My pew pews are pretty!

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
As Bruce Willis said in a move “I speak two languages, English and bad English“
About sums it up for me.
And Pew Pews just don’t register in my brand of bad English. But that’s just my Curmudgeonly style.
 

Joshua

Taco Aficionado/Salish Sea Pirate/Part-Time Dragon
With Christmas coming soon I’m feeling the beginnings of the Holiday Spirit. If I was a rich man and had the funds, I would buy everyone of you grumpy old English Scholars a Yeet Cannon for Christmas.

I bet they yeet them Pew Pews pretty far!


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Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Sorry if I offended you, Jeff. It was meant as a slight tug of your leg. I enjoy your posts.

Those of us who were taught proper English, and make efforts to speak and write it correctly, get so used to hearing incorrect English spoken and written that it can easily slip into our own speech and writing. Yep, I'll occasionally say me and another guy, though it rankles me terribly to hear it from others.
While I might have been taught proper English, if I had had paid any attention whatever in class!, I picked up any ability I have in that line from reading. To this day I don't know the rules, the parts of language, etc. But I can usually see a error in a news report or passage in a video for example. If you read older books, even gun related books, most have a pretty solid grasp of how our language is supposed to be used.
 

Ian

Notorious member
When my daughter was in high school, she asked if I wanted to help her learn Spanish.

I told her I had to master my own language first.

The greatest frustration of my high school Spanish language teacher was that most of us didn't know the parts of speech or verb tenses in our OWN language, much less any other. She had to explain what these were in English first, then again in Spanish so the class would understand the lessons.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
that's all we did in french german and spanish class.
i got to the spanish class and took one look in the book the teacher handed out and walked out of class.
i didn't learn no french and i didn't learn no german, i sure as hell wasn't gonna do the exact same work for nuthin in a third class, especially one i didn't need to take.
 

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
that's all we did in french german and spanish class.
i got to the spanish class and took one look in the book the teacher handed out and walked out of class.
i didn't learn no french and i didn't learn no german, i sure as hell wasn't gonna do the exact same work for nuthin in a third class, especially one i didn't need to take.
The best class I took was Latin. It is not a spoken language so there is no pronunciation. The structure of the English and the Romance languages are much the same. Not exact but close enough to get you thru high school.
 

Jeff H

NW Ohio
The best class I took was Latin. It is not a spoken language so there is no pronunciation. The structure of the English and the Romance languages are much the same. Not exact but close enough to get you thru high school.
Dang, man! I looked forward to Latin for several years, until I got to high school. When I reached the grade they allowed us to take a language, Latin was dropped.

So much in science is termed in Latin and knowing Latin explains a lot about many things just by its name.
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
For all of life's practical purposes, my four years of Spanish classes were four years of wasted classes. And the sad thing is, I remember only one good looking girl in any of the classes, and she lived next door. I wasted an opportunity, there, too, by introducing her to a good friend. They split up, but by the time I was discharged she'd married and moved to Truckee.
 
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Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I was required to take a foreign language class for 2 years. French or Latin was the choice. Took French, being as half my family was from Quebec I figured some sort of morphic resonance would make it easier. Got a 47 the 1st year and a 43 the 2nd. Languages are not my forte! The ADD and hormone rush didn't make it any easier.
 
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RBHarter

West Central AR
6th grade was when I discovered all of the parts of learning proper English I loathed .

However a very smart teacher said something that really stuck ." It is always he, she , they , them and I, myself , rarely me , because to put yourself first is selfish ". It's funny the little lessons that stick and really resonate.

I've found that most of the folks that don't know a burro from a burrow mostly live in boroughs. I grew up with wild burros , fox burrows and not far from Burroughs High School from which both of my parents graduated . When I was about 21 I lived in the po' side borough of Plainview in Wichita Kansas for a winter . There are 3 actually........

Part of the "new shooting sports vernaculars" come from the censer algorithms on dozens of social sites FB being a really prominent player . Apparently the algorithm read "I bought some 6.5 Japanese brass " as having purchased a pregnant woman from the Pacific rim and her 5 kids ......... The warning was something about being a world wide social network and having to respect traditions and heritages of all ..... No clue . For a while 6.5 Jap. was flagged by the potty mouth filter on CB . Several flagged the 1&2 second hammer catches on SA revolvers and most lever actions as being vulgarities along with the odd colored 3rd vane on an arrow . Peahen and Peafowl were ok but not Mr fancy pants . So we have send it , heads , tips , pew pew , and male Peafowl because going off halfcocked is vulgar .........