Horrible Grammar
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Forum Name: Television / Streaming Ads
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Topic: Horrible Grammar
Posted By: lukeyeats
Subject: Horrible Grammar
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 3:59am
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I hate it when people say "Got (blank)" instead "Have (blank)" |
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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 4:03am
Y'mean, she says "I've" with a small i?
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lukeyeats wrote:Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 4:07am
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Also, a commercial is not a place. Therefore, you wouldn't use "where". You'd use "in which".
That is, if you really wanna get technical about such things.
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Posted By: lukeyeats
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 4:07am
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Posted By: lukeyeats
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 4:08am
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I'm 14, calm down.
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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 4:20am
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How can I calm down? I went to Catholic school, where we were slapped into grammatical correctness. 39 years later, I'm still in fear of Sister Domitian's right hand, even though that right hand has probably been eaten by worms at this point. So, Luke, tell me...do they still make students diagram sentences in school these days?
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Posted By: meinga
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 5:01am
Me too... grade school and high school. Not all, but some of those Nuns were mean. We were paddled and our hands slapped with rulers when we were out of line, and even when we were not out of line. They can't get away with that nowadays, but then again most of us turned out just fine. 30+ years later I still remember Sister Rebecca from grade school.
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Posted By: musicman
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 8:35am
| Yeah, that Got (blank) is a tired rip-off of the Got Milk? ad campaign which you may or may not remember at 14 years of age. |
Posted By: lukeyeats
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 2:12pm
My old school has posters of Got Milk? |
Posted By: lukeyeats
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 2:14pm
My mother did the same thing; so, bad grammar makes me annoyed. |
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 2:18pm
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I think "Got milk?" sounds better than "Have milk?". The former clearly asks if you've Got Milk, while the latter is ambiguous. The latter could mean "Do you have milk?" or "Would you like to have some milk?".
And yes...lukeyeats is 14. If you notice, I replied to his original first post, after which, he changed that first post entirely.
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Posted By: lukeyeats
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 2:19pm
Yeah I did. |
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 2:22pm
Yeah. Mother Superior used to come around once a year to hit kids. I got slapped for not dotting my i's or j's. As you can see, I now dot my i's and j's.
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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 2:28pm
You get a pass on that 'cause you're 14. If you were 15, we'd have to kick your ass.
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Posted By: lukeyeats
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 2:30pm
:D |