Is Bad Grammar Evil?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ส.ค. 2024
- You all asked for it, a grammar lesson!! :-)
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Again, some of the best folks I've ever known (friends, family, & others) might not pass an English grammar test. It's not nearly the most important aspect of a person's life.
That said, if you are in a "professional" position of any sort where you are regularly communicating with other "professional" folks, you don't need any unnecessary limitations on your career potential.
It really depends on your career choices as much as anything. For a great percentage of folks, it's not going to matter one way or another.
Thanks for taking on this topic. I hope TH-cam doesn’t pull it. 😊
I lost my first response. I was responding to your Hickok 45 channel about TH-cam trying to shut you down. I apologized about my sentence structure and punctuation. One thing I can say is that as a designer, draftsman for 25 years. All the trades people and the contractors really didn't give a f__. About my grammar. They knew when they had me working on a project that there would be no mistakes. I made more money than some of the architects in town. Mostly because I had actually built something. Instead of just passing tests and reading books. I'm very proud of myself. Even if I suck at English. Sometimes common sense and skills prevail. Just my 2 cents.
I'm with you 100%, Hickock. I'm a contemporary of yours, and a product of Catholic school education, where grammar was famously a top priority.
It's those dangling participle that always gets me
Excellent reminder, sir. Although I usually know better, I often use poor grammar and swear far too much. It does make one sound needlessly ignorant and crass.
" I should of" , frequently found on TH-cam lately.
Hickok45, I'm in my 60's and have enjoyed your nuggets of knowledge for years.
I wish you were the other Uncle in my life for your wisdom for the youth who watch you.
All is valid, and my week isn't complete until I hear your send-off of "Life is Good".
Thank you!
I did not do well in school but I believe what you are saying is correct!
watching the wind blow the leaves of the trees got me feeling like im on psychedelics
The Grammar Commando is back! 👍🏻
I would suggest the Hickok45 book club. We can discuss a book once a month on this channel. 👍 Shapiro tried this on the Daily Wire.
…. ending a sentence with a preposition …. “Where do you come from?”
The "prescriptive grammarians" of the 1800's are the reason for that. Rather than observe how people really spoke, these prescriptive grammarians used Latin as a basis for rules. In Latin you cannot end a sentence with a preposition, or split an infinitive, but Germanic languages certainly can! English is a blend of Germanic and Romance (Latin based) languages.
Hi Hickok! Thanks for taking the time to share this information.
This is a great talk, proper grammar still matters!
The word usage error that I find the most annoying is "then" and "than".
I will do this, then I will do that.
I would rather do this than that.
Your - Your dog ate my food!
You're - You are a dog eating someone's food.
When people, say " these ones" or "that,there,there"
Needs fixed.
I’ve got a so called friend who says: Believe you me!
My boss always says “Have ran”! Drives me crazy. We’re engineers, though. 😊
I am one of those people who asked for a grammar lesson , I didn't like my English teacher at all. He was probably the best teacher in the state. But for some reason we just didn't get along. I wish I could do it all over again with a better attitude and then maybe i would learn something. Thank you Hickok 45 .
I just found your post from the original video. I was looking to see if I was the only guy asking about, but the I found yours. I guess we both win! 👍
Ending sentences with prepositions is something up with which we should not put.
Thank you @Hickok45Talks. I subscribed to your main channel more than 12 years ago to practice English. Almost accidentally. 10 years later you said you've been a teacher. :) Really appreciate the lesson.
Yikes.... Jr. High all over again. Is dangling participle next? 😂😂
Wonderful, Hickock, you are an impressive man, I can tell how much you love teaching. Your students were very fortunate.
The misuse of "myself" has become rampant in the language.
Bad grammar is a bane to society. 😊
THIS!!…I would like to add something…maybe say something profound…but you said it all, brother….im speechless…(this might be my favorite H45 vid😉⭐️)
One thing that will definitely make a person seem pretty ignorant is using “irregardless”.
Actions speak louder than words.
People like to say that how we talk and what we wear shouldn’t matter, but I have the feeling that if you were going in for open-heart surgery and your surgeon met with you to discuss the surgery wearing a dirty tee shirt and cut-offs and talking like a second-grade drop-out, you’d be concerned.
@@johnsodx I rest my case
Defiantly! 😜
It's a legit word for couple hundred years but it just sound bad
Learning a foreign language is also a big help in learning English grammar.
Funny, you got me thinking, not only did I have to endure English but also Latin and Greek when I was in school. Much like you also, I am sure.
I'm not a grammar nazi but there are some basics that kind of rub me the wrong way. For instance, improper use of the words to, too, and two. There, their, and they're. Then and than. However the one that really iritates me is when someone says, "I could care less." Honorable mention to the people who say, "Where are you AT?" Or, "Where are you at right now?"
Hickok45 Talks.. Apparently I always use bad grammar. Thanks for pointing that out. LOL
I have dedicated my free time to helping addicts, alcoholics, and homeless for 51 years. Also I was a bill collector for 32 years. I never care how people say or write things, as long as I can understand them. I despise people online that always feel they have to correct everyone. To me that is arrogant, and disrespectful. Life is too short to treat people that way.
Yes it makes them feel smart to correct other people.
You’re awesome! Thanks for covering this topic. 😊
What really sticks out to me when I hear it, is when some college educated idiot in the media makes up a word that doesn't exist.
I'll always cut you some slack, sir, but in general as long as you know the difference between 'number of' and 'amount' and that something can't be "very unique" then I'm good.
A tour of the workshop shed would be cool.
The amount of people today that can't differentiate too and to is unfathomable. Also people who use there for all the there/their/they're words.
The past participle is a big one! It’s like finger nails on a chalkboard.
Mr Hickock, if you write an english primer, I will buy it.
Our language and it’s lexicon are under assault ,both by indifference
and willful abuse for advertising or political ends.
The beauty and true value of this language is its ability to be extremely specific .
It’s at the core of this nation’s success. When the language is diminished, we are all diminished.
I don’t want to sound prudish. I love colloquialisms and a variety of twangs and drawls. Occasionally current slang is the best tool for the job ,but we need to preserve the ability to communicate accurately with full understanding.
Feel free to correct my essay. If’n youze a mind ta.😁 You done went and pushed my button.
Is it evil? That’s above my pay grade to answer.
If, in a moment’s inattention, for whatever reason, you run off the road into a tree or off a cliff, your not necessarily evil, your just dead or injured.
As a foreign viewer, glad to know that native speakers also make the same mistakes that we do, too!
(Subject of the sentence intentionally left out 🤣)
I think that was me. I was half joking, but I think we all could use a refresher. 😊 My kids get angry when I correct their grammar. I appreciate my 5th and 6th English teacher, Mr. Davis, for making us diagram sentences. The worst or journalists, who should know better. I hope I wrote this post grammatically correct. 😊
From one holder of a BA in English to another here is a bit of unsolicited advice. In her book, “Braving the Wilderness” Brene Brown makes an eloquent observation regarding fitting in vice belonging. She asserts that fitting in requires meeting the expectations of others and compromising who you really are while belonging keeps you integral to your true self. When you receive comments that strike you as mean spirited remember this: Fitting in compromises you and cedes power to another. Belonging affirms acceptance by others who value who you are. I’m a fan of yours and enjoy your channel especially when I’ve just returned from the range. Best regards, Wally
Can I ask your background Sir….. great channel. Thank you
A lot of what has happened to our language may come down to what has happened to society in general. Laziness, uncaring, certain influences that have bastardized the language. The dumbing down of society surely contributed to this, as well. Let's give everyone a medal or ribbon, whether deserved or not. We reap what we sow. When you make something easily attainable that should be a struggle, this is what you get.
The one that really gets me is functionality or in other words like it with the alley on the back to me doesn't belong. There drives me bonkers I don't know if anybody even correct, but I don't think that word was around till just recently and there's a lot of other ones similar to it. A technicality part on the back end. It drives me nuts. That's all I got to say about that. I just had to put my two cents in. Not that they were worth $0.0
My latest pet peave is the intentional not pronouncing T's. I've been seeing it on the news lately. Impor ant for important. Ki en for kitten.
You should always say what you mean, otherwise you will never mean what you say.
I liked Shirley English method. But now days many conjugate nouns, eg, flim , flam, and flum, that is not right.
The "prescriptive grammarians" of the 1800's are the reason for several artificial "rules." Rather than observe how people really spoke, these prescriptive grammarians used Latin as a basis for rules. In Latin you cannot end a sentence with a preposition, or split an infinitive, but Germanic languages certainly can, and do, to good effect! English is a blend of Germanic and Romance (Latin based) languages - thanks (?) to the Norman Conquest of 1066. One seemingly highly artificial construct are the rules for will/shall as they flip and flop for 1st person singular and plural.
Yes, and while too many folks are infected with "I seen that," and " He's drove my truck before," others are obsessing over who / whom, lie/lay, and split infinitives. :-)
Gud gramer iz jest weigh ovr-rated!!!!
Number one is to be able to communicate your thoughts. Use whatever words you wish as long as you succeed in your intent. For example, use a word in another language. Then again, why place a fork on the right side of the plate when you are a left handed diner?
Thanks to the Wayans, malapropism is oftentimes fun to use among friends.
What happened to Ebonics?
Feeling a bit guilty, I've got to do better 😂Lol
Hey Martha, look at that there. Quote from a tourist in Edinburgh.
Good grammar is like good manners; it opens doors. Poor grammar like bad manners closes them. If you know which fork to use, you can eat at the country club or the hot dog stand. If you don't know which fork to use, you cannot eat at the country club and can only eat at the hot dog stand. So good grammar and good manners allow one to make choices. Freedom means having choices.
If nobody notices bad grammar is it really bad?
If you don’t notice it, then you probably never made it out of middle school.
I think some bad grammar has just evolved into slang
Life is gooooooooood
Aren't they required to give domestic mental abuse victims options info. So, yeah I'm gonna be here working on the abuse expert handbook. Cause there are plenty of abuse experts on location.
Maybe we should start with constitutional rights again
ok ive just got 20 mins and i must decide between
Rob Berger or Hickok45.
Ok its 45!
contractions are grammatically correct, eg, " y'n's" , ie, " you ones" .
I ain’t good at grammar talking junk lol but I no right from wrong people don’t need a rocket doctor to figure that out😂lol anyways
Hickok45 for President!
Make America Speak Great English Again!
Why is y'all out "dere" Talkin bout mine edjumakation
I think grammar has deteriorated so much, that proper grammar sounds wrong to people. I guess I worry too much. 😊
I shat at the target yesterday
...oh wait that doesn't seem correct.
If you are around the same people a lot of the time just go with whatever grammar works for all of you then there's no miscommunication because I daggum Surey hain't worried about it is you ?
What do you drag in drag racing?
My biggest peeve is when people misuse than and then. For instance, your use of "then of course" is proper. I see people using "than" in place. Other than that, I just correct it in my mind when I'm reading whatever it is I'm reading.
Bad grammar is not evil; it certainly seems more prevalent.
How much of this modification to proper english, is due to text communication?
I slaughter da English language on purpose, it's da least I owe da british for NOVA SCOTIA, CAJUNS KNOW! Git chew soooome!
As an old timer , I was taught correct English usage and grammar were important . I do not always do my best , however when I hear and see the atrocious mangling of the language by reporters , writers , people in public office and TH-cam creators who should know better , it makes me cringe. To me it is another sign of the mental laziness and complacency affecting our Devolving society . But I'm just one of those hateful old Grammar Nazis if I say anything . .
Poor grammar to me is a sign of laziness or just plain ignorance.
It's a sign of someone who doesn't read much. Unfortunately, with today's self-publishing, a lot of grammatical mistakes get published without any professional editorial correction.
It all depends. If you're just chatting on a message board or whatever social media, people tend to write how they would talk.
I see a lot of southern people who throw their y'alls and such in.
@@DestindKnee That's not 'grammar'. I'm talking about the lack of capital letters to begin sentences and elsewhere when needed and correct punctuation. This can be done and still use normal language. Example; yall vs. y'all.
Spelling is another matter altogether, lol.
Bad Grammar isn't evil. Within a Professional environment it may be compulsory...
I don’t think they teach conjugating verbs anymore.
Correct, and that's also an excellent way to get a verb's proper forms drilled into your head. We used to conjugate them, as well, but I discovered that it was less like "drilling" or busy work for the kids if they made up sentences using the various forms of the verb. It gave them a chance to be silly and creative, and they enjoyed reading them out loud, maybe making fun of me a little in something they wrote.
I had some rules, of course, with any of our creative writing. They could make fun of ME, as long as it was in fun and not mean, but they could not make fun of anybody else in the building, including other students or teachers. That can get out of hand in a hurry, and something that is meant to be harmless can be really insulting to some classmate.
@@Hickok45Talks 👍 I took Latin in high school and German in college. We had to conjugate verbs and decline nouns. I would have enjoyed having you as a teacher. Both my parents were teachers (mom was high school math, dad was a band director. They both went to Morehead College at the time.) I appreciate all the hard work teachers have to do. Keep up the good work.
Should "have" -not should "of."
You are saying "should've" on this video but some people are hearing, repeating, and writing, "should of."
I have always wondered how shooting has effected your body Physically. After shooting for as long as you have been, has there been any long lasting effects on your body?
The two biggest things for most regular shooters if they don't take precautions are hearing loss and cumulative lead poisoning. Many folks don't realize that they need to really wash their hands after shooting, especially when handling non-jacketed lead ammo. Beyond those the next most common issues are sun exposure and insect bites and insect-borne diseases such as lyme disease. Some folks might say arthritis and repetitive stress injuries but there are so many other common activities that are just as bad and have longer exposure times. Most folks can't afford to shoot enough over a lifetime to be in danger of this unless they are in the industry.
Yes it is evil 😂
Words don't define u, whats in ur heart .....does! OVERCOME WORDS
Another one is not using the correct (objective) case for objects of prepositional phrases.
Yes, especially when you have compound objects. It just hits our ears wrong when we hear "Ralph and me" instead of "Ralph and I," regardless how it's used in a sentence. It just seem so wrong to say "me." But, if it's objective case, it's "me."
@@Hickok45Talks I’m constantly correcting my daughter saying: “me and so-and-so….” to start a sentence. She gets so mad at me. 🙄
What’s the deal with people starting their sentences with “So”? I noticed that starting around 2006 at work.
I know one that ends sentences with "so"
If you say some of these correct sayings, alot of people will probably think your ignorant!
Bad Grammer is snot eveil
Ser what are your business 🤔
Still hear you say “Like I said” in many of your videos.
Yep, I speak pretty informally myself. "Like I said," though, it's those really "bad boys" you want to work out of your brain if you can, the ones that are definitely going to hit some ears hard in certain environments. Improper uses of "like" or "whom" or "lay" and such are much farther down the list than "should have ran" or "would have ate," etc. :-)
I grew up pronouncing “wash” (or “Washington”, etc.) as if it has an “r” in it, mostly because everyone in my part of the country says it this way. Actually, this is not necessarily incorrect (check your dictionary), but I was able to fix this. It’s hard to break these habits.
Huh?
Eh. Bad grammar aint gonna hurt no one....
Why are you wearing ear plugs?
What?
It’s his signature.
I don't know about none of them bad grammars. I ain't never had none.
My boss always says “Have ran”! Drives me crazy. We’re engineers, though. 😊