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01/20/2013 06:28:53 PM · #76 |
Originally posted by LydiaToo:
3: I'd rather talk about grammar than guns and, apparently, so would others. |
Thus ...
4. Most of the participants belong in elementary school
BTW: Before the mid 1600s there were no (English) dictionaries, so everything in the first dictionary was necessarily based on how people used words. There are four signatures of William Shakespeare -- arguably the the greatest user of words ever --- which are considered authentic by the best of current scientific and historical methods, yet none of them is spelled (spelt) the same ... |
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01/20/2013 06:33:06 PM · #77 |
Originally posted by BrennanOB:
Originally posted by David Ey:
"Irregardless is an illegitimate word. Putting the prefix Ir before the word regardless effectively makes it a double negative; thus the meaning of the word becomes: "without without regard." so instead of the intended meaning, which is without regard, it becomes just the opposite: with regard to! |
Please share your wisdom with the editors of the Merriam/Webster and the Oxford English Dictionaries as they seem to have made a horrible error. Leave off calling them "tools" when you do, it is a tough insult to drop on someone for improper usage of the language. |
Hey, I could not care less about the "proper" use of grammer, or spelling for that matter. If the meaning is understandable it's OK by me. I was just pointing out fur you purests the dubble neggative.
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01/20/2013 06:49:34 PM · #78 |
Originally posted by RayEthier:
......saw a sign in Australia that said: "English spoken here... American understood",there seemingly is a difference.
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Ray |
AbsoBloodyLutely! |
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01/22/2013 11:42:36 AM · #79 |
Well, perhaps, now our kids may correct their grammar on one of these...*sigh*
Bullet Proof Whiteboards |
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02/04/2013 04:18:16 PM · #80 |
I spent two hours this morning at my daughter's school in a gun related lock down. They wouldn't release my daughter from the class and told the waiting parents they were locking the gate...so stay or go. So, I stayed. Finally, after two endless hours, they let us all go.
Apparently, a gunman holed himself up in one of the neighboring houses near the school.
When does this end? |
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02/04/2013 04:38:33 PM · #81 |
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02/04/2013 07:59:30 PM · #82 |
Originally posted by hihosilver:
I spent two hours this morning at my daughter's school in a gun related lock down. They wouldn't release my daughter from the class and told the waiting parents they were locking the gate...so stay or go. So, I stayed. Finally, after two endless hours, they let us all go.
Apparently, a gunman holed himself up in one of the neighboring houses near the school.
When does this end? |
So sorry to hear that Mae. |
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02/04/2013 08:21:15 PM · #83 |
 hihosilver, I join with PennyStreet in her comment:
I too am so sorry to hear this.
A generation is going to grow up being scared-to-death of guns. |
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02/05/2013 12:48:41 PM · #84 |
Originally posted by PennyStreet:
Originally posted by hihosilver:
I spent two hours this morning at my daughter's school in a gun related lock down. They wouldn't release my daughter from the class and told the waiting parents they were locking the gate...so stay or go. So, I stayed. Finally, after two endless hours, they let us all go.
Apparently, a gunman holed himself up in one of the neighboring houses near the school.
When does this end? |
So sorry to hear that Mae. |
Thanks, Lynn. The biggest lesson I learned is not to wear pink pajamas and bunny slippers while dropping the kids off at school...just in case you get stuck in the front office for several hours with the rest of the waiting parents. ;-)
Alice, not sure how to measure the depth or breadth of the experience...only time may dictate the words that this generation will have to say.
Message edited by author 2013-02-05 12:49:26. |
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02/05/2013 01:08:22 PM · #85 |
Originally posted by sfalice:
hihosilver, I join with PennyStreet in her comment:
I too am so sorry to hear this.
A generation is going to grow up being scared-to-death of guns. |
Thats what you want isn't it?
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02/05/2013 01:32:44 PM · #86 |
Really??? This is really taking it way too far. When I was his age I played "war"...I had all of the toy guns. This kid is guilty of nothing more than imagination.
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02/05/2013 02:27:51 PM · #87 |
Originally posted by cowboy221977:
Really??? This is really taking it way too far. When I was his age I played "war"...I had all of the toy guns. This kid is guilty of nothing more than imagination. |
Wow, that is amazing. Treating imaginary play as a threat, while television and movies are filled with murders and shoot outs, and viewed as simple family fare entertainment is something I have a hard time wrapping my head around. It is important for kids to learn the difference between pretend and real. Kids have to learn when they are pretending to act out the fantasy of warfare and violence that they see in popular entertainment, and realize that it it a very different thing that acting out those games in real life. Lumping play into the threat of real violence makes it all the easier to create the confusion in the heads of the disturbed teen who acts out these fantasies with real guns.
Let the children play. Then teach them about reality.
Message edited by author 2013-02-05 15:04:15. |
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