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Kid: With all your multiple posts lately, you seem to know how to fix a lot of things; so how about fixing your keyboard's shift key so that the "i" works? This isn't junior high texting  . And how about using spell check too--what the h--- is a "hafe"?
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Is there no shame? Maybe I'm wrong but should not there be a sense of properness or correctness when writing something that is there for all the world to see? After all, isn't it a reflection of ourselves and dare I say it...our education or lack of (sorry Kenny I had to say it hahaha---got ya!!) ? I heard a pastor say, "You can be stupid. But don't open your mouth and prove it."
To take it one step further: if using improper grammar and english becomes more acceptable, is not the next step backward ebonics? Then grunts and chest-beating?
Ugg. Ugg.
But I am just saying.
Kenny are you still "having" me for dinner? And what you have heard is true: I do have good "taste". I'm the other, other white meat. tehehehe Gobble you later!
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Murf: Is Canada still a US suburb?  That's what we used chide Canadian engineers coming over here to work.
I know what you mean about "proper" english--I have run into a few black Trinidadians/Nigerian nationals who speak better than we (us?) because they were schooled in the UK. Of course they call it the King's english. But taking that one step further, if memory serves, the King's english isn't pure in and of itself either since it is a culmination of several languages up to that day having its roots in the translation of the Bible.
KW: I understand your point about fixing things. However, can you really make a blanket statement that that is true? In other words, would you trust someone who doesn't have a firm grasp on the english language to repair something when they can't read and understand a service manual or a torque wrench?
Anecdote: When I was a technical automotive writer, in our draft copies we used to make up torque specs that were not provided to us by the engineers that went something like: Tighten until it breaks then back off 1/4" turn. The joke was we were getting paid very well to publish stuff no one reads.
I have worked with some pretty smart guys who are not formally educated, myself included (not the smart part) who at a certain point are beyond their scope of skill or education level that should not overstep that boundary for whatever reason.
Kenny, you're being very quiet. How come? You have only one nerve left and I'm standing on it?
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(shaking my head in disbelief as my stance is only more REINFORCED) Kenny, it's "quiet" not "quite".
Murf and Kenny: When I was down yonder, I was in sign shop when in walks a local who was also a Pakistani hotel owner. Now, here in the hinterland some of my customers are Pakistani/Indian and Arabic so I'm used to understanding their tongue quite (or in Kenny-speak: quiet) well. Keep in mind we were where redneckdom was born---this guy starts talking in thick a Pakistani dialect with a slow, redneck drawl---I about ROGLMAO!
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Yeah, I've had some black collegues who very proper when around folk like me. But you get two of the them together and WOW! it's like being in the 'hood!
KW, your engineer-friend's poor spelling: to what do you attribute him getting a higher education? I mean how does one get around course studies without being called-out on it and have to take remedial courses?
I worked as a designer and engineer for many years and befriended many an educated engineer---some of whom couldn't spell well. One day one of my "friends" who himself was a student asked me where my certificate was (on my office wall). Befuddled, I asked what he meant. Up until this time I had been helping him on his thesis and gave input on workaday problems as we worked in the same department. I told him I didn't go to school. Maaaan he was so angry! He spun around on one foot, left, and never asked for my input again.
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Kenny I'm glad you didn't bring up SPEAKING like you write---'cause remember, I have listened to you talk! And boys, this guy can talk and talk...
Whoa-man! And I thought the Lou'siana "gator-boys" tolk funny! o-ooo--we!
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