Marcus Vick goes on rant during MNF

[WPBCowboysFan]

Originally Posted by rocboy22

I thought this stuff, too. Pretty funny. I didnt say anything thinking it was probably just a typo, but it was still funny that he pointed out the grammar and had such a noticable error of his own.

Maybe, just maybe, he did that on purpose . . . . . . . . . .

[JoeyBoy718]

Originally Posted by WPBCowboysFan

Maybe, just maybe, he did that on purpose . . . . . . . . . .

Psychological studies show that the majority of people who comment on the grammatical errors of others make a grammatical error of their own in the comment. Maybe it's some humorous form of karma.

[WPBCowboysFan]

Originally Posted by JoeyBoy718

Psychological studies show that the majority of people who comment on the grammatical errors of others make a grammatical error of their own in the comment. Maybe it's some humorous form of karma.

I took him as doing it on purpose.

Maybe he will clarify it for us.

My wife is an editor. Worked on major trade publications and newspapers. Teaches journalism in college. She corrects me all the time w/o making an error - just sayn'

[JoeyBoy718]

Originally Posted by WPBCowboysFan

I took him as doing it on purpose.

Maybe he will clarify it for us.

My wife is an editor. Worked on major trade publications and newspapers. Teaches journalism in college. She corrects me all the time w/o making an error - just sayn'

Haha oh no I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm just saying people do tend to make errors when they comment on the errors of someone else. It happens more in text. I wouldn't happen verbally. I just thought it was funny that he was so harsh in his ridicule and made a similar mistake. I'm a linguist so I'm aware of different communities having their own grammatical rules. The Vicks are inner-city black folks who grew up around Ebonics speakers. There's also a thing called code-switching where you're perfectly fluent in the Standard language and your nonstandard dialect, and you're capable of switching back and forth between the two depending on the situation. Twitter is an informal social networking site. Most people speak in their home language on a site like Twitter. That doesn't mean that Vick might be so moronic that he doesn't know how or when to speak "proper" English. The commenter (who also made an error) seemed to make this judgment.

[WPBCowboysFan]

Originally Posted by JoeyBoy718

Haha oh no I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm just saying people do tend to make errors when they comment on the errors of someone else. It happens more in text. I wouldn't happen verbally. I just thought it was funny that he was so harsh in his ridicule and made a similar mistake. I'm a linguist so I'm aware of different communities having their own grammatical rules. The Vicks are inner-city black folks who grew up around Ebonics speakers. There's also a thing called code-switching where you're perfectly fluent in the Standard language and your nonstandard dialect, and you're capable of switching back and forth between the two depending on the situation. Twitter is an informal social networking site. Most people speak in their home language on a site like Twitter. That doesn't mean that Vick might be so moronic that he doesn't know how or when to speak "proper" English. The commenter (who also made an error) seemed to make this judgment.

A linguist sounds like an interesting field.

Is your focus more verbal or written? Im guessing verbal, but maybe its not an either or but both.

[JoeyBoy718]

Originally Posted by WPBCowboysFan

A linguist sounds like an interesting field.

Is your focus more verbal or written? Im guessing verbal, but maybe its not an either or but both.

Yeah it's not really an either or thing. Depends on what you're doing. For example, if you're studying a dying language, it most likely has no written record, so the only way you can actually study it is by actually listening to the few remaining speakers. Other languages, for example dead languages, have no more living speakers and only a written record. I do more of theoretical and mathematical study, using mathematical logic and syntax to create voice-recognizing computer programs.

[WPBCowboysFan]

Originally Posted by JoeyBoy718

Yeah it's not really an either or thing. Depends on what you're doing. For example, if you're studying a dying language, it most likely has no written record, so the only way you can actually study it is by actually listening to the few remaining speakers. Other languages, for example dead languages, have no more living speakers and only a written record. I do more of theoretical and mathematical study, using mathematical logic and syntax to create voice-recognizing computer programs.

Ok. Sounds challenging.

[Dallas]

Originally Posted by JoeyBoy718

"He says." When you're using present-tense in the third-person you must remember to add the -s morpheme at the end of the verb. You said "he say" when you should have said "he says." You're also the only one to comment on grammaticality.

Do you even understand why I said it that way? It was sarcasm.



Short minds..... please keep up.

[17yearsandcounting]

Lock up your teenage daughters, Marcus Vick is out of the penitentiary.

[joseephuss]

Originally Posted by WPBCowboysFan

And people like him vote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Is Marcus Vick allowed to vote? I don't know the full extent of his legal issues, but I do think he is a convicted felon. He may not have fulfilled his obligations to gain back his right to vote.

[JoeyBoy718]

Originally Posted by Dallas

Do you even understand why I said it that way? It was sarcasm.



Short minds..... please keep up.

Short minds? You realize you called him an embarrassment because he speaks in Ebonics, his everyday vernacular, on Twitter? I'm sure he is an embarrassment for other reasons, but you can't judge a person for the dialect they speak in. The majority of Black Americans speak or know Ebonics, and most of them are capable of switching between Ebonics and Standard English depending on where they are. It doesn't make them an embarrassment because they speak that way on informal social networking sites. Sure, there were a few punctuation errors, but most of the grammatical "errors" he made follow the grammatical rules of Ebonics.

A punctuation error is missing a comma or a period, like many people, black and white, Standard English and Ebonics, do on the Internet, even here on CowboysZone. A grammatical error is when you violate the grammatical rules of your dialect. It isn't an error when he speaks in the same Ebonics that millions of other Black Americans speak. You can't tell me millions of people are constantly making errors when they speak.

[ghst187]

did Marcus tweet that prison? Since when are we allowing inmates to have cell phones?