Gas prices reach all-time highFollow

I have a relatively small tank (14.5 gallons), and it cost me almost $40 to fill up yesterday. Not that I drive a lot, but dammit, I couldn've used that extra money that I spent on more important things, like beer.

Oh, right... literacy plays no role in language.The funny thing is that, for me to format my thoughts as poorly as you do, would easily take me 5x longer than it does to format them properly. I have to slow down, intentionally misspell words, misplace punctuation, etc. It's a considerable extra effort to do it as opposed to doing it correctly. Even foreign language speakers learn the basic rules of grammar and punctuation in their English 101 classes. So when I see someone who obviously has such a poor ability to convey thought and concepts, I can only assume that they are suffering from some mental dysfunction or else never received a formal education. These are not people I take seriously. No matter how much they huff and claim that their inability to speak without gibbering "doesn't matter".

Edited, May 24th 2007 12:15pm by Jophiel

Oh, and in regards to comparisons to Shakespeare or ee cummings or whomever, the difference is that, when reading the words of such people, one is left with the impression that they are (mis)using the English language intentionally to suit a creative purpose. One is not left thinking that Shakespeare must have suffered a stroke after his 15th paint-chip smoothie.

Paint-chip Smoothie?

Man, you guys party like rock stars in Chicago.

When should I expect my Save The Day card?

Well, perhaps the future ones will be wiser.

Nexa

Or take forever to kill you in your sleep. You're no Tiny Tim.

It also bears pointing out, because being painfully obvious is just not enough for some of us, that language usage does indeed evolve and change over hundreds of years. This is not the same as averring that one can abuse the usage at whim in the name of hurrying that process along.
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one word.

eubonics.

evolve sugests something is becoming better, or reaching a higher plain. changing is a better word. and if you dont think its changing dailey, for better or worse, just try and read your daughters text messages to her bff. rofl. rofl is another good example.

with language, there are no rules. only patterns. you people who are stuck insisting something is wrong concerning a language just dont understand the concept of language itself. if there actually were "rules" to language that we should all aspire to follow, then we would all still be speaking and writing in latin, wouldnt we?

but go ahead and point out the breaches of golden language rules if you like. it certainly makes ONE of us look ignorant about something.

BTW(another good point), back to the op.

90 bucks to fill up my wifes suv today. will have to do it again next week too. 40 bucks for my car.

i dont think i would put my familey in my car, or anything smaller than the suv she is driving now reguardless of the cost, but i sure would jump on an electric car for myself if someone makes one.

gasoline doesnt even cover half the dilema. produce will go up, electricity will go up, public transportation will go up, hell, even your lawn service will go up.

welcome to capitolism.

We filled up yesterday and gas at Costco was 3.26/g for the regular. Down the street it was 3.31 for regular, 3.50 for premium.

"Paint chip smoothie" Jophiel made a honest-to-goodness fun-nay!

/keels over and dies from electrocution via shorting out his motherboard from a coffee spew

Totem

Don't gas prices reach an all-time high about every three months these days?



The only relevance I can find in that argument is the way in which the different liquids are made. For pop, you take water, throw in some sugar, and a few other things, and dish it out for way more than a gallon of gas, whereas when making gas, you have to first of all, dig into the earth, then pump it out, then ship it, refine it, and ship it again, and people won't pay as much for it as they will for some sugary, dyed, carbonated water?

That's all I got.

Edited, May 27th 2007 5:19pm by Codyy

Oh, it's definitely important. 70-80 bucks is what I pay for a tank of gas, and that coming out of what I already don't have is an issue... But I was just saying, it's happening a lot, and I won't be surprised if we top ourselves again shortly.