Editing Mistake:
So I got set up on a blind date last week. His mom and my
mom know each other, and decided to become matchmakers. I know his mom from
church and she is just the sweetest. Her and my mom text quite a bit, and my
mom is always showing me their conversations. She does this because this
woman’s grammar is quite hilarious. To give all of you a better understanding
of why we laugh so stinking hard at her texts, here are a few examples:
“Does it work 4 u 2 go 2gether 2 the salad social? U could
give a msg on the road! I’ll b @ ur house at 12. Just LMK.”
Guys, she is 50 years old, and she is an English major! This
is a real text!
The reason why I brought up the date is we spent a few
minutes of our conversation talking about his mom’s texting abilities. After
the date, he sent me a text that said “thx for the d8 2day, i luved meeting u!”
He obviously did this as a joke, and it made me laugh quite hard, especially
since I was in this class and knew I would use the text as my example in
today’s blog. And for those who I know are wondering, we are totally going out
again.
Topical Guide:
I have always confused the words farther and further. The
topical guide gives such a distinct definition: farther refers to physical distance and further refers to time or quantity.
When using the word hopefully
at the beginning of a sentence, it needs to have a comma following because it
is a dangling modifier. I find myself using this word a lot in my social media
posts for example and forgetting to add a comma.
A rule I have never considered is the difference between in and into. In is referring to
a location or position, while into refers
to movement.
At work I write session summaries for the autistic kids I
work with. I realized that I misuse the word in when it should be into.
People who text like that drive me nuts! It makes it so much harder to read and understand what they are trying to say. My cousin posts Facebook statuses that take me forever to read due to the spelling and grammar mistakes. Here's an example taken straight from her Facebook...
ReplyDelete"Y do guys think, oh since i have a kid with this girl I'm gonna make her life h***!! U can't they be like i dont want any thing to do with her, just my kid no drama just simple as That! But they choose to act stupid and then wonder y we turn into such a b****. I am so fed up with his s***!"
I wonder if the guy was trying to look younger than he was to impress you. Funny thing though, if that had been me I wouldn't have really known half of what he was talking about. Then I would have been the one looking old.
ReplyDeleteHaha, I really enjoyed this post. I find it funny how many people criticize "the younger crowd" for our texting grammar, when a lot of the time it is our parents. My mom is the same way and will shorten everything and use text slang. I think it's because we can type so much faster and we can afford to type the whole sentence, where my mom is still getting the hang of it and needs to shorten everything to get the message sent faster.
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