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Shamed by you English? (Original Post) Major Nikon Apr 2013 OP
No, my English by shamed. Aristus Apr 2013 #1
I am reading this while sitting in Escondido lol. grantcart Apr 2013 #2
Attain fluency in Republicanese! DFW Apr 2013 #3
And don't forget... pipi_k Apr 2013 #5
Plus the bonus: DFW Apr 2013 #8
English as she is spoke. Ron Obvious Apr 2013 #4
Some years ago pipi_k Apr 2013 #6
Shamed by you English? Don't worry, you will be after you finish my course! pinboy3niner Apr 2013 #7

DFW

(54,055 posts)
3. Attain fluency in Republicanese!
Tue Apr 2, 2013, 12:27 PM
Apr 2013

Never use an apostrophe when you should (e.g. write "your" when you should write "you're&quot .

ALWAYS use an apostrophe to form a plural (e.g. "I like fast car's&quot where you shouldn't.

And you are on your way to becoming a card-carrying Republican!

DFW

(54,055 posts)
8. Plus the bonus:
Tue Apr 2, 2013, 01:45 PM
Apr 2013

In an interview with Brian Williams, Bush Lite, while holding the office of POTUS, told Brian Williams what he was reading one summer--an "ecolectic" assortment of books. And it wasn't an inadvertent slip--he repeated it: ecolectic!

I'm pretty sure that any literate Republican watching the broadcast went apoplectic, but I guess that doesn't count, what with "apoplectic" being a real word and all...............

 

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
4. English as she is spoke.
Tue Apr 2, 2013, 12:31 PM
Apr 2013

Was the title of an infamous book in Portuguese on how to learn English, I recall. It's apparently a classic.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
6. Some years ago
Tue Apr 2, 2013, 12:37 PM
Apr 2013

I had a pretty crappy job whose only redeeming feature was having to "translate" machinery brochures into some semblance of English and input them into the computer.

The fractured English as written by Chinese, Japanese, and Italian brochure writers was a total hoot.



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