Posted on 12/22/2004 9:32:13 AM PST by georgiadevildog
"When I hear someone say, "Here, here" as a gesture of agreement to the comments of another, I don't know which to use."
I would lean toward "hear, hear", as in having people hear what is being said because of being in agreement. Or possibly a shortened form of "hear ye, hear ye."
I will admit to succumbing to the use "their" when his/her is more appropriate.
I am not following the "to eggs" business at all.
But then I could probably use a refresher on who has the right-of-way at four way stops, too.
I hate the blurring of the distinction between 'bring' and 'take.'
Take is used if the speaker is at the starting point, bring is used if the speaker is at the destination.
The parent should say "take your homework to school with you" but the teacher should say "bring your homework to school with you."
Too often, I hear people say something like "I'm going to bring it back where I got it." That just sounds ignorant.
Example - Every student should brush up on their grammar.
GRRRRRRRRRRRR !!!
That is one of the few grammar things I know. And, it really drives me nuts to see writers using it.
How about the extraneous "at?"
Not "Where are you?" but rather "Where are you at?"
I hate that.
Even worse, "Where you be?"
Hey! My 120!
Dan
Hi, Dan. I didn't see it. GMTA, huh? LOL !!!
Sometimes it bes like that.
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
ha ha! thats the point of this' thread your not getting it
That MadTV thing is hilarious! I'd love to literally see the clip. Literally.
Could have, would have and should have not could of, should of nor should of.
I agree.
One of the other mistakes I can't abide is the misuse of imply and infer. They are not the same and far too many people use them as if they are synonyms.
LOL! And that has happened to me more times than I care to admit.
1. Yep. Whether it's at work (where the misuse is institutional) or church, I pretty invariably let out an "Eww!" when I hear "impact" verbed.
2. Right!
3. Nope; I'll have to check it at home. Sounds promising. (c8
Dan
Oh, now that's TERRIBLE of you... TERRIBLE!
(Almost as terrible as the parodies I myself have done of that same phenom before... which parodies I *will not* reproduce here....)
I don't know, Xgirl. It's probably akin to the Jacobean idiom some people slip into in certain church settings....
Dan
(c;
Gee, then I hope I was right about it. I get so confused sometimes. . .
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