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Offline herschel

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on: May 02, 2016, 08:24:31 PM
Although I don't like to think of myself as an education snob, I notice that a lot of the members here are verbally skilled--thespians, lawyers, authors, story tellers, other traits that draw on literary / authorial / like-to-talk skills.

I feel drawn toward the literary arts. I like good literary style. Not exactly a grammar nazi, but I like to see language employed with verve and originality. I enjoy reading a few foreign languages with styles that are close to what I was taught to appreciate by my teachers.

So I will kick off by saying I have a master's degree but not in English, have been a lifelong reader since being gifted with a 20-volume encyclopedia set at age six, took grammar lessons in English when teachers still had an MA degree in English, took five years of Latin, two years of Spanish, self-taught in French, read bi-lingual opera librettos in Italian, French, German, Russian. For all that, I think I am above average in language skills, but probably not in the top ten percent. Maybe around 75-80 percent.

Where would you place yourself?


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Reply #1 on: May 02, 2016, 09:51:02 PM
I place myself in the top 10%, typos and fat fingering in my phone, be damned.

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Reply #2 on: May 02, 2016, 10:17:37 PM
Just goes to show how percerted you are! :D

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Reply #3 on: May 02, 2016, 10:59:45 PM
Pervert!!!!

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Reply #4 on: May 02, 2016, 11:42:56 PM
When I was in high school I had some of the best writing skills in my class yet with modern technology both my spelling (due to spellcheck) and my cursive handwriting (due to typing everything) have become shamefully pathetic.

While you're waiting in vain for that apology, why don't you make yourself useful by getting on your knees and opening your mouth

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Reply #5 on: May 03, 2016, 03:22:11 AM
Quote from: C.E. on May 02, 2016, 10:41:35 PM
Quote from: Katiebee on May 02, 2016, 10:17:37 PM
Just goes to show how percerted you are! :D

Nope, I just got a thing for your fat fingers!

What do you imagine her doing to you with her fat fingers?   ;)


I'm the same way phltc.     I sat down to a meeting a week ago and wrote notes the entire time.   I couldn't read half of what I scribbled down.   My penmanship was so good 20 years ago.   Even my signature is a mess now.    Spelling is still good, but on here I tend not to go back and fix it.
I place my self* in the top 20% in language skills. ;)

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Reply #6 on: May 04, 2016, 02:24:27 AM

I'm not in any literary or thespian field (hey, I'm *straight!  :emot_laughing: ), but I've been a voracious reader since I was a little kid.  It was a choice between books and '60s era TV: not much of a contest, really.  Then the '70s came along.  'Three's Company'? Please, gimme a book.

The depressing thing is the poor command of English in the other 90%.  If I don't know what you're trying to say, then what's the point?  It's particularly bad down here where I'm living.  I gave a ride to an older, retired neighbor over to her mom's house.  My neighbor's English stopped abruptly somewhere around 6th or 7th grade, obviously.  Her MOM on the other hand speaks flawless English without any of the incomprehensible 'ghetto dialect'.

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Reply #7 on: May 04, 2016, 02:26:39 AM
Ask anybody in here......I'm "the resident" spelling disaster.
Even spell check cringes when I start to type long words, Course being a somewhat dyslectic does not help at all.
Oh yeah, I got a degree in Animal Science ( Equine Genetics and Reproduction).
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Reply #8 on: May 04, 2016, 06:28:16 AM
 ;D I have horrid writing skills. As I mentioned in the three things thread, I have 0% formal training in anything.
The attention deficiencies I have can make processing info fairly slow, however once it's there it's burnt in.

I speak a few languages fluently. English, bad English, and American. Though English is my least fluent.
I'm fully capable of most accents and/or colloquialisms induced by the region's of the U.S. and some of Canada.

There are a few other languages I speak just enough of to get my ass kicked but am not even close to fluent in.

I know how to "relate" to people so to say. Everybody says I have a "silver tongue". Even guys.

I do write but not to often and I have a horrible time putting down a who story. I end up writing a paragraph of this and a page of that and most are mid story and not beginnings. So yeah that attention-deficit......OOOHH SHINEY!


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Reply #9 on: May 04, 2016, 06:36:12 AM
SQUIRREL!

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Reply #10 on: May 04, 2016, 06:40:25 AM
Quote from: Katiebee on May 04, 2016, 06:36:12 AM
SQUIRREL!

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Reply #11 on: May 04, 2016, 11:50:08 AM
I give up. SQUIRREL! what?


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Reply #12 on: May 04, 2016, 02:33:00 PM
Quote from: herschel45 on May 04, 2016, 11:50:08 AM
I give up. SQUIRREL! what?

You need to see the movie "UP".  That will explain everything to you.

I am fairly fluent in English (American) and I can get myself in trouble in three other languages.  As far as writing, I could never do cursive.  They tried for several years in school and finally gave up in high school.  My teachers agreed that readable block letters were better than an unintelligible scrawl.  I was forced to take typing, which I flunked as they had not invented spell check yet.  (Not because I don't know how to spell, but fat fingers again!)

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Reply #13 on: May 04, 2016, 02:56:39 PM
Thanks. I'll put it on my queue (#267).


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Reply #14 on: May 04, 2016, 07:58:16 PM
Quote from: Katiebee on May 02, 2016, 10:59:45 PM
Pervert!!!!

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Nah.  C.E. isn't a pervert.  Just kinky.  Wonder what where he would like your fingers? ;D 

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Reply #15 on: May 04, 2016, 08:54:51 PM
Quote from: watcher1 on May 04, 2016, 07:58:16 PM
Quote from: Katiebee on May 02, 2016, 10:59:45 PM
Pervert!!!!

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Nah.  C.E. isn't a pervert.  Just kinky.  Wonder what where he would like your fingers? ;D 
he probably would like a prostate exam.

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