The team apparently isn’t heartbroken over Slovis’ departure
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If you tweet out "ima keep my comments to myself" and then follow it up with "As a team captain, you suppose to talk to your boys first before anything , wasn’t no love at all!" then are you really keeping your comments to yourself?
stupid to have an incoming transfer as your team captain. i know, you always have to have the starting qb as a captain (look at steelers with Mitch) but that is dumb.. your players (NOT COACHES) should vote on it..
One for offense, defense, special teams, etc..
One for offense, defense, special teams, etc..
Those tweets read like the sad state of affairs at the English department at the University of Pittsburgh.
As it was explained to young Matt Saracen, "QB1 is always a captain".
It would have been kind of hilarious if Narduzzi named Slovis the starter then the team voted Nick Patti to be a captain.
I'm sure your players over in Nittersville don't tweet in such a way, right?
Yeah, in exactly what language was Williams writing? Reads like gibberish or illiterate garbage. I'm still trying to read what he wrote and it makes no sense.
It’s pretty clear if you aren’t elderly
In all fairness to the kid, to learn to write well there has to be well established rules that are enforced by some type of reward or punishment system. Where in education or society would any kid today encounter such need to follow traditional rules for most anything? I can't see English class, hs or college, being that place that is singled out for such outdated concepts as repeating a class because you choose to do your own thing, and therefore the masses simply do their own thing, is my educated guess.
I think we're setting the bar a little too high for a tweet.
Relax Sparky, it was a joke. My players in Nitterville? I don't get where you were trying to go there.
I am not expecting Joyce in a 140 character format.
Writing well requires rules,not present now. Give some slack, never seen before or ever, by this kid, or others, the way of the world today.
“rules “
Lol
They have always been merely suggestions based upon an antiquated notion
Not so. It was stated by many in the know on here, that Narduzzi made him a captain. He did not get the team vote.
Honestly, I am having a hard time following what you are saying. Speaking of "writing well", your grammar is well, not well.
I, on the other hand, was expecting more from a student speaking as a de facto representative of a major institution of learning.
By the way, typing "was no love" instead of the incorrect "wasn’t no love" would have saved him 3 characters.
Maybe he meant "wasn't no love" as in there was love. Double negative. Give him the benefit of the doubt and cut him some slack, right?? LOL!
There are plenty of African American people who know how to write or speak grammatically correct English but also chose to code switch and speak Black English and/or use slang. If you don't really know the individual, you shouldn't make assumptions about what they can or can't do regarding language. Especially from a Tweet.
"As a team captain, you suppose to talk to your boys first before anything , wasn’t no love at all!" is not hard to understand.
"As a team captain, you are supposed to talk to your teammates first. He didn't give us proper respect!" would be similar. But honestly I prefer the actual Tweet because "your boys" implies an even tighter camaraderie. And "love" is also a more familial term than something more formal.
A Black coworker told me before about the difference between "he sick" and "he be sick." Neither sound "proper" but actually express more than you might assume: "he sick" means "this man is currently ill" while "he be sick" means "this is a sickly individual -- he is often afflicted with something or other!"
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Did you really bring up code switch? You must be in education.
What is "code switch"? Never heard of that. It sounds like something doctors do if they want to switch diagnosis codes.
I guess I'm just a stickler about the misuse of the English language. People just need to learn how to speak and write English. That's our language.
Goddammit all. Why can't you all speak American? God damn socialists
No kidding? I wrote a full explanation and the second writing was saying the same thing but using the new shortened rules............................
Technically in linguistics, switching between separate languages is code switching as well the colloquial use of the term is more about switching varieties within a language. Either way. Maybe you've seen older Italian Americans start speaking in English but once the conversation turned more emotionally heated, suddenly it's in Italian. Of course "what is a language and what is a dialect" is always a fun debate -- try asking people in Serbia or Croatia if they speak "Serbo-Croatian" or not.
Anyway, my wife's extended family are Mennonites. Spent some time in Lancaster County. A good example of code switching would be people from that county who use certain mixed German/Pennsylvania Dutch/English idioms with each other but that they would not use with me, because they figure I might not understand what a "schnickelfritz" is or what it means when they say "a while" (not a measurement of time but something done in anticipation of something else.)
Frankly I have generally not run into instances with Black English/AAVE where I didn't really understand what someone is saying. Maybe if there is very new slang, but otherwise I don't find AAVE hard to follow and I didn't find that Tweet remotely hard to follow.
Yeah the south central pa "a while" has always struck me as funny despite now living here for decades.
