonypoint · Apr 2, 2014

Dr_Zinj said:
It's a crying shame there are so many ignorant, poorly educated young people nowadays.

I joined the military, spent 22 years in, got 2 Associate of Science and 1 Bachelor of Science degrees while I was in, and got my Master of Science in Management on my G.I Bill after I 'retired'.

Military service is still the best means of upward mobility for the poor, minorities, and immigrants; as long as you at least graduated from high school, which is a pretty low bar. Yeah, you run the risk of getting killed or crippled for life; but it's still worth it.

The GI Bill certainly worked for me. After four years in the USCG, the GI Bill and my working wife got me through my undergraduate program and one year of grad school.

Steve

ddb123 · Apr 2, 2014

I did an etymology search for "prolly" just now and it seems that it dates back at least to the 1940s, possibly earlier! Surprised me.

k0ua · Apr 2, 2014

ddb123 said:
I think you mean k0ua.

HA! Irony, you are a cruel mistress.

I don't normally see rsallens posts except when they are re-posted by others, but I see that I sure don't need to make any changes to that situation.
He still seems to be one old unhappy fella.

k0ua · Apr 2, 2014

ddb123 said:
I did an etymology search for "prolly" just now and it seems that it dates back at least to the 1940s, possibly earlier! Surprised me.

Is it southern speech? I truly had never heard of it until a business associate used it.

ddb123 · Apr 2, 2014

k0ua said:
Is it southern speech? I truly had never heard of it until a business associate used it.

Not sure. The OED only references written instances, and I don't know the regional origin of the cited material. I thought I might have read it in something by Mark Twain, but I just searched and it isn't there.

square1 · Apr 2, 2014

Love it!

rsallen · Apr 2, 2014

smstonypoint said:
Really?

So, others should agree with your judgement of what is "tripe" and whether it belongs here?

Steve

Is there a reason I should care stony?
If others agree with the opinion of the op (aside from the obvious mangling of the English language) and they find it amusing then no ones stopping them from posting just as I did in saying the thought is less than amusing.

So by your judgment I should say nothing?
Do I have that right?

dave1949 · Apr 2, 2014

rsallen said:
Is there a reason I should care stony?
If others agree with the opinion of the op (aside from the obvious mangling of the English language) and they find it amusing then no ones stopping them from posting just as I did in saying the thought is less than amusing.

So by your judgment I should say nothing?
Do I have that right?

smstonypoint · Apr 2, 2014

k0ua said:
He still seems to be one old unhappy fella.

Genetics may be at work.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have tracked identical twins who were separated as infants and raised by separate families. As genetic carbon copies brought up in different environments, these twins are a social scientists' dream, helping us disentangle nature from nurture. These researchers found that we inherit a surprising proportion of our happiness at any given moment around 48 percent. (Since I discovered this, I've been blaming my parents for my bad moods.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/opinion/sunday/a-formula-for-happiness.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1.

Steve

Coyote machine · Apr 2, 2014

Koua, I have to disagree with the statement about our speech patterns having changed since texting came about.
There are way too many people of any age today who can barely speak, write or spell well enough to get by in our culture. It is pitiful and only going to get worse; especially since many don't care to do any better, or don't know their own shortcomings. English is a complicated language and as such it's sublties are often hard to grasp without copious amounts of study and desire to know what is correct. Consequently, we have today the "dumbing down" mentality and the subsequent results of things like texting where everything is boiled down to the lowest form of 'language'. I refuse to accept this as my own 'speech pattern', but others are free to choose, or settle for this mindless means of 'communication'. Unfortunately, it also leaves a lot to misinterpretation and confusion over what one actually means, in both texting and in written form, like on these forums, due to misuse of the spelling of various critical words and misuse of phrasing, grammar, etc. What I'm saying is we can either accept this as the way it is or choose a higher standard that maintains the known to be correct use of the English language. I choose the latter, or is that later?!:confused3::laughing: