It's just "cost" people

dickdoes

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Don’t most computers and smart phones have spelling and grammar check? I guess the rest is not caring or just laziness.
 

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This sort of reminds me of this conversation from the 2005 classic Kiss Kiss Bang Bang:


Harry: Umm, clearly I'm interrupting. I feel badly. Let me... What are you drinking?
Harmony: Bad.
Harry: Bad? Sorry... feel...?
Harmony: You feel bad.
Harry: Bad?
Harmony: Badly is an adverb. So to say you feel badly would be saying that the mechanism which allows you to feel is broken.

I'm certainly not a grammar nazi, but some misuses of the english language simply make me cringe. I received an email explaining that an item I was hoping to purchase "initially costed more".I can't be the only who feels this way. What are some things that make you cringe?
 
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80watts

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Does not everyone have the opportunity to attend grade school and continue through to grade 12? That type of education should be all that’s needed to read and write properly if one puts in the effort.
I would like to agree, but that is a false statement according to my high school english teachers. Mostly there claim was high school students were not that good at english. My college english teachers said the same thing....
So 40 years later and the same thing is still happening. probally worse, now htat there is texting and shortforms.....:whistle::LOL:
Also still alot of people who don't graduate from high school....
Also I fucken hated English class....
So prejucied exist too.. for not taking english seriously.....
 

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I would like to agree, but that is a false statement according to my high school english teachers. Mostly there claim was high school students were not that good at english. My college english teachers said the same thing....
So 40 years later and the same thing is still happening. probally worse, now htat there is texting and shortforms.....:whistle::LOL:
Also still alot of people who don't graduate from high school....
Also I fucken hated English class....
So prejucied exist too.. for not taking english seriously.....
Teachers , who happen to spend their entire lives in the scholastic system....should really be the last ones giving advice on “ real life”.
 

sybian

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Don’t most computers and smart phones have spelling and grammar check? I guess the rest is not caring or just laziness.
If you make enough spelling mistakes like I do......eventually your spell check will adjust itself to conform with the mistakes.
either that, or my IPad has conspired against me to look like a hillbilly.
 
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