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posted by [identity profile] skinglist.livejournal.com at 06:04am on 12/03/2003
thanks ;)

ebonics drives me batty, unfortunately it's rapidly becoming the second language here (New York). I had someone say to me the other day 'he aksed (I think that's how you would spell it) me to go to the store for him and he ain't never done nothin' for me'

even if you allow ain't as a valid contraction of to be, he isn't never done nothing for me still makes no sense.
 

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posted by [identity profile] teawithfrodo.livejournal.com at 03:29pm on 12/03/2003
*blink bilnk*
I live in NYC, I hate when people say "do you think I should "axe" him?

heh...or Mines
the best today was that someone had administrated her mother sleeping pills. I only assume she meant administered. But then again, some people have bad work ethnics ;)
 

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posted by [identity profile] skinglist.livejournal.com at 06:40pm on 12/03/2003
You mean like this: I'm still looking for someone to help me administrate the site, here (http://www.weedweb.net/)?

yeah, if he speaks as poorly as you do, maybe axing will be an improvement? ;)

Im just outside NYC in Rockland County
 

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posted by [identity profile] teawithfrodo.livejournal.com at 04:20am on 13/03/2003
hey, I was just imitating my co-worker
Phil felt the wrath of my grammar nazi-ism the other night.

*chuckle*
 

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posted by [identity profile] skinglist.livejournal.com at 06:33am on 13/03/2003
nahh not you, I meant as a response to the shoudl I axe ;)

Im an English teacher so I can get overly picky with grammar, but some stuff is just atrocius..are you on any of the grammar comms here?
 

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posted by [identity profile] teawithfrodo.livejournal.com at 04:34pm on 13/03/2003
ah, I had just gotten up when I read the comment

and the grammar communities scare me a bit...I'm just my own grammar freak
 

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posted by [identity profile] skinglist.livejournal.com at 05:25pm on 13/03/2003
hehe!
they amuse me sometimes, and some people just need to be corrected, like the person I posted about who commented here (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=skinglist&itemid=28553&thread=32137#t32137), here (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=skinglist&itemid=29366&thread=32438#t32438), and again here (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=skinglist&itemid=29366&thread=33718#t33718).
 

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posted by [identity profile] teawithfrodo.livejournal.com at 06:05pm on 13/03/2003
ugh, AOL ebonics pisses me off as well.
sometimes I shorten things and occasionally as "y?" when I'm in a conversation and kitty is trying to sit on the keyboard.


*chuckle*
and why the hell was the person so pissed...they almost sound like an asian imigrant speaking fractured english.
 

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posted by [identity profile] skinglist.livejournal.com at 06:24pm on 13/03/2003
They wanted to read the entry about my new neighbour (Rosie O'Donnel) that was FO but I referenced in the first post they commented in.

Yeah, I;ll do that on occasion--and Im the queen of 'cause'..but when its full 'paragraphs' of it it's just irritating.

And what is it with cats and keyboards!>
 

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posted by [identity profile] teawithfrodo.livejournal.com at 04:36am on 14/03/2003
same as with cats on books, it's called CAR
cats against reading. they don't want us to know.


And occasionally I'll skip a capital (or is it ol) letter or some punctuation, but you never have to think very hard to figure it out.

 

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posted by [identity profile] skinglist.livejournal.com at 06:16am on 14/03/2003
when Im typing quickly, I tend to miss caps, and Im the queen of no apostrophe simply because that key was broken on my computer for so long

CAR, I like that. My friend's cats get jealous, they start meowing so loudyly whenever we get on the phone because they want attn--and heaven forbid you try to turn on the tap to get water because then they want to play in it--they have yet to learn that as cats they're not supposed to like water...

PS-think [livejournal.com profile] phil99 wants to strangle us yet? Kick us out of your comments anytime :)
 
posted by [identity profile] phil99.livejournal.com at 01:18pm on 14/03/2003
Don't worry, I'm just turning off email notifications :)
 

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posted by [identity profile] skinglist.livejournal.com at 01:28pm on 14/03/2003
I usually try to behave myself in others' posts, but sometimes commentversations are unavoidable...
 

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posted by [identity profile] teawithfrodo.livejournal.com at 06:54pm on 14/03/2003
phil loves me too much to strangle me...he's still hoping to meet me after 3 years
*chuckle*

my kitty just stares at me, or you can ask Phil hor my cat tries to get attention. She's very loud.
 

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posted by [identity profile] skinglist.livejournal.com at 07:48pm on 14/03/2003
wow, three years, that's cool.
hopefully you'll make it to the UK or he'll make it to NY.
How loud is she?
 

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posted by [identity profile] teawithfrodo.livejournal.com at 07:50pm on 14/03/2003
he can here her from about 6 feet from the phone. She's a little bit of a thing, but she's part siamese...so she'll suprise you. But I still love her.

And hopefully a trip with happen sometime.
 

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posted by [identity profile] skinglist.livejournal.com at 07:53pm on 14/03/2003
we are siamese if you please, we are siamese if you don't please

sorry, couldn't resist :)

the UK is beautiful, you'll enjoy it
 

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posted by [identity profile] teawithfrodo.livejournal.com at 07:55pm on 14/03/2003
I probably would, my grandparents were from London, so I find British accents very soothing.

yeah, I've sung the siamese song to her.
She likes to sleep on my face, which makes me understand the old wives tale of a cat stealing a babies breath.
 

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posted by [identity profile] skinglist.livejournal.com at 07:58pm on 14/03/2003
I used to think the accents were soo difficult to understand but then I taight for a year with a lot of Brits, Kiwis and Aussies, and I learned :)

never heard that tale
 

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posted by [identity profile] teawithfrodo.livejournal.com at 05:16am on 15/03/2003
ah, they just say that cats steal a babies breath...mostly because their faces are warm, so they sleep there.
My cat must think I breath from somewhere else.
 

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posted by [identity profile] skinglist.livejournal.com at 10:59am on 15/03/2003
heh. I was at my friend's place earlier and we were sitting on the patio and the cat walked from the table top up my arm to myt head where she perched and got nicely tangled...got so offended when I tried to move her as only cats can
 

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posted by [identity profile] teawithfrodo.livejournal.com at 01:30pm on 15/03/2003
*chuckle* my cat used to sit on my shoulder. She prefers pushing the keyboard draw in and sitting on my desk in front of the screen.
 
posted by [identity profile] phil99.livejournal.com at 01:17pm on 14/03/2003
They don't need correcting, they need a lobotomy. Well - that assumes the surgeon can find the brain.
 

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posted by [identity profile] skinglist.livejournal.com at 01:27pm on 14/03/2003
I eventually started to delete his comments, and the sad thing is, I knew who it was...

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