Because apparently, speaking your native language is just too difficult...

[icehealer]

I've been steadily paying more attention to the way people talk the last few years. In doing so, it's occured to me just how depressingly bad at talking people are. When I say talking, I don't mean making sounds and forming audible words with those syllables. I mean taking words of the english language and trying to put them in an order that

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[aramis307]

I feel your pain. It hurts my ears to hear someone say "conversate". It's equally painful to hear someone speak of being orienetated to a particular issue. There are many more, but for the sake of brevity, I will refrain from going on.

[icehealer]

It does hurt, like fingernails against the chalkboard of my brain.

[icehealer]

I think the appropriate title is 'biatch.'

What am I goin on about?

[icehealer]

In my defense, most of the citizens of our country are jackasses.
My larger argument was that most of the citizens of our country are unwilling or incapable of speaking english with a reasonable amount of accuracy.

You were otherwise right-on, and impressively so.

[braz_king]

I agree with most of your complaints, but sometimes ending a sentence with a preposition makes a much less contorted sentence than one that rigidly follows this rule.

Also language is fluid. Fluid like a glacier, but fluid nonetheless. For example, the singular "their" was once common in English literature but fell out of fashion and then just became "wrong". Lately it is finding its way back into the language, largely because English doesn't have gender neutral pronouns like most sensible languages. :^)

[icehealer]

Fair enough, Braz. That's largely why I'm less prone to pull a Van Gogh when I hear it done. It sometimes bothers me, but not enough to make a fuss.
I think it really only grates on me when it's done completely unnecessarily.
For example, "Where are you at?" Completely ridiculous.

[10minutes2far]

The amount of effort you put into this post makes me sad, mostly because we both know full well that if I were still in Texas you wouldn't have had the time to write this, as it's Wednesday, and therefore bar night. Further, you wouldn't have been able to write this either yesterday or tomorrow as Tuesday and Thursday are also bar nights.

I miss going to bars.

[icehealer]

Me too. I don't go anymore.

I blame you.

[loudmouse42]

AMEN!