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[quote author=ferrari link=topic=13009.msg132109#msg132109 date=1443818174]
[quote author=CornFed link=topic=13009.msg132105#msg132105 date=1443816324]
I'm a little surprised by the hostility toward the grammarians around here.  I suspect it is related to repressed unrealized sexual fantasies about your second grade English teachers.  It's just a theory.  But like any good theory, it explains a lot of phenomena.

That's the most ridiculous theory ever proposed, CornFed, and you know it.  Everyone knows it was the THIRD grade teacher.  Geesh!
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My theory has a corollary, I guess. My grade school teachers were all hideous looking (but most were angels in their hearts), so hardly fodder for prepubescent fantasies. Presumably the lack of distraction left me slightly less impaired to learn the lessons.

That, and I had an English teacher for a mom.  I'm surprised that I didn't become one of the grammar "haters".  I got more correction than a sane person can withstand.  (That probably explains a lot)
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My mom was a high school drop out (as in, never start d) from Kentucky.  She reviewed everything I ever brought home.  She didn't know what was wrong but if their was a red mark on my homework or test she made sure I heard about it!  One thing I can tell you for sure:  no one ever misunderstood her meaning.  Do y'all know what I mean?

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[quote author=ferrari link=topic=13009.msg132109#msg132109 date=1443818174]
[quote author=CornFed link=topic=13009.msg132105#msg132105 date=1443816324]
I'm a little surprised by the hostility toward the grammarians around here.  I suspect it is related to repressed unrealized sexual fantasies about your second grade English teachers.  It's just a theory.  But like any good theory, it explains a lot of phenomena.

That's the most ridiculous theory ever proposed, CornFed, and you know it.  Everyone knows it was the THIRD grade teacher.  Geesh!
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My theory has a corollary, I guess. My grade school teachers were all hideous looking (but most were angels in their hearts), so hardly fodder for prepubescent fantasies. Presumably the lack of distraction left me slightly less impaired to learn the lessons.

That, and I had an English teacher for a mom.  I'm surprised that I didn't become one of the grammar "haters".  I got more correction than a sane person can withstand.  (That probably explains a lot)
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My mom was a high school drop out (as in, never start d) from Kentucky.  She reviewed everything I ever brought home.  She didn't know what was wrong but if their was a red mark on my homework or test she made sure I heard about it!  One thing I can tell you for sure:  no one ever misunderstood her meaning.  Do y'all know what I mean?

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I was taught to double-space after every period early on in a "typing class" using hideously old (even in the day) manual type writers.  To this day that double bounce on the space bar is hard-wired into me and, yes, I'm slightly annoyed when HTML edits me to one space.  #@$%^& proto-fascist software engineers.

Oh me, too.  I never notice nor care if there's one space or two or three, and long as there's not no space.  I became a damn good typist that summer, but mainly remember the teacher having us type pictures every Friday.  What that was supposed to teach us was and remains beyond my comprehension.

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I was taught to double-space after every period early on in a "typing class" using hideously old (even in the day) manual type writers.  To this day that double bounce on the space bar is hard-wired into me and, yes, I'm slightly annoyed when HTML edits me to one space.  #@$%^& proto-fascist software engineers.

Oh me, too.  I never notice nor care if there's one space or two or three, and long as there's not no space.  I became a damn good typist that summer, but mainly remember the teacher having us type pictures every Friday.  What that was supposed to teach us was and remains beyond my comprehension.

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[quote author=washingtonismoney link=topic=13009.msg132083#msg132083 date=1443813484]
"Resort" seems like such a strange verb, and definitely out of step with the times. I would guess...60, 70% of under-30s these days have used the internet to find dates? There's really no stigma these days.

I have a good friend, and a brother, who each met their now wives on Internet dating sites..  Just saying.
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One of my cousins met and married an extremely wealthy man online.  She's really sweet & kind...he didn't reveal his financial position until date #3.  She liked him regardless of his $$$, apparently.  Go figure... :-*

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[quote author=washingtonismoney link=topic=13009.msg132083#msg132083 date=1443813484]
"Resort" seems like such a strange verb, and definitely out of step with the times. I would guess...60, 70% of under-30s these days have used the internet to find dates? There's really no stigma these days.

I have a good friend, and a brother, who each met their now wives on Internet dating sites..  Just saying.
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One of my cousins met and married an extremely wealthy man online.  She's really sweet & kind...he didn't reveal his financial position until date #3.  She liked him regardless of his $$$, apparently.  Go figure... :-*

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[quote author=ferrari link=topic=13009.msg132098#msg132098 date=1443815462]
[quote author=washingtonismoney link=topic=13009.msg132083#msg132083 date=1443813484]
"Resort" seems like such a strange verb, and definitely out of step with the times. I would guess...60, 70% of under-30s these days have used the internet to find dates? There's really no stigma these days.

I have a good friend, and a brother, who each met their now wives on Internet dating sites..  Just saying.
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One of my cousins met and married an extremely wealthy man online.  She's really sweet & kind...he didn't reveal his financial position until date #3.  She liked him regardless of his $$$, apparently.  Go figure... :-*
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That reminded me.  There is a peripheral family member who most men would not consider dating (weight issues) who who used an Internet dating site.  She met and married a man with similar issues.  He is a very wealthy radiologist.  They have two children and have been married now for ten years.

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[quote author=ferrari link=topic=13009.msg132098#msg132098 date=1443815462]
[quote author=washingtonismoney link=topic=13009.msg132083#msg132083 date=1443813484]
"Resort" seems like such a strange verb, and definitely out of step with the times. I would guess...60, 70% of under-30s these days have used the internet to find dates? There's really no stigma these days.

I have a good friend, and a brother, who each met their now wives on Internet dating sites..  Just saying.
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One of my cousins met and married an extremely wealthy man online.  She's really sweet & kind...he didn't reveal his financial position until date #3.  She liked him regardless of his $$$, apparently.  Go figure... :-*
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That reminded me.  There is a peripheral family member who most men would not consider dating (weight issues) who who used an Internet dating site.  She met and married a man with similar issues.  He is a very wealthy radiologist.  They have two children and have been married now for ten years.