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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I like cheese.
Look it up in your Funk and Wagnalls...
Here, hear!
"Passed" for "past"...
Many years ago I called a former employer when I read his company's ad touting how the company's machine (which I'd designed) would "catch the illusive glitch." Oops.
Congratulations and best wishes!!!
Wow - your thread may beat the Anna Nicole Smith and crevo phenomena.
plural for phenomenon
“Begging the question” is a type of logical fallacy. That phrase is being stated these days as “begs the question” when people really mean “raises the question.”
“Hone in” instead of “home in” - “hone” means to sharpen. “Home in” means to be directed to a destination as by radar.
For those confused by “lose” vs “loose,” I always like to say “Lose is the opposite of find and loose is the opposite of tight.”
When people are talking about the car manufacturer named Jaguar, why do they always pronounce it “Jagwire?”
Whenever an illegal alien crime story is posted on FR, people scramble all over each other to be the first to say “Just committing the crimes that Americans won’t commit.” Stop it!
My company newspaper printed the following Star Trek quote from Spock to T’Pring in the episode Amok Time: “After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it OFTEN IS true.” When I respectfully pointed out that the actual quote was “...it is often true,” the response was that the group’s manager doesn’t like split infinitives, so he made the editor change the quote. I wonder if he would also make them change the “...to boldly go...” quote.
I had to jump in here. My grammar Nazi arm band is a little tight around the upper part of my arm. Mixing “than” and “then”. Than is a choice; then is a time. God that chaps my @$$. I even see it in print from professional “writers”. Also the “would of / would have” thing.
Because its use is wide spread another one that truly annoys me is when I hear someone say, for free. At one time, it was limited to advertisements. Examples; the option is for free, shipping is for free, etc. but now you may hear it from reporters, instructors, and politicians. The correct grammar is simply to say free.
Examples; the option is for free, shipping is for free, etc.
And uh spoken as one word anduh.......drives me bonkers!
Along with a lot of boo boos on this thread! ;-)
Thanks for posting.
In Eastern North Dakota, they say about something that is cute:
“Oh fer cute!”
“Oh fer silly!”
And so on. Quite the localism.
Your right, I guess the rule "I before E except after C" is messed up!
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
(OK, I stole that line)
There’s so many bones!
Yes, I also vote for “you’re” and “your.”
I hope you git axe for a intaview!
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