I don’t know why you’re arguing with me. Re-read my post. Take your time. I’ll wait.
Now there is a myth that you lot need to consider losing.
Why the hell do Americans think that what their military does these days has anything to do with their own rights or freedoms?
All the pathetic jingoistic flag waving might make a lick of sense if your soldiers were actually dying in defence of your country, but since they aren’t the rabid veneration of the troops just seems rather silly.
It depends on how close you want the written word to hew with the spoken word. Sometimes, you want to make that dialectal distinction clear in writing, so go with “I’d’ve.” I usually would just write “I would have” (uncontracted), but sometimes I want to echo my actual way of speaking, or I want to make it more “folksy” or whatever, and then go with the “I’d’ve.” “I’d have” certainly does look prettier, and probably will generate the same effect in most cases, but, when I want to be 100% sure, I go with “I’d’ve.”
Almost 100 students walked out of school in protest on Monday, even though the principal warned that they would be disciplined, NBC New York reported. After someone pulled a fire alarm, all of the school’s 1,110 or so students walked out at about 11 a.m., the station reported.
Less than 100 students walked out, possibly in protest. After some asshole chose to pull a fire alarm, 1,000 students were forced to leave the building for their own safety. Whoever pulled the fire alarm should be arrested, and sent to jail.
My WAG is that she thought they were making fun of her. Based on the my understanding of an episode of Seinfeld, this is something that happens.
Certainly bringing up the troops was moronic, and forgetting that the language we speak is actually called English is especially moronic for someone who purportedly teaches English, but you can’t tell a lot about any history of discipline issues from a 20 second video.
I can’t top what pulykamell said. And I have an extreme personal pet peeve with using of following could/would/should in the written language. I can’t help but see it, and once I see it, nothing else written matters. And I’m pretty sure only native speakers make that mistake unless the person teaching a foreign language speaker English is wholly unqualified. And, to me, that makes it even worse, as a native speaker should know that would/should/could of makes absolutely no fucking sense. No other grammatical or spelling faux pas sets me off as greatly as this.
Yes, because that is the best way to deal with 16 year olds, you ignorant, twisted, repeated-use, ignorant scumbag.
Yes, I said ignorant twice, because once is never enough when describing you.
Hahahaha. You’re a hoot. Perhaps you would prefer that the asshole who chose to pull the fire alarm be made to pay the days salary for all of the firemen and police officers who responded to the false alarm? Plus the fuel costs for all of the responding emergency vehicles. And pay for any inconvenience suffered by actual victims who were forced to wait for emergency services because some asshole chose to create a false alarm. I hope no one died while waiting for fire truck or ambulance. YMMV.
According to another article, one of the students who were berated says she was kicked out when she stood up for herself to the teacher.
actually someone smart should of called the station and let them know not to come at all but as I said its joisy
But I’m surprised 100 walked out from what I’ve heard the rest might of been to busy stealing cars to care …
And sorry I usually try to use spell check but I had “I’m not doing anything useful” police on my case when I posted so I didn’t get a chance to
Did I say you are ignorant? Did I repeat it at least three times to really capture your ignorance? Damn, I failed.
You do what has been done since the beginning of fire alarms in schools. You give them detentions. You don’t give them criminal records.
Idiot.
Same. Like I said above, which pulykamell doesn’t seem to understand, I don’t care about which contraction one uses. The point is, “of” is a preposition. “Have” is the verb all y’all are looking for. Verbs describe action; that’s why they’re called action words. “Of” is not a goddamned verb.
People. Please stop with could of, should of, would of. You’re killing me and at least one other Doper.
TWO! other Dopers. I cringe every time I see or hear this piece of ignorance.
I like to use “could’a,” “would’a,” and “should’a” myself. 
I could’f sworn you’d care at least a little bit! 
Makes sense, but even dialectically I doubt that I could tell whether a person who just spoke said “I’d’ve” or “I’d have”, unless they heavily emphasized the “have”.
[QUOTE=Dogzilla;20544939Take your time. I’ll wait.[/QUOTE]
Screw both of you. This is 'Merka, where we revere diarrhea 'cause we don’t wait on shit.
It makes me cringe, too. I don’t understand how you are reading what I wrote as contrary.
OK, let me be even clearer, Dogzilla. “I’d of” and “would of” are both unambiguously grammatically incorrect. I have absolutely no clue how you are reading any sort of disagreement into what I wrote. Why are you being ornery about me not “understanding”? I fucking agree with you!
I would’ve said that there is a recognized way to form that contraction.