Comments on: It’s Poring, not Pouring. http://jerrysummers.com/2009/03/15/its-poring-not-pouring/ Life Messages and Musings Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:43:06 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jerry http://jerrysummers.com/2009/03/15/its-poring-not-pouring/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Jerry Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:34:39 +0000 http://jerrysummers.com/?p=85#comment-142 Whoops! Too late . . . but I did think Idiocracy was an outrageous satire, easy to discount, frightening in its basic premise that our society is hopelessly clueless, and so the film is "over the top." Whoops! Too late . . . but I did think Idiocracy was an outrageous satire, easy to discount, frightening in its basic premise that our society is hopelessly clueless, and so the film is “over the top.”

]]> By: a_new_reader http://jerrysummers.com/2009/03/15/its-poring-not-pouring/comment-page-1/#comment-140 a_new_reader Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:19:06 +0000 http://jerrysummers.com/?p=85#comment-140 Yes, I have noticed this downturn in our language as well, even in some "formal" essays that people are writing for classes at ETBU (not throwing out any names), and it really is quite saddening. The words your and you're are especially frustrating to me because people seem to think that they are interchangeable, when in fact they are not (shocking, I know). I remember seeing a movie called "Idiocracy" that was a commentary of sorts on what could be called the dumbing down of the American society or mankind in general. Don't see it, it is a mediocrity in and of itself although it does have an interesting idea behind it. Yes, I have noticed this downturn in our language as well, even in some “formal” essays that people are writing for classes at ETBU (not throwing out any names), and it really is quite saddening. The words your and you’re are especially frustrating to me because people seem to think that they are interchangeable, when in fact they are not (shocking, I know).

I remember seeing a movie called “Idiocracy” that was a commentary of sorts on what could be called the dumbing down of the American society or mankind in general. Don’t see it, it is a mediocrity in and of itself although it does have an interesting idea behind it.

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