In this thread, Senusret I complains about bad grammar in facebook status updates

[LucyKKG]

Just saw this gem:

GirlIKnow "loves her little and her high speed puking action...CLASSIC"

Eww, really?

[chickenoodle]

Originally Posted by Ivydeb

I had some students email me and their emails were written like that. I told all of them I felt like giving them automatic Fs for not only using "text talk" in regular email, but for thinking that it was okay to email a professor using that garbage.

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I was shocked to learn some classmates of mine wrote to their professors like that. I was so embarrassed for them.

Some people I was working with on a group project would send e-mails with "text talk." I quit trying to read their shit. It made my head hurt. Why would anyone want to be thought of as a moron?

[LucyKKG]

Originally Posted by chickenoodle

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I was shocked to learn some classmates of mine wrote to their professors like that. I was so embarrassed for them.

Some people I was working with on a group project would send e-mails with "text talk." I quit trying to read their shit. It made my head hurt. Why would anyone want to be thought of as a moron?

Even if I'm sending a casual e-mail to a friend, it doesn't look like text talk! My sister sometimes sends me e-mails a little lacking in capitalization, but I know she would never send that to a professor.

[chickenoodle]

Originally Posted by LucyKKG

Even if I'm sending a casual e-mail to a friend, it doesn't look like text talk! My sister sometimes sends me e-mails a little lacking in capitalization, but I know she would never send that to a professor.

I do that too, but when I'm speaking with a familiar person (Facebook, family e-mails, etc.) and I know I've left some posts around here with hardly any sense of proper grammar and English... Sorry guys

I'm so particular that I even use capitalization and proper punctuation in my texts to brothers in my fraternity.

On topic however, I feel like I should include this gem from my feed:

Cap'n Tony Showtime Terry Shoutout to everyone that Breath smells like Jellyfish Colon in church and gotta nerve to ask the Preacher to pray for them.The Preacher smells that Colon Breath and says U look like something else is troubling u after u told him whats wrong



wtf?

[33girl]

I feel like making this my newest update: If you don't understand what I'm saying or are going to make a reference that has nothing to do with what I'm saying just to write on my page, don't @#$%ing comment on my status. KTHXBYE.

Oh, and if I delete something you wrote...don't write it again.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Dear HS friend,

I know that you and your ex-husband don't get along, but it's really annoying that every other status update of yours has something to do with:

*visitation for the kids.
*court.
*how much child support he owes you.
*how dumb he is.
*how you hate being 25 and divorced.
*how dumb he is.
*how much child supprt he owes you.
*how you can't stand him.
*how you wish you had never married him.
*how much you hate that your little girl likes him (and that you wish she hated him).
*how dumb he is.

It gets old. I can't take logging into Facebook everyday and seeing updates like this:

25 Year old Divorcee is lyke, so mad at her ex hubby that she mite punch him today.

or

25-year-old divorcee is sooooo mad. He took Brianna out for ice cream today and she "luved it." I h8 him.

So I had to delete you today. Sorry.

Thanks,
Violet.

I practice family law, and let me just say that if you or anyone you know is doing this, tell them to stop. They cannot control, try as they might, who gets access to their Facebook page, and stuff like this in a high conflict divorce case is solid freakin' gold for the other side if they seek to modify the custody/visitation.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by Kevin

I practice family law, and let me just say that if you or anyone you know is doing this, tell them to stop. They cannot control, try as they might, who gets access to their Facebook page, and stuff like this in a high conflict divorce case is solid freakin' gold for the other side if they seek to modify the custody/visitation.

Oh I know, right? We have a classmate who is a law student (3L--not a lawyer but knows the law enough to know that this = not good), and he commented on her status and said "You know you're toast if his lawyer sees this stuff." She basically commented back that she didn't give a crap.

She is not the brightest crayon in the box. This is someone who is going through a high conflict divorce (complete with nasty custody battle--I think he is going for more than 50/50 custody), and yet, has a Facebook album titled "I <3 Jagerbombs and random boys" next to an album titled "I looooove my little girl so much!"

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

She is not the brightest crayon in the box. This is someone who is going through a high conflict divorce (complete with nasty custody battle--I think he is going for more than 50/50 custody), and yet, has a Facebook album titled "I <3 Jagerbombs and random boys" next to an album titled "I looooove my little girl so much!"

I'm speechless. Wow.

I've 'won' custody fights with much, much less.

[LXA SE285]

This doesn't pertain to Facebook, and it's kind of persnickety, but it does make my blood boil. (KSUViolet shares my pain in this regard, I hope.)

I hate it in those droning pharmaceutical ads when they give all the cautionary gobbledygook at the end and say a particular med should not be used by those "who are nursing, pregnant, or may become pregnant." This is a classic example of what your 12th-grade English teacher taught you as "faulty parallelism." Literally, the last part is saying "who are may become pregnant."

TEH DUMB.

[ThetaDancer]

A friend of mine had this link posted on his facebook page and it reminded me of this thread. http://www.learnyourdamnhomophones.com/

Heads up: the language is a little harsh so it's not exactly safe for work.

[LXA SE285]

not exactly bad grammar, but just bad form and definitely FAIL.
http://failblog.org/2009/08/22/facebooking-win

So she's basically telling the world with pride, "My vagine is HUGE!"

She needs to be pepper-sprayed.

[Munchkin03]

This psycho with whom I used to work did some CRAZY Facebook posts the weekend she got laid off. I was out of town that weekend, otherwise I would have been screen capturing those bad boyz from here to eternity. Basically it went from:

"WHAT THE F---?! TWO YEARS DOESN'T GIVE YOU ANY LOYALTY!"

"Karma will kome and those bitches will reep what they sow."

To...

"I just spent $200 at Target and put it all on credit cards, retail therapy is sooo good."

"I just got back from the casino. Three paychecks worth of severance, coming up!"

And finally she defriended most of us. Thank God, I thought she was a nut before she got laid off! I think her dismissal was conditional based on if business gets better soon. Given she discussed the details of her severance package and insulted several co-workers by name, I think that "condition" is no longer valid.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

"Karma will kome and those bitches will reep what they sow."

Passive-aggressive status FAIL.

Tell me this person is not a college grad.

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Passive-aggressive status FAIL.

Tell me this person is not a college grad.

No, she's not. But, I have seen some great spelling mistakes from college graduates, so I cannot judge based on that.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by Kevin

I'm speechless. Wow.

I've 'won' custody fights with much, much less.

It's funny because she always posts status updates talking about how he is "digging up dirt" on her to "try and make her look like an unfit parent." He really doesn't have to dig, hun. All he has to do is check FB and MySpace. A couple of status posts, a few pics, and voila, you are now unfit!