Posted on 12/30/2008 10:02:49 AM PST by 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.
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Obama also misuses words. A few weeks ago he was talking about some problem and used the word enormity. He really meant large. How he was ever accepted at Harvard I’ll never know.
A grammatical three-fer? I'm underwhelmed impressed.
lol. It does. And not a good ring, either.
Well, DON'T!
No solution for that one. Over half the people in this country would be precluded from giving their opinions. It takes a brain to think, and, the recent election clearly proved over half of the voting population to be totally devoid of that vital organ.
I had to write it down,as I told my husband I’d never remember anything this off the wall. The worst thing, though, is that a TV reporter said it. Not once, but twice. I am going to write to the station to ask where they found this reporter.
Oh, I'd bet you can figure it out. :-)
There's a reason why The One has had all of his records sealed or destroyed. And it's not because he humbly wanted to avoid showing off all the amazing work he did.
Affect & effect. I can’t take it when people reverse these words in conversation!
1. Obama’s decisions will affect all Americans
2. The effect of Obama in the White House will be
catastrophic.
Well, Harvard did invite Al Franken (a Harvard grad) to give the 2002 Class Day address.
Included in his oration: I want to take this moment to congratulate today's Ivy Orators, Taii Bullock and Jeremy Bronson, on your very funny remarks. You're terrific. Where are you? Taii? (APPLAUSE) I was, ironically, the Ivy Orator twenty-nine years ago. And I'm afraid I used the "f" word quite a few times in my speech. It was 1973. And a couple weeks later I received a note through the class marshal's office from an outraged parent, saying, "We came to watch you graduate from college, not from kindergarten." I've always felt kinda bad about that, and I was hoping to be invited back so that I could apologize.
Sic transit Harvard.
Grrr, that one is the worst!
I’ll tell you what bothers me most: On TV and on the radio,I hear people say “Should have WENT”, instead of “Should Have GONE”. Those darned Football Player turned Commentators have me yelling at the TV every weekend when they use it. Arrrrggghhhh!
I*√-1 = -|I²| where I = 1/∞ level of caring.
It is extremely hard to achieve that level of negative caring; indeed, it is imposible for most people, without special training in meta-emotive techniques.
It is much easier to merely maintain a state of ordinary state of inability of not being able to care less, even though it is theoretically possible to do so.
Thank you!
That is one of my biggest pet peeves.
Students should learn the parts of speech thoroughly.
Lol!
There ya go!
Hey, don’t blame me for bad grammar. I went to a public school system.
Yes, and I never want to hear another "speach" again.
No, your original post made the point that instead of writing "should of" people should write "should've".
Because you stopped there, we thought maybe you didn't realize that "should of" is improper all by itself.
Ack! I didn't write it right!
(I*√-1)²= -|I²| where I = 1/∞ level of caring
When writing gibberish, one must write it correctly, or it will not make sense.
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