english 101, lesson 3 Options

[*disco infiltrator*]

This needed to be brought back because it is SO important.

WORDS THAT DO NOT CHANGE WHEN YOU MAKE THEM PLURAL:
Homework.
Advice.
Sheep.
Moose.
Deer.
Pants.
Fish.

There is no such thing as "homeworks". It doesn't exist. Nor is there such a thing as "advices". No.

Incorrect:
omgs i hav soOoOoooOoOoOo many homeworks today >.<;;

Correct:
Oh geez, I have a lot of homework to do tonight. >.<;;

Incorrect:
duz ne1 want sum advices????!!

Correct:
I am completely up for giving advice to anyone who may need it.

That is all for today. Perhaps there will be more lessons later, but this just really needed to be done.

[*tweeak*]

Not just a grammar dictator, a grammar Nazi. Watch out, grammar Jews, there's a new grammar Führer in town.

Okay seriously though-- it IS a free country. People can type however they want. This is such an overstated topic. Everyone who frequents CB has decent enough grammar and spelling, those who don't quickly learn. I think it's incredibly insensitive for you to constantly target people who haven't perfected punctuation. Also, there are some people at CB that don't consider English a first language. Nicki has even made a topic very similiar to this already. I just find it useless.

Also NAZIS ARE NOT HOT. Germans may be, but brutality and narrow-mindedness is not.

Have I?

Well, anyway, wrong is wrong. Grammar rules don't change for the dim. Excessive reminders is how one learns, too. For example, I'm going to continue to correct my 4 year old brother's speech because I'd rather him not grow up into an illiterate moron, no matter how many times my dad tries to tell me "he speaks good for his age" (which is actually presicely why I won't let it go, because my dad's grammar is horrid and he sounds like an irksome buffoon). I spent my whole childhood being told to say "someone and I" rather than "me and someone" and while I resented it then, I appreciate it now. You may consider it useless, but it isn't. Also, by the way, not everyone here lives in the same country, and regardless of where we live, it isn't that free. Even if it were free, we still need standardized communication. Freedom is not the same as being able to completely disregard grammar rules. This isn't a mandate that in order to post on createblog you must be exceptionally literate, remember ever single apostrophe and never mispell a word. It happens to the best of us. However, some things are just completely incorrect. If people are too stubborn to pay attention in school, they need to learn it elsewhere, and they won't if we just leave them peacably to their ignorance.