"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.

I'm realizing that some dialect falls in my category of "bad grammar."

It's a hard line to draw. My parents were assiduous about my sister and me learning standard English, not allowing patois in the house. Nice idea -- but they both grew up speaking patois and have uberperfect English. And good patois, which is important in national identity. My sister and I have to patch our patois together -- as a result, I very rarely speak it. I'd rather put my French up for dissection than my patois -- what with not being French, it's much less stressful.

Some people recognise patois as a dialect and worthy of preservation. In the early 70s when I was learning English, these people were few and far between -- instead it was just bad grammar in mispronounciations.

I don't know where I draw the line between bad English and dialect of its own, but I hope any kids of mine benefit from my decision, instead of losing.

For all my parents' attempts I did get a "But you wouldn't say 'et' in an interview, surely?" from Kat. Of course I would. My parents say 'et' too. To me it's perfectly proper English. To an English teacher? NSM.

How's the back, Lee?

How's the back, Lee?

Better. The PT/Massage guy and the adjustments seem to help, and I now have the name of a real PT person who is in my network that I need to call.

I'm trying to decide if it would be too self indulgent to get another massage at BW tomorrow when I get my eyebrows done.