Tell me what you really think.
One of the college educated specialists I work with actually uses the word "disorientated".
How about "pacific" instead of "specific"?
What have we done to create such functionally illiterate kids?
Oh, mah, gawd.
That's just, just, OH MY GOD!!!
I'm goggling right now. My mind is reeling. Did he actually write "idn't?" Shoot - you've got to give him the punctuation on that one, at least.
Oh. My. God.
PS - one of my administrators says Pacific instead of Specific. Drives me barmy.
You know how many writers work their pasty butts off to emulate this kind of speech, and fail miserably? This is pure gold!
"My latess and failures are other peoples faultes." -
This is a great line, right here. I should use it sometime. Does it actually work?
Oh no, you finally graded all those essays? You have my deepest sympathies.
Deep, deep, sympathies.
-G
reading this nearly destructivated me. good lord.
my favorite of all time is my sister-in-law who persists in saying "hermaphroditically sealed" when she could just say "air-tight"
PLEASE tell me you are joking. I know my grammar and spelling are atrocious. (And WHY God is there no spell check in comments?) But things can not be that bad out there.
You are joking, right?
PS- My biggest grammatical/spelling/pronunciation pet peeve is heighth. THERE IS NO H at the end!!!
Everyone around me says it that way. Except my husband. That's why I married him. 
My mom used to say heart "attackt". I could tell her until I was blue in the face that there shouldn't be a "t" sound on the end of that word, but she couldn't hear that she said it that way, I guess.
I had a neighbor who said "beeth" for beef and "cervix tool" for crevice tool.
I'm stunned. Who writes like that? I mean, I know people talk like that, but who really writes like that?
Stunned, I tell you.
I go nuts over the verb 'to vers,' as in "Our team will vers the other high school's team this Friday." This was used (constantly) over the announcements by a vice principal who had been a reading teacher. His main duty seemed to be reading the morning announcements.
"My latess and failures are other peoples faults."
My motto, exactly. Give the kid an A. I mean, doesn't he get rewarded for telling the truth?
Numero uno: add on "oftentimes" "solider" "calvary" instead of "cavalry" and "axe" instead of "ask" and you will be singing my song.
Numero dos: I feel your pain. Sometimes I can only read three of 'em before I feel dizzy.
You're fighting the good fight, Mamacita. Have a Fudgsicle on me.
Thanks for making me laugh this morning.
I've got 88 narrative essays staring at me. I'm captive to them this weekend.
I believe it was Aristotle who once said, "I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way." No? It wasn't Aristotle? It was Whitney Houston? Ok...whatever. Point being that I'm glad that there are teachers out there who are willing to give kids crap about misusing grammar and speaking incoherently. God bless all teachers.
Sherrypg --
I've been in several multi-cultural debates over the words disorientated and disoriented (as well as orientated and oriented). It seems that in the US, we use disoriented or oriented. In Great Britian, oriented means from the Orient or of the Orient while orientated means to find one's bearings. It's a matter of where you're from.
I thought you were in the midwest! They have colleges in the bayou? I think even if I spoke that way, I wouild need a dictionary to spell "destructivication".
I am guilty of using "depends". Isn't that just short for saying "It depends upon..."? Don't tell - depends, right?
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