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BelleCarolinaPeridot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 06:38 PM
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Another rant : People who spell " that " like " dat " need to be slapped .
I don't know but I am just noticing everything that pisses me off today . But people who spell " that " like " dat " need to be slapped . The word " that " is already short enough as a word but people feel the need to make it even smaller and write out " dat " - GRRRRRRRRRRRR WTF happened to grammar .

Ok I hope tomorrow is better because everything is getting on my nerves today . I shall return later with more rants ...
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 07:34 PM
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1. Trudat.
Edited on Tue Mar-21-06 07:34 PM by primate1
:evilgrin: :P
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BelleCarolinaPeridot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 07:36 PM
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2. You suck .
;) :P
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 07:38 PM
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3. Whassup widdat?
:shrug:

There is NO ROOM FOR PLAYFULNESS in the English language! Those bastards!
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 07:38 PM
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4. Sock it to me and make dat feel good!
:rofl:
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file83 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 07:42 PM
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5. Let me "axsk" you a question....
:silly:
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 07:45 PM
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6. Do they do it as a matter of course, or as a way of conveying a certain
dialect occasionally?
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BelleCarolinaPeridot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 07:49 PM
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8. When you see it written 10 times on paper ...
its gets on my nerves .

My aunt is a teacher and one of her students actually wrote " dat " instead of " that " - this 11th grade , and I just wonder how this student got this far .
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 07:56 PM
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9. That would bug me.
Unless someone was trying to convey dialect - for example, an Ole and Lena joke - I don't know why anyone would do that.

Of course, I spell out words like "you" and "are" instead of saying "u" and "r", so what do I know?
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 07:47 PM
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7. if writing in dialect and I know it is supposed to be dialect on
the part of the author, I do not get bothered by it.

But if it isn't supposed to be dialect, it fries me too.


Hearing it gets on my nerves much more.
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 07:57 PM
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10. Oh My!


:loveya:
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BelleCarolinaPeridot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 08:22 PM
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11. Don't mind me Joan LOL - I was on a bit of mood today .
But its gone now . :hi:
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 08:36 PM
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12. Whassup, dawg?
I'm sure I did that wrong. I'm also sure it was so 1994.

What's even more odd is when people go to great lengths to substitute words that are longer than the originals.

For example:

"The beeyotch shouted shiznit..."

for "Dr Rice said, in a prepared statement...."

Fun is fun, but chronic users of "dat" and all the rest of it get a little tiresome after about -- oh -- 20 seconds of their poseur shiznit, yo.




Represent.
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LeftofU Donating Member (421 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 09:16 PM
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13. Why dat?
And "Who Dat?"
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