Pet Peeves

[Isadora]

Oh shyt I'm in the money. Isa's awarded me a lol emoji.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Wow!
What did you do to deserve it?.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Grammar? Is grammar important? It's kind of sad to me when people cannot speak their own native tongue in a meaningful and intelligent way. It can limit their potential for earning a significant income, for one thing.

 

[WallyG74]

Ah, there's another one! When people say, "the buttcrack of dawn." Please, folks, that's a very repulsive image. The poetic term is simply, "the crack of dawn," and it has nothing to do with what you see when the plumber is under your kitchen sink.

But it’s so funny! Almost as funny as watching my big hens give banty roosters a piggyback ride.

 

[Brooks_]

the crack of dawn

That is just before dawn.

the buttcrack of dawn

That is Oh God o'clock

 

[Hayden Goseek]

When DD was about 7 yo we first got chickens. She complained to DW that our rooster was a Bully for making the hens give him piggyback rides.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

But it’s so funny! Almost as funny as watching my big hens give banty roosters a piggyback ride.

Our full size hens TRY to squat and cooperate but the banty rooster keeps sliding off.

 

[DukesDucks]

Quote from High School Grammar book , 1887

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Quote from High School Grammar book , 1887

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"If it live so long"

 

[Brooks_]

"If it live so long"

That's one example of language changing. "Hence", as well.