Posted on 02/01/2012 12:47:25 PM PST by Daffynition
Just saw this on a FB status re: work...”I’m in school Rite now”
APPALLING and APPEALING. Common mistake made by American voters.
Bump for later study
If you were less impatient, you’d have fewer duplicate posts. ;-)
That Allanis Morrisett song “Isn’t it Ironic, Don’t ya Think”
song always annoyed the hell out of me because not one thing in it is actually ironic.
I always thought she was just trying to show how intellectual she was by using a “big” word, but the irony was she didn’t understand the definition of the word.
Ok, one that I started noticing about 10 years ago and gave up, as bosses, friends, family, strangers got ornery:
(Even hear Rush and other ‘professional’ broadcasters make the mistake...)
The use of “It’s” or “There’s” or “There is” when referring to more than one of something - instead of “There ARE...”
“There’s a lot of conservatives that don’t trust Mitt Romney, for good reason - he’s an optical illusion”
(just thought I’d mix grammer and politics ...)
Start listening - you’ll hear it many times in a day.
There should be two spaces after a period.
One of my pet peeves is the em dash vs the en dash.
Johnny wants the red car — fire-engine-red if he can find it — instead of the blue car.
Of course, this is made much harder by the lack of a true em dash key on modern keyboards.
Your take on superlatives is very very unique...
Also a lot of space if she misses one!
What about “ur”?
This one is quote controversial and the accepted use is ungrammatical, I think.
“There is a lot” is correct, because the verb “is” refers to a single lot, even if that lot contains many things.
“There are many conservatives” is correct.
I used to have a kitchen range, and the range hood attached above it had a button that read: *Nite Lite*.
I ended up putting a piece of tape over it...b/c seeing it made me grind my teeth.:)
modifier
Whom among us can compose a paragraph that contains every one of these errors? I say we all should write like we laid pencil on paper. It is a moot fact that not everyone can write a continual paragraph. It makes me envy those who can nor does it display my might. I wonder whether to use weather, whether, or if, fewer verbs or less pronouns. The more I type the farther I get from my uninterested state; because I might be anxious.
How is it different than my take on the impactful affect? Oh the irony! It sometimes makes me nauseous.
Fascinating. My copy-editor insisted there be 2 spaces after a period for every sentence. Perhaps copy-editors have not caught up to the digital age?
I remember a “preposition” is a word not to end a sentence with.
How come “newer” is less new than “new” in some situations?
How come “slow up” and “slow down” mean the same thing?
Why do we say “speed up” but never “speed down”?
“Musta notta gotta lotta” - Joe Ely.
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