I'm no English teacher but...

[frogtog]

Oh sha ain't nothing wrong with the way we talk. : If you would take the time to listen fer a minute you would see that hison is just as good as ours.

[fishfordollars]

Don't get me started. Lately I've been trying to grit my teeth and keep my mouth shut when I witness our beautiful language being butchered by the ignorant and the lazy. I will make one comment only. I HATE the use of the word ain't. And I ain't never gonna change my mind about that.

Mike, say it ain't so.

[bass or bass ?]

The one that bothers me most is "have got" or "has got". Once you've said has or have there is absolutely no need for the word got. As an example, just leave off the has or have from a "have got" phrase and hear how crude the sentence sounds. Actually , the word got could be almost entirely elimanated from the English language and never be missed.Thanks for reading this ramble from the son of an English teacher.     Happy fishing.

~B.A.S.S.~N.A.F.C.~BoatU.S.~

[Fisher of Men]

We are currently in a battle with our 10 year old daughter to break the "ain't" habit.

One that I laugh at often is when you see a sign in convenience store windows that reads:

"Now excepting applications".

;D

[Pitchinkid]

We are currently in a battle with our 10 year old daughter to break the "ain't" habit.

One that I laugh at often is when you see a sign in convenience store windows that reads:

"Now excepting applications".

;D

lol really? man that is funny

[Raul]

Hey Raul, does Mexico butcher up their language as well? Any slang words written in Spanish?

Of course and the use of colorful expressions and words has come to the point where in a sentence half of the words are colorful ( to say the least ).

[slomoe]

Conversate instead of converse  ;D

[Tin]

Hey Raul, does Mexico butcher up their language as well? Any slang words written in Spanish?

Of course and the use of colorful expressions and words has come to the point where in a sentence half of the words are colorful ( to say the least ).

Just had a big lesson today in class on how to never say "tu madre" when asking a question... ;D

[Raul]

Hey Raul, does Mexico butcher up their language as well? Any slang words written in Spanish?

Of course and the use of colorful expressions and words has come to the point where in a sentence half of the words are colorful ( to say the least ).

Just had a big lesson today in class on how to never say "tu madre" when asking a question... ;D

Oh yeah, you gotta avoid the use of  "tu madre" at all cost unless you really mean it and are ready for some trubble, you can use it during the normal conversation with somebody really close, then it 's not taken as an insult, but when I say close I mean really really close.

[NYfishwow]

Cripes, don't be ignernt, or havin yourself a conniption an gettin your gotchies all bunched up now. Hain't ya ever heard coal speak ya bugger ya... now dincha? Fer cryin' out loud, she brung wit her good stuff from da reejin! Ver-shtay-shtoo... ya ham and egger ya.

i would have to agree, i'm not good in that english 8-) if its really called english

That would be a good example of perfect redneck English.

[burleytog]

Tu madre es muy grande!

[Dean]

Tu madre es muy grande!

...must be all the tacos and stuffed burritos  :

[Raul]

Tu madre es muy grande!

Grande is not exactly the same as big, when you say "muy grande" we all Spanish speaking people go whisky, tango, foxtrot because we don 't know actually what you are talking about, grande can mean old tall or fat.

If you want to say "your mother is fat" , you don 't say "tu madre es muy grande", you say "tu madre es muy GORDA."

[moby bass]

My pet peeve is "chomping at the bit"  It's champing, CHAMPING.

Def: to bite or munch noisily.

[Fisher of Men]

We are currently in a battle with our 10 year old daughter to break the "ain't" habit.

One that I laugh at often is when you see a sign in convenience store windows that reads:

"Now excepting applications".

;D

lol really? man that is funny

No kidding.  I once saw one at the bank from a food/clothing closet.  It said, "Excepting donations".   ;D

[roadwarrior]

You should hace axed 'em 'bout it.

[done]

Anyone have anything against the "word" Phat? I LOATHE it. My nephews and nieces love to harass me with it.

Makes me feel like an old guy.

[slomoe]

;D Brent you da OG

triple OG  ;D

[Zel]

Last night the wife and I were playing Scrabble, and I used the word DINK. She said it's not a word. I explained to her it is a term for a fish that "doesn't measure up." She said DINKY would be okay, but not DINK. So I had to look it up in my handy Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. It listed DINK as a verb, to adorn. I got the points because it was a word, but she wasn't happy about it (my explanation didnt match the definition Women!). So I checked my Webster dictionary, and again, it didn't match what I thought was a real word. I thought about this thread so is it a made up word (how we use it)?

[atx_newbie]

I used to be an ultra-competitive Scrabble player, so I memorized every 2, 3, and 4-letter word in the official scrabble dictionary.  I've forgotten about half of them, but I still can't get anyone to play with me.  They just don't believe that words like "qat" and "zax" are words, and try to tell me that I can't play them if I don't know what they mean.