Pickles by Brian Crane for October 02, 2020

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    allen@home  about 4 years ago

    Earl ( In Clint Eastwood’s voice ) A man’s got to know his limitations.

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    eromlig  about 4 years ago

    But ignorace has a lasting affect…

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    Concretionist  about 4 years ago

    By the time my ears have processed those two words they’re indistinguishable: “uh fekt”. But when reading or writing, I use the appropriate one unless a synapse misfires.

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    Lucy Rudy  about 4 years ago

    Sadly, spell check has prevented kids from learning spelling and grammar. They don’t know a qwerty keyboard and only type with their thumbs.

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    OshkoshJohn  about 4 years ago

    I was a temp, working as a proofreader for a year a long time ago. It was fun busting people at first…eventually I got really sick of it.

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    bobbie24601  about 4 years ago

    The problem is it is easier for standards to fall than it is to maintain them. Once fallen it is very unlikely that they will rise again.

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    Breadboard  about 4 years ago

    Earl has a point . Sometimes ignorance is bliss ;-)

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    iggyman  about 4 years ago

    Ignorance IS bliss they say!

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    scote1379 Premium Member about 4 years ago

    I have rented lips,fumble tongue and creaking fingers ! Spell check helps sometimes, I don’t mind being corrected unless it gets all grammar police on me !

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    jpayne4040  about 4 years ago

    People should still make an effort to use the right words and spell them correctly. Miscommunications can be a huge problem!

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    jagedlo  about 4 years ago

    So you’re more concerned about how the news story was delivered than in the content, Opal?

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    ForrestOverin  about 4 years ago

    ‘Affect’ and ‘effect’ sound identical when spoken, do they not?

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    ForrestOverin  about 4 years ago

    Send out the Calvary!

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    V45mikky  about 4 years ago

    Too many happy voters out there.

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    Zebrastripes  about 4 years ago

    You can blame COMMON CORE for inadequate educations! First they stop teaching CURSIVE, THEN the curriculum is scaled down to just skimming the surface of any subject…there’s no delving into facts, etc. Betsy Dah- Vos has done NOTHING for education, this was implemented by Bill Gates, the governors in America, (except for about 5-6 states who refused it) and Obama! According to nationwide test scores, America is toward the bottom of the list compared to other countries….we used to be at the top of the list! That no one has taken the reigns to fix the problem, we now have two generations with inadequate educations. Dumbing down America

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    Beaker  about 4 years ago

    The ones that bother me are 1) there, they’re,and their 2) two, to, and too and 3) your and you’re. But I’m wondering if some of it is from using speech to text.

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    Redd Panda  about 4 years ago

    I’d like to find the first guy who used “impact” as a verb and neuter him.

    ARRRGH!

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    ERBEN2  about 4 years ago

    This one is bad and I’m happy that Roscoe was not in it . Sorry Brian : (

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    Bookworm  about 4 years ago

    “There even are places where English completely disappears / Well, in America they haven’t used it for years!” Apologies to “Why Can’t The English Learn To Speak” from My Fair Lady; book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe (1956).

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    WaitingMan  about 4 years ago

    My pet peeve? I cant stand people who dont use apostrophe’s correctly.

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    chick485  about 4 years ago

    Ain’t y’all got nothin else ta fuss about? I ain’t got no problem wit how stuff is speled.

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    Dani Rice  about 4 years ago

    I think kids have the most trouble with “I” and “me”. How many times have you heard a child say “Me and Bill went to the store”? Take Bill out of the story; did Me go to the store alone, or did I go to the store?

    I once remarked that so-and-so had given a whatziz to “Hubby and me” and granddaughter corrected me that it should be “Hubby and I”. I explained that it was given to me, not I. She mulled that over for a few seconds, and the light went on.

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    kab2rb  about 4 years ago

    I know of being criticized on my writing and my thoughts, so Earl I feel for you.

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    DaveQuinn  about 4 years ago

    If you worry about “affect” and “effect”, you need to get out more often and get a life.

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    prabbit237  about 4 years ago

    Q: How many grammar police does it take to change a light bulb?

    A: Too.

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    Mayor Snorkum  about 4 years ago

    Well, Opal, in actual speech “effect” and “affect” sound almost identical, so I don’t believe you were really able to tell the difference here.

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    zeexenon  about 4 years ago

    Well, some like anagrams like “Miss Hester Mofet.” Anamorphs are great too.

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    WDemBlk Premium Member about 4 years ago

    I worked in a mortgage servicing company 30 years ago. I received a letter that I couldn’t understand until I was reading it aloud to someone to see if they could help me. It was just that they used all the wrong words that sounded alike: there for their etc.

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    Lola85 Premium Member about 4 years ago

    I grew up with a father who instilled in me a love of words, and the use of proper grammar. Now, I’m actually surprised when I read something that isn’t full of grammatical errors.

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    Treedodger  about 4 years ago

    You mean like, “I seen that car run the light”.

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    martynhappyone  about 4 years ago

    I am very particular about spelling. What is surprising is the number of times that a word is flagged as none existent and yet it was spelled correctly according to the Merriam Webster site. I always enjoy how often people talk about someone being ‘Prostated’ rather than Prostrated.

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    Jan C  about 4 years ago

    Sounds like Brian is tired of the grammar police.

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    kathleenhicks62  about 4 years ago

    IS ignorance bliss? Or just plain ignorance?

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    Ukko wilko  about 4 years ago

    In some cases ignorance is bliss. It’s just hard to decide when wisely.

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    sbwertz  about 4 years ago

    I had a PhD recently use “anecdote” when she meant “antidote”

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    Moonkey Premium Member about 4 years ago

    No, they don’t teach reading and writing any more. They sort of teach reading and printing. They cannot read the Declaration of Independence because it was written. My own child says “Me and my friends,” and I stop her and say, “My friends and I,” and she will then repeat it correctly and go on. Well, I used to do that. Now I grit my teeth. I taught her to speak American. She has a master’s degree. I did my best and it seems to be accepted these days to do as she does. I see it all over the news articles I read. It’s very sad. I was not a teacher. My parents were strict about grammar and spelling and it stuck with me. I remember arguing with her teachers that giving her 5 math problems for homework to learn arithmetic and mathematics wasn’t enough. we used to get at least 5 times that. I gave her extra homework. She learned, and I even took the time to explain why math is useful in every day life. So now kids grow up with 5-6 digit education loans and can’t write a sentence. Obviously this is a pet peeve!

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    chain gang charlie  about 4 years ago

    One of my favorite gaffs of Ignorance are the pinhead traffic reporters who say “As you transition from one lane or highway to another”…Transition is a noun not a verb – it is a thing- not an action.

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    trolbix  about 4 years ago

    She should have just said “impact”.

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    ANIMAL  about 4 years ago

    Bliss

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    Sailor46 USN 65-95  about 4 years ago

    Ignorance is simply the lack of knowledge and easily fixed, provided one is willing to be educated. Now, Ignorance is often mistaken for Stupidity and visa versa.

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    mistercatworks  about 4 years ago

    I had a laugh when a shelter-in-place order went out over the radio because of a “silicon dioxide” leak. It was supposed to be “sulfur dioxide”; “silicon dioxide” is basically sand.

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    Homerville Premium Member about 4 years ago

    On internet we take shortcuts. Dont you no.? (know)

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    vick53  about 4 years ago

    Anyone else notice that instead of saying “important” more and more people are saying “impor’ant”? Just a tad annoying like biting on tin foil.

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    HopeDuchaine  about 4 years ago

    I am appalled at the way kids talk today. I have noticed that the conversations are shortcuts to regular speech. Do the teachers just ignore the student’s ability to speak properly or do they care? English should be top- notch on the corriculum?

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    Rodeo Boy  about 4 years ago

    Ever tried closed captioning? Ouch!

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    tg464  about 4 years ago

    I remember when you take was used, now it’s bring. "Bring this to your

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