It was also "Like I could care less" and then the 'like' became implied.
Affect/Effect Your/You're
- Thread starter Biloxi Boy
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I think ‘greatest
‘Curdles my cream’ is akin to the Demotic Greek that Kazantzakis wrote in....it works.
I think ‘greatest in history’ or ‘so far’ would do the job....’cause you know a lot of people can’t even spell implied.
‘Curdles my cream’ is akin to the Demotic Greek that Kazantzakis wrote in....it works.
Poor grammer, shows disreguard.
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Improper use of singular “is” as a contraction “There’s” followed by a plural noun. Ex: “There’s so many errors in today’s spoken word.” One wouldn’t say “So many errors in today’s spoken word is there.” Correct: “There ARE (sic) so many errors in today’s spoken word.”
Incorrect pronoun use of “I” in place of “me”. Ex: “Joe played 9-ball on a team with Mike and I.”
And my personal pet peeve: indiscriminate apostrophe’s (sic) to make nouns plural.
Incorrect pronoun use of “I” in place of “me”. Ex: “Joe played 9-ball on a team with Mike and I.”
And my personal pet peeve: indiscriminate apostrophe’s (sic) to make nouns plural.
Not a peeve, but a common error: jealous for envious.
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chgo
pj
chgo
Hopefully this thread helps people "allot".
What's with people with perfectly good grammar using "prolly" for probably, WTH? When did that ever become acceptable.... must be the extra 2 characters making it too much to type out.
What's with people with perfectly good grammar using "prolly" for probably, WTH? When did that ever become acceptable.... must be the extra 2 characters making it too much to type out.
I remember when being the goat was not a positive. You didn’t deliver when you could, which made you the goat. Now it means something different.
But for all intensive purposes, it doesn’t matter.
Strait and straight
Border and boarder
Border and boarder
What did I lose? (no period after "lost")
Is this one of your posts that IS supposed to get me?
lol
Jeff Livingston
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Intensive purposes. Good one.I remember when being the goat was not a positive. You didn’t deliver when you could, which made you the goat. Now it means something different.
But for all intensive purposes, it doesn’t matter.
But could you care lessI remember when being the goat was not a positive. You didn’t deliver when you could, which made you the goat. Now it means something different.
But for all intensive purposes, it doesn’t matter.
Spelling and grammar and peculiar typo's! A peculiarity of my typing when free flowing I seem to type whatever is convenient. I swap "I" and "a" sometimes. Maybe because they are one letter words? Likewise "or" and "are". For a few years when rheumatize was first getting in my hands it screwed up my timing and every time I tried to type "th" it came out "ht" much to my annoyance! Rules of spelling and grammar have changed slightly over the years and I tended to favor the archaic spellings and conventions even when young. I knew the rules governing things such as why "were" is used correctly for the singular sometimes. Of course then there were all of the exceptions, sometimes seeming to be more common than the proper usage! I often use what was once correct spellings of words or occasionally toss in an English spelling of a word. Then again, I refuse to capitalize things I don't respect even when capitals are called for by grammar.
Writing for the Internet I typically write in colloquial fashion and at a seven or eighth grade level. Writing a proposal to NASA or technical writing I could climb to a few years of college. I spent some years at the local nuke as the proof reader of everything that passed through the drafting department. Slightly easier now but during that time and for years afterwards it was impossible to read bad grammar, misuses, and misspelled words and keep any flow in a message. Now the spelling checker here is truly atrocious and the grammar checker not much better! Plus it has a smaller vocabulary than I do and kicks back perfectly good words! Speaking of which, I sometimes misuse "good" and "well" in keeping with common usage. Yes I know I am doing it!
In about the fourth grade I had a penguin for an english teacher. She was six feet two and with their headgear looked closer to seven feet! Hands like boat paddles and she would apply one to the back of your head for bad behavior or mistakes! She loved to diagram sentences and no thanks to English teachers for the rest of my school years when I got around to taking the ACT I scored high enough to take advanced English not the basic 101 when eighty-five percent of students in the state were going into remedial English, no credit!
I know that my language usage causes those that know better to flinch sometimes but I always remember a good friend, Don Gentner. One of the grand gentleman of the game we both played but his posts on a forum were a fright, barely functionally literate. I held him in too much respect to even gently tease him, fortunately for me! When we were at an invitational someone mentioned he was not only a PhD but the head of a school at an ivy league university!
Talking and typing well is overrated by some. The only real question is does a person communicate well? Sometimes all that is needed is a "FU"! I write volumes because many of my positions over the years required it and I find it a hard habit to break. I often cut multiple paragraphs out of what I do post and delete more than I post realizing things don't need to be said.
Hu
Writing for the Internet I typically write in colloquial fashion and at a seven or eighth grade level. Writing a proposal to NASA or technical writing I could climb to a few years of college. I spent some years at the local nuke as the proof reader of everything that passed through the drafting department. Slightly easier now but during that time and for years afterwards it was impossible to read bad grammar, misuses, and misspelled words and keep any flow in a message. Now the spelling checker here is truly atrocious and the grammar checker not much better! Plus it has a smaller vocabulary than I do and kicks back perfectly good words! Speaking of which, I sometimes misuse "good" and "well" in keeping with common usage. Yes I know I am doing it!
In about the fourth grade I had a penguin for an english teacher. She was six feet two and with their headgear looked closer to seven feet! Hands like boat paddles and she would apply one to the back of your head for bad behavior or mistakes! She loved to diagram sentences and no thanks to English teachers for the rest of my school years when I got around to taking the ACT I scored high enough to take advanced English not the basic 101 when eighty-five percent of students in the state were going into remedial English, no credit!
I know that my language usage causes those that know better to flinch sometimes but I always remember a good friend, Don Gentner. One of the grand gentleman of the game we both played but his posts on a forum were a fright, barely functionally literate. I held him in too much respect to even gently tease him, fortunately for me! When we were at an invitational someone mentioned he was not only a PhD but the head of a school at an ivy league university!
Talking and typing well is overrated by some. The only real question is does a person communicate well? Sometimes all that is needed is a "FU"! I write volumes because many of my positions over the years required it and I find it a hard habit to break. I often cut multiple paragraphs out of what I do post and delete more than I post realizing things don't need to be said.
Hu