We Don't Need no Stinking English

[dogriver]

When I was in my previous job, I'd have endless arguments with my volunteers. These wonderful people, mostly considerably more youthfully-challenged than I, believed that the evolution of the language stopped the day they set foot in school. No more changes after that. These hapy memories prompted me to write an English poll. All these questions are dead serious, now!

[Poll #1096806]

Comments

some extra comments on the poll

[3kitties.livejournal.com]

Sadly, some people didn't choose not to learn braille. Their parents chose it for them. This makes me exceedingly angry.

Also, why on earth did you include a question about satellite radio in this? LOL! My response is some people cannot afford such luxuries.

[minikin.livejournal.com]

We have DirecTV, which includes XM radio stations. I usually enjoy the selection, but there are only three choices for Christmas music, which seems skimpy.

At work, I generally listen to podcasts, podio-books, or internet-fed BBC.

My son tells me that the last comma in the previous sentence is now considered optional. I was taught that it was to be left out. I revel in the freedom of recklessly including it. ;)

[dahlia-and-balu.livejournal.com]

Well, first I want to know who those two (so far) people are who consider their grammar and spelling impeccable? I would like to bow at their feet. I did not go that far but I think I'm pretty literate(I responded "better than most," but I did once tell a magazine editor that if the computer's grammar check disagreed with my copy editing, she should believe me over it).

Second, why am I the only one who is not blind and doesn't care how badly others spell? After all, the more poor spellers there are in the world, the better it makes me look! LOL, just kidding. I threw that in there just to be ornery.

The XM question? I'm an other; I prefer to hear what surrounds me--sounds of rain, traffic, voices, birds, etc.

I will comment that honestly, until I joined the SP list, with so many blind people on it, I had never seen so much phonetic spelling. It surprised me at first, but not so much now.

Anyway, cool poll. I love grammar, spelling, words...

[quirkofonic.livejournal.com]

I listen to my MP3 CDs or regular CDs or watch DVDs and I don't have any satellite radio at all. I've got an HD radio receiver, though. I can get some XM streams though Winamp, but they don't have the full set. Would like to sit down and listen to Sirius. I think I'd only want to get either of these if I had evidence that they play more than just the regular corporate stations play, such as in the classic album rock category or oldies, for example. I swear these corporations think most radio listeners are stupid people who don't care much for the unfamiliar or who are willing to take some chances. Everything has to be safe and predictable for the confusticated advertisers.

[dahlia-and-balu.livejournal.com]

Oops, that comment about the blind versus sighted spelling mistakes was me; I forgot to log in.