LemmyCaution
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Additionally, 'gendarme' is a French word, so the correct pluralization would be gendarmerie, though I'm somewhat at a loss to understand why one would need to police grammar on horseback.
Gun Grammar Gendarmes Go GangBusters ! (AKA - Grammar Police)
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Bigdog57
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I don't mind the occasional minor misspelling. But bad grammar is just an example of stupidity and laziness. We were all taught the basic rules of written English in third grade. I can well remember old Mrs. McKenzie pounding those rules into us. I still use them. It's the same with basic math skills.
Too many people, upon graduating high school, decide they have no further use for such nonsense as good concise understandable English and Math, so they perform a complete "Core Memory Dump" of their brains. No wonder the rest of the world regards the average American as illiterate and stupid.
I suppose I am overly sensitive to this, having spent 24 years as my IT team's Documentation Guru. But "Failed English" is just silly. Use the basic rules, it ain't Rocket Science. And it saves you from looking stupid on the world stage of a major forum. Our written words are the only metric others have for gauging our intelligence.
Also use the simple concept of 'proof reading'. Writing this, I found I 'fat fingered' some words, and corrected them BEFORE hitting the post button. Not a difficult thing to master.
For those who insist on rampant illiteracy, there is always the Ignore List. Wonderful thing. And using text speak is an immediate E-ticket to the Ignore List. Just the way I roll...... Sez I, "Avoid the Noid!"
Too many people, upon graduating high school, decide they have no further use for such nonsense as good concise understandable English and Math, so they perform a complete "Core Memory Dump" of their brains. No wonder the rest of the world regards the average American as illiterate and stupid.
I suppose I am overly sensitive to this, having spent 24 years as my IT team's Documentation Guru. But "Failed English" is just silly. Use the basic rules, it ain't Rocket Science. And it saves you from looking stupid on the world stage of a major forum. Our written words are the only metric others have for gauging our intelligence.
Also use the simple concept of 'proof reading'. Writing this, I found I 'fat fingered' some words, and corrected them BEFORE hitting the post button. Not a difficult thing to master.
For those who insist on rampant illiteracy, there is always the Ignore List. Wonderful thing. And using text speak is an immediate E-ticket to the Ignore List. Just the way I roll...... Sez I, "Avoid the Noid!"
This ain't a grammar forum. This is a firearms forum.
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