
Originally Posted by
Oregon Vet
I love it! All the poor English usage on here. 99% of the people use YOUR when they should be using YOU'RE or YOU ARE. YOUR is for YOUR car, YOUR hat, YOUR home. YOU'RE or YOU ARE is for when you are talking about SOMEONE. IF you DON'T know which YOUR / YOU'RE to use, use YOU ARE. If that SOUNDS right, as in YOU ARE hat. Nope, WRONG one. It should be YOUR hat. YOUR going to the store. NO. Use YOU ARE going to the store. YES, that sounds fine, so you CAN use YOU'RE.
THEN / THAN. 99% of the time THEN / THAN is used incorrectly too. AND to / too. THEN means do one thing and THEN do another thing. Put on YOUR socks, THEN put on your shoes. Do this, THEN do that. THAN means CHOOSE one OR the other. I would rather wear shoes THAN boots. One or the other. Pick me up, THEN we will go to the store. I would rather stay home THAN go to the store.
THEN - do something and THEN do the other thing.
THAN - do this - DON'T to that.
I would rather kiss a snake THAN kiss her. THAN means you will do ONE thing. NOT both like when using THEN.
I would rather kiss a snake, THEN kiss her. THEN means you will do BOTH.
All this leads up to what Bohemian said. He said:
"and your (sic) free to say I'd like to see the President (Usurper) dead, by whatever means..."
IF Bohemian had used punctuation, it would be a totally DIFFERENT meaning. Like so:
"and you're (or you are) free to say; "I'd like to see the..."
As soon as those quote marks were put around it, that would mean any of YOU were free to say "I'd like to see the..."
WITH the quotes around it, he would be saying YOU others are free to say that... NOT him saying it.
Isn't that something, how two quotes CHANGE everything around. It IS that simple. With what was in front of that, it still means for ANYONE to say it, not just him.
English can get you in trouble is you misuse it. Look at all the grief it brought Bohemian in this thread alone.
I have NO clue on what was on facebook, but it sounds as if some retard was over extending a bit.
YES, we DO have free speech. BUT, be prepared to have your a$$ kicked if you say the WRONG thing to someone and they don't like what you said. Go ahead and tell them; "We have free speech."
Walk up to a guy who is 6'7" tall and weighs 375lbs who is out enjoying the mall with his 14 year old daughter and tell him;
"That girl with you looks like a whore, and you look like her pimp, probably gave her herpes too."
And I would bet your FREE speech rights would get you a 10" fist bouncing your head off the wall. Yes, you're welcome to say anything you want, but, sometimes people WILL take offence and they just don't seem to care about your right to FREE speech!
We all seem to be a LOT (yes, it IS TWO words) braver on the Internet than in person!
Isn't that fact funny. :)
Smile, people, life is good. And use YOUR YOU'RE THEN THAN correctly!
You know WHY that is a good idea??
Because if you don't use them correctly, then a LOT of the people reading your post will think you ARE stupid. NO ONE likes to be called stupid or look stupid... do they? Maybe they don't care if people think they are stupid?
THIS POST ISN'T POINTED ANY ONE PERSON, SORT OF A "IF THE SHOE FITS, THEN WEAR IT" DEAL. You people not bothering to use a free spell checker or learning how a few of the simpler words SHOULD be used, you know who you are.
Although, a few will call ME stupid for posting such a post. :)
Now, off to post a thread for Bush/Obama/Kennedy lovers.