Comments on: Bad Idea: Passing Notes Before Court

By: too funny

too funny — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 02:43:19 +0000

I wish too that Jackson< Sharpton, Ali & so many more would sincerely concentrate on "their" youths as they have called young African Americans. Truly help them by teaching right from wrong at young ages. Teach them morals, principles & values. Instead of misleading them by telling them that they "are suppressed" and it's not their fault. So many are tired of the crap from the modern so-called civil rights leaders. MLK is rolling in his grave at what "civil rights" leaders have become.

By: BamaGirl

BamaGirl — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 00:07:15 +0000

I very much enjoy the banter between you all. Who cares if our words are not perfect or the sentence isn’t formed correctly! I write mostly the way I speak do I hurt anyone??
As for the fellas I think the chain gang cleaning up behind all of the pan handlers around Pensacola and any other places we have trash issues would serve our community just fine and dandy.
All these folks need to get a job, pay their taxes and stop acting like their old fashion Molasses.
I am tired of seeing stealing, dead beats, lazy young girls, druggies and folks stealing from our elderly. Oh, and side of the road beggars!
Please make the prisons less comfortable so they would be happier outside rather than inside those walls!!!
I’m done thanks for your ear (so to speak).

By: mick

mick — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 22:48:24 +0000

We can only hope they all get at least 15 yrs. You can bet good money that whatever punishment they get there will be no lesson learned

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:08:01 +0000

@Ash

“There is no such word as pleaded…. Dear Lord Go back to English class”

Where do I begin? Lets start with your improper use of ellipses. When a writer intends to use an ellipsis to conclude a unfinished thought, three dots are used. You decided to use four dots. Your use of capitalization is also troubling. You decided to capitalized “Go” for some reason. Finally, to wrap up this unfounded rant against William’s grammatical injustices, you conclude your sentence with no sign of any punctuation. I guess you must have slept through that day in English class! You should try being nice to people and I bet people will be nice to you!

By: Toni

Toni — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:17:41 +0000

@Robert S, I agree. It is funny how people can find one thing in a article and go totally left and debate on something that’s not really relevent at all. Well I did get my giggle for today.

By: Patti A

Patti A — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:14:30 +0000

@ Robert S…. Touche’..

By: CD

CD — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:57:13 +0000

OK, but I’ll stick with “pled”, maybe because that’s just the way I am. It was correct, and has not become incorrect.

By: Robert S.

Robert S. — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:12:27 +0000

Too Funny….how discussion on this article has gone from these three poor misguided dingbats playing the role of “Naughty Reverse Santa” to one of who is using the more correct wording.
Do greatly enjoy the exchanges though, shows we have many who do study the language and the law and the language of the law.
How about the word, “irregardless”….?
Irregardless of whether it is
pleaded or pled
twas not one word muttered
or said
it was a simple handwritten note
that got these three dingbats goat.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:14:48 +0000

CONTEMPLATING FURTHER:
“There is no such word as pleaded…. Dear Lord Go back to English class”

There are all kinds of words. Some are colloquial, some are official, some are generally accepted, some are frowned upon. The most interesting point here was made by William when he pointed out:
” U.S. Supreme Court has used “pleaded” in more than 3,000 opinions and “pled” in only 26—and in some of those instances the court was quoting others”

One of the fun things about the United States Constitution is that under it, the Supreme Court can not be wrong. (If you don’t believe it, look up the word “supreme” and consider if they have the final say, that means nobody else can over ride. Congress can rewrite laws in accordance with their rulings or else those in disagreement are illegal. The people can amend the Constitution to change what it says but until we do, their rulings stand unchallenged.

By the way, we don’t have to comply with the Supreme Court on non legal matters so we can continue to “pled” if we wish and use “ain’t” and “gonna” and “et” (which IS proper English, just not proper American) and all those other words we like. We can even “nuke” food even though microwaves don’t affect the nuclei.

See? We get more out of this story than the obvious fact that some morons exist and pass notes in court.

David for freedom of speech
and all its variations

By: William

William — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:44:43 +0000

>There is no such word as pleaded…. Dear Lord Go back to English class

Pleaded is a word, and it is the preferred past tense in written form over the colloquial term pled , according to the AP Stylebook which most of the nation’s newspapers follow.