Agree. And I'm thrilled you said "I COULDN'T care less!" One less cringe for the day!
I could of used improper grammer, but chose not too.
"Decimate" is the one that bugs me. It's supposed to mean to reduce in number by 10%. People have mistaken it for "devastate" for so long that it's one of the definitions in most dictionaries now.
I should have been more specific. Nice Willys! I have a buddy that found one in a field, had a propane engine in it. He trailered it home and called me to come help him. We got it running in a few hours and drove it up and down his street. It was in rough shape but still turned quite a few heads.
These things bother me. I struggle to use proper English. I mostly guess on a lot of things trying not to sound/read like a moron. I did poorly in school. All I've got is my smarts and decent intuition.
English professor in college, many, many, many years ago told me, to be successful with the written word, write as you speak. Things like punctuation will fall into place naturally, as we don't speak in run on sentences.
Now when you're feelin' low and the fish won't bite You need a little bit o' soul to put you right You gotta make like you want to kneel and pray And then a little bit of soul will come your way...
I once tried to get an Orthodox priest to bless my unit's firearms. He rather huffily refused, stating that it was the Church's business to promote peace, not conflict. Never mind what the Turks did to Constantinople or what the bolshies did to the Church......
Well - and this is just me, speaking only for myself - I never really noticed.
The one that gets me is the little apostrophe, and the horrible things that people do to it all the time. Apostrophes are for contractions and possessives, not for plurals! (except things like numbers and letters)
In our house, it's the dog who does that. Sometimes, too, she will awaken from an apparent deep sleep, bark in a deep voice, and go back to sleep..
