The Word "Exciting"

Bottesini said:
Wait a minute. I thought you can say "what's up". Is that wrong?
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Only the period on the wrong side of the end quotation mark (for writing on this side of the pond). Otherwise, the colloquialism, "What's up?" is good grammar, because it's a contraction for "What is up?" a perfectly good question.

We have needed this grammar forum for ages. I'm glad it maybe is getting a start.
 
Chase said:
Only the period on the wrong side of the end quotation marke (for writing on this side of the pond). Otherwise, the colloquialism, "What's up?" is good grammar, because it's a contraction for "What is up?" a perfectly good question.

We have needed this grammar forum for ages. I'm glad it maybe is getting a start.
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Can Alex make a grammar subforum?
 
Tousi said:
When I was a newbie here, I made that suggestion and I got shot down by members here so fast it made my head spin! :lol:
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The exact same thing happened to me last November, so good luck getting a forum to discuss spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
 
Tousi said:
When I was a newbie here, I made that suggestion and I got shot down by members here so fast it made my head spin! :lol:
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Why would those members shoot you down for suggesting something like that unless they were insecure about the whole issue?
 
Chase said:
The exact same thing happened to me last November, so good luck getting a forum to discuss spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
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What's the big issue with it? Some people are afraid of having one or what? :roll:
 
shel90 said:
Nope cant say "I am exciting to see you this afternoon" ..it is "I am excited to see you this afternoon."
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Interesting...

I'm like :confused: because excited belongs past tense and exciting belong present which mean is "still", not over... ?

Example: I'm talking to you on the phone, telling you that I am exciting to see you few hours later... It's present tense because it "still", not past tense... ?

I'm talking to you on the phone, telling you that I am excited to see you few hours later... excited which mean is not "still"?

I'm interesting to learn something new... or I'm interested to learn something new...??????? Which correct?

I noticed that English grammar is complicate to correct...
 
Liebling:-))) said:
Interesting...

I'm like :confused: because excited belongs past tense and exciting belong present which mean is "still", not over... ?

Example: I'm talking to you on the phone, telling you that I am exciting to see you few hours later... It's present tense because it "still", not past tense... ?

I'm talking to you on the phone, telling you that I am excited to see you few hours later... excited which mean is not "still"?

I'm interesting to learn something new... or I'm interested to learn something new...??????? Which correct?

I noticed that English grammar is complicate to correct...
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See the bolded...that is the correct way. The one in the red is incorrect.


Ahh..gotta love the English language. Try to imagine teaching it to deaf children with language delays!!! That is why it is SOOOO important for all deaf children to be exposed to ASL from the beginning so they can get a strong first language instead of a weak one and then try to explain something like this to them when they dont have a strong first language.

Now, can people stop blaming Deaf schools and Deaf educators for this problem?
 
Personally I don't see what the big deal is. When English, or any language, is spoken/signed, what is important is that the listener understands what is being communicated.

I have a degree in English and to me, the writen part is what matter's, not the spoken part. Unless you are in a business meeting or a formal setting, speaking how it is most comfortable for the speaker should be honored and not critized, especially sign language. Sorry to offend anyone but I say, who cares? We have bigger things to worry about. :roll:
 
shel90 said:
See the bolded...that is the correct way. The one in the red is incorrect.


Ahh..gotta love the English language. Try to imagine teaching it to deaf children with language delays!!! That is why it is SOOOO important for all deaf children to be exposed to ASL from the beginning so they can get a strong first language instead of a weak one and then try to explain something like this to them when they dont have a strong first language.

Now, can people stop blaming Deaf schools and Deaf educators for this problem?
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Point well made, shel!
 
NEWIDME said:
Personally I don't see what the big deal is. When English, or any language, is spoken/signed, what is important is that the listener understands what is being communicated.

I have a degree in English and to me, the writen part is what matter's, not the spoken part. Unless you are in a business meeting or a formal setting, speaking how it is most comfortable for the speaker should be honored and not critized, especially sign language. Sorry to offend anyone but I say, who cares? We have bigger things to worry about. :roll:
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It is a worry when prospect employers see people making these kinds of errors in their writing and assume that the people are not intelligent therefore not hiring them with these false assumptions. It is a big deal out there if one wants to make it up in the career ladder.

My husband has a job as a policy maker with the Dept of Defense with the Federal Govt. He makes good money and he doesnt have any college degrees. It is because his English is very superior..far far superior than mine. Shows that having good literacy skills can land someone at a high paying job even without having a college degree.

I know that many of my friends, coworkers, and acquaintances are not stupid but hearing people, especially employers will judge them right off the bat when seeing so many grammatical errors.

It can limit people when they have poor literacy skills which is why I want my deaf students have that strong first lagnuage before coming to kindergarten so they can get a head start with literacy skills instead of delaying it while trying to get them caught up with language development.
 
shel90 said:
What's the big issue with it? Some people are afraid of having one or what? :roll:
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I think, for the most part, Shel, your comment in the last paragraph of post #73 answers the above question. There are just too many of us here who are products of a failed system and there appears to be no desire or there are feelings of frustration, embarrassment, etc, especially in a public forum such as this one to tackle this......but I think, if done right like it seems to have been here in this thread, people might cotton to it....
 
Tousi said:
I think, for the most part, Shel, your comment in the last paragraph of post #73 answers the above question. There are just too many of us here who are products of a failed system and there appears to be no desire or there are feelings of frustration, embarrassment, etc, especially in a public forum such as this one to tackle this......but I think, if done right like it seems to have been here in this thread, people might cotton to it....
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Pickin' cotton, yes suh! What you talkin' about us getting an education? We bes an industrializing nations and ain't no education gonna git us, Americans, to the top! Yes, suh, we're gonna work ourselves to the bones in the fact'rys and compete with this'n "Global Economies."

Education breeds an intelligent, representative government. The Status Quo will not and does not approve.
 
also there is another "-ing". i notice some deafies saying like "i am so boring". it should be bored. :dunno:
 
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