When we talk about "incorrect" English, we're really talking about a bunch of different things, for instance:
1) deviations from a so-called standard: ain't, he didn't buy nothing, me and Lawrence went for a stroll. (Note that these standards are, for the most part, arbitrary. Moreover, there isn't actually one single standard. Moreover moreover, there's probably no one who follows all these "rules," anyway. And those who focus on these standards often display historically unsound biases such as, for example, believing anything that deviates from, say, early 20th-century English is wrong, even while not holding earlier varieties equally sacred.)
2) errors of convention: misspellings, "bad" punctuation, etc.
3) technically ungrammatical English ("ungrammatical" in the sense of "not conforming to a variety of English, standard or otherwise"): Yesterday, I eat two apples red. (Note that a sentence like this is perfectly intelligible, but any native speaker of English would find it weird and wrong.)
4) incoherent English: Peanut butter dreaming outside of conceptualments or!
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Post subject: Re: Literary Privilege: Better than I Could Say It
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 5:58 pm
No-pants hermit 4 lyfe
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your example of incoherent english is the only one i'd want to stet.
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What's correct English anyhoo? I know I don't understand pretty much any of you most of the time because half your vowels have fallen out yer pockets and you call aubergines eggplants. Eggs are not vegan! Even if you plant them and dye them purple!
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_________________ "I will take a drugged, sex-crazed, punk rock commie over Mrs. Thatch any day of the week" - Vantine "You are no fun, Vantine." - Invictus "I am doing dishes with a bleeding hand, I don't have time to be nice to you!" - SJK
First... interrobang... is that Dame Maggie Smith in youthful form in your avatar?
in her PRIME, no less!
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Post subject: Re: Literary Privilege: Better than I Could Say It
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 10:45 pm
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interrobang?! wrote:
*votes mumbles off the island*
This made me laugh out loud.
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Post subject: Re: Literary Privilege: Better than I Could Say It
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 9:01 am
Flounceiad 2011
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interrobang?! wrote:
Moon wrote:
First... interrobang... is that Dame Maggie Smith in youthful form in your avatar?
in her PRIME, no less!
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Post subject: Re: Literary Privilege: Better than I Could Say It
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 12:03 pm
rowdily playing checkers
Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:53 pm Posts: 2667
ndpittman wrote:
interrobang?! wrote:
*votes mumbles off the island*
This made me laugh out loud.
Real funny. I live on an island. I'm homeless now. Thanks a lot.
Now I sit on the sidewalk, encrusted by my hoodie, with my head between my knees. I'm intentionally adding superfluous apostrophes to my cardboard sign. fork y'all.
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Post subject: Re: Literary Privilege: Better than I Could Say It
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 12:25 pm
No-pants hermit 4 lyfe
Joined: Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:22 am Posts: 2235 Location: BKLN
what sidewalk? it'd better be a sidewalk in jersey, because you can't live on that other island, either. not with that sign.
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First, mumbles, are you still a Republican? Because if so, you know that you cannot blame your lack of an island your being voted off. Unless it was taken from you and redistributed. I'm not sure how that works.
Also, this. Do not tell me you will BRB.
linanil wrote:
I rather rail against text speak in non text messages. That is my crusade.
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