I shall say this more than once

Here's the simpson version and disney version of a song.
Half-assed Job
Shary bobbins :if theres a task that must be done
dont turn your tail and rundont pout ! dont sob!
just do a half assed job!
if you cut every corner then its really not so bad
everybody does iteven mom and dad
if nobody sees it then nobody gets mad
bart : its the american way
shary bobbins : the policeman on the beat, needs some time 2 rest his feet
chief wiggum : fighting crime is not my cup of tea
shary bobbins :and the clerk who runs the store
can charge a little more.........for meat
apu (echoes) for meat
shary bobbins : and milk
apu (echoes) and milk
shary bobbins and apu : from 1984
SHARY BOBBINS: If you cut every corner, you'll have more time for play!
shary bobbins and the simpsons : its the american way

Spoonful of Sugar from Mary Poppins:
[Spoken]
In ev'ry job that must be done
There is an element of fun
You find the fun and snap!
The job's a game

[Sung]
And ev'ry task you undertake
Becomes a piece of cake
A lark! A spree! It's very clear to see that

A Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go down-wown
The medicine go down
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way

A robin feathering his nest
Has very little time to rest
While gathering his bits of twine and twig
Though quite intent in his pursuit
He has a merry tune to toot
He knows a song will move the job along - for

A Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go down-wown
The medicine go down
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way

[Interlude]

The honey bee that fetch the nectar
From the flowers to the comb
Never tire of ever buzzing to and fro
Because they take a little nip
From ev'ry flower that they sip
And hence (And hence),
They find (They find)
Their task is not a grind.

Ah-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h ah!

A Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go down-wown
The medicine go down
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way

 

I really hope that the Julie Andrews voice of Shary Bobbins pronounced clerk properly!

On the other hand, we don't actually use clerk to mean shop keeper, a clerk works in an office.

 

Well they americanized her british if you can understand what I am saying.

 

oh dear. what? I can't just post "oh dear" ? dear oh dear oh dear!

 

I'm not saying it's not wrong, I'm saying that maybe the best option isn't to point out every single mistake all the time, like you recommended. It annoys me when people are too lazy to use language correctly, but I was backing up Mercy's point that not everyone can help the fact that they don't communicate as well as others might.

 

Excuse me, but I was not talking about myself there. Not being funny, but good luck finding mistakes in my posts. I don't need this free "education" you talk about, thank you very much, I think I can manage perfectly well without.

 

And by the way...I think you mean 'should they talk properly'.

 

yes, I was being ironic there. you will notice that Americans have a bad habit of using adjectives as adverbs, real, good, fast, quick, etc. And of course in England we have the good old song "if you can't talk proper shut your mouth" which is sung at football matches to any fans with a different accent from yours.

 

How is it a bad habit if that is the way we use words in American English?
We also punctuate differently.
But don't worry, by the time I come to the U.K. I hope to be able to speak what you call proper English.

 

well, standard american, accents, spellings, and stuff, that's just the dialect. However grammatical errors that have become common just because no-one's bothered to sit up and take notice are bad habits.

 

Well you do get counted off points in papers for bad grammar.

 

That makes about as much sense to me as the old testament in the original hebrew.


No-one buys papers if they've got grammatical errors all over them.

Counted off points? What does that mean anyway?

 

In English class, you write book reports and any grammatical errors, such as run-on sentences, are counted off. For example a paper has 100 possible points. If a run-on sentence is -2 and the paper has 5 of them, your grade would be 90.

 

oh so you were just trying to say you lose marks for poor spelling, punctuation and grammar. Why didn't you just say so?

Counting off seems an illogical phrase to me. You can't count on or off, you count up and down, unless you're talking about counting on your fingers. We say you get 'marked down'

90 percent? Doesn't that imply an otherwise perfect piece of work? In my experience it's impossible to get more than about 70% for an essay, they'll always find something wrong with it. They have to, because they can't give high marks out in case someone writes a better essay.

 

Despite the gramatical incorrectness of many of my posts, I always get A's in my English classes.

 

well you've just lost about 10% from me in your first three words in that post.

 

I didn't know I was being graded.

 

Yep, so watch it

Ignorance is no excuse - you should be taking pride in your spelling and grammar whether you get marks for it or not, anyway!

Just a quick reminder by the way


DEFINITELY

 

Definately

 

That's not irony, that's just being a prat.