FR Grammar Pet Peeves (Shameless Vanity)

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

[SpinnerWebb]

mabey...

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[Cyber Ninja]

oop’s: differtense

[Turret Gunner A20]

Must be a Harvard graduate — cany evin spell jooze.

[Turret Gunner A20]

"aesthetically compromised "

WOW!!!! I like that. But, it's a bit mild when referring to the Helen Thomas pic, don't you thing??? I'd call it a masterpiece of understatement.

[TChris]

then/than

their/there/they're

your/you're

Your examples of posessive/plural mishaps

to/too/two

The imaginary word "alot" (usually should be "a lot")

accept/except

There are many more...

[Cyber Ninja]

Butt, moistly I hate is when people are so oftenly Miss Spelling Tory.

[BradyLS]

Looks like his buddy is trying to repair their image.

Too late.

[Revolting cat!]

Ice cream when ever I here John Lennon's "And no religion, too!"

Its "No religion NEITHER!", dammit!

[MosesKnows]

Please chime in with your pet peeves.

I have several.

1 - Applying the word "gender" when referring to the sex of humans. Gender applies to grammar, not human sex. There are sex related issues, not gender related issue. I expect to one day hear "was the gender good for you”.

2 - I got married. No, you married.

3 - The preacher married us. No, the preacher didn’t marry you; he performed your marriage ceremony.

4 - This not a grammar issue but the use of the word "whatever" and the expression, "you know" are annoying.

[Revolting cat!]

Is "is you is or is you ain't" (Luis Jordan & Delbert McClinton) correct?

[Revolting cat!]

Someone left the cake out in the rain"

Why "the cake"? And why "Someone" and not "Somebody"?

I'll never have the recipe again.

[ladyjane]

Our own President-elect said: “President Bush has invited Michelle and I to the White House.” Harvard must be proud.

[Try_Freedom]

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

That was the point of my original post. I didn't understand the response to my post. Was the poster implying that the contractions for "would have" and "could have" were improper?

[TChris]

Harvard must be proud.

It is, with or without Mr. Obama. :-)

Of course, if you are to go by the available records, you'd never know he went to Harvard.

[NEMDF]

Here is one: don’t start sentences with “but”.

[Joan Kerrey]

But, can we please use apostrophes for possessives and not use apostrophes for plurals?
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You’re point’s are we’ll taken. Will be more careful with future post’s.

[TChris]

Oh, and another current pet peeve is the abuse of quotation marks for emphasis.

Buy "now"! Sale ends "today"! We will "not" be undersold!

[BuffaloJack]

> “Would of” or “Could of” instead of the contractions “Would’ve” or “Could’ve.”

Don’t you mean “would have” or “could have”?

[ErnBatavia]

[waverna]

Here’s mine. You don’t ‘loan’ someone money, you ‘lend’ it. You make a loan. Lend = verb, loan = noun.
Everyone gets that wrong.