Exactly Edna.!!! As long as I communicate I don't try too hard now to change my accent, I can't, that's me. I don't want to sound like the mexican movies where supposedly the actor is american and is trying to speak spanish or english and they sound awful.

When I registered my kids for t-ball several coaches asked me why didn't the mother was there. I AM their mom. You should have seen the look in his face!! something like this . Not because my sons don't resemble me (?), but because they don't have an accent like I do and to my shame some of them can't speak spanish as fluently as I do. Up to 3 weeks ago some "friends" that live here but never took the time or effort to learn English, would make "fun" remarks to my younger son about not speaking spanish that "much". I got tired of it and said: He does not have to, but you DO need to learn to speak, write and read English, you choose to come and live here, at least make the effort. My son lives here and don't expect people from here to acomodate to him. WE should learn the language. He can take spanish classes later like my other sons did.
My DH tought I was rude. So? I can give my opinion too. Besides, I didn't tell him EVERYTHING I wanted to, because I didn't want to sound rude.

Thank you K8memphis!
I even used to say the same thing to my mom, but in a muuuuuuch nicer way. She was my mom, and I am who I am because of her.
But not the other people , no waaaay.

P.S. as it is, that man thinks I am a really bad influence on his wife Just because poor innocent me is trying to convince her is ok to speak your mind . Crazy people.

Ok, so I went to work yesterday and found this note in my box from my manager, and knew that I had to come and post in this forum, otherwise I might have thrown something!

Here is what the note says:
I will be receiving the SSS (customer service scores) at the end of every month. Not that I have to bribe you to perform excellent customer service, I will be buying lunch for the store if we can reach one of the following goals each month:
-If are score for the month is higher than the previous month, I will buy pizza
-If are score for the month is higher than the previous month and higher that are target score, I will buy a catered lunch (with in reason-no steak and lobster), based on the majority decision by all employees.
-If are score is 90 or better I will buy a catered lunch (within reason), based on the majority decision of all employees. I will also buy pizza on another day during that same month.

I would love to buy you all lunch twice a month so lets do our best to shoot for 90! I know we are more than capable.
Please look at the SSS scores on the customer service board.

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It pains me to even type that! While I appreciate the sentiment, the misuse of words and missing words and punctuation makes me crazy!
The fact that it is from the store manager awes me. If I was the manager, I would check and re-check any memo that I was going to distribute to all of my employees.

Oh yeah, and while we are adding our gripes, another pronunciation of a word that gets under my skin is when people say that they are fustrated....hello people! The word is spelled frustrated...I don't know of any silent r rules!!!

Most of the errors people have been grousing about-not all- are pronunciation or homophone errors are/our, could of/could have, two /to/too.
I have a young Russian woman who comes to me for tutoring in English. I keep telling her to think about what she is going to say, look at the person she is speaking to, then speak slowly and open her mouth to pronounce the English words. She told me last week that many Americans don't open their mouths enough for her to understand what they are saying. That seems to be the problem, We write poorly because we do not clearly enunciate our words.

For the record, my request was for paragraphical-ness* simply to facilitate reading posts.
To facilitate communication.
(Yes I know ^^^ that's not a sentence.)

Never ever did the op, moi, intend to get PC about grammar and spelling. Not at all did I expect folks to start actually composing grammatically correct essays. My daughter has a master's in creative writing in two disciplines--when she was teaching high school and I would email her, it made me nervous although it was entirely self-inflicted.

So carry on with the tight assedness if you must but all I attempted to do is make it easier for me to read posts.

*paragraphical-ness--the appearance of paragraphs,
aka hitting the 'enter' key upon occasion.

We know, k8, but it's too much fun to gripe about our grammatical pet peeves

Today at work a friend turned 30. Someone printed up signs and hung them all over his desk. "Your so old" and "If you where a car you'd be an antique". Ugh.

But not making fun of specific people for imperfections of spelling and grammar in their attempts to reach out and converse or explain or motivate you and ultimately take you out to eat.

It's far far far more wrong to make fun of 'the guy at work' or 'my boss' than it is 2 right fun knee spelt whordz with eenack q rut g'ma.

My other kid had/has a learning disability in reading. His IQ is higher than the kid with the master's degree who is currently in process for another master's degree. (Nobody can eat just one.) He could not read he certainly could not spell but his listening comprehension was better than mine. He overcame all that by memorization.

But the point is communication, exchange of ideas, understanding.