tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087863006286473810.post7625352983045401406..comments2023-05-04T21:55:20.904+10:00Comments on head vs desk: It's all downhill from here...james royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044438216337471085noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087863006286473810.post-28487563897303677172009-01-24T16:23:00.000+11:002009-01-24T16:23:00.000+11:00@Adele:My personal fave sentence containing your p...@Adele:<BR/><BR/>My personal fave sentence containing your pet peeve is the following:<BR/><BR/>"I seen him come up to her, right, and he aksed her pacifically not to start nothing?"<BR/><BR/>(The question mark indicates the inevitable rising inflection -- not that the statement is in any way a question.)<BR/><BR/>*Shudder*Doubterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12832273106913930787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087863006286473810.post-23799143245122103832009-01-24T00:51:00.000+11:002009-01-24T00:51:00.000+11:00Last year I lived in an area where it was very com...Last year I lived in an area where it was very common to start sentences with "I seen.." I corrected my students but I was horrified to find that the parents were saying it also. Containing the shudder was near impossible.Adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13025434037081684606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087863006286473810.post-4771536740126754642009-01-20T17:57:00.000+11:002009-01-20T17:57:00.000+11:00That's the giveaway of giveaways. Much more than s...That's the giveaway of giveaways. Much more than simply the bad spelling/grammar in the note. It's two sentences. The original was<BR/><BR/>"She gives girls dress code checks everyday" [don't you think that's weird?]<BR/><BR/>as a complaint about her teacher. Then she realized it would be much cooler if the "question" was supposedly _from_ her teacher so she "changed" it to:<BR/><BR/>"I give girls dress code checks everyday"<BR/><BR/>But made a little editing error in the "title" box.<BR/><BR/>I have the wrong job.Doubterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12832273106913930787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087863006286473810.post-10618582190319705832009-01-20T00:31:00.000+11:002009-01-20T00:31:00.000+11:00Shannonr,u r probly rite, and da thuoght had crose...Shannonr,<BR/><BR/>u r probly rite, and da thuoght had crosed my mind. Even so, who says 'she I' instead of 'should I'? <BR/><BR/>pfft.james royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14044438216337471085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087863006286473810.post-11814741317196426882009-01-19T22:22:00.000+11:002009-01-19T22:22:00.000+11:00Dear Miss Treacle,My daughter Melanie Olivia Jones...Dear Miss Treacle,<BR/><BR/>My daughter Melanie Olivia Jones is sick today she is felling bad her stomack hurts a lot so she needs to get off school at Lunch to go to the doctor. If you see her friends Stacy and Petra going to do'nt stop them I think they are sick too.<BR/><BR/>Regards,<BR/><BR/>Nancy Jones (my mother)Doubterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12832273106913930787noreply@blogger.com