I have come to the conclusion (not generally being a member of the grammar police)

[ashling]

Last edited Tue Jun 25, 2019, 09:21 PM - Edit history (2)

that this country and the internet is being plagued by a subject / verb disagreement pandemic.

If you - or a loved one - has posted one or more posts that

- or have been forced to read a post that -

contains one or more instances of subject / verb non-aquaintence such as

I hope --name of candidate -- here supporters has learned...

or

Clothes has been posted for sale ...*

refer to a copy of Strunk & White,

Online Grammar checker,

etc.

IMMEDIATELY

if not sooner.

You may have been exposed to a wild strain of

Subject/verb blah, blah, blah ...

English teachers and librarians are making themselves available pro bono

FREE OF FRICKIN CHARGE

at Public Schools and Libraries

NATIONWIDE !

*examples were actually found on the internet

EDITED TO ADD THE FOLLOWING:

Does not apply generally to cat threads

[jpak]

1. Does this mean

I cannot has cheeseburger?

[Shrike47]

4. You can if you meows for it.

[Sneederbunk]

2. You has got me thinkin now.

[procon]

3. With the abbreviated lingo from social media,

it is bound to get worse. There are far too many posts that are so poorly written it's almost impossible to intertret their point. Sometimes they are unintentionally funny, but the rest are useless.

[Skittles]

5. we was, they was

drives me nuts

[ProudLib72]

7. I'm not working pro bono to clean up DUers' messes!

I was yelled at for doing that, so I quit trying.

Y'all on your own!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

8. 😝

Iz I spelled daz ways Iz wants ta!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

9. Do you know how hard it was to get my spell check to...

... let me write this?