On 12/4/2012 9:35 AM, paul bruesch wrote: > I've just been musing with a friend about grammar when I made a rather > humorous (to me, anyhow) discovery... Yep, I've done that with the tuning badly thing for a long time. Of course I also say when they ask if they can make an appointment that I don't see why not unless they can think if a good reason we shouldn't. What gets me is our apparent collective inability to learn something different than we've already mis-learned. It's cast in stone, or cheap rubber, in our alleged brains. "Alot", for instance, is NOT an English word in any context, but I read it a lot. "To" does not mean "also", but it's as unshakable as "alot", and people who own and indulge the use of vises and/or vices ought to be able to differentiate between the two (not to or too) after repeated correction unless, perhaps, one is used with or as the other, in which case I don't want to know the details. "Everyday" is used where "every day" is correct, but I never see it reversed. Why doesn't anyone have an every day experience when so many have an experience of some sort everyday? It's a mystery. I have never shaken the apparent limbic level reflex action of putting an apostrophe in the possessive "its". I usually catch it and fix it, but too often it gets by me. Never figured out why I do that, and that's not the only one. My conclusion sometime toward the end of High School was that this language could not have been seriously intended as a means of communication by anyone sane and intelligent. It must be either a cruel joke like Twitter or C++, or contains little if any sanity and intelligence. There is so much evidence for either case, that I've never been able to decide. The best I've been able to do is use it as a broken toy. Illiterate in profile, Ron N PS: And what sort of idiot spell checker doesn't recognize "limbic"?
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