Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley for April 21, 2015

Beat poet.

There is no such word as “alright.” Sorry, just no. Of course, thanks to the internet, it is probably now acceptable. Just looks stupid.

sounds alright to me , us and dem.

Cashews to you too, Bucky.

The grammar troll on Dinosaur Comics needs to see this too. Not that it would do any good.

Everything is gonna’ be alright, kna’mean?

HAPPY NATIONAL POETRY MONTH BUCKY.

Potty mouth…Po’try mouth…Same thing?

“the trouble with poet is how do you know it’s deceased, stick to priest.” sweeney todd—-and i’m a poetry lover

Let me throw in two other miscreations: “alot” instead of “a lot,” “cause” instead of “because.”

Then there’s the one that really tees me off: “bated” instead of “abated.” “I wait with bated (or baited?) breath.” Awful. It has actually become accepted usage because it has been used so badly and so often, but it’s just plain wrong. “Abated” is the correct word; “abate” means to stop or cease, which is what one’s breathing is supposedly doing. I don’t even think “bate” is a word, and is certainly doesn’t mean to stop or cease.

Perhaps you should look that up in your Funk and Wangell’s

Someone posted on FB a link about grammar and punctuation in sentence structure. The following is my contribution:

A woman without her man is nothing.With punctuation “A woman: without her, man is nothing”

and I like Bucky’s poem.

http://www.flamewarriorsguide.com/Assets/grammarian.jpg

So he is a Beatnik

Thank you!

Why are poets such whiners and complainers these days?