January 11, 2013 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
Texas?
1And the other “you’re.”
2Sigh.
3daChipster beat me to it.
4Oh my. Another desertion by Mr. Dictionary.
5Teabonics y’all!
6If America were to be emptied of people who hadn’t mastered English, that would probably take the population down to only a few million.
And this individual would not be one of them.
7If you changed the last two letters of the word SPEAK to SPELL, the whole thing would almost make more sense.
8Me, too, Alacrity.
I had a beloved English teacher who put a list of homonyms on the board the first day of class. Explaining the difference between/among each set (and some other grammatical no-nos like the difference between “between” and “among”), he explained that misuse of any of them was an automatic F on the assignment.
They included bear/bare, there/their/they’re, read/red, your/you’re, to/too/two, its/it’s, whether/weather. I don’t think he bothered with but/butt because we were smart enough to know the difference.
9Makes me want to take a black Magic Marker and make corrections. I am one of the folks who needs both spell and grammar check on most days and I caught it.
Hippie in the Hollar
10Well, at least you can’t say they’re shy.
11God must be so pleased.
I like it when the stupid wear signs letting us all know about it without having to hear them utter a word.
12As a retired teacher, please let me get this in. Its not “would of”, its “would have” for all you college gradutes out there who don’t know and don’t care.
Snarrrrrl!!!
13@SusanF—Unfortunately, I think if we mentioned homonyms to this guy he’d think we were talking about “the gays.”
14Was this written by the morans who want to secdee?
15On second thought, he’s just exercising his right. To be stoopid.
16Maggie
You’ve spelled the contraction it’s incorrectly – twice.
17I’ve have been gone WAY too long! Happy New Year all Y’all! I see stoopid is still around in 2013…
18SusanF — If you tried to teach the people who put up that sign about homonyms they would just attack you for supporting gay rights.
19However, if you were to put an “a” in there so that it reads: “Everyone has the right to be “A” stupid butt” … You’re abusing that privilege” That would make a lot more sense! Funny the idiots didn’t know how to spell “you’re” correctly but they managed to spell “privilege” right! Hmmm!!
20@Aggieland Liz, thank you for “teabonics”, I love it. Now we should try to use it as much as we can. Maybe in it will end up in the OED list of new words for 2013.
21Teabonics (Tee-BON-iks) def: the dialect used by members of the Tea Party and evident in both written and spoken forms…formerly known as “trailer-trash talk” or “white-trash talk.” In verbal utterances, characterized by misuse of words, hyperbole, paranoia, and verbal abuse, along with a whining to enraged tone of voice and general rudeness to other participants (if any.) In written utterances, characterized by typical misspellings, misuse of apostrophes, verbal abuse, confusion of homonyms, etc. Easily spotted on signs and in talk radio and Fox TV shows.
Just to give the OED a little assistance. Love it.
22@EMoon, don’t forget Palin’s tendency to create non-words.
I bet this person also says “Pardon my French” when cursing. Sigh.
23Funniest thing I ever saw was the “Speak English or Get the Hell out” bumper sticker in south Louisiana.
24and yes the truck had La. plates
EMoon, I like your definition and “inappropriate and surprising capitalization of words and phrases is frequently seen” could be added as well.
Also.
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