Weary gobblers join the nucular calvary, irregardless of their fun pursuit of fetching hens.

And remember. English is the lingua franca of the world. ;)

I thought that was Esperanto...

Throw in Text-ese and the crumbling continues. In the case of "Text Language" phonetics are thrown out the window! Languages do morph. If one travels abroad the difference in the "English" language is tremendous. On a trip to England recently a friend told his wife to get her "Fanny" out of the street before she was run over. Looks of surprise and giggles prevailed. When one English gent strolled over and explained that "Fanny" referred to a different part of the female anatomy than the one he was addressing all was understood...

I assumed from the headline all the "Weary" talk was about the stresses winter has on the animals.

Turns out it's about the stresses winter has on writers. lol

...and make sure your rig is properly ensured. LOL

Either weary or just plain stupid will work for me, I get enough of wary animals..Interestingly enough, I got an A in college Eng. Composition, to this day I have not a clue as to how that happened.

I was wondering what "Weary" animals would be about - exhausted, I suspected. I wonder how often the opposite happens - "wary" for "weary." Easy to drop a letter and have the spellchecker miss it.

When WordPerfect first came out and secretaries were still typing all my letters, I returned a letter 3 times because a new secretary just ran spellcheck rather than reading the letter. She asked me, "Do you want it perfect?" Considering it was going to a customer and had my signature on it, my response was, "Yes, I do." She stormed off. One error I still remember - she had typed "doe model" instead of "die model".

I miss Fran. She typed letters on a real typewriter. You turned the draft over to her correct because she wouldn't retype it. She did it right the first time, every time. In 2 years I remember one mistake - she was so apologetic. She was also a successful turkey hunter, back when you were lucky to even see a turkey in Michigan.

One of the ways I amuse myself is by counting grammatical and pronunciation errors on radio news programs. They are many, and horrific.

For example, when the half-bright news reader on CBS radio referred to someone's "cartoid" artery the other day, people with a high school education (I mean a high school education dating back to the 1950s, when you might actually learn some English in high school) knew that she meant "carotid." Everyone else probably assumed there was such a thing as a "cartoid" artery. Or they were listening to Sean Hannity instead. Sean repeats everything four times and plays well with the educationally challenged. But I digress.

You can play fast and loose with spelling, grammar, and all that stuff, but people will think you're half-bright and in some cases they won't know what the hell you're talking about.

1 time i went to shoot one of them there weary bucks, (I mean he was a smart one) and I blew out my rotor cup while pulling my bow back. Still hurts today.

I'm weary of anyone who refers to a Navy corpsman as a corpse man. Very wary!

I had a grade school english teacher, one of those who started in a one-room country school (many of you just thought "oh yeah, I remember her") who had a long list of pet peeves that I will not bore you with. She beat her idea of the correct way to speak and write the english language into our young minds so brutally that to this day I have a hard time reading amateur writing without picking it apart, one misspelling and incorrectly used word at a time. It is so bad I even check my own spelling before posting.Now I need a beer.

Enough about fine tuning the English language, and I agree with all who actually learned to spell and write English as I did at my Mother's (a teacher) direction.
BUT, how about those weary ducks - hatched in Alberta and Sask, etc, then comes fall and the guns begin. By the time they leave Canada they are weary of robo-decoys and steel shot flying their way - those that make it that far. Then they fight their way down thru the middle west getting shot at all the way and down thru Arkansas and on to where ever they decide to winter. It sounds a lot like the B-17 raids over Germany in the BIG II - flak everywhere. Don't get me wrong, I have blasted away at them from various spots on the whole route with great enjoyment. But, maybe, some of them were, by then, weary ducks.

Alas, our literacy is down the toilet as a culture.

Hey crm3006, you checked a "can o' peas" lately?

How do seemingly educated people confuse devestate and decimate.

It seems to me that the "3 R's" I learned in elementary school have been replaced by "Rap, Ebonics and The New Math". Do most of today's hunters eat what they kill; se vous ples, harvest, bring to bag, etc., or look for someone to take it off their hands? I for one am both weary and wary of denizens of either group.

I'm seeing more and more well-educated businessmen end questions with periods. I have two theories. First, Facebook and Twitter have reduced the writer's attention span. Second, sentences are ungodly long these days. By the end of an overstuffed query, the writer can't remember that he was writing a question. Exhausted and confused and thinking about how to update his Facebook status, he types a period.

Thank you, Dave, for your comments on Sean Hannity. William F. Buckley turns in his grave. One commenter mentioned he'd like to expand his vocabulary. When I was in high school, I learned new words by reading George Will columns in the newspaper and circling and looking up words I didn't know.

Some of the weary vs. wary slippage is sloppiness and carelessness. And some of it is the pride now taken in ignorance. When did this happen? My grandfathers were uneducated. They weren't ashamed of it -- they were good men who worked hard -- but neither was it a point of pride. In fact, they busted @$$ to provide their children a better education than they had. What's happened to that ethic?

Before stupidity set in, there was a time when I could Write, even had a job writing writing a weekly column.
But today "Thank God for spellcheck".

Gentlemen:

I present for your amusement a poem. The funny thing about this poem is that you can run a spell checker over it and it won't hit one word.

“Ode to My Spell Checker”
By Jan Meadows, Editor, Microsoft Word Programs

Eye halve a spelling chequer;
It came with my pea sea.
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye is wrong oar write;
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long,
And eye can put the error rite.
It’s rarely ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it,
I am shore your pleased two no,
It’s letter perfect in it’s weigh,
My chequer tolled me sew.

Moral; your spell checker is a tool, not a master. I should be as 'weary' as any of the deer I've chased over the years.

Having everyone speaking like Charles Emerson Winchester would be a bit much, but I bet his writing would be correct, concise and understandable.
Shane- a good one with the petzalcoatl thing
Bellringer- it is "devastate", not "devestate".

Letter writing used to be a wonderful art. USPS and the .44 cent stamp is taking care of that nicely.

Spelling is overrated,

This should amuse some an irritate others

Spelling’s Overrated
Posted on August 3, 2008 by smptoday

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

Zermoid, I agree, I was merely trying to make a point which BACKFIRED !( Not entirely an unknown experience for me!)

Y'all should know that I ain't bothered by colloquial speak'n er a mizspelled word now & again, but I would preshiate if y'all would right (er iz thet rite?) so's I kin understand ya. Much abliged.

My spelling and my grammer surely could use a tune up.And I apologize if its made you weary.But you should be wary of my interpretative dance.Hell I been on here almost a year an I still cant figure out how to post some photos.There are bigger fish to fry.

I'm a bit "weary" of it all. I mean nobody's perfect but if you're going to take the time to post, at least ATTEMPT to get the grammar CLOSE. I have to admit it's good for a few laughs but it really drives home the point that people are becoming lazier and dumber by the day. No offense meant, of course, to those frequent offenders out there.

Thank you for addressing something that so many people ignore.