Grammar Nazi gets owned

[Mamba]

[Dirty Hippie]

All the basic ones like "your" and "you're", "there", "they're" and "their", "its" and "it's" drive me fucking bonkers but I was never able to get a good grasp on the ones like "sneaked/snuck", "hanged/hung" and "laid/lie", etc. We have such a dumb language.

[CrAnIuM]

We have such a dumb language.

Indeed.

I live with an English as a second language person. She has a few issues with words like BUILD vs BUILT and similar.

German likewise has me sounding like a cave man as I am unable to get the female/male/neutral version of a word correct for the conversation at hand.

[Mamba]

All the basic ones like "your" and "you're", "there", "they're" and "their", "its" and "it's" drive me fucking bonkers but I was never able to get a good grasp on the ones like "sneaked/snuck", "hanged/hung" and "laid/lie", etc. We have such a dumb language.

Yeaaaaah but its so funny. "You went to Harvard and you should know that"

*BITCH SLAP*

I am unable to get the female/male/neutral version of a word correct for the conversation at hand.

I have the same problem with Spanish sometimes--- and I'm fluent!

[Absinthe]

What drives me crazy is when they say "he don't"...

It's he DOESN'T, moron...

sigh...

[Zeabot]

That's why there needs to be a "common" language. Check this one out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto.

And yes, sneaked and snuck are both words, but it depends on the usage.

This brings me up to another idea. I hate language nazis. People act as if language has always been and has not evolved.

[Dirty Hippie]

People act as if language has always been and has not evolved.

If you read texts from a few hundred years ago it sounds like everyone flunked out of 2nd grade English. So many words are spelled differently (usually more phonetically) and there are a bunch of words that are in slightly different form.

[Absinthe]

nazis

And I am offended...

[CrAnIuM]

And I am offended...

haha .. and we having wiener and sauerkraut today ~~!!

[Absinthe]

wiener and sauerkraut today

nope... the plan was bratwurst, red cabbage and mashed potatoes.

We ended up with pizza

[CrAnIuM]

nope... the plan was bratwurst, red cabbage and mashed potatoes.

We ended up with pizza

Yup... and that is the last fat boy meal I'll have until April first.

[Negativecool]

I say we all speak latin.

[KommieKat]

What drives me crazy is when they say "he don't"...

It's he DOESN'T, moron...

That's because you live in the South and they have their own rules. Let me know when you see a KKK march. I've at least seen one of those (Greensboro,N.C.).

[Mamba]

And I am offended...

Shit, sorry. Are you really? I feel terrible.

I like Germans.

[CrAnIuM]

sorry. Are you really?

haha .. if she was offended by the word nazi then she must HATE it when I say she drinks OrangeJEWS and eats LufWAFFELS.


Trust me, she knows better than to get offended by silly ass words on a screen.

[Mamba]

Trust me, she knows better than to get offended by silly ass words on a screen.

Fine, fine.... thought it would be good to check.

[Zeabot]

OrangeJEWS and eats LufWAFFELS.

You would.

I say we all speak latin.

Latin sucks hard to learn.

[Negativecool]

Latin sucks hard to learn.

Chicks suck harder when you learn it.

[Mamba]

Chicks suck harder when you learn it.

Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi

[Zeabot]

Chicks suck harder when you learn it.

I've just enrolled in a latin class.