Thread: ebbnflow's Account Talk

manididn't mean to start a bunch of trouble

Originally Posted by nnuut

manididn't mean to start a bunch of trouble

Your a Troublemaker. Not...

You got your pool closed yet ?

I've closed 210 out of my 270 regular customers. My body is telling me quit but my mind say's no...

money is good vs body giving out...

Pool is still open, but water is 78 degrees, cool!! I'm closing it this weekend. I can't imagine closing 210 pools, this will be the second one I closed this year and that's 2 too many!!! Gotta be good money thought!!!!!

Originally Posted by crhuss

Just look at how difficult it is to understand each other even when we TRY to say what we mean or try to get our thoughts across right. I am in favor of proper punctuation, proper spelling, proper English, and proper sentence structure. I think we should at least try to do it right, so we can understand each other. To me, anything short of that is just being lazy. I feel that there is too much of that kind of attitude in the world already. If we allow it in our communication, as well, noone will know what the other person is trying to say. How much money would we make if we were lazy in making our IFT? Not much, I bet!!!
Just my two cents

There is one question that comes to mind in response to this post. If you are perfectionist in your grammer and spelling, why are you working for the Federal government?

Now pay attention while we congegate the verb phrase "to take coffee breaks."

I take coffee breaks.
You take coffee breaks.
He takes coffee breaks.
We take coffee breaks.
You take coffee breaks.
They take coffee breaks.

OK, now for your assignment. Your assignment is to congegate the verb phrase "to call in sick."

HEY!!!!!
You is taking two coffee breaks!!

All I can confirm is that it must be time "for another break"!

And it's not about perfect grammar and punctuation... just for reference, go back and read the post in question. Sheesh!

A modicum of reason tells us that just a general effort to make sense is appreciated, and the post in question demonstrated little or no effort. In fact it was the worst post I have read (in this regard). This post was also significant in that it did not reflect the well demonstrated ability to use punctuation that was evidenced in the other posts that were logged. So, the poster is obviously capable.

nnut made a good point and a great observation. The posters response was way over the top.

I hated grammar and such, and was never very good at it... but I could usually at least get a C+...

Originally Posted by crhuss

Just look at how difficult it is to understand each other even when we TRY to say what we mean or try to get our thoughts across right. I am in favor of proper punctuation, proper spelling, proper English, and proper sentence structure. I think we should at least try to do it right, so we can understand each other. To me, anything short of that is just being lazy. I feel that there is too much of that kind of attitude in the world already. If we allow it in our communication, as well, noone will know what the other person is trying to say. How much money would we make if we were lazy in making our IFT? Not much, I bet!!!
Just my two cents

I totally know what you mean by punctuation, spelling, etc. I talk on a particular NFL message board all the time and the people on there are horrendous spellers! I usually just ignore it, but occasionally, I get frustrated and I say something; it ends up making me sound like a snob, then I end up regretting it! I now just let bygones be bygones and not worry about it. That being said, unless the person is new to English, ie. speaks a foreign language, I think it's lazy not to look up the words at dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/ so they are at least spelled right! Oh well, too many other things to worry about in life!

BTW, I used dictionary.com to look up the words in bold, just to makes sure I was spelling them right!

+$.02
Bigdave

Originally Posted by poolman

Your a Troublemaker. Not...

It's: You're a troublemaker.

Hey, this is fun.

There was a guy who would email me every time (or is it everytime?) I made a grammatical error in my market commentary. I learned a lot from him. I am either writing a lot better or he stopped reading.

Originally Posted by Bigdave125

English, ie. speaks a foreign language
BTW, I used dictionary.com to look up the words in bold, just to makes sure I was spelling them right!

+$.02
Bigdave

noble...but isn't 'ie.' actually 'i.e.', for the Latin, 'that is', two words. I used dictionary.com to look it up

Originally Posted by saturneptune

There is one question that comes to mind in response to this post. If you are perfectionist in your grammer and spelling, why are you working for the Federal government?

Now pay attention while we congegate the verb phrase "to take coffee breaks."

I take coffee breaks.
You take coffee breaks.
He takes coffee breaks.
We take coffee breaks.
You take coffee breaks.
They take coffee breaks.

OK, now for your assignment. Your assignment is to congegate the verb phrase "to call in sick."

ROFLMAO

I screw up ect or is it etc.

What am I saying? I screw up a lot more than that.