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 Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:58 pm
Zizzykitty I swear my school is full of idiots other than my friends and I who act dumb but are pretty smart. Anyway, I feel out of place at my school sometimes because I have never heard anyone else except me and one of my freiends use quite. I too though gay was happy until a few yaers ago when I got into middle school, it took me even longer to figure out that qeer meant homosexual too. I don;t hear many people say shall either, like "Shall we go?" My friends and I have also started saying yonder too. So I'm not sure about my other friends but I feel out of place at school, sort of like I'm surrounded by monkeys who can speak, but that would be insulting the monkeys Do not get me started on grammer though. I have pretty good grammer most of the time but I still mess up because I never pay attention in english so most of the stuff I know about grammer came from reading. (and lectures from my mother when I majorly mess my grammer) oh yeah, and to Fiyun. There are already a lot of people in my school who call each other "b***h" and "whore" in a friendly way. Like I've heard people greet each other " Hey whore." to their friends. Also for a while one of my friends was calling us (as in the other people in my little group) b***h and no one took it offensively. She didn't mean it offensively either. My friend sitting next to me has also informed me that another one fo our friends has started greeting us by saying "Sup my bitches." I never noticed because he talks alot so I kinda tune him out most of the time. Totally my opinion exactly. I have to say though, I have picked up quite a few old words. And, I keep correcting people when they try to act savvy and quote Shakespear, then I go and burst their bubble with, "But, that actually means..."
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:01 pm
LOL My mother used to pronounce naive like "knave" because she had only read it in books... But as for me, I don't talk too much anymore.
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Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:53 pm
Pavlovs_Dog Zizzykitty I swear my school is full of idiots other than my friends and I who act dumb but are pretty smart. Anyway, I feel out of place at my school sometimes because I have never heard anyone else except me and one of my freiends use quite. I too though gay was happy until a few yaers ago when I got into middle school, it took me even longer to figure out that qeer meant homosexual too. I don;t hear many people say shall either, like "Shall we go?" My friends and I have also started saying yonder too. So I'm not sure about my other friends but I feel out of place at school, sort of like I'm surrounded by monkeys who can speak, but that would be insulting the monkeys Do not get me started on grammer though. I have pretty good grammer most of the time but I still mess up because I never pay attention in english so most of the stuff I know about grammer came from reading. (and lectures from my mother when I majorly mess my grammer) oh yeah, and to Fiyun. There are already a lot of people in my school who call each other "b***h" and "whore" in a friendly way. Like I've heard people greet each other " Hey whore." to their friends. Also for a while one of my friends was calling us (as in the other people in my little group) b***h and no one took it offensively. She didn't mean it offensively either. My friend sitting next to me has also informed me that another one fo our friends has started greeting us by saying "Sup my bitches." I never noticed because he talks alot so I kinda tune him out most of the time. Totally my opinion exactly. I have to say though, I have picked up quite a few old words. And, I keep correcting people when they try to act savvy and quote Shakespear, then I go and burst their bubble with, "But, that actually means..." haha, I should do that when people try to use big word or quote stuff to sound smart.
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:48 pm
I love this guild. People actually use "quite" and know the orignal meaning of words like "gay" or "queer." I'm used to reading novels where such words aren't out of the norm so it's vernacular to me.
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:26 pm
Proven by the fact that you just said "vernacular"? wink
I love the word "Wherefore", just because it feels fuller to say than "why". But nobody I talk to understands that it DOES NOT MEAN WHERE. Example:
FriendIM: =(
Me: Wherefore are thou so sad?
FriendIM: Here at my computer...
evil I hate the misuse of wherefore. When I saw it on a Fandago commercial used as where, I actually yelled at the TV.
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:35 pm
I find that instead of using sad, I use melancoly which nobody at my school uses . . . not even the english teachers.
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Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:02 pm
Oh geeze! I love old words. I'm so all around weird because of my books and other things that people arn't surprised when I use odd, archaic sayings. e.g. I say "fare thee well" or "toodles" I also love the words "spiffy" and "uber." Peope just tend to expect them from a bibliophile such as I. Sure, they tease, but they do that any way and they love me for it! Squee~! Laters.
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:52 am
Fhar Oh geeze! I love old words. I'm so all around weird because of my books and other things that people arn't surprised when I use odd, archaic sayings. e.g. I say "fare thee well" or "toodles" I also love the words "spiffy" and "uber." Peope just tend to expect them from a bibliophile such as I. Sure, they tease, but they do that any way and they love me for it! Squee~! Laters. I have heard people at my school say "toodles". I haven't heard anyone say "fare thee well". I do say "farewell" and it sometimes gets a funny look from people around me who aren't neccesarily my friends. That usually is when I'm in a really good mood though and I'm almost singing from The Sound of Music the line "So long, farewell, aveders(sp?) and adieu(sp?)!"
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:19 pm
Battousai-nii People used to tease me all the time for using words like "quite," "rather," and "certainly" which I have picked up from reading older literature. I also used to think that "gay" just meant "to feel happy." mrgreen That's certainly the same case as mine. I've always been an avid reader, especially with book intended for more mature readers and so using words beyond my age group's normal vocabulary just feels natural.
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:57 pm
Zizzykitty Do not get me started on grammer though. I have pretty good grammer most of the time but I still mess up because I never pay attention in english so most of the stuff I know about grammer came from reading. (and lectures from my mother when I majorly mess my grammer)
You would think that after seven or eight years of having grammer drilled into my head I would know it. But, every time we do prepositions...GREAT! I can do prepositions. We go to adjectives...Great! I can do adjectives. But, wait?...How do I do prepositions again?
Strangely enough, in Honors English we don't do grammer. Thank God!
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 2:40 pm
Faith-on-Fire Zizzykitty Do not get me started on grammer though. I have pretty good grammer most of the time but I still mess up because I never pay attention in english so most of the stuff I know about grammer came from reading. (and lectures from my mother when I majorly mess my grammer)
You would think that after seven or eight years of having grammer drilled into my head I would know it. But, every time we do prepositions...GREAT! I can do prepositions. We go to adjectives...Great! I can do adjectives. But, wait?...How do I do prepositions again?
Strangely enough, in Honors English we don't do grammer. Thank God!Same thing with me. i know if something doesn't sound right like double negatives annoy the hell out of me, but the same thing with identifying parts of speech or if someone gives me a sentence and asks me if it's wrong and whats wrong with it I'm just kinda like "I don't know! It just sounds wrong okay?" I'm not in honors english but we aren't really doing grammer either. We did a bit on parts of speech but thats about it.
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:05 pm
Zizzykitty Faith-on-Fire Zizzykitty Do not get me started on grammer though. I have pretty good grammer most of the time but I still mess up because I never pay attention in english so most of the stuff I know about grammer came from reading. (and lectures from my mother when I majorly mess my grammer)
You would think that after seven or eight years of having grammer drilled into my head I would know it. But, every time we do prepositions...GREAT! I can do prepositions. We go to adjectives...Great! I can do adjectives. But, wait?...How do I do prepositions again?
Strangely enough, in Honors English we don't do grammer. Thank God!Same thing with me. i know if something doesn't sound right like double negatives annoy the hell out of me, but the same thing with identifying parts of speech or if someone gives me a sentence and asks me if it's wrong and whats wrong with it I'm just kinda like "I don't know! It just sounds wrong okay?" I'm not in honors english but we aren't really doing grammer either. We did a bit on parts of speech but thats about it.
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Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 9:33 pm
Faith-on-Fire Zizzykitty Faith-on-Fire Zizzykitty Do not get me started on grammer though. I have pretty good grammer most of the time but I still mess up because I never pay attention in english so most of the stuff I know about grammer came from reading. (and lectures from my mother when I majorly mess my grammer)
You would think that after seven or eight years of having grammer drilled into my head I would know it. But, every time we do prepositions...GREAT! I can do prepositions. We go to adjectives...Great! I can do adjectives. But, wait?...How do I do prepositions again?
Strangely enough, in Honors English we don't do grammer. Thank God!Same thing with me. i know if something doesn't sound right like double negatives annoy the hell out of me, but the same thing with identifying parts of speech or if someone gives me a sentence and asks me if it's wrong and whats wrong with it I'm just kinda like "I don't know! It just sounds wrong okay?" I'm not in honors english but we aren't really doing grammer either. We did a bit on parts of speech but thats about it. that't why I didn't want honers enlgish. I hate oen of the honers english teachers 'cause I had her before in a different grade and also I hate writing essays.
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 4:30 pm
Faith-on-Fire Zizzykitty Do not get me started on grammer though. I have pretty good grammer most of the time but I still mess up because I never pay attention in english so most of the stuff I know about grammer came from reading. (and lectures from my mother when I majorly mess my grammer)
You would think that after seven or eight years of having grammer drilled into my head I would know it. But, every time we do prepositions...GREAT! I can do prepositions. We go to adjectives...Great! I can do adjectives. But, wait?...How do I do prepositions again?
Strangely enough, in Honors English we don't do grammer. Thank God! I have good grammar, but since I picked it up subconsciously through reading and my family's good grammar I have almost no clue what an "adverb" or a "preposition" is either.
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:13 pm
Battousai-nii Faith-on-Fire Zizzykitty Do not get me started on grammer though. I have pretty good grammer most of the time but I still mess up because I never pay attention in english so most of the stuff I know about grammer came from reading. (and lectures from my mother when I majorly mess my grammer)
You would think that after seven or eight years of having grammer drilled into my head I would know it. But, every time we do prepositions...GREAT! I can do prepositions. We go to adjectives...Great! I can do adjectives. But, wait?...How do I do prepositions again?
Strangely enough, in Honors English we don't do grammer. Thank God! I have good grammar, but since I picked it up subconsciously through reading and my family's good grammar I have almost no clue what an "adverb" or a "preposition" is either.
This year I'm taking Spanish and their always saying, "If you have this put this here." And its usually having to do with adjectives or adverbs and such. That's probably why I failed Spanish I. xd
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