When buying firearms, does grammar irritate you?

[MattShlock]

I poisonally ain't got no problem wit people who ain't got no good grammer because.

 

[mnrivrat]

Avoidable ignorance and blatant stupidity always annoy me, regardless of context.

Ya youse smartie pantz irregant fok noys mees twoz !

 

[Tirod]

Until Cawdrey and Webster published their dictionaries, there were no standard spellings of words, and their use and syntax have changed over the century.

We don't even speak the same "American" that was common in the 1950's. Read "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson - it's not "English."

If being unable to deal with people who are living repositories of the American vernacular is unappealing, fine, but frankly, a true student of the language welcomes the chance to hear it from the extremes. It's a snapshot of the time, and fleeting.

Every salesman worth his commission knows to check a prospect by his shoes, and can talk in every dialect he's hearing from his customers. So, if I got some boys needin help figgerin out what that thing is under the hood of the truck, well then we gonna figger it out.

If you find that unpalatable, then my sincerest condolences.

I've found the sharpest traders in the crowd could pluck the strings of the heart with ease, you don't have to be a concert pianist to get a love ballad out of a banjo.

 

[Robert]

THR is not devoted to English lessons.