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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I love it when you get worked up.

[whitetigerlilly]

The icon refers to the really bad examples that you included and I hear on a daily basis.

I do have one question:
5) From, At, Of, With, By, Through, Over, Under, In, On, To, Since, From, and About are all prepositions and should not end sentences. I've pretty much given up on fighting this one, though, as it has idiomatically taken over the english language and that common usage has since trumped grammatical correctness.

What about "Let's get it on"?
....Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!

[etherrant]

Had to one-up me, didn't you?

[icehealer]

Are you referring to our Pirates battles?

Because you make for some good cannon fodder.

[etherrant]

Dear boy, you are far better cannon fodder than I could ever hope to be.

And no, I was referring to my own blog on grammatical shenanigans. The one I linked in my comment.

[icehealer]

My bad, I didn't even realize that first comment was a link.
No, I had no idea you made your MySpace post and I wasn't jumping on your band wagon.

All the same, though, I totally feel your pain.

But I think we can all agree...
Walken rules.