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To: Rambi who wrote (11216)	6/25/1998 6:55:00 PM
From: Scanner Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

You're right about ignoring most of the English mistakes. But you are a kinder and gentler person than I. I usually do ignore them. But some of them are like nails on a blackboard and I just have to respond! Hey-I'm from Virginny and we say "went off on" all the time. It's not right? Do you say, "I have went off on"? My point here being the verb form ("went" instead of "gone"), not the expression "went off on." P.S. When you say the same word over and over again, does it sometimes sound like nonsense? Because that's what's happened to me with "went."

To: Rambi who wrote (11216)	6/29/1998 12:26:00 PM
From: DScottD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

After I had went to the fifth grade for the second time, my English teacher had hisself a little talk with my parents about how I don't speak or write English good. I spent the whole summer reading and writing sintinces and lernin' how to get ahead in the world by talking gooder English. After I passed fifth grade the next year, my folks were so proud they throwed a big party on the homestead. Everything was OK until they bought the dancin' girls in. Ain't noone saw anything like it every since. I got pitchers to prove it to.