JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for March 11, 2024

Poor Jojo!

That boy has no choice. He’ll either see the grandma police or the grammar police.

So are we going to see some more of her “hilarious” dangerous reckless driving that might kill her or someone else someday, as she goes over to scold her grandchild about using too many exclamation points?

She would be correct in “essay English”, but JoJo is correct in “SMS English”.Too many folks think that there is only one English language, but there are dozens. What is “correct” in the English used in conversation with those older than yourself is not necessarily ideal for an attempt at communication with those younger than oneself. It is, indeed, all about effective communication. Pedantics are out of place more often than not.

I’m with Dot on the “bad” part, not so much the exclamation points..

No! Don’t get on the road! For the love of God, stay off the roads!

My mom is like that: She feels cheated if she can’t find a correction to make. Like, she gets mad when the job is done right, because now she’ll have to find something ELSE to complain about. Born to notice what’s wrong, and to point it out. Not an especially endearing quality, but like Dot, mom sees herself as being ‘helpful’.

Great going, Frank…you just had to plant that seed of driving in her mind!

What are you? The grammar police?

Or just let him be

Perfect grammar and punctuation in a text is actually a bad thing, it can suggest anger or being impersonal

Lived 53 years with a psych major with an English minor. Loved putting poor grammar and explaining crazy behavior to her.

OBITUARY IN PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER—-Friday March 8th

Dorothy F.Cousins—age 93—retired Captain,StaffInspector,and District Commander in Philadelphia Police Department. Joined force in 1955.

1972 to 1983 achieved top positions.Until 1990,chief of Security for Philadelphia HousinG Authority.Once supervised 93 detectives.

Without saying,she was regarded as a pioneer of sorts

Doesn’t Bad means Good now. Wait, what day is it?

just like MSN, I miss type a word or not perfect with the grammar, and some schoolteacher calls me out on it, the joke is on them I am too old to care

I agree!!!

(I just don’t always comply.)

She won’t hear from her grandkids if she keeps correcting them.

I thought Joe’s parents lived next door to the Cobb family. We’ve seen Marcy and Joe walk over there for a few minutes in the past.

If my grandmother (or anyone else but my teacher) took it upon themselves to correct everything I said, they would soon find out that I have nothing more to say to them.

Back at my former newspaper, one of the teachers from my high school began working there for the paper’s magazine. After a while, she decided to go back to teaching because of how popular texting became. She felt she had to remind students how to write properly again.

You can take an English teacher out of the school, but you can’t take the school out of the English teacher.

Someone stop that grandma!

But “I feel bad they played so badly” is correct per niu.EDU/writingtutorial/grammar/adjective-or-adverb.SHTML

Enough DOT. Be thankful your grandson communicates with you. Lessons can be taught later. Just reply with correct punctuation and he will catch on. Be glad he’s happy and sharing his life with you. Too many grandparents are not able to rejoice in this.