RE: Shortsighted and selfish vanity.....

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Jan 18, 2021
3:15:36pm

provofan All-American

RE: Shortsighted and selfish vanity.....

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provofan

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Shortsighted and selfish vanity.....

LEDSFW

1/18/21 12:26pm

Yikes! Is there an executive summary?

WallaX2

1/18/21 12:31pm

TL;DR Your speech/grammar matters & you can get rid of your 'Southerness'.

m0resn0w

1/18/21 12:46pm

It’s a pet peeve of mine when people start a sentence with “Dad was....”. It should say, “My dad was...”

RdF3

1/18/21 12:35pm

Your dad was what? 😉

LEDSFW

1/18/21 12:36pm

..distinguished as a pilot, officer, leader and went on to Georgia Tech where he finished #2 by <2/100 of a point in his

RdF3

1/18/21 12:38pm

people do the same thing with words like "guy" and "dude." It's weird.

Belboz

1/18/21 12:51pm

Why “should” it be that way? You can use “Dad” as a name.

Tricky

1/18/21 1:23pm

Why would it be a pet peeve to leave out a word that's generally understood?

ManicBlue

1/18/21 2:46pm

It’s truly the only pet peeve I have. Everything else is trivial.

RdF3

1/18/21 2:52pm

I have a few grammar pet peeves but the most annoying have to do with

ManicBlue

1/18/21 2:58pm

Agree... He's not my dad

Cougphysio

1/18/21 5:48pm

RE: Agree... He's not my day

ManicBlue

1/18/21 6:32pm

Stupid typos!

Cougphysio

1/18/21 7:49pm

Rule 10: Be precise in your speech.

dfudge

1/18/21 12:56pm

How you speak has a lot to do with how you are perceived...

1/18/21 1:04pm

Who was this written for? The author's vanity?

Sid Vicious

1/18/21 1:06pm

Vicious, Sid!

OldFogey

1/18/21 4:15pm

He wrote this because earlier he said a recruit in NV wouldn’t get into BYU

Coug Man in Florida

1/18/21 6:12pm

So it really was for his own personal vanity?

Sid Vicious

1/18/21 9:29pm

Your dad helped build the plane my dad flew.

endy

1/18/21 2:01pm

RE: Shortsighted and selfish vanity.....

provofan

1/18/21 3:15pm

Good for your dad

mtnbiker

1/18/21 3:52pm

Umm, Donald Douglas founded Douglas Aircraft.

thirdgencoug

1/18/21 4:19pm

You didn't even read his or my comments.

mtnbiker

1/18/21 5:00pm

and the unwashed masses will reply your trying whitewash them.

BYU Grounds

1/18/21 4:55pm

To me, the question is who the prescriptive “should” should be directed at.

The Chelsea Dagger

1/18/21 6:13pm

Yup and let’s remember that one word they say doesn’t define their academic

Coug Man in Florida

1/18/21 6:03pm

You think recruiting doesn't make a different for 67% of college athletes? I...

COACHdrn

1/18/21 7:12pm

i agree. It appears to me like he made up that statistic. With things going

cwilke1

1/20/21 7:19am

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