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Common grammar and usage errors
12/22/04
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Posted on 12/22/2004 9:32:13 AM PST by georgiadevildog
I am starting a grammar thread at the behest of Xenalyte and TheMom. Post your most irritating pet peeves of grammar or usage here.
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To: Jack Deth
Someone screwed up a headline once, and accidently used "Hugh" in place of "Huge", and well, it was a friday, and so it became an unofficial Silly Friday Thread... and Hugh took off... The same thing happened with the word Serious, which is often replaced by "series"... Hope this helps!
Now, Stune your beeber, and have a nice day! :)
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:56:49 AM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
("Just because you were born stupid doesn't give you any right to be stupid!" - Paul Watson to Makahs)
To: georgiadevildog
Most annoying usage: "safe, legal and rare."
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:57:57 AM PST
by
MarxSux
To: georgiadevildog
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:58:46 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Jesus is the reason for the season which begins at sundown on December 24.)
To: Jack Deth
Just goofing with you ... New-ish FReeper :-).
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:59:52 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Jesus is the reason for the season which begins at sundown on December 24.)
To: georgiadevildog
"To eggs are two many too eat." that should be: "To eggs is two many too eat".
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:59:59 AM PST
by
Mr. K
(I support a strong defense policy, but see no reason to conduct it while sober.)
To: Chad Fairbanks
To: general_re
To: georgiadevildog
They're, there, their etc. - NOT ect. an, a y'all - NOT ya'll then - NOT than --- I went to the store than then I went home. to, two, too you're, your I vs. me
To: Jack Deth
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posted on
12/22/2004 10:01:09 AM PST
by
Mr. K
(I support a strong defense policy, but see no reason to conduct it while sober.)
To: escapefromboston
Well, I'm sorry, but my religious beliefs and sound moral values demand that I be homophonic. I have a big problem with Homophones. Deal with it.
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posted on
12/22/2004 10:01:12 AM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
("Just because you were born stupid doesn't give you any right to be stupid!" - Paul Watson to Makahs)
To: georgiadevildog
Irregardless! I hate irregardless, unrespective of whom uses it.
(Okay, I know) irrespective...who
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posted on
12/22/2004 10:01:39 AM PST
by
Senior Chief
(Here I am, right where I left myself.)
To: Chad Fairbanks
People who uses Deth instead of Death is annoying to
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posted on
12/22/2004 10:03:18 AM PST
by
Mr. K
(I support a strong defense policy, but see no reason to conduct it while sober.)
To: Chad Fairbanks
Wot iz yer prob with Homophobes? duz zint yer bible says "To each his own"? dat meanz U haf 2 b nice 2 Homophones an mind yer own beeswax.
To: escapefromboston
Homophones are a blight on society, and we should not encourage them. To do so, is to destroy the very foundations of our language, our culture, and ultimately, our souls.
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posted on
12/22/2004 10:05:36 AM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
("Just because you were born stupid doesn't give you any right to be stupid!" - Paul Watson to Makahs)
To: Mr. K
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posted on
12/22/2004 10:05:51 AM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
("Just because you were born stupid doesn't give you any right to be stupid!" - Paul Watson to Makahs)
To: Tax-chick
carrot, carat, karat, caret
cents, scents, sense, since
medal, metal, meddle, mettle
That's all I can muster.
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posted on
12/22/2004 10:06:23 AM PST
by
georgiadevildog
(Get to work. You aren't being paid to believe in the power of your dreams.)
To: georgiadevildog
My biggest pet-peeve is the improper use of possessives and plurals.
For example, I saw a sign at my local grocery store: "Return your cart's here." After eight years as a college English teacher and even more years as a newspaper editor, I have been know to correct offending signs with my pen.
I once sent a letter from our college president back to him, corrected, with this note: "Need to develop the content, work on the grammar C-"
To: georgiadevildog
What in the hell is a "looser"? I know what a LOSER is, but not a looser.
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posted on
12/22/2004 10:07:21 AM PST
by
Dan from Michigan
("BZZZZZT You are fined one credit for violation of the Verbal Morality Statute")
To: Chad Fairbanks
If it wasn't for homophones we would be speaking German right now!
To: georgiadevildog
The latest VeggieTales "Silly Song" is School House Polka, featuring a bit about Homophones:
"Whether, whether, whether, whether
whether you like it or not.
Weather, weather, weather, weather
weather is cold, warm and hot.
Two, two, two, two
two of my favorite toys.
I'm bring to, to, to, to
a place the first one enjoys.
And I like it too.
Homophones, homophones!
Where the crews come cruising down the plane.
Homophones, homophones!
I need my kneaded biscuits plain!"
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posted on
12/22/2004 10:09:22 AM PST
by
ItsOurTimeNow
(Proud knuckle-dragging, Bible-thumping, redneck Dinosaur)
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