Easy to figure out. Leave out the other person and see how the sentence sounds. "Me gonna go" wouldn't be said by even the least educated person.

Me disagree!

It's reel cloudy hear tonite.

Yes, the correct term is "Me gotta go" as in "Me gotta go now"

.. which has been used in two very popular song lyrics - from very different parts of the US

Louie, Louie and ?

this thread will inevitably end in endless links to hoorible craigslist ads

Yessir. "Who" and "whom" are just as easy; just substitute "he/him", (with whom/with him). :cool:

Jambalaya

crawfish pie

Goodbye Joe, me gotta go


then there is' Me gotta go... hard IIRC, it was written by lil Wayne -- another Louisiana connection

It's a little ironic. The internet resurrected the written word for a generations of people, (no one my age or younger ever wrote anyone a letter before the www, we simply picked up the phone), yet it certainly hasn't contributed to the literacy of the average person the way that letter writing did for previous generations.

This board is proof positive that there is a significant population that cannot write in the english language at even the junior HS level. People write and spell as though they only know the language phonetically, i.e. "for all intensive purposes/piece of mind" and other completely non-sensical combinations of words that sound almost exactly like some sensical one.

Same with "then/than", "there/their/they're", "your/you're", etc... All from people who are not morons...people with some type of education in many cases. One member is an author of technical books but is functionally illiterate, (more or less).

There needs to be a literacy campaign in this country. It's gotten to the point where there is no shame in being illiterate, (calling anyone who notices it, "the grammar police", etc.). It can make someone appear way less intelligent than they may actually be and now that everyone is typing away on the web, it can really affect one's income and job prospects.

And it's not a matter of spelling. That's an entirely different can of worms. Writing "piece of mind" suggests that someone does not understand the meaning of the words. They are simply writing what they heard, like a parrot repeats things.

Unless it's "a piece of my mind."

A few off the top of my head. Some of these are confusing.

-Countdown: 3-2-1... not 3,2,1

-It's vs. Its

-Hanged vs. Hung

-Blonde vs. Blond

-Lie and Lay (Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan got them wrong)

-Lay and Laid

-Lain and Laid

-Who vs. whom

effect and affect

Continuous and continual.

The sad thing is, it doesn't seem to have much of a effect.

How about the BOMB!!!!

PRETTY !

PRETTY COOL-PRETTY CRAZY- PRETTY NICE!-wtf-is with the word ....PRETTY...!

If your a real man , you should not be using that word in any context!
Unless your talking about your Wife or Daughter !

AND ........I THINK....SHOULD BE -I SAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND R. U -should be are you? What a dumbbutt that wrote that !

How about .............THEN and THAN.
-and the use of the word HAD !!!
-AND ACKS!!! wtf -is that !
-him did????
-tooken??
Oh yea-this own irked me to no end from my former boss-HEIGHTH!!!!!!!!!!!!
UGGGGHH!

I seen ....

The situation is just as bad in England.
"Fish & Chip's" is seen all too frequently for example.
We received a printed invitation to a new restaurant with upscale pretensions that offered "free glass of champagne and canopies". I rang to enquire as to the size of the latter, ensuring my pronounciation was correct, as an interested party being in the canvas goods business, and was astonished by the manager's reply
assumption that I was so naive as to not know that these were bite sized snacks.

A buddy of mine says "the part being" instead of "the point being." I love the guy but that drives me crazy.

Error on the side of caution....
That works its way under your skin after a bit....

Only when discussing the first generation Audi Quattro :-)

Ain't that mean original? waff


Zeke - Aprende a traducir su españolas al Inglés.

From The Houston Chronicle today:

Thrown bottle suspected in fatal crash

By Dale Lezon | Thursday, October 11, 2012

A woman died and two others were injured when a bottle may have smashed into their windshield, causing the driver to loose control and slam into a light pole early Thursday morning in southwest Houston, officials said.

Why? I had to study English all the way through school, from spelling in the 3rd grade to English Literature in college. Really, there was not much of a choice about it. Others can study as well, or be discriminated against and segregated by their lack of ability to use the language well.

Tolerance muddies the pool.

And this is supposed to be a professional writer. I've read worse, but usually only in an Engineering Text book.

As Shakespeare said "much ado about nothing". As long as u get the point across grammar/spelling should not be an issue. Being borned in England, when I was there I was judged by my accent, my grammar, my spelling, the clothes I wore. This is one reason I live here. I hope yore thread is adequately addressed
by this response. This
is a good subject Milt
and I know your intentions are honorable/honourable!

I don't see a problem here. "Thrown bottle" is used as an indirect object in an assumed simple sentence. As in, "Someone's thrown bottle is suspected in fatal crash."

Or, more clearly, "Someone, whose thrown bottle smashed into their windshield, is suspected of causing a fatal accident." This would be using the TB as an indirect object with accident being the direct object in a complex sentence.

Really, although not technically correct, the original article conveys the thought better than either one of my sentences.

not the thrown bottle...
"the driver to loose control"

It is a terrible run-on sentance.

Ah, totally missed that.

...some NSFW language...

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Randy

Let's kill the intolerant