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Old 03-01-2016, 07:11 PM
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In this era of technology and bastardization of the english language...and just about everything else...I still can't get past certain grammatical errors.

For me...the misuse of them/those just makes me cringe in disgust.

"Hand me them pliers"

"Will you sell me them cards"

At risk of insulting some here...I apologize.

What grammatical errors make you seethe...or do you just not give 2 sh$ts!?


Peter - I was raised in the South by a highly educated English teacher who would also cringe at those phrases both in written and spoken form.

She taught us to recognize the difference between proper English and anything otherwise pretended to be.

With that in mind, I will take the opportunity to correct you in one case:

It's "Hand me them THAR pliers" not "Hand me them pliers"


I was fixin' to let that go, but decided agin' it.
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Old 03-01-2016, 07:22 PM
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haha...to me...hand me thar pliers sounds much better!!!!!
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Old 03-28-2016, 04:17 PM
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live long and dont worry about stuff so trivial.
I'm literate but in the text age i'm not wasting my day trying to correct everything because it takes longer to type it then to say it.
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Old 03-01-2016, 07:27 PM
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I don't know why, but I could scream when I read "I could care less", knowing they mean "I couldn't care less".
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Old 03-01-2016, 10:37 PM
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"Would of" and "could of" drive me batty.
Also when someone spells "lose" as "loose." "We can't afford to loose focus..." Ugh.
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Old 03-02-2016, 12:04 PM
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Default Double Negatives and Misplaced Quotation Marks
This is a great thread. Two of my pet peeves (although I'm sure I'm guilty from time to time) are the use of double negatives and the improper "use of quotation marks".

- I can't see nothing wrong with that card.

- I haven't "never owed nothing" to no one.
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Old 03-02-2016, 12:13 PM
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Not much really bugs me, I make plenty of mistakes myself.

But the two that really get me are
Mixing tenses - "That car needs restored" instead of "this car needs to be restored" (I forget the term for the "to be " that makes it right, but I know someone here will know. )

And the textspeak. Is it really 2 hard 2 type the extra few letters?

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Old 03-02-2016, 12:51 PM
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This is a great thread. Two of my pet peeves (although I'm sure I'm guilty from time to time) are the use of double negatives and the improper "use of quotation marks".

- I can't see nothing wrong with that card.

- I haven't "never owed nothing" to no one.
good ones ryan...those really irk me too...talk about sounding stupid!!!!
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I should have started this thread when I could have. Who would have thought that Pete would beat me to it?

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I thought my grade and high school teachers were stifling in their focus on grammar over substance. Personally, I've always considered myself a poor speller. Nevertheless, for some reason the frequent use of possessive form when the plural was intended always drives me crazy:

"T206's for sell"
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Old 03-02-2016, 06:16 PM
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I should have started this thread when I could have. Who would have thought that Pete would beat me to it?

Is anyone interest in my Gene Wouldling and Tiger Woulds collection?
i think if you'd started this thread, Frank...it'd be a tad bit more popular!!!!
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Many people in formal settings will use the wrong pronoun case for "I" and "me".
My wife purchased the tickets for my son and I.

No! My wife purchased the tickets for my son and me.
Watch the news for 10 minutes and you'll hear someone mess that up.

Watching sports, I hear many athletes use "myself" incorrectly.
I have to do what's best for the team and myself.

No! I have to do what's best for the team and me.

In writing, I hate when people use apostrophes on words that don't require them:
Old photo's for sale.

I just don't understand what people are thinking when they do this!
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I don't know why, but I could scream when I read "I could care less", knowing they mean "I couldn't care less".
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I don't know why, but I could scream when I read "I could care less", knowing they mean "I couldn't care less".
That's the one for me, too.
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A conversational affectation -- technically not a grammar issue -- that hits us like the sound of fingernails on a blackboard:
the deliberate imposition of a "sh" sound at the start of any word that begins with the consonant cluster "str"...
we hear it every night from the under-30 contingent of the local TV news crews -- "shtreet" ... "shtrong"... "shtrike"...
we could just shtrangle 'em...
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I don't know why, but I could scream when I read "I could care less", knowing they mean "I couldn't care less".
This is number 1 on my list too.
Others include: When homophones are used incorrectly, Using a letter or number to replace a word, When someone uses the word "Literally" figuratively.

When I first saw this thread it made me think of Weird Al's song "Word Crimes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
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This is number 1 on my list too.
Others include: When homophones are used incorrectly, Using a letter or number to replace a word, When someone uses the word "Literally" figuratively.

When I first saw this thread it made me think of Weird Al's song "Word Crimes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
FWIW, I agree, ur right.
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Spell-Check has created bad habits. Instead of reading for typos, some folks look as far as the red underline. That allows all but the incorrectly spelled words to slide by.
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good stuff guys...one thing that really bugs me is when referring to the t206 uzit verso people say "an uzit" as opposed to a "uzit"...am I crazy here????
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uzit or lose it
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good stuff guys...one thing that really bugs me is when referring to the t206 uzit verso people say "an uzit" as opposed to a "uzit"...am I crazy here????
No, you're not alone, Pete.
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Spell-Check has created bad habits. Instead of reading for typos, some folks look as far as the red underline. That allows all but the incorrectly spelled words to slide by.
So true. Spell checker finds no errors in this note.

Deer Mr. Boss sir,

I am writing to inform ewe that eye halve a very good spell checker on my computer and that my letter four ewe last weak was not grammatically incorrect as I used this spell checker, it plainly marquees four my revue the miss stakes eye kin knot sea. Eye right my letter and weight four it two say weather eye am wrong or write and it shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid it nose bee fore two long and eye can put the error rite. I run that letter an also this one threw it and am pleased two say it tolled me that it's letter perfect in its weigh.

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So true. Spell checker finds no errors in this note.

Deer Mr. Boss sir,

I am writing to inform ewe that eye halve a very good spell checker on my computer and that my letter four ewe last weak was not grammatically incorrect as I used this spell checker, it plainly marquees four my revue the miss stakes eye kin knot sea. Eye right my letter and weight four it two say weather eye am wrong or write and it shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid it nose bee fore two long and eye can put the error rite. I run that letter an also this one threw it and am pleased two say it tolled me that it's letter perfect in its weigh.

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