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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“This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.”
Hows that?
loose vs. lose
your vs. you’re
Mine is mispellings ... definately.
;o)
My first reply was in jest. My pet peeve is confusion between grammar and punctuation.
The Shortcomings Spellcheck
I would like to apply fore a job as an editor of your paper. I halve a computer, and it has spellcheck, and it wood seam that this is awl I really knead.
I had originally intended too dew this last weak, but then I happened to reed my horoscope in The Times, and it said: “Put on the reigns before you lose control of everything. Of coarse, once I red this, I gnu it wood be better to weight four a more auspicious thyme.
Aye thought at first that maybe I should caul, but then I decided it mite be better to right. I truly believe that I would be a grate editor—know matter watt—rein or shine. Eye wood make accuracy inn spelling the mane ingredient of my editorial rain. Just to prove my hart is in the rite place, I maid sure this letter was perfect—I ran it threw Spellcheck.
I really due wont this job, and I no I could bee a reel asset, butt if yew don’t higher mi, I won’t whale.
[signed]
Sharon Lowden
My gramma passed away a way back when. She said not to end a sentence with a preposition I dont’ plan to.
How about to go boldly where no man has gone after?
methinks you are not clear on the concept.... please refer to the 3rd word in my original post.
Grammar, punctuation, whatever. ;-)
I beg your pardon? I'm not sure what you're saying.
If you want to surround yourself with grammar police, go hang at an English Lit site....
An active forum, folks blow out their posts for many reasons. If someone does not type to your specifications, pluck yourself out of the thread folks are enjoying discourse on.
Folks such as yourself, tell me you would totally disregard a man’s perspective because of grammar errors. Those good ol’ boys down south?? Who can go anywhere or build anything, you’d disregard because they use “Ain’t” in a sentence??... Pretty friggin arrogant pal...
Step down a notch or two from your self appointed elitist status.... You’re not all that...
How do I know you’re not all that? If you were, you would not have posted this thread. You would have just did your best to keep your own grammar so called “Respected”...
What is another word for thesaurus ?
That book thingy.
I think grammar and spelling errors on FR are the least of our worries.
That!
and posters who say, "That!"
Fess up! You were the one who mocked me the other day for incorrect apostrophe usage!
Seriously, people type on the fly in here and it’s not being turned in for a school assignment. Sometimes the fingers go faster than the brain.
I say grab a big ole bowl of Get Over It and calm the heck down.
***Please also consider using “you’re” and “your” correctly.
The winner!!!!
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