Super Moderator florduh Posted June 14, 2012 Super Moderator Share Posted June 14, 2012 http://www.bgsu.edu/downloads/enrollment/file76343.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackpudd1n Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 My pet peeve is when someone says "I seen" instead of "I saw". I am forever correcting people on it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thought2Much Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 If you can't get "lose" and "loose" correct, then I loose all respect for you. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackpudd1n Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 If you can't get "lose" and "loose" correct, then I loose all respect for you. I seen what you did their Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblueep Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 i could care less that your to picky 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrailBlazer Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 Whenever I was listening to a friend yesterday and she misused the word "whenever" at least 5 times. I must resist the urge to correct someone whenever they make this mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilcoppertop Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 Every single one of those is a pet peeve of mine. Th@ & using numb3rs inst3ad of l3tters. I h8 th@. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inqui Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 I've seen his and he's used interchangably too. I have a decent eye for detail and I'm a stickler for good English so seeing most of the above mistakes really sink my battleship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator TrueFreedom Posted June 14, 2012 Moderator Share Posted June 14, 2012 There always misusing there theirs. There 2s to! Its more annoying then there thans. It makes no since! l8r -TF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrailBlazer Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 http://www.bgsu.edu/...t/file76343.pdf Wait, is this a passive-aggressive post florduh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legion Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 now, know, now What I sea hear and their as I reed is an agagaravation of the misuze of language, yo. Don't be hatin'. I once read something to the effect that the way people treat language is the way they treat people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Moderator florduh Posted June 14, 2012 Author Super Moderator Share Posted June 14, 2012 http://www.bgsu.edu/...t/file76343.pdf Wait, is this a passive-aggressive post florduh? It's a helpful site that provides some tricks to remember correct usage and therefore be taken more seriously. Native English speakers have no excuse, others get a pass (though they often learn English better than some native speakers). Deliberately bastardizing the language is another topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inqui Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 http://www.bgsu.edu/...t/file76343.pdf Wait, is this a passive-aggressive post florduh? You'll love this: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackpudd1n Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 I've seen his and he's used interchangably too. I have a decent eye for detail and I'm a stickler for good English so seeing most of the above mistakes really sink my battleship. ...Was that a deliberate grammatical error at the end there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FeelHappy Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 Irregardless of what you think, I need a grammar refresher...... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scriptor Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 i could care less that your to picky One of my biggest pet peeves is when people say "I could care less" when what they mean to say is "I couldn't care less". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivingLife Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 The difference between "knowing your shit" and "knowing you're shit"; the first means you are clever the latter means you are not 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midniterider Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 My pet peeve is when someone says "I seen" instead of "I saw". I am forever correcting people on it! Judge Judy was correcting someone on her show. The girl said, "Me and Jessie." Judge Judy said, "Jessie and I." The girl repeated her reverse grammar a couple times with Judy correcting her till finally she said it "Jessie and I." lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midniterider Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 If you can't get "lose" and "loose" correct, then I loose all respect for you. I seen what you did their Ya loosers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midniterider Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 Irregardless of what you think, I need a grammar refresher...... Someone I work with used 'Irregardless' too much. :-) ............ A friend posted: They don't think it be like it is, but it do -Oscar Gamble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Droptail Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 Those are helpful pointers for writing, and yes, it's a quite useful skill to know how to communicate in standard English. However, to the extent that prescriptivist rules are invoked to 'correct' all speech or writing, I heartily disagree. For one, the language's orthography has needed an update for awhile now...txtspk is a (somewhat-incoherent) response to a baroque system of spelling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thought2Much Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 I saw a recent article (I wish I could remember where) that discussed how certain grammatical rules make no sense and should probably be dropped. One of the proposed things to ignore was the ending of sentences with prepositions; there is just no good reason why one can't end a sentence with a preposition, as long as the sentence makes sense. Splitting infinitives is another one that I can think of. Oh, and tenants live in a building; tenets are opinions or doctrines. I hate seeing those two get confused by people trying to make themselves look smarter than they actually are. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Moderator florduh Posted June 14, 2012 Author Super Moderator Share Posted June 14, 2012 Those are helpful pointers for writing, and yes, it's a quite useful skill to know how to communicate in standard English. However, to the extent that prescriptivist rules are invoked to 'correct' all speech or writing, I heartily disagree. For one, the language's orthography has needed an update for awhile now...txtspk is a (somewhat-incoherent) response to a baroque system of spelling. The written (or spoken) word can be formal or informal, and language evolves, but right and wrong still exist. Txtspk is a shorthand that evolved when a proper keyboard wasn't available for typing; similar shortened "words" evolved when the use of Morse code became prevalent. If people learned arithmetic to the extent many have learned spelling and grammar, they wouldn't be able to make change, know which coins to insert into a vending machine, or calculate a proper tip. Lazy speech and spelling have the effect of causing one to appear less intelligent; why handicap yourself needlessly? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
★ Citsonga ★ Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 My wife consistently uses "then" for "than" and "than" for "then," even though the error has been pointed out to her numerous times. It can drive me nuts, but life's too short to get too concerned with it, so I've learned to just laugh it off and go on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GardenerGal Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 My wife consistently uses "then" for "than" and "than" for "then," even though the error has been pointed out to her numerous times. It can drive me nuts, but life's too short to get too concerned with it, so I've learned to just laugh it off and go on. gotta be honest, it took me a while to figure out the proper usage of then & than. Now, would someone like to help me with affect and effect?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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