How much leeway do you give dialect?

Narrator, I don't think it's a filtered entry, because I can see it. Try again: [link]

It's telling me I'm not logged in. I think you have to be a livejournal person to see that. I'm not.

If it still doesn't work, the tat reads: You bleed just to know your (sic) alive.

Ah. Although, maybe she just has one of those alives that only appears when it smells blood. Or something.

"Due to the large amount of dumb fucks wondering around these days..."

Wondering?

Being a dumb f**K means never having to be sure about..."stuff." ?

How much leeway do you give dialect?

A fair amount. (Though as I type this, I'm realizing that some dialect falls in my category of "bad grammar.")

I'm aware that I'm too biased about this, because I was raised in a household where my Mom would point out my Dad's bad grammar (of which there is a lot), and so I was always conscious of how I spoke.

I therefore tend to think that, what with school and TV/movies and interacting with other people, proper spoken grammar should not be that difficult to absorb. (And I'm referring mostly to things like "I been to the store, and I seen my grandpa there." Misuses like that. Also that "brung" and "irregardless" are not words, damn it.)

It's been pointed out to me by people with less narrow minds than mine that kids pick up their spoken grammar more from their living environment than from anything else, including school and the flickering blue parent. (I think I ascribe too much influence to TV.) And so if kids hear "I seen it" from their parents, they're going to pick it up, school be damned.

Which bugs, big time.

Hello, all. Did you know that the Lou in Lou Gehrig is short for Ludwig?

Also, did you know that Lou is a freakish doppelganger for the English actor Jeremy Northam? Much moreso than Gary Cooper, who played him in the movies.

Sadly, I don't think you can expect an English actor to hit .340 in a game he has probably never played in his life. Then again, Gary Cooper sucked at baseball too (and couldn't learn to play left-handed).

Actually what is really sad is that at 43, Northam has already outlived Gehrig by 6 years.

Announcement: After a session with the massage therapist and Cutie Chiropractor this morning, I went toAnn Taylor Loft, Loehmans, and the Grove.

Analysis: People are stupid, and I still don't have a shell I can wear under a business uit.

Did you know that the Lou in Lou Gehrig is short for Ludwig?

Your link says it's Henry Louis.

He was born Heinrich Ludwig. It was a German Immigrants Want to Sound Less Like German Immigrants thing. (His parents were the immigrants, I mean.)

I just had dinner. Alaskan king crab, key lime pie and a martini made with raspberry vodka and Godiva's white chocolate liquer. I have a nice buzz....

He was born Heinrich Ludwig. It was a German Immigrants Want to Sound Less Like German Immigrants thing. (His parents were the immigrants, I mean.)

Ah. I'm pretty sure my great-grandfather was Heinrich when he got here, but Henry thereafter.