Posted on 03/06/2018 7:00:56 PM PST by huckfillary
I think it is deteriorating.
Two television commercials I’ve seen in the last few months fit in this category.
One is for dental implants: “Dentures are different to real teeth.” (Can’t remember the company, but this line is spoken by an actor playing a dentist, I think.)
One for some type of loan/mortgage/something: “Our loans are different to other loans.” (I think this one is for New Day USA?)
I’m paraphrasing, but pretty close.
I love the English language and other languages. I am sure I make my fair share of typos and mistakes, but once it becomes a national advertisement you’d think mistakes should have been caught and corrected.
Bump
It all fell apart the day he left us.
In preparation for the primary election, I looked at the web sites of people running for judge and for district attorney. These are supposedly very well educated people. In their biographies, many of them had spelling or grammatical errors.
Maybe someone else made the errors. But I doubt that that is true in all cases. And, in any case, where you are putting up a web site to run for office, as the candidate, wouldn’t you personally proofread it all to be sure it’s OK?
I developed a couple annoyances of my own. The first seems to have trailed off and it could be my poor vision or even keyboard (watch, I'll start doing it again), but if I read something I'd written after it's too late to change, I'd terminate with two periods as if one wouldn't suffice.
And the other annoys me at myself no end, but I seem to have the inability to close many uses of parentheses and only catch it if I take enough care to edit which, in haste, often I don't bother. Idiosyncrasy or idiocy? Probably both and more.
I did that once. Luckily everyone else thought it was intentional :D
Another is the past tense of ‘sneak’. It’s sneaked, but “snuck” has stuck and it grates on me everytime I hear it. Even Rush is guilty of it.
Real evidence of the lack of education and the lack of good teachers in our schools.
learned something new- and I am old enough to know better
I developed a couple annoyances of my own. The first seems to have trailed off and it could be my poor vision or even keyboard (watch, I'll start doing it again), but if I read something I'd written after it's too late to change, I'd terminate with two periods as if one wouldn't suffice. And the other annoys me at myself no end, but I seem to have the inability to close many uses of parentheses and only catch it if I take enough care to edit which, in haste, often I don't bother. Idiosyncrasy or idiocy? Probably both and more.
And the word “I” used in place of “me.:
Give the answer to James and I.
GIVE THE ANSWER TO JAMES AND ME.
The one time I endured a good flaming on FR was after introducing one of these. Circa 2000, before I took this screename. The ever-popular “word Nazi” threads.
That energetic blowback was a deterrent back in the day. “Learned me” never to try that again.
What a swing of the pendulum! Great thread.
**I really loath **
I REALLY LOATHE
I believe it happened because the word “Font” fit better on a small browser or Word tab than “Typeface.”
One of my pet peeves is the misuse of apostrophes.
What I’m seeing all over the place, even on FR, is people neglecting to add an “s” to words ending in “ist” when they’re plural. I see sentences like, “We have to stop all those terrorist from coming in to the country.” “Those feminist are very angry.” Etc. Why has everyone suddenly decided that those words don’t need an “s” to be plural?
How about: "Myself and the other officer arrested the gentleman..."
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