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Sometimes you just got to force it down. Sorry about the ticket.
Why are officers always mean grumy bitches? If ticketing grammar nazis were the law then everyone who actually pays attention in school will get a ticket because they know English.
You know, what most people don't realize is you don't actually speak in standard English (the thing all the grammar nazis die over) you tend to speak with an accent, and much less formal as well. Standard English is only expected when writing a paper, and while it is nice for a commenter to use it, it is in no way required.
110- ah you were smart enough to realize the sarcasm :)
Do you know what I say to Grammar Nazis? There, Their, They're
No the officer was wrong. "Could care less" doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It means you care at least the smallest amount of caring but we don't know how much that is do we? It makes sense if the officer said he couldn't care less about his OP's excuses because he saw him break the law so it doesn't matter what they are. Also the OP doesn't even know if he actually was not going to get the ticket "He was probably about to let me go".
But it doesn't make sense! You can't remove a word and expect it to have the same meaning! I could NOT care less. I could care less. See how the word "not" makes a difference. There is a difference between colloquialisms and using incorrect English. Also you are confusing accent with dialect.
Usually people get pissed off when you correct them, there have already been several FML's regarding something bad happening when people correct other peoples.
Well, you know, obviously OP says that. Just a wild guess, though
62- You're a real badass...
Me too, 2. There are some places where you just don't do that, op. YDI.
Orange county bound???
62- You may want to enclose song lyrics in quotation marks and name the song after the quote. If you really want to impress, put slashes after each line. Then there's no room for misinterpretation. If it makes you feel any better, I got the reference. :)
62 - and they're like shit so are we why don't you roll with me, we're gonna go 'round pulling over some minorities.
OP, there is something called a mouth filter. It will help you a lot the next time you want to piss off a cop.
Do they sell those at Walmart?
OP should be able to gold back his correcting. If not OP lacks self control.
113 - what? No one said anything about filtering the cop. I meant next time OP wants to be a smart ass he should really just shut up.
Wow, ok I'm sorry, but you're a idiot. YDI.
Agreed, I think this is a perfect example of when the you deserved it button should be clicked.
22- you know it would be more helpful if you explained why. An is used before words starting with a vowel, some words starting with M also receive an in front of them, but only if when they are pronounced they make an e sound before them; basically look for words that sound like they start with a vowel. Also understand that English is always changing, and that in 30 years we may pronounce M differently and it may no longer receive the article an in front of it.
94- wtf you been smoking?
You are the reason why my username is what it is!! Maybe the officer was being unusually polite ;)
Foot, meet mouth.
87- Thumbed you down because you're a moron.
I know you realize that you should have just shut up, so, I'm not even going to say it. FYL, YDI.
But you did say it..
Oh the irony!
I don't get why people say it like that. If you "could care less" then you could care less. That doesn't tell us anything about how much you care. It is kinda annoying.
No, you always be a brown nosing sweet talker if it's gonna save you a ticket. Duh.
Well when you say "couldn't care less" it means you care so little that you cannot care any less. "Could care less" means you can care less than you actually are.
75- Right… What did 8 say?
I don't get why people overanalyze stuff like that and give so much of a ****? Everyone KNOWS what they mean, even if they say it incorrectly
Not everyone is going to have perfect grammar all the time, people need to learn this.
Comma splice! You should've used a semicolon; you need to learn that.
I did that on purpose to prove a point that not everyone is going to have perfect grammar.
Agree with 9
I call BS.
No you didn't, 15. Don't try to pull that off
Well they ******* should.
No, they need to learn proper grammar.
Keywords
Ugh. I'd give you a ticket too.
Sometimes you just got to force it down. Sorry about the ticket.