Everyone that is freaking, or giving up on Rutgers yadda yadda. Learn from a mature young player......
Ron Harper & Caleb McConnell Tweets
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Goodbye Eugene Hello Ron Harper Jr..... The key to any program is having players who want to be here.
Love the enthusiasm but is it THAT difficult to say “we ARE....”??? Like that stupid ****ing “we the north” :chairshot::chairshot::chairshot:
Nuts Back in your cave please?
Many would say that saying "we are still turning up" would be what sounds stupid vs what he wrote
Turning “it” up...sorry but I have a degree in English Lit and sometimes that stuff just annoys me. Again, love the enthusiasm, and both seem like GREAT kids, don’t get me wrong please.
They are not “turning it up” ..they are turning up meaning they will be there and ready to play...
Nuts, I get where you're coming from, but then again in the reply that I'm quoting you wrote "my bad". Surely you didn't learn that phrase in Eng. Lit. Ha.
Keep in mind, too, that there was a time where people wouldn't dare write a lot of words and phrases that now are just "normal" given the way we all speak and the slang we all use. And "we" means everybody of all races, etc. ;)
Also important to note that millions of people use social as a means of communication that is similar to their verbal communication... not as a means of writing properly. I don't think Ronny would write that for a University writing assignment.
No what I'm sayin? Feel me? Ha.
I can only imagine the players reading this thread, and realizing this is their fan base.....:(
As a lit major you should have realized that improper grammar is used in many great novels.
Yeah you’re right I shouldn’t want our student-athletes to speak properly in a public forum.. How silly if me!!
Dude, from a Philosophy major (me) to an esteemed English Lit major (you), you've surely contemplated the nature of colloquialisms, and have found many to be acceptable. I mean, ellipses sans the periods effortlessly elide into wonderfully colorful figures of speech. With that established, we should go with Ronnie's acceptably elliptical tweet. So, with elevated prose, I have to ask: We good?
I’m over it lol...just really annoyed me when I saw it, coming on the heels of the EO news, because I just don’t get what’s so difficult about typing 3 more letters. Anyhow we’ve got bigger things to worry about I guess, so I’m moving forward.
I was expecting a lot more from this thread. Oh well
So was I when I started it. That it would be a good chance to focus on the positives. Players are good to go, we should focus on the team and next year.
Love Harper’s tweet. To me it says lots of talented hard working dedicated players still here, let’s rock n roll.
Btw, in any form of communicating, getting the point across is much more important than grammar.
Btw, in any form of communicating, getting the point across is much more important than grammar.
Note the focus on spelling this time. Proves our guys are always looking to improve. I think the bad grammar this time is intended to create a further discussion here though.
Local dialects and vernacular forms of English have been a part of the language since Anglo-Saxon times. Regularized forms of "correct" English are an unnatural, mostly Victorian legacy. Criticism of vernacular forms as incorrect or unsophisticated makes one sound either curmudgeonly or racist.
Well, I be pickin’ up what he’s puttin’ down, or
I am in complete understanding of the colloquial meaning, and intent, of his phraseology.
I am in complete understanding of the colloquial meaning, and intent, of his phraseology.
Imagine Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder walking into the prison for the first time saying "That's right, we are bad" instead of "We bad". :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye::stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
