Today, my daughter asked me the difference between "their" and "they're". This is the same child I've been spending thousands of dollars on to send to law school. FML
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Today, I learned that my daughter pocketed the money I'd paid so she could go to college. FML
Today, my second-grade daughter asked her teacher how much money she makes. FML
Today, my daughter is mad sulking because she got her first wage today and learned a bunch of new words like national insurance, pension contributions, taxes, automatic student loan repayments, and so on. She actually thought she got to keep ALL the money she earned, and is taking it out on us. FML
Today, my daughter asked me if we could adopt a child. I said no, since we can't afford to support another child. She then asked me if she could just adopt another dad instead. FML
Today, I learned from my daughter's teacher that she has been wearing the same shirt for the past few weeks, ever since we had a fight about how I don't pay attention to her. FML
Today, my idiot daughter is sat next to me crying because she took her ex to court for child support, convinced she was gonna get paid, even though her kids live with their dad full time. Now she's paying HIM child support and can’t afford her flat anymore, so she wants to move in with me. FML
Today, my daughter, whom I consigned a credit card for, told me she was in a bit of financial trouble. It turns out that she was trying to pay off her credit card with the same credit card her bill was for, and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. FML
Today, my daughter has spent the last few hours moaning that the boy she’s known since they were 4 years-old got a girlfriend instead of asking her out. She’s known him for almost 20 years. If she liked him all that time, she should have asked him out herself instead of moaning at me. FML
Today, my daughter and her "friend" kept using crude euphemisms right in front of me, thinking I was too old or too stupid to figure out what they meant. I nearly had an aneurysm when she told him he could put his "pencil" in her "sharpener" next time they studied together. FML
Today, my daughter is such a greedy idiot. Her ex was voluntarily giving her over £1000 for the kid but she decided she wanted more, and dragged him to child support court. She’s now only getting about £500 and her ex, who formerly had a great relationship with her, now hates her guts. Idiot. FML
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712sash 26
"You're" daughter is going to be fine :)
Bloink 25
one who asks questions is foolish for five minutes, one who doesn't is foolish forever
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Comments (118)
1947Chevy 17
It's one thing to not care about grammar and another to not know
Marty20612 5
Money spent well lol
Fmlsea 28
well there goes all your money down the drain.
Ihavegas 22
ah dammit wheres that receipt
ballpython 15
If their education is being payed for then at least they're not going to be screwed when their student loan bill comes in the mail.
DanielleinDC 33
"Paid". This is another thing that drives me nuts.
finalyearsofhate 22
Have her watch the "fix your grammar"video on YouTube. It's hilarious and might cost that one up for her.
mooman36 15
I am very bad at writing and using grammar and punctuation correctly. I am a native English speaker and tried very hard to learn them and yet I still make mistakes and forget the differences between very different words which sound similar. But I did a degree in maths and got a good degree from Warwick, which is top 4 for maths in the country. Just because she is bad at one thing doesn't immediately mean she'll be bad at everything else. Personally I'd support her for asking questions and trying to improve herself, especially when she is in a very stressful evironment normally, i.e. university.
evilamoebaattack 20
Sorry, but Law and Math are very different - you need language every minute of every day as a lawyer (or law student) which I don't feel happens in your case. If she wants to study Law successfully, these little things are the ones which are absolutely fundamental.
fleur_de_fevrier_fml 22
As a non-native English speaker, I don’t understand why so many natives don’t understand the difference between your and you’re and they, their and there. We learn that when we start learning English, it’s very straightforward. It really doesn’t take a genius to understand the idea. I did my master in the US and I remember one of my friends, who was a French TA, getting mental because many of his students had an English grammar sometimes as bad their French.
jujuthefroggy_fml 16
For your native language, your first learn to speak: "there", "their" and "they're" are exactly the same in your mind. Then you have to learn their different function in a sentence and their different spelling, but you can’t easily erase years of “their, there and they’re” being the same in your mind. For foreign languages, you learn how to speak, how to write and the grammar at the same time. It’s easier to remember and to associate the meaning, the spelling and the function of the words. Also, when you write in a foreign language, you are usually more careful than when you write in your native language. (Try to ask to foreign students in France what they think about French people grammar and spelling…).
fleur_de_fevrier_fml 22
# 67 > fair enough but in that case, it is the exact same thing for every language. In French we don’t even write the way we speak. We have lots of letters and endings that are silent because they are remains from Latin. German has declensions. Every language has its challenges. The big majority of kids will struggle at first when they start learning to write. Grammar is something that can be easily improved by making a bit of effort and by extensive reading. I honestly think that having bad grammar is simple laziness, unless you are suffering from some kind of learning disorders.
jujuthefroggy_fml 16
It was an explanation, not an excuse....I am also very upset when my boss sends me e-mails full of mistakes AND with no punctuation at all! Just to say that English being your own language does not automatically mean it's easier for you to learn the correct grammar/spelling ….Especially if you don’t like to read! Oh and *you and not your in my first comment…
edward80 18
You should make a tattoo that says "No Ragrets"
poisongirl708 11
Sounds like she thinking of something else other than school.