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A rant from somebody who is consistently...literacy-challenged:
There was no respect by the tourest who visited here.The attitude for the 3 day weekend was seek and destroy,disrespect all locals who put out the red carpet for these irresponsible scub-bags.
Two past tense verbs in the same sentence are like putting batteries in a remote control...on the wrong side. The whole idea that it's wrong should be a hint.
Never underestimate the ability of the poorly-educated to screw up the spelling of something, even when there is a correct example for them to follow.
Something that has always mystified me is the tendency for people to add an "s" to the end of many peoples' names. For example, you will likely find far more people referring to the late Julia Child as Julia "Childs" than you are to find people who spell (or pronounce) her name correctly. There are other examples, but this is the only one that comes readily to mind at the moment.
I had a friend who always referred to the World Trade Center as the World Trade CenterS...and we worked there. For the owner.
She also referred to the drugstore chain as Duane Reade's. The stores are called Duane Reade because the original one was in the NYC block between Duane and Reade Streets...not far from the World Trade Center.
I don't know why people just slap an s on where there isn't one.
Somebody posted some incomplete sentences and...something approaching a question...on the Car Talk forum:
So I got four new tires on my truck. A day after driving it around. My hub starts going bad. That same day. I notice three wheels studs are broken. So I'm wondering if not tightening or over tightening cussed this.
I began "cussing" after seeing that he began his thoughts with "so", and things didn't get much better after that...
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