FR Grammar Pet Peeves (Shameless Vanity)

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

[Dianna]

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

If I gave the money yesterday, would that mean I "lent" him some money?

Just curious.

[MozarkDawg]

... and the latest I heard, which almost made me fall over: “efforted.” The man “efforted” to get an interview w/ someone.

[sig226]

You're responsible for the proper use of possessive forms in your posts. :)

[Alas Babylon!]

Thank you! Room and board, of course. The board came from a place to sit at the table, no?

[Uncle Miltie]

"How he was ever accepted at Harvard I’ll never know."

He was excepted at Harvard. You know, the affirmative action exception.

[Uncle Miltie]

Well, we had some fun today!

[berkley]

I feel badly. s/b I feel bad.

Me and him went out. (He and I )

[Uncle Miltie]

Busted.

[basil]

Exactly! That’s another reason we’re screwed!

[Fawn]

I’m tired of this moose biting sisters and how someone was in the shower....stop it ..stop it now.

[trisham]

Your a looser.

:)

[waverna]

Yep. Not lended.

[Fawn]

Ensure is a drink silly.

[Dianna]

They’re trying to sound educated. One of my cousins works in a university faculty office. The deans write incomprehensible gibberish which she then translates into real words. When they argue with her, she has to explain that the purpose of that particular writing is to clearly convey information to other people. When it isn’t understandable, those people totally screw up what they are being asked to do (which she has to fix).

[Turret Gunner A20]

The board came from a place to sit at the table, no?

Wouldn't be a-knowin'. But, sounds reasonalble.

[MozarkDawg]

I feel badly. s/b I feel bad.

A great scene from the movie A Letter to Three Wives, Kirk Douglas, (who plays a school teacher) is bananas when a snooty woman says, "Don't feel badly, dear." He looks at her, raising his voice, "It's feel BAD ... you feel badly this way," while wiggling his fingers in the air!

[Brad’s Gramma]

What kind of dogs do you have?

:)

[ApplegateRanch]

And in my case, I will have drunk too much eggnog over the holidays, by the time January 2, 2009 rolls around, like a loose cannon upon the pages of the calendar.

[Turret Gunner A20]

The board came from a place to sit at the table, no?

Come to thing of it, no. That would be a chair. Wouldn't it???

[Revolting cat!]

Nothing will help, Unco! Tomorrow, and today on other threads, it’s will be its, there will be their, you’re will remain your. All this in posts questioning intelligence of other posters and politicians. Ask the guilty, and they have the unvarying cute response “oh, my spelling is bad”. Well, bud, it’s not your spelling, it’s your intelligence and your edumacation, and your reading comprehension. One teacher I had said that people who can’t spell are people who can’t read. He was right.