Second graders at the Elmwood Franklin School in New York are “serious fans of football,” according to the school’s Facebook page, but that doesn’t mean they give professional athletes a pass when it comes to grammar.
With the Super Bowl just around the corner, students apparently took to the Twitter pages of various NFL players to correct the errors on one of the most grammatically-unfriendly social networking sites in existence.
The school’s Facebook page elaborates:
Second graders are serious fans of football—and grammar! Elmwood Franklin School’s second grade students applied their lessons in proper sentence structure, noun and verb usage, spelling, and punctuation to correct the tweets of professional football players. The students partnered in groups and together found several mistakes in these tweets, including the incorrect spelling of “a lot.”
Here are a few of the final products, the original tweet written at the top of the image:
(Photo via DeadSpin)
(Photo via DeadSpin)
(Photo via DeadSpin)
Everybody plays fast and loose with grammar on Twitter, making it a pretty unreliable indicator of human intelligence, but people are still calling the corrections “hilarious.”
The Bleacher Report writes:
If you are going to teach kids about mistakes peppered around sentences, Twitter is the perfect place to house the lesson.
One day, these marvelous young students will grow up and learn to drop letters and punctuation just like every last Twitter user does…
For the moment, we appreciate every adorable spelling know-it-all who wants to offer their corrections.
(H/T: DeadSpin)
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peaceangel
Feb. 4, 2013 at 9:30pmFor the past four decades I have worked all over the nation with pro athletes from the NBA to the NFL to horse jockeys and snowboarders and the black athletes cannot speak English, spell or punctuate a sentence. It is pathetic and I blame the colleges and pro sports associations for giving them passes and for not insisting that they at least have a 6th grade education with regard to speaking, spelling and punctuating English.
The new immigration laws will insist that all the ones who can stay, must speak, read and write English. I say we insist that our athletes do the same.
How kids will speak, read and write will be determined by their home lives during the ages of 2-6 before they go to school. And for the past three decades I have done volunteer work with gangbangers nationwide and they hear violence on their TV’s 24/7 and hear moms screaming curse words day and night and they don’t hear anyone speaking English. They speak what they call “hood rat” and they are proud of this fact and this is where our athletes are raised. When Bill Cosby went to the media and plead with blacks to speak English and pull up their pants and all the professional “race baiters” and democrats attacked this messenger and deemed it was okay that blacks sound like morons when they speak or write English.
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MisterSarcastic
Feb. 3, 2013 at 3:28pmTheBlaze doing a story on grammatical errors. Now that’s funny.
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azradvet
Feb. 3, 2013 at 1:54pmIf “smart” means educated, the answer is probably that athletes aren’t. I briefly worked in the testing department of an Arizona community college that also had a national level JUCO football team. The results for scholarship athletes was horrifying with little variation among individuals. Most were “rocks” and had little concern about low scores. I mean LOW scores including zeros. This isn’t to say that they are all dumb. It is all about motivation and there was little of that for they to learn other skills since their futures. In their estimates at that time, learning had little to do with math or anything else. Oh well, I’m sure that those whole didn’t eventually make the “grade” as professional athletes are now enjoying successful careers as “rappers.”
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hi
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:36amThat is mean, not cute.
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Philogical
Feb. 3, 2013 at 12:37pmIt is not unkind or malicious to correct improper speech, it’s helpful. It isn’t mean to show a child how to use tools or throw a ball, is it? Our language skills have gone down hill over the last few decades and many of our public school systems have and are giving our children a poor background in the common language of America. We hear the failure every day, whether it is in the streets or in television American English is not being used properly. One last comment that I think is appropriate. Is it unkind or malicious to tell the truth?
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sligresda
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:22amcome on blaze. im a terrible speller. sometimes i pound things out on my keyboard without double checking for accuracy. does that make me stooopid, or just a chitty speller?!
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redsred
Feb. 3, 2013 at 10:44amediting?????????? on the net??????????????really???????????????????
no such thing. poor grammar, misuse of homonyms, same story repeated multiple times in one page post. are the folks who prepare these pages careless, untrained or stupid?
and the blaze is one of the worst.
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garbagecanlogic
Feb. 3, 2013 at 10:03amAll you have to do is watch an interview of these steroid wonders and you can learn that the 2nd graders have the edge.
Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8
The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
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thebiglefthander
Feb. 3, 2013 at 9:08amThe writers for The Blaze could learn something from the kids……
Their…..is not the same as “there”
Your….is not the same as “you’re”
Its…..is not the same as “it’s”
We is the same as “you and I’
Us is the same as “you and me”
Then they could learn when to use each of those properly.
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BobtheMoron
Feb. 3, 2013 at 9:18am‘Us’ could mean you and me or it could encompass very large groups. I prefer you and me in two person situations and us to encompass everyone of my group. Just sayin’.
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RDYSTGO
Feb. 3, 2013 at 9:46amOh, well then tell the dude in “your” photo or avatar to switch hands.
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RDYSTGO
Feb. 3, 2013 at 8:16amEdit this class. Your teacher is a communist for doing this and that is all we need in America is more ___________!!!!(interjection for kitty cat)
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RDYSTGO
Feb. 3, 2013 at 8:07amI bet they are all so graceless it isn’t even funny. Someone ought to video these kids throwing, running or tell them the Boy Scouts are taking applications as of this week.
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piper60
Feb. 3, 2013 at 7:40amI enjoyed this article. (It is too bad that some of the commentators use it to put forward their political point of view, rather than commenting on the articles. ) Twitter tends to encourage lousy grammar. I don’t use it much myself.
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1FreeVoice
Feb. 3, 2013 at 6:04amI always thought twitter a serious waste of time. Cheers to the teacher for coming up with a fun/creative way to engage her students. What kid DOESN’T like to correct an adult (who is being a bit dense). Here they get to correct grown-ups without being criticized for being a smart-ass, disrespectful brat… They are being told that they are smart when they do something better than someone else. Smart on!!
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Spitfire1938
Feb. 3, 2013 at 1:33amProof positive that little ‘white’ kids are racist! Seems someone ought to tell them about EBONICS! How dare they correct a college educated black!
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udidntbuildthat
Feb. 3, 2013 at 12:50amHow many of these tweets were typed out on a phone and either got autocorrected or they missed the right keys.
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calmglass
Feb. 3, 2013 at 12:19amOk, that’s a pretty dumb/pointless story.
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me85
Feb. 2, 2013 at 11:51pm“For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” (Matthew 12:40)
Now how do you get three days and three night in the heart of the earth, if Jesus died on Friday and rose again on Sunday?
If you ever wonder that. Then watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA03N4uNe2k
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Gorp
Feb. 3, 2013 at 1:17amIsn’t it fun just to copy and paste this from one story to the next? It’s a lot easier than trying to come up with something new each time you do comment.
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blanco5
Feb. 2, 2013 at 9:26pmSo mommy didn’t breast feed you or daddy took off when you were 3? You are so full of hate and obvious self-loathing that I know you have an affliction of some kind.
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brigott
Feb. 2, 2013 at 9:25pmI wouldn’t necessarily that the “My God bless you” is incorrect.
I understand that the usual expression is “May God bless you,” but it is possible that the author has a personal relationship with God and intentionally referred to Him as “My God.”
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Keatonc333
Feb. 2, 2013 at 8:03pmsecond graders missed one on the first tweet. should be “i’m”, should be “I will”
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Feb. 2, 2013 at 8:13pmWell, which is it, 1st grader?
Maybe Chris Culliver knows something we don’t.
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13th Imam
Feb. 2, 2013 at 9:12pmBuster dumping on second graders. Isn’t that child abuse?
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Godfather.1
Feb. 2, 2013 at 7:51pmTheBlaze poking fun at football players’ spelling errors on Twitter. That’s funny. That would be like Glenn Beck mocking others for crying. Oh wait, he does that all the time.
TheBlaze “journalists” and “editors” don’t know the difference between your and you’re, peak and pique, its and it’s, etc.
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Keatonc333
Feb. 2, 2013 at 8:05pmExcellent point! spot on!
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Feb. 2, 2013 at 7:30pmHire them to edit Blaze comments. Then, every time we get a new user, we won’t have to listen to them whine about some people’s spellings.
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SpankDaMonkey
Feb. 2, 2013 at 7:16pm.
Most inner city football players have an IQ equal to their shoe size………
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gyro
Feb. 2, 2013 at 7:17pmsmall shoes
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civilwarcometh
Feb. 2, 2013 at 7:24pmSpank inner city blacks cause 88% of all violent crimes.http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/youre-white-youre-guilty-youre-dead/
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woodyee
Feb. 2, 2013 at 7:37pm“Starkes continued, “Combined with the race peddlers and the mainstream media’s intentional portrayal of African-Americans as permanent victims incapable of hate-crimes, this self-defeating ideology has become a societal toxin. Consequently, any Black-on-White crime, regardless of viciousness, is essentially interpreted as Black ‘payback’ instead of Black crime. Alternatively, had this urban terrorist been a bloodthirsty White supremacist who mercilessly killed two unsuspecting Black women, *****-geddon would have commenced.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/youre-white-youre-guilty-youre-dead/#sdb75yVVOBVKoDxA.99
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RDYSTGO
Feb. 3, 2013 at 9:53amAnd most people that know anything about football these days should know that the “inner” cities hardly have teams anymore monkey. They move out to the burbs with their “cousin” ya know.
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Imprimatur
Feb. 2, 2013 at 6:56pmSuperb athletic abilities does not translate into spelling bee contenders.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Feb. 2, 2013 at 7:32pmThen they should never have been given free passes by teachers, just because they could win games. This only hurts the athlete in the long run.
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Max jones
Feb. 2, 2013 at 9:43pmEMOUSE IRRELEVATLY….It don’t hert dem none ,noway. Hows it hert dem? don’t need gramma to sine cheks . evythin’ else is took care of.
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Sicialian Eyeball
Feb. 2, 2013 at 6:41pmAnd just think if they didnt have college education.
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woodyee
Feb. 2, 2013 at 7:19pmJust think if you remembered how to spell Sicilian! LOL!
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Keatonc333
Feb. 2, 2013 at 8:04pmhaha woodeye with the burn!!
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Advection
Feb. 2, 2013 at 6:38pmI’d love to see them critique obama’s writings. Of course, that would require obama to RELEASE his writings first!
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CatB
Feb. 2, 2013 at 6:50pmI was thinking the same thing … and smarter than how many in the government overall … a LOT I would think .. especially B.O., Biden, Pelosi, Reid .. etc.
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