Lefty friends have bad grammar
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Perhaps people do not use apostrophes correctly because teachers are spending all their time indoctrinating students rather than educating them.
'If teachers could indoctrinate students'
That's what cults are you moron.
Learning proper grammar is actually best gotten from reading a lot of texts with proper grammar. Now people are just reading each other's misspelled gunk and perpetuating and magnifying error.
This guy gets it. You have to read good english to duplicate good english.
The kid with the best spelling and grammar I know is homeschooled. I've never seen him try either, just texts and stuff. His spelling and grammar in casual texts is better than I remember seeing when we were supposed to "peer review" essays in college English composition. Excluding punctuation, but they are text conversations I mean c'mon.
Peer review has gotten my anger recently.
He texts all the time; you've never seen him use a semicolon?
Not a chance. Honestly I doubt he's very well versed at how to use a semicolon. I'll still back him against any middle school kid that's been through the public indoctrination system.
if teachers spent more time teaching & less time indoctrinating, maybe all these dumbfucks online would know the difference between their, there, and they're.
If teachers focused on apostrophes they wouldn’t have time to indoctrinate children
Well they certainly told me
Alright, I'm going to go there.
Oxford commas are incorrect. Fight me.
"When going to a nerd convention, you must prepare money for souvenirs, room and board, costume repair and autographs."
"When going to a nerd convention, you must prepare money for souvenirs, room and board, costume repair, and autographs."
There is actually legal precedent that the comma is necessary. Business contracts have been ruled on one side over another because the comma was not there, and it was argued that the "and" statement implied the two things at the end were joined together and not separate articles, and thus only part of the binding contract if they occurred together.
Legal semantics don't make it good grammar. The comma is there as a stand-in for the conjunction. If you have the conjunction between the last two items on the list then you don't need the comma. It's like saying "and" twice.
"don't make it good grammar"
Gonna need you to chill out on the grammar Nazism when you're also writing that kind of tripe.
OK I'll take the L on that one.
Optional. But both can work.
A lot of reading on the boat can help with that. I had a friend that read a box of books each trip.
Who knew arguing on the internet could have such a positive.
Honestly, that's probably what helped me as well. I always had great reading comprehension, but I came off like a fucking chimp whenever I opened my mouth or tried to put words to paper. Still do, if I try to speak off the cuff. It wasn't until a few years into my 20s that I came to the realization that I actually had some confidence in my writing.
Frustration with stupid politics really forces you to get precise with your language, and it's more of a technical skill than artistic one. It's something you can practice even if you have absolutely no talent for it. Trying to explain why it's not actually "all about the money" to some midwit left-lib you know, before their adderal stops working, is about the most technically challenging language task there is, and you'll definitely have enough opportunities to try.