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Post by Raven on Jan 17, 2011 9:11:17 GMT -5
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Post by vampyre on Jan 17, 2011 10:40:30 GMT -5
Which part is funny?
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Post by ailishsmom on Jan 17, 2011 21:13:26 GMT -5
Saw the 'grande' one the other day, but hadn't seen the 'Twas the night before Christmas'! LOL!! Thanks, Ravie!
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Post by Raven on Jan 20, 2011 8:51:20 GMT -5
Luv ya, T. Every time I see these, I think of you. I almost peed myself at the grande one. Really, people?
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Post by Raven on Feb 3, 2011 21:07:49 GMT -5
^Copied and pasted exactly from my home page (Comcast). Idiots can't even used Spellcheck? I underlined the fail.
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Post by vampyre on Feb 7, 2011 2:30:50 GMT -5
Raven's new shirt. I saw it in one of the banner ads,,,
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Post by ailishsmom on Feb 7, 2011 19:11:50 GMT -5
Hehehe...I've seen that one too.
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Post by Raven on Feb 13, 2011 9:37:25 GMT -5
It burns!
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Post by Raven on Feb 16, 2011 21:47:01 GMT -5
The abbreviation for MICHIGAN is MI, not IM. Go figure.
Assface.
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Post by vampyre on Feb 18, 2011 12:12:56 GMT -5
They have a number posted...if it's in the right order, you could let them know.
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Post by Raven on Feb 19, 2011 16:26:55 GMT -5
LMAO @ "if it's in the right order..."
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Post by Raven on Jun 2, 2011 19:02:16 GMT -5
Video of Bradley Cooper Speaking Fluent French Causes Women of the Internet to Swoon Yesterday afternoon, a clip started making the rounds of Bradley Cooper promoting "The Hangover Part II," which is called (apparently, in English, which is the strangest part about it), "Very Bad Trip 2" in France, in an interview on French TV. Thing was, he he didn't just do the interview in French, but in what appears to be fluent French, and for some reason this made a lot of ladies (and possibly also gay men) like him even more than they already did.DUH DUH.
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Post by vampyre on Jun 4, 2011 19:16:35 GMT -5
Have you all heard about it being against the law for teachers to teach proper English to minority/ethnic kids? To make them use correct grammar is a violation of their civil rights, racist and robs them of their cultural heritage.
Public schools are government owned and operated so they have to respect everyone's culture. If you want your kids to learn good speakin and writen, they haz to go to privut skoollz.
I actually heard this in the news while I was on my VACAY.
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Post by Raven on Jun 8, 2011 10:03:07 GMT -5
I learned that in my "Grammar for Language Arts Teachers" textbook this semester.
Not that it's against the law, but that we should not do it. I was appalled. I think all children should be held to the same standard. All children are capable of learning proper English and grammar. To let some kids off the hook because of where they grew up, their race or ethnic background, I think is shortchanging them!
A few of us talked about this while studying for the final exam on Monday, one of whom is black and very well spoken, was also offended. What the aforementioned textbook called the acceptable misuse of the English language is "Black English Vernacular" or BEV for short. They reasoned that, if a child is exposed to BEV at home, they can't be expected to know that it's improper to say "I be doing my homework." Or, saying "ax" instead or "ask."
But we students reasoned that it's our job to teach them otherwise.
There isn't a "Redneck English Vernacular" that allows hillbilly kids to skate through the system saying "I ain't got my homework done."
I don't think it's okay to allow any group of people to say, "This is just the way we do it." Standards were put in place long ago. We should ALL be held to the same standards. Period. No exceptions. This is the English of educated, intelligent people. We should be teaching students that this is the English you use when you want to sound professional and intelligent. Use whatever slang you want at home and with your friends. But on homework, résumés, job interviews and such, these children should have the verbal skills to sound intelligent.
When we say that culturally, they can't be held to the same standards, we shortchange them and set them up for failure, in my opinion.
Because, in the future, who is going to get the job? The adult that speaks clear, concise sentences, in proper English? Or the one who speaks the slang that he was taught was okay? Let's give kids the tools to succeed, not excuses.
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Post by vampyre on Jun 8, 2011 14:32:28 GMT -5
The guy I was listening to on the radio while cruising down 75 last week stated that this program of cultural vernacular is just the governments way of keeping ethnic groups out of main stream society. It will be used to keep them from the better jobs, colleges ans so on. It was some guy like Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck.
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