Cats are good as ornaments and destroying ecological systems, I mean protecting the stored grain of civilization that enable us to be obese. and Asthma. they also scream and pout.
Thank you, blackfoot, for drawing the sum of my existence with such a precise yet allegorical pen.
blackfoot, my bf flunked out of college due to drugs and alcohol, but his spelling and grammar are excellent. His mom taught school for 30 years (before she and her then-boyfriend bought the bar).
Good spelling is a sign of attention to detail-- doesn't have a lot to do with formal education or even i.q. It's a sign of caring about the correctness and precision of small things even when the consequences of messing up are trivial and most people either won't notice or won't even know that you messed up.
For instance, saying "your" all the time when you mean "you're" is just plain laziness and carelessness. The kind of person who does that and doesn't care I would expect to expose a butt crack, not brush his teeth, and fail to notice the red wine stain down the front of his white nylon turtleneck. That kind of person probably cheats at solitaire. The pictures in his house hang crooked on the wall. He walks on the cuffs of his jeans til they're frayed.
Can you picture James Bond writing "your" when he means "you're"? He would never be that careless.
Well, some people speak well and spell with mistakes being made frequently.
Lil, I don't think all of those poor personal traits can be linked to poor spelling and poor grammar or writing skills.
I do think post like Mojo mentioned are uncalled for because of today’s technology. Word processors, spell and grammar checkers are easy to come by and easy to use.
I'm a cat too, somewhat, and am married to a hardcore cat. Maybe that's why I find MJ's bunkey taste in men inexplicable.
Cats are excellent case studies in differentiation. They are warm and fuzzy and playful and purrful, but entirely on their own terms. Their personal agenda is always crystal clear, and you learn to enjoy them on their schedule. Once you accept that this is the nature of cats, you become philosophical about this and appreciate the quality lap time you do get.
I jest, but actually there is some truth in that.
I think people like Lou's BB should be banned from dogs and switched over to cats. It would be very educational. Dogs are entirely too easy and can cause unreasonable expectations to develop in their owners ..... grin.
Lil, I almost feel off the couch laughing: "He writes like he has a combover." He does.
"Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock." -- Frank Herbert
I think people like Lou's BB should be banned from dogs and switched over to cats.
BB had 6 cats at one time. She still has 3. The dogs chase the cats too much so the cats hang out in the basement by day and at night we put up a baby gate to keep the dogs in the bedroom end of the house.
At one time there were two parrots, a macaw, 4 dogs, and the 6 cats. Yes, 13 animals in all.
Animals in reasonable numbers is my preference, but when BB had the 13 animals, I needed a vacation from the animals.
I still could do w/o them for a while. Our together trips are limited to 4 hours due to having to get back home to do animal care and toileting.
Two women (both men haters) a couple of blocks away have 12 dogs and 140 cats. They operate a cat rescue shelter but don’t take new cats or do the adopt out many cats.
I repair their printer, that is how I know what goes on in their house, garage, and cat shed. All of the rooms stink.
Cats are excellent case studies in differentiation. The cat ladies tell me calico cats have the most mental/behavioral problems. They are more likely to pee on the TV and VCR. The ladies used to play movies on a VCR for the cats but TV's and VCR's don't stand up to urine.
The cats only have (used, from the donation store) boombox music now.
(Karen) I love it when a man takes charge...............
We must never meet.
Sadly, however, my sense of justice requires me explain that what I said came from the residue of the Nice Guy caretaker that remains within. I was only trying to save you from a fate far worse than death, even the most forlorn, ignoble death imaginable. Cheering for anything related to those blue and red, yellow-bellied I mean -beaked mythical birds...to even contemplate as much blights the soul.
It would be like being tied to a chair in a dim, gray room filled with Harry Potter's dementors on the day your dog died.
Worse, really, but you're starting to get the idea.
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Good spelling is a sign of attention to detail-- doesn't have a lot to do with formal education or even i.q. It's a sign of caring about the correctness and precision of small things even when the consequences of messing up are trivial and most people either won't notice or won't even know that you messed up.
For instance, saying "your" all the time when you mean "you're" is just plain laziness and carelessness.
I understand what you mean and my precision-bordering-on-OCDness must be on constant guard not to overemphasize spelling and grammar. It helps to remember language is a living organism, with rules that are often arbitrary and change over time, and sometimes for bizarre reasons.
If you speak and read more than one language it's tempting to cling to rules as to a liferaft, but again, it's a losing battle. The rules will change on you, especially the pretty, complicated ones that only you know. And then someone will publish a new dictionary saying that the rules have been changed because, after all, they are continually broken in "common speech". Been there, done that, totally have the tee.
Fitzgerald's spelling was supposedly atrocious. He had an editor.
It helps to remember language is a living organism, with rules that are often arbitrary and change over time, and sometimes for bizarre reasons.
One of my minor life goals is to make up a word and have it enter the vocabulary. If Beyonce can do it, why can't I? Come to think of it, that should probably be my motto for 2008.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
It helps to remember language is a living organism, with rules that are often arbitrary and change over time, and sometimes for bizarre reasons.
One of my minor life goals is to make up a word and have it enter the vocabulary. If Beyonce can do it, why can't I? Come to think of it, that should probably be my motto for 2008.
LOL - Beyonce invented a word? That's what I get for not keeping up with pop culture.
and pout. 