FR Grammar Pet Peeves (Shameless Vanity)

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

[HIDEK6]

The man “efforted” to get an interview w/ someone.

Please tell me this is a joke.

[ken in texas]

My pet peeve is confusion between grammar and punctuation.

Thairs, a difference??

/sarc... sorry couldn't resist.

[Mamzelle]

Uncle, you have a real flare for this.

[murrie]

pet peeve

“irregardless”

from dictionary.com “an erroneous word that,etymologically means the exact opposite of
what it is meant to express, attested in non standard
writing from 1912, probably a blend of irrespective and
regardless. Perhaps inspired by the double negative used
as an emphatic.”

[Uncle Miltie]

"Just idding."

Gonna have to put you in grammar dungeon now.

[Publius Valerius]

“There’s a difference???”

Debatable.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/assure.html

[dennisw]

jive and jibe —— misused all the time

chomping at the bit....NO! It is champing at the bit

[RedDogzRule]

okaye, im gonna wright with reely bad grammer from now on jist to pi$$ myself off!

[andonte]

STOP using “impact” as a verb!

This does not impact that.

Thas has an effect on that.

I am a copy editor, and I never allow my authors to use the word as a verb.

[GinaLolaB]

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

Your right, I knew there was an exception.

[RedDogzRule]

my own faverite taipo is when i’s write “marital arts” insted of “martial arts”. i no my waif an i argue lots, but thats jist funy!

[HIDEK6]

Amin Mod should be Admin. Mod.

I would call an Amin Mod Bmin7(b5) - E7(b9) - Amin.

[dfwgator]

“Noone” should only appear when referencing the former lead singer of Herman’s Hermits. In all other cases it should be “no one.”

[Ron Jeremy]

I just saw it the other day on fark.com, and was itching for a chance to use it!

[Dianna]

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

I couldn't resist correcting a document written by one of our assistant superintendents of schools. He had totally confused the "ensure", "insure", "assure" issue. After I corrected it, I got into a major argument with him and several school principals over who was right.

I was right.

[warsaw44]

How about the bizarro pronunciation of the words Can't, Shouldn't, Couldn't, Didn't, Wouldn't that I have heard in person and on the radio?

Shouldn't = Shunt “ You shunt adun that “
Didn't = Dint “ I dint do it! “
Wouldn't = Wunt “ I wunt worry about it “
and so on.
Very odd - it bothers me ALOT ( my favorite nonword )

[LibFreeOrDie]

[dennisw]

For some real laughs check out the entry for interracial dating between whites and orientals and which Asians white people like the most between Japaneses Chinese and Koreans

[warsaw44]

Yo! Stop Hat’n. ( actually have seen this abbreviation for Hating )

[Dysart]

Haven't read the thread, Fred, but the repeating commas baffle me.

To wit: ",,,"

What gives?