Don't be so judgmental Lynn. Just because the writer made a few minor grammatical errors and should have written: "That there piece of road done went and felled in a hole cause we seed it and that truck it done come near to going in that big(bleep) hole". See that's all it took, a little word smithing so the typical reader can understand better. Isn't it wonderful how the public today uses English grammar? One subject just isn't enough these days. If one subject is good, two are better. I hear it daily on almost every tv news related show and other entertainment programing..."John, he came...", "The men they went"... I lost count the number of times my high school English teacher must have turned in her grave....You know what I'm saying dude? I will conversate with you later."Conversate" is a new English word because I heard it on the "Maury" show...you know what I mean?
I know, how well I know. But it doesn't mean I can't ridicule these 'people' (thanks to General Robert E. Lee for that usage of people), for their lack of knowledge and ability to write. Do they even have an editor?
Do they even research a story? WAVY TV has told me on more than one occasion that York County Virginia has a police department. I have yet to meet one of them. Lots of Sheriff's deputies, but no (or is that 'know') police officers.
I just enjoy ridiculing the press, who is supposed (?) to know better, when they mess up (which really could be a full time job with overtime).
I just said this in my last post (some guy writing [sic or is that sick] in text message format. English is an evolving language. We're adding new words all the time. When I was in school (and this was in the DEEP SOUTH), the word "ain't" was widely used, but not taught as proper English. Only a very few of my fellow students could not write a complete sentence with minor spelling or grammatical errors. Today, many don't even know what a sentence is.
I write for a living, so it is extremely frustrating to see the way the English language has demised.
From one of my previous posts again. If I had a choice between reading modern text message English or the 'old English' of Chaucer, I'd take Chaucer any day.