# Cute chicks don't use grammar
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 26, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747 "2007-02-26T18:24:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/21 "2007-02-27T03:10:24Z")
[QUOTE=Antigen]
Oh, please. I’m so hot I damn near sizzle, and my grammar is fabulous. If you play your cards right, maybe I’ll even show you what I can do with an apostrophe. 😉
[/QUOTE]
She’s not alone. All us hot chicks have a good command of grammar. Participles don’t dangle when _I’m_ around, that’s for sure. 😉
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/22 "2007-02-27T03:48:33Z")
[QUOTE=elfkin477]
She’s not alone. All us hot chicks have a good command of grammar. Participles don’t dangle when _I’m_ around, that’s for sure. 😉
[/QUOTE]
:: fans self ::
I had nine things I wanted to fit in here, but I could only hyphen-ate. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/23 "2007-02-27T04:20:35Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace]
> [@Antigen](#):
>
> Oh, please. I’m so hot I damn near sizzle, and my grammar is fabulous. If you play your cards right, maybe I’ll even show you what I can do with an apostrophe
You’re making me sweat.
[/QUOTE]
_This_ looks like a job for Punctuation Boy!
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/24 "2007-02-27T04:33:40Z")
On second thought, I should explain the above post.
**Sunspace** and I used to work together. We were two (of a few) technical communicators in the midst of a bunch of engineers. Their documents generally needed improvement in grammar and punctuation, which (among other tasks) it was our job to supply. To make a long story short, grammar was my specialty, and punctuation was Sunspace’s. And it was a dull job. So to liven things up, we became Conan the Grammarian (me) and his faithful sidekick Punctuation Boy (Sunspace). And when an engineer casually dropped a document by, saying, “Can you guys have a look at this; y’know, just check it for grammar and stuff?” we’d grab it with a flourish and say “_This_ looks like a job for…”
Now, the task above, dealing with apostrophes, is perfectly suited to Punctuation Boy. **Sunspace** –get to work!
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/25 "2007-02-27T05:07:54Z")
[QUOTE=Spoons]
Now, the task above, dealing with apostrophes, is perfectly suited to Punctuation Boy. **Sunspace** –get to work!
[/QUOTE]
Hey! I got enough of that from Scansion Girl at work today!
(Note to the perplexed: Scansion Girl is yet another co-worker who **Spoons** and I both know. And, yes, she was checking over a document of mine today.)
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/26 "2007-02-27T14:13:19Z")
To further explain the OP – I’m not saying that every Cute Chick is incapable of punctuation and grammar, nor am I saying that everyone who is so incapable is a Cute Chick. It’s just that patterns tend to emerge.
Another one I’ve noticed is that chicks who are far less cute tend to send e-mails that are – well, “fuzzy.” Bolded, italicized, and purple. Often with pictures of bunnies or puppies.
Guys are curt.
-tdn
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### Author:  [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/27 "2007-02-27T14:26:03Z")
Now that I’m officially adorable, I can forget everything I ever knew about grammar.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/28 "2007-02-27T14:35:15Z")
[QUOTE=ScareyFaerie]
Now that I’m officially adorable, I can forget everything I ever knew about grammar.
[/QUOTE]
yes you can and now im adorabal to huh…
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/29 "2007-02-27T16:22:54Z")
[QUOTE=tdn]
Guys are curt.
[/QUOTE]
No, we’re not.
🙂
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### Author:  [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/30 "2007-02-27T16:26:06Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace]
No, we’re not.
🙂
[/QUOTE]
But some of you are Kurt.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/31 "2007-02-27T16:36:12Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace]
No, we’re not.
[/QUOTE]
Are so.
Allow me to elucidate on my answer, using flowery and obfusticory ruminations:
Are so.
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/32 "2007-02-27T17:00:46Z")
[QUOTE=tdn]
Are so.
Allow me to elucidate on my answer, using flowery and obfusticory ruminations:
Are so.
[/QUOTE]
Oh my. Your vocabulary… it’s so… _big_.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/33 "2007-02-27T17:52:53Z")
[QUOTE=Antigen]
Oh my. Your vocabulary… it’s so… _big_.
[/QUOTE]
AnD tHrObBiNg.
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### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/34 "2007-02-27T19:02:28Z")
If a cute chick uses bad grammar in the forest, and nobody is around to hear it, did it really happen?
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### Author:  [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/35 "2007-02-27T19:04:48Z")
u r dum LOL \<3
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### Author:  [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/36 "2007-02-27T19:08:56Z")
You may as well say, “Cats don’t write novels”. Of course they don’t. They don’t _need_ to.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/37 "2007-02-27T19:23:03Z")
[QUOTE=Uvula Donor]
u r dum LOL \<3
[/QUOTE]
So… What’s your sign?
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/38 "2007-02-27T20:56:38Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus]
Yeah, little Autolycus just woke up. If anyone needs me, I’ll be back in ten minutes.
[/QUOTE]
“Little”, huh? Darn. ☹😉
[QUOTE=stolichnaya]
You may as well say, “Cats don’t write novels”. Of course they don’t. They don’t _need_ to.
[/QUOTE]
Exactly. I’m butt-ugly so I need to compensate with Very Correct Grammar. Somehow even that doesn’t do the trick.
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### Author:  [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/39 "2007-02-27T21:22:50Z")
[QUOTE=gigi]
I’m butt-ugly so I need to compensate with Very Correct Grammar. Somehow even that doesn’t do the trick.
[/QUOTE]
How YOU doin’?
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-chicks-dont-use-grammar/393747/40 "2007-02-27T21:56:42Z")
[QUOTE=athelas]
How YOU doin’?
[/QUOTE]
Wow, you sound cute. 😛
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