OT Sarah Huckabee Sanders Kicked out of Resturaunt

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/snuck-or-sneaked-which-is-correct

 

Okay, so you have reinforced my question. As stated, there is the existence of both usage. Should this be a norm? Does it only bother me? Should an editor be able to advance the correct usage? Discuss.

 

According to dictionaries either is correct.

 

There you go, the English language is so bastardized, it is a wonder when two people can agree on anything

 

Maybe this will help.

http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/snuck-vs-sneaked

Not trying to be sneaky.

 

Or snarky!

Yeah..I figured you would enjoy that, being a bit of a word smith that you are. You know, I do not write for beans, but I love to read. Catching poor grammar in a book is like someone over salting a favorite dish, just hard to not notice.

 

I never say anything about how someone writes something unless I can't readily figure it out. Sometimes I just let it go figuring it's just gonna be one of those mysteries of life.

I've never had any trouble figuring out what you were saying. I doubt anyone else has, either.

By the way, I got C- through Ds in the latter part of my high school tenure and early college. I took a technical report writing class and it opened my eyes. Just with that class, I was able to improve my job raises quite a bit. I recommend it for everyone because everyone needs to communicate.

My dad nearly flunked H.S. in rural Alabama. That's damned near impossible to do. He spent the rest of his life reading and self educating. His vocabulary appeared to be better than anyone I've ever encountered except for William F. Buckley Jr. whom I admired greatly albeit he was from a different part of the political spectrum. What I said above about words being tools I got from my father, a remarkable man for a bricklayer.

My father's favorite author was Joseph Conrad who wrote Lord Jim, which I loved, and Heart of Darkness, which I couldn't even finish. Conrad was a Polish sea captain who didn't speak any English until he was a young adult.

My father's other favorite author was O'Henry. He really enjoyed Ransom of Red Chief. Hilarious.

He read the Greek scholars and even studied some Michael Faraday. He would come home from work, cook dinner, go for a long walk and read before turning the lights out.

I too, love to read. Use to read a lot. Now, I've got combat related eye problems that make reading very difficult at best. Would dearly love to read War and Peace.

 

It's a choice in literature to use synonyms....if the book says, buddy, pal, friend....it makes for more interesting reading than just using one of them over and over....Mark Twain used a lot of colorful folk terms and spellings in his work...both sneaked and snuck are interchangeable.

 

100% being snarky was not on my mind. Sorry if I came across that way.

 

All languages are like that...the French can't stand Canadian French...China has dozens of dialects....English is filled with European and Latin words...we're a melting pot and our language projects that...it's hard to teach English as a second language because there are so many exceptions to the rules. Most americans use zuh as a connector in speech...where zuh payphone? Rarely hear where is a payphone....Irish writers like James Joyce can take a page to say what many American authors would say in a sentence.

 

Brother, sorry to hear about the eye problems. I do understand to some degree. Spent a couple of years legally blind..had to get corrective surgery, and thank God it did work. Never let your love of books fade, my friend. Use what is available on audio books. At this time, they are a fantastic tool.

 

Ah, man, not at all. Once again, my attempt at levity flounders.

 

Your levity is okay. I'm just sensitive.

 

Audio books. Can I get them at the Lake Oswego public library?

I really like to read technical books but I need to read some of the classicals. I use to read Scientific American for pleasure. Really enjoyed their article in the mid 60s about how bones heal due to a crystalline electricity. I also enjoyed reading an article on nuclear waste disposal right around the same time period. I also use to read all the news magazines, Time, Newsweek and my favorite, US News and World Report. I was also an avid reader of the Oregonian. The Oregonian was a daily newspaper that published 7 times a week.

When I was a kid I delivered the Oregon Journal, the biggest competitor of the Oregonian. I also got to sell it at grocery stores and taverns and bars. I remember going into a tavern trying to sell a copy of the Oregonian during a strike and having a drunk threaten to beat me up for working for the newspaper during a strike. His wife intervened and he left me alone. Kind of shook up a 12 year old boy very small for his age.

Here's a side note. When I was about 6 or 7 I was the smallest boy in my school for my age. The biggest was a bully who used to chase me while swinging a chain. I bumped into him at an Army post in New Jersey. I had grown much much biggger so that I was bigger than him. I had also had a couple years of working for my father as a hod carrier so I was strong as an ox. Geez, he was nice to me. I think I saw a hint of fear that I might want to retaliate but I'm not that type.

Now, I'm disabled but still have that stubbornness such that I don't take no physical shit off anybody. I have to get a handle on that before I get hurt. Getting better but still have a long way to go.

By the way, I was at one time a very very Conservative young man and I still admire the memory of Barry Goldwater. I was very much out of step with my high school, perhaps the most affluent public high school in Oregon who's kids were principally Liberal. You've heard of Hoffman construction or Stoel, Rives attorneys or Meir and Frank or Director's Mortgage. We also had the highest paid executive in Oregon who's daughter had a crush on me in high school.

 

Audio books are prominent at most libraries these days, buddy.

Click on the link below.

Lake Oswego Public Libary

 

Yeah, you can get audio books on line from the public library. Another avenue is to get a Kendal fire or something like it, and you can download anything that is not elsewhere available, at a low cost. The best thing when you order books, you can return them for future credits.

I have to say, the more I know about you, the more respect I have. I would love to have an adult beverage with you.

 

friggen snowflake. Come on, Sally, get with the program.