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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 08:27 PM
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Shit. I just saw a sign behind a man being interviewed by Lawrence O'Donnell. It said...
"Mr. Walker would of made a bad teacher"

:grr:

Come on folks!!! WE ARE NOT FREEPERS!! Get your grammar correct.
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movonne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 08:28 PM
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1. soooooo
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 08:31 PM
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3. Sorry, but if you are teacher or even printing a sign, GET IT RIGHT!
It should have said (not should of said)..

"Mr. Walker would have made a bad teacher." Or it could have said: "Mr. Walker would've made a bad teacher"
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 08:34 PM
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6. That one makes me dizzy when I see it.
I see it often enough on DU, but don't want to be a grammar Nazi to DUers.
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:07 PM
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21. Heh heh, I sympathize! I tutor ESL and it kills me but I have to teach
my English learners to say "shudda, couldda, wouldda" as well as "wanna" and "gonna."

But they have to learn the English that Americans actually speak...
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:13 PM
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23. how about 'woulda'?
You aint being to picky are ya?
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snooper2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:19 PM
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28. "but if you are teacher"
how is that correct?
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itsrobert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:57 PM
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32. "Or it could have said:"
Or, it could have said:
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:15 PM
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24. You see the error, no?
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Systematic Chaos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 08:31 PM
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2. It's the thought that counts.
Bad grammar aside, at least that one shows the ability to think critically.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 08:36 PM
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7. Well, we have been making fun of freeperism for nearly 10 years,
so when I see a sign misspelled, I cringe.

Not that the freepers could even figure out the incorrect grammar in the sign.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 02:00 PM
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33. Exactly...
One of my TeaBaggy cousins just told me that unions are the "modern day MOFIA!!!!!!!"

Cringe is right... on many, many levels.
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 09:05 PM
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12. When you're a teacher, you should be able to write a simple grammatical sentence.
Really.
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Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:25 PM
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30. If the one holding the sign is a teacher it makes the Republican's point, not ours.
:shrug:
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 08:32 PM
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4. hee
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CountAllVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 08:32 PM
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5. what do you expect?
Edited on Thu Mar-10-11 08:34 PM by CountAllVotes
In a nation that has become nothing but a bunch of text messages and seems to have forgotten things like punctuation, etc. why would the use of a word like "of" instead of "have" be the least bit surprising?

This shows what a lousy job is being done in teaching a subject called English has become; shameful IMO.

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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 08:40 PM
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8. it is bad enough in a sign, but it makes me absolutely crazy to see it in books I am reading.
the sheer number of mistakes I see on an almost daily basis has resulted in more than one letter to publishers, etc. somehow, they never acknowledge their errors.
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CountAllVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 08:42 PM
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9. yes it is pretty sad
and it makes Americans look stupid! That is the really sad part about it. It is not a Democratic or a Republican attribute. It is the "new" America. :puke:
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adigal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 10:25 PM
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15. Hey, don't blame English teachers
I correct this exact mistake at least 50 times a day. Most kids don't care enough to pay attention and correct their error(s). I can only keep repeating myself and hope that it somehow sinks in.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:16 PM
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26. Thank you! We have a losing battle with "to he and I," also! (Don't get me started!)
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 08:42 PM
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10. Could this have been deliberate?
Could the sign maker have been thinking of how often teabaggers and the like often have bad grammar and spelling, and making fun of that?
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Curmudgeoness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 07:43 PM
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35. That was my first thought too. Too bad he didn't use smilies
to tell everyone it was :sarcasm:
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 08:50 PM
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11. "Hooked on phonics" generation... They spell like they speak...
Edited on Thu Mar-10-11 08:52 PM by hlthe2b
No longer are encouraged to read actual books and now, with twitter and email, never have to actually construct a real sentence. Sadly, many never learned to speak correctly, either. Yes, I know I sound like a grumpy old man, despite being neither.
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JoeyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 11:58 AM
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19. Yeah, it's a generational thing.
Edited on Fri Mar-11-11 12:01 PM by JoeyT
That's why all the teabagger signs had perfect spelling and grammar.

Most kids were never really encouraged to read books, no matter how far back you go. Reading for pleasure among the working classes is actually a relatively recent thing. Another thing we can probably thank unions for. Working 16 hours a day 7 days a week from the time you're 8 years old doesn't leave much time for book learnin'.
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 12:42 PM
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20. Nope... it crosses ages...
Edited on Fri Mar-11-11 12:46 PM by hlthe2b
It is just more pronounced with the trend to teach spelling by phonetic sound, rather than by repetition and lots and lots of reading.

It is getting worse with current generations, for that very reason. They are not being encouraged to read nor to write in complete sentences. Have there always been similar issues? Yes certainly. I'm not sure why you seem to react in such a negative way to my pointing out what is simply a factual trend-- one we should certainly try to reverse if we care about education and future generations.
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JoeyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 07:35 PM
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34. Fair enough.
I'm a few years older than the phonetic spelling craze, so I'm not terribly familiar with it.
Given nearly all of our words are derived from other languages it does seem like a kind of bad idea.
It really would go a long way toward explaining all the griping about "goverment" I keep seeing.

I misread your comment. Sorry about that.
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 09:25 PM
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13. I chalk it up to the numbers. 30% of freeper signs are wrong,
< 1% of Dems signs.

It had to happen sooner or later.
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obxhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 10:18 PM
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14. I was in the DMV for 3 hours on Tuedsay
Edited on Thu Mar-10-11 10:19 PM by obxhead
and would cringe as the computer generated voice would call out each number. "Now serving C one hundred AND 42." I remember having it pounded into our heads in second grade that there is no "and" in any number above 99.
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deacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 10:44 PM
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16. But he makes an excellent fascist, n/t
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ejbrush Donating Member (186 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 10:54 PM
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17. It's OK, we're from Wisconsin
It sounds perfectly normal for the vernacular here in Beerbratistan. The guys a nuclear engineer from Trivers for all we know.
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JoeyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 11:56 AM
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18. It's not that big a deal.
While it's true that "Would have" would be grammatically correct, he may have been using "Would of" for effect.

If I were there I'd probably have y'all on a sign. It makes the "These people are terrible elitists that think they're better than you and liberals and ivory towers and and and..." narrative a little harder to push when they pan across a sign like that.

Much like would of, y'all is more of a dialect difference than anything else. Neither are comparable to having half your signs contain spelling errors that are the obvious result of someone that's never read the word having to sound it out to spell it.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:09 PM
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22. There are way worse problems in da worlds den worryin about signs gmraaarerss
jsus christ on a popsicle stick
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:17 PM
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27. Not when it's referring to being a teacher.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:53 PM
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31. How diz yous knows it a teach>???
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fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:15 PM
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25. I think we should be past concern for how we look
seems to be a big issue for the President too.
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Teaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:20 PM
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29. presentation matters
it just does.
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