say waaa??? WTF?

Is someone here playing a prank and your MAMA is a spoof?

The operative word, Naomi, is ’seems’…I’m not actually into spanking…I REALLY don’t dig pain! I have vivid memories of a couple of ‘Duzies’ as a kid. I think it’s more about my fondness for the Python shtick in the “Holy Grail” flick. You do, of course, believe me now…don’t you? Huh?…huh?
[Goofing off too much with that kind of stuff, CAN lead to some false stigmas on ones ‘impeccable’ reputation.] ;(

“Well, I could stay a bitlonger…”

Don’t underestimate grammar, spelling, and, above all, punctuation errors. They may look harmless to you, but they often slow us (non-native English speakers) down and, depending on profeciency, they may diminish our understanding. Which is ironic, given how we are the ones to make the most mistakes, of course.

Actually I find those who learned English as a second language often speak it more correctly than native speakers. Probably because they learned it as a matter of necessity and therefore paid more attention to the idiosynchrasies.

BTW, correcting other people’s grammar or spelling (unless in the context of a classroom) has always been considered rude behavior in our family. If one really cannot understand the meaning of a statement based on clumsy grammar or poor spelling, then a question to clarify is appropriate, otherwise such corrections are petty. If we wanted to become perfect writers– perfection being highly unlikely given the ever-changing nature of language–would we not all be enrolled in English or writing classes?

I can respect that opinion. But personally I find it rude when people can’t be bothered to use proper grammer. Sure, I understand that it’s easy to get caught up in the idiom used by most of the people around you and slip into shoddy speech.

However, some of the old-timers here (site-wise, not choronological age) often chastise fundies for their lack of proper spelling and grammar. So, I would expect that we wouldn’t be hypocrites about that, and accept such criticism amongst ourselves more graciously.

Good post. Sounds like you have made a dream job for yourself. Congratulations. I would give anything to see the expressions on the faces of young and naive Xian fundies when they read excerpts from ‘The Demon Haunted World’.

The idea of taking a neutral point of view on the subject of the assignment was pretty clever. It gave the students who could not, just enough rope to hang themselves with. I love it!