FR Grammar Pet Peeves (Shameless Vanity)

My Fertile Mind | 12/30/08 | Your Uncle Miltie

[Uncle Miltie]

I apologize for the shameless vanity, but I'm going to propose a thread for today: Your pet peeves about others' grammar on FR.

I'm not innocent. But, can we please use apostrophes for possessives and not use apostrophes for plurals?

Please chime in with your pet peeves.

Possessive Example:

Correct: My dog's bone is in the yard.

Incorrect: My dogs bone is in the yard.

Plural Example:

Correct: My dogs are in the yard.

Incorrect: My dog's are in the yard.

Admin Mod: Please move this thread as appropriate.

[Red Badger]

OMG!!!.............That is funny!.............

[Wyatt's Torch]

Awesome. There is a grammar Nazi on another board I frequent. I must keep this in mind.

[absalom01]

“Weary” for “wary”.

Man that drive’s me nut’s.

[Dianna]

I beg your pardon? I'm not sure what you're saying.

Correct: We should have gone to the store yesterday.
Correct: We should've gone to the store yesterday.
Incorrect: We should of gone to the store yesterday.

Because the contraction sounds like "of" when spoken, I think people have forgotten that the contraction stands for "have".

[Turret Gunner A20]

Insure, ensure, assure. Learn the difference.

There's a difference???

[sit-rep]

LOL... Ya know, I did my best to be error free on that reply!! I see it!! Let me see if I can’t get Admin to correct that for me!

Just Damn!!

[Utah Binger]

Help is on the way!

[Dianna]

Am I the only one who yells at Proactive commercials? The rather cute young man says (paraphrase), "I dab on the cream and when I wake up in the morning, YOU don't have acne."

His using the creme prevents my acne...interesting.

[elhombrelibre]

I’ve seen three people who work where I do recently misspell lose as “loose.” It must be a fairly common mistake, though I cannot imagine why.

[Carley]

please go away’

[Neverforget01]

“between you and I” (incorrect)

Our future Secretary of Education read from prepared remarks, "gave my sister and I"

I don't worry much about FReeper grammar , but our Sec'y of Education??????????

[Constitution Day]

Man that drive’s me nut’s.

LOL

[GinaLolaB]

I before E except after C. :^)

[Uncle Miltie]

LOL!

For the edification of others (and from memory):

1) Insure: To exchange a small amount of money for the promise of a whole lot of money if a bad thing happens. Like what you do for your car in case you crash. You insure something with insurance.

2) Ensure: To make sure that something happens. You ensure the door is closed by pushing it hard, and turning the key in the lock.

3) Assure: To make someone feel comfortable about a situation. You can assure your friend that you closed the door well.

[PghBaldy]

Amin Mod should be Admin. Mod.

Just idding.

[Alas Babylon!]

Boarders (wrong) instead of borders (correct). There is a border between Mexico and the United States. We should build a wall along the border. A boarder would be someone who is renting a room.

Marshall law (wrong) instead of martial law (correct). A Marshall is an officer of the law. Martial means of the military. Therefore, when an emergency occurs and the National Guard or Army take over law enforcement, we are under martial law.

[Uncle Miltie]

Except as in “ay” like in “Neighbor” and “Weigh”.

[LibFreeOrDie]

[clintonh8r]

“Hugh” and “series” haven’t been funny for about five years.

[edge10]

Forgive me father for I has sinned.