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lillestroom · 08-17-2010, 04:52 PM

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Are our redneck friends down south writing our news headlines y'all ?

Seels · 08-17-2010, 05:02 PM

There's nothing gramatically incorrect about that sentence.

***MassPats38*** · 08-17-2010, 09:05 PM

If you are going to post a snide remark, make sure you are correct when doing so. Otherwise, you just sound like a buffoon.

That sentence means the same as "The team is in Atlanta." In proper English, the verb can be either singular or plural, depending on whether "team" is viewed as a single unit or collection of individuals.

***KontradictioN*** · 08-17-2010, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by lillestroom

Right Now At PatsFans.com: - HOME
Patriots In Atlanta
New England is in Atlanta Getting Ready for the Falcons

Are our redneck friends down south writing our news headlines y'all ?

What do you have against the south? We have a lot of idiots down here but there are idiots everywhere you go. You should know, you're one of them. Especially with this thread. Jesus...

***BelichickFan*** · 08-17-2010, 09:11 PM

Ironic this is from a guy with a thread title as corny sounding as "come season time"; WTF is that ?

And, yeah, this grammar is just fine.

***KontradictioN*** · 08-17-2010, 09:13 PM

I think we have a candidate for the Practice Squad here.

***Joker*** · 08-17-2010, 09:40 PM

..no..no..no...I mean a REAL song...like Dee Camptown Lady...

De Camptown ladies sing this song,
Doo-da, Doo-da
De Camptown racetrack's five miles long
Oh, de doo-da day

I went down South with my hat caved in,
Doo-da, doo-da
I came back North with a pocket full of tin
Oh, de doo-da day

***Calciumee*** · 08-18-2010, 02:58 AM

nashvillepatsfan · 08-18-2010, 03:20 AM

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Originally Posted by KontradictioN

What do you have against the south? We have a lot of idiots down here but there are idiots everywhere you go. You should know, you're one of them. Especially with this thread. Jesus...

nicely said,,,,,err, um,,,,typed

***KontradictioN*** · 08-18-2010, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Pewsterbaby

Kontra, perchance he was referring to the literacy rate differential between North & South. Arkansas is last in literacy and that's down Dixie way.
And I still can't figure why there's never any characters on prime time American t.v. who have a southern accent. There was one on Melrose Place in the early 90's, but they wrote her outta the story after a month. A large part of the country's population speaks like that, yet where are they on a national scale?
And I spent 3 years down in Raleigh, N.C. at N.C. State and had a girlfriend from Valdosta, Georgia. Once you travel off of college campuses down there, the majority of The American Southeast is a culturally-challenged, vapid wasteland. I couldn't run back up across the Mason-Dixon Line fast enough.
Kontra, people in The South tend to know less about the rest of the world which lies outside their particular Southern County line, than people in the Northeast do. They're just not very worldly when compared to inhabitants of certain other parts of the country. Demographically, they travel less too.

One would think that it's a wonder how the south ever gets along without help from the hundreds of thousands of northern residents that migrate down here to live the rest of their lives and/or die. My parents and myself falling into that category. Your view is very, VERY far off and speaks to some sort of natural bias that you've probably had against the south your whole life. It's that kind of view that gives natural born southerners a view that most people from the north are complete douchebags, which isn't true either.