Dior Mathis
This is what Mathis has as his status on Facebook. "Sense I play Defensive Back, the Oregon Ducks impreesed me by having 4 Defensive Backs go in the 1-4th rounds in the NFL draft. I'm offically putting the Ducks on the list; {GO DUCKS}!!!!!!"
So add the ducks to the list of teams michigan has to beat for his service...
I think it was more of a teenager kidding around about the NFL draft then him atually having serious interest in the ducks.
Seems like he meant "since" not "sense", I'm not sure if he'll qualify at Michigan with that grammar.
I am sure he would be fine. He wouldn't score worse than a 6 out of 50 on the Wonderlic like Manningham.
I am too
god, so much grammar talk...
ok, sorry. i didn't realize you were being sarcastic.
No no I am going to say it. He's a teenage impressionable kid who loves the attention he is getting. From everything I've read on him, he is a Neon Deon in the making. Maybe not Neon Deon, but definitely a little prima donnaish.
It's "pre-madonna"
This would be a jeapordy category?....What is pop music before Madonna?...
April 26th, 2009 at 10:41 PM ^
Or, How do you say first lady in Italian?
no, it's pre-shutthefuckupunlessyouknowwhatyou'retalkingabout.
April 27th, 2009 at 10:42 AM ^
Maybe my sarcasm-o-meter is malfunctioning. Prima donna is the proper term. Pre- madonna, pre madonna or any other term that uses pre in akin to fore, first, prior, (aka before) is not the correct usage of the word.
Madonna, The virgin Mary. Mother of our Lord and saviour.
Madonna, Pop star, celebrity, one who likes to simulate sexual acts on stage while performing songs in which she talks about, wait for it...sex!!!
Prima, meaning the most important performer or role.
Donna, an Italian woman of rank.
You put these two words together and well you get prima donna...see?
Why am I doing this? I feel like I am making a citizens arrest. I am not part of the Mgoblog police. Oh, WLA why has thou forsaken us?
WHERE IS CHITOWNBLUE, DEX and the rest of WLA. Hell, where is WolvinLA. Someone please, help.
April 27th, 2009 at 11:03 AM ^
I's got some advise for you, its that your a looser. Pre-Madonna is clearly the MGoTerm of art.
April 27th, 2009 at 11:08 AM ^
I will accept being a loser. Now are you trying to advise me or give me advice? And are you calling me a loser or saying I am looser? And without being sarcastic, it is you're not your.
Loser out.
April 27th, 2009 at 11:23 AM ^
You missed the point completely. Pre-Madonna, Looser, You're vs. Your have been running jokes for the past month or so. You just have to turn off that inner english teacher inside of you.
April 27th, 2009 at 11:31 AM ^
I was being sarcastic then lol next time I will have to be more blatant. Sorry, TC.
April 27th, 2009 at 11:41 AM ^
Cool
Your write, for all intensive purposes.
Sorry I was late, I'm working on Pacific time over here.
Would probably find themselves lampooning almost every Michigan player for how they mangle the English language as they do to posters on here.
sometimes i cringe when listening to manny or peedi talk
...the implication being that those who correct grammar are in the wrong. Heaven forbid those who speak English actually use it in the correct form and style.
Don't be a dick. The recruits that you and the rest of us so covet don't speak English in the correct form and style. Get used to it. Not everyone gets a top-flight education in elementary/middle/high school.
Ricardo Miller, Jeremy Jackson, DJ Williamson and Devin Gardner seem to speak "English in the correct form and style."
What a stupid comment. It also insinuates racism.
Yes, I'm a racist. Only, I didn't say anything about race. I said the guys we recruit don't speak the perfect English that you get so damn excited about. I should have said "most of the guys" but whatever, my point remains. Many, many of the top flight guys in the country either come from rough schools, focused mostly on sports during HS, or both. This is how it is, and you can't flip off the handle every time someone speaks less than perfect English. Put your superiority complex aside, please.
...just that your comment implied racism, that is all. I don't equate your comment with your character, nor should I. We're all posting to a message board.
Do you really equate expecting people to spell and speak with correct grammar to be a "superiority complex?" Is that what people tell their English teachers?
Dave Harris has a signed poster in Benny's that says "I love the Hungary Man!" To this day I'm unsure of what the Hungary Man consists of.
Standard English is fine for term papers, but on message boards any comprehensible form of English is fine. Also, when speaking, the rules of grammar are more fluid than when writing.
To deride some of our players for the way they speak falls into the Standard English vs. African-American Vernacular argument. which is an on-going fight in academia right now. African-American Vernacular should be embraced and not belittled. Standard English has been and is used as a form of segregation.
When did poor grammar/speaking skills get labeled as African American vernacular? Was that after Ebonics got exposed for the scam it was?
people in the "cultural" side of linguistics/English departments (e.g. Geneva Smitherman (sp))who take seriously the notion that Ebonics is a distinct vernacular with its own rules of syntax and such. I'm not saying these people are correct but the issue is not as decided as you seem to think.
I take it that you think Ebonics was exposed after its failed introduction into schools in California's Bay Area?
Ebonics has its own rules of syntax and grammar; no one who has researched it will dispute that. The more pressing question is how we get people whose home language is Ebonics to master the rules of standard English, which is the language of mainstream culture. On that there is not yet a consensus.
I've never heard of the language "African-American." I have heard of the language English though.
Take a grad level linguistics course, composition pedagogy course, or an English pedagogy course, and this will be discussed. (or pick up a copy of English Composition, or any other pedagogy journal)
...there is a language called "African American?" I only know from "Airplane" that June Cleaver also speaks Jive.
Officially, it's African-American Vernacular English, or Ebonics (from the words "ebony" and "phonics").
did everyone get so uptight around here?
I hope we get this kid, for no other reason than his name is cool. It sounds like a fragrance line.
Best post in this entire thread by far.
I learned something today. Literally everyone with an MGoBlog account is white.
but not quite
89% officially.
http://www.quantcast.com/mgoblog.com
i have no money :(
I'm not.
In that case I learned two things today.
I'm 1/16th black, does that count?
I hope Sparty isn't reading this thread. It too accurately fits their stereotype of M alumni/fans.
this thread makes me miss mcfarlin. look what you've done!!
Is this any different from "boogie talk" or "jive"?
I love that black slang is now an official language but if some greaseball from the Sopranos opens his yap he just sounds like an idiot. I guess it keeps a lot of white professors employed so maybe it isn't all bad.
love that black slang is now an official language but if some greaseball from the Sopranos opens his yap he just sounds like an idiot.
Actually, both are non-standard forms of English. There are literally hundreds of such dialects in this country.
April 26th, 2009 at 10:22 PM ^
None of the other dialects (from Jersey guy to south Boston to South Carolina) get legitimized in the academic community. Ebonics does merely because (some) white people are terrified of appearing racist.
April 27th, 2009 at 10:38 AM ^
Or, maybe an attempt to seriously study why some communities speak the English language in an entirely different way. They aren't studying a fucking accent you moron.