Fellow sapiophiles and spelling/grammar 'enthusiasts'..
- Thread starter xo Heidi Hayes xo
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Note the correct usage at the beginning of the video: "Politicians literally misusing the word "literally".
Here is another for you: Newscasters Misidentifying Photographs As Selfies - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Non-countable vs. countable nouns
If you can count it (1 coin 2 coins 3 coins) it's fewer. If not, it's less. In other words; FEWER coins but LESS money. See? EAsy!
but if i count my coins (1 nickel, 2 nickels, 3 nickels) and i count badger's coins (1 toonie, 2 toonies, 3 toonies), my LESSER coins also equal LESS money
You're mistaken. I did not delete my post and I owned my typos. A typo is not the same as using a homophone incorrectly. I see that particular error DOZENS of times every day in texts from clients, in reviews, and in other women's ads CONSTANTLY. I was not correcting YOU per se. I was bringing attention to the sort of error to which Heidi alluded in starting this thread.Just a few days ago, a very reputable SP was kind enough to point out when I misspelled discreet as discrete. (I appreciate it too.) Although correct way would be to pm.
Ironically, next day, she was trying to correct someone when he/she spelled definitely as defiantely. She herself spelled it as definately!! Well, I didn't miss the chance to point her mistake out and.... ... poof .. her post disappeared. I guess we don't take criticism very well eh?
So yea. we all are somewhat guilty of making spelling mistakes ourselves (and pointing out others').
I take criticism quite well. Passive aggressive behaviour, on the other hand, makes me nuts. Personally, I would have been less offended by this post if you HAD just gone ahead and said "Ha! Ya know, it's funny...the other day there was an incidence of this type with Ms Erica, who we all know is a dedicated GRAMMAR WHORE by her own admission...;
Snarkily sniping about my kindness in correcting you and then pointing out my error, on the other hand, just makes you seem like (and please, bear in mind this is only my opinion)...well...kind of a jerk, quite frankly!
Well do you know what to do when a Grammar Whore protests too much?You don't proofread?
Methinks the lady doth protest too much!
You take her in your strong manly arms and whisper gently in her ear, "There, They're, Their...." :eyebrows:
Not an actual grammar rule, as many people think. It was a convention introduced by the same puritan whose name was given to his versions of popular dramas, novels, etc with all the smut removed! (Bowdler, I believe...) There is nothing incorrect about ending sentences with prepositions, and the refusal to do so is an affectation up with which I do not put....
Please don't pull my hair out! (sometimes one must give in to the limitations of using one's iphone for comments)
I think everyone will get the point of not using "that" all the time ... people are people.
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Larry Storch
With my amazing powers of distraction and subtle deception, how can it not?
(btw. How does that sentence stack up?)
I hope this link works....Words and phrases that are frequently misused/misspelled on the boards (and elsewhere) that drive you bananas (if you are a shameless grammar nazi like myself!)
I'll go first!
'Hobbiest' - Incorrect.
'Hobbyist' - Correct.
'Your' - A possessive pronoun as apposed to..
'You're' - A contraction of 'you are'.
The objective here is not to slight anyone, just to have a little fun and bring a different facet of 'education' to the board
Admittedly, perb is currently among my primary reading sources and I am probably not alone there.
So why not, yeah?
Ok, your turn!
Oh, it works! And I adore Dilbert comics!I hope this link works....
I often use them as teaching material for my seventh grade ESL students
Though as far as I am aware, the proper usage of standard English is a purely functional mechanism and not one of aesthetic or appearance, no?
