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FR Grammar Pet Peeves (Shameless Vanity)
My Fertile Mind | 12/30/08 | Your Uncle Miltie

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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To: Uncle Miltie

I could go on a long time about this topic and the “hip-hop-ization” of our language...

Anyhow, how about the use of the first person after a preposition, such as “between you and I” (incorrect). It should be “between you and me”. This applies to many other examples.

The increasing misuse of the simple past tense instead of the present/past participle, e.g. “I have drank too much Scotch over the holidays” (incorrect). It should be “I have drunk too much Scotch over the holidays”.

/steps off soapbox....


61 posted on 12/30/2008 10:18:36 AM PST by RedDogzRule (God bless America...because God knows we need it, especially now...!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

I could go on a long time about this topic and the “hip-hop-ization” of our language...

Anyhow, how about the use of the first person after a preposition, such as “between you and I” (incorrect). It should be “between you and me”. This applies to many other examples.

The increasing misuse of the simple past tense instead of the present/past participle, e.g. “I have drank too much Scotch over the holidays” (incorrect). It should be “I have drunk too much Scoth over the holidays”.

/steps off soapbox....


62 posted on 12/30/2008 10:18:36 AM PST by RedDogzRule (God bless America...because God knows we need it, especially now...!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

YOUR; YOU’RE

THERE; THEY’RE; THEIR

WHERE WERE WE’RE

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


63 posted on 12/30/2008 10:18:48 AM PST by Jemian (PAM of JT!)
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To: sit-rep

I’m going to start a thread on people who take themselves too seriously. I’ll ping you.


64 posted on 12/30/2008 10:18:53 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Women were treated like livestock by Mohammad, so Allah must want women treated like cows forever.)
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To: RedDogzRule

sorry for the double-post...slow network...


65 posted on 12/30/2008 10:19:03 AM PST by RedDogzRule (God bless America...because God knows we need it, especially now...!)
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To: PrairieRoot

Just don’t forget to cover your syntax.


66 posted on 12/30/2008 10:19:30 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Thank you, Uncle Miltie. How’s the Aunt Farm business doing?


67 posted on 12/30/2008 10:19:43 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. -C.S. Lewis)
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To: RedDogzRule

You double-posted on purpose. Just to get a rise out of someone.....


68 posted on 12/30/2008 10:19:51 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Women were treated like livestock by Mohammad, so Allah must want women treated like cows forever.)
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To: Red Badger

Eye to, suport publik skools ware yoo reely lern huw too rite end spel.

;^)


69 posted on 12/30/2008 10:19:55 AM PST by elcid1970 (O Muslim! My cartridges are dipped in pig grease.)
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To: RedDogzRule

You double-posted on purpose. Just to get a rise out of someone.....


70 posted on 12/30/2008 10:19:55 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Women were treated like livestock by Mohammad, so Allah must want women treated like cows forever.)
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To: Carl LaFong
My colon hurts

Is that you, Sir Elton?

71 posted on 12/30/2008 10:20:33 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. -C.S. Lewis)
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To: LibFreeOrDie

Your [sic] quick on the draw with that! I couldn’t get to it fast enough.


72 posted on 12/30/2008 10:20:47 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Nepolean fries the idea powder)
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To: Red Badger

“Grammer Nazis......”

That’s “GrammAr Nazis”, schweinhund!

:-)


73 posted on 12/30/2008 10:21:07 AM PST by Bunkasaurus (I'm indecisive....or am I?)
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To: Jeff Chandler

The Aunts’s are grate.

Howd you like my book, “Free to Chose?”


74 posted on 12/30/2008 10:21:49 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Women were treated like livestock by Mohammad, so Allah must want women treated like cows forever.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

I’m still just posting in jest.


75 posted on 12/30/2008 10:21:49 AM PST by PrairieRoot (Here's hoping Global Warning extends the hunting and logging seasons.)
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To: Uncle Miltie
“I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am”

- John Cleese

76 posted on 12/30/2008 10:21:54 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Mariah Montasorry taut mee too rite.


77 posted on 12/30/2008 10:22:10 AM PST by RexBeach
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To: AU72

say THAT 5 times fast!


78 posted on 12/30/2008 10:22:10 AM PST by tajgirvan (saltnlemons is my better half!)
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To: sit-rep

...would have done...


79 posted on 12/30/2008 10:22:18 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Will usage irritants be permitted on this list of offenses? If so, “impacted,” “one on one” (instead of one TO one, if basketball isn’t the reference), and the latest I heard, which almost made me fall over: “efforted.” The man “efforted” to get an interview w/ someone.


80 posted on 12/30/2008 10:22:30 AM PST by Laur
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