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There's a couple of things I would like to clear up. First off, one thing that severely grates on my nerves is when people misuse homophones and homonyms. Like...when they use the incorrect "they're/their". Question: Does this annoy anyone else? Question 2: Does this qualify me as a grammar nazi or simply as a person with a grammar conscience? |
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The only grammer nazi's I used to know were elite kids in teenchat rooms. |
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I have been known to gas jews to death for incorrectly using 'your' |
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Hah, good job. I laughed and told my girlfriend what you said. Because I keep her updated on the xl topics. And because that was funny. I hereby revoke my "asshead" comment of you in the Sad. thread. |
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Probably does qualify you as a grammar Nazi, or, more generally, a word queen. But I'm probably one myself. |
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I appreciate that. However, I must admit that I agree with you - I don't like the misuse of the English language. |
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rogue apostrophie's really piss me off. we have this local community news & advert magazine distrubuted around house's in my neighbourhood, and just scanning through in a few minute's i found no less than fifteen rogue apostrophie's. it was such a joke. yeah it also pisses me off when people don't know there homophones. |
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Err, the plural of apostrophe is apostrophes, not apostrophe's -- you are a victim of your own crime! |
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think about it. |
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nope but it does qualify you as an anal retentive ass eating pig :) |
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i'm allowing extra time for the penny to drop as it is stupidly late and we should all be in bed. |
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I see. It was a test. I didn't actually read the middle section til right now, and I see you put one in houses also. |
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oh i'm such a wit! |
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You misspelt twit *ho ho ho* \ Excuse me... |
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lack of repsect 4 grammer makes me mad 2. Although it seems hypocritical coming from me because I'm a poor type-guy and I don't read my posts before I click the button. Improper use of your/its/their boils my blood too, but the worst is when someone says that they ''could care less''. Seems to me that they're implying that they're caring at least a little bit. Be a man and don't care at all. |
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then you all hate idm song names ps the only post i read was jay worth's last post. |
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I luv 2 h8 IDM track titles! Seriously. |
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how a............a thread is needed |
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I dispise bad grammar. I've been shot down severely by people here for correcting the little things that annoy me especially. Things that really get me: 1) Use of "alternate" in the place of "alternative". Americans seem to be the main perpetrators of this, but their heavy abuse of the word is causing it to spread. 2) Rogue apostrophes. I once saw "She buy's ..... " 3) Actually, fuck it: American English in general. Especially when they turn nouns into verbs. Verbing weirds language 4) People using "presently" when they mean "right now, in the present". 5) It's not common, but one of my friends used to say "how much" for everything -- even multiples of items, instead of "how many". |
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You`re a fockin purist, and i know why.... joyce, JOyce, joyCE, JOYCE :-) |
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:D! So there you are now there they were, when all was over again, the four with them, setting around upin their judges' chambers, in the muniment room, of their marshalsea, under the suspices of Lally, around their old traditional tables of the law like Somany Solans to talk it over rallthesameagain. Well and druly dry. Suffering law the dring. Accourting to king's evelyns. So help her goat and kiss the bouc. Festives and highajinks and jintyaun and her beetyrossy bettydoaty and not to forget now a'duna o'darnel. |
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Enough of the Joyce-hijacking! On topic: I do get annoyed by sloppy grammar, spelling and literacy, but I don't complain about it because people will always be twats. Plus I make mistakes myself so I'd just sound like a bigger hypocrite than I already do :) I also try to capitalise properly, and stear clear of abbreviations most of the time (though some are usefull). I mean, honestly, it's not a fucking text message is it? And just how much longer is it really going to take to type the extra couple of letters? Also also, I dislike the American "I could care less". This implies that it's possible for you to care less and therefore you must care. It makes Americans look stupid. er. |
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Americans, stupid? never.. It's strange, since over here we all say "I couldn't care less". I'd never come across the mofos saying that before. |
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ufffffff don`t worry though [;-)] i I`m a purist myself when it comes to my mother tongue! i just read too many books in my short life... |
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I was racking my brain trying to think of this one when I was writing my post, since it's another example of a homophone misuse - writing "here, here" when "hear, hear" is meant. |
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Oh my God! I made a mistake in that! I'm always using it's instead of its and vice versa. |
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Just read through it again, twice, and.. no.. no you didn't. |
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unless you were referring to "stear". I was just looking for its/it's |
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Damn, I'm confusing myself now. This is why I get it's and its wrong. I can never remember which to use and when to use it. It's/its the internet. It'll be the ruin of us all. |
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ah, hehe it's = it is. no other meanings.. its = 3rd person possessive, subject gender unknown. "the dog caught the ball in its mouth" |
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"the little girl puts balls in her mouth" - Mr Garrison. |
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1.yes. but not me 2.yes/no |
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as for Q2, depends on what school of linguistic thought you follow: LAZY_prescriptive LAZY_descriptive |
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I get annoyed by it, yes, but by right only when the errors are in norwegian and/or people actually should know better. now, I probably make mistakes in english myself, but as I see it people who aren't natively english speaking should be excused a bit. |
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I dispise bad grammar. I despise bad spelling. |
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with all respect Sir, i studied english [including linguistics] for 3 years. and quit it when i realised i'd been learning more the theory and history of english than actually the language itself - and wasting my time. however, linguistics was the most interesting subject for me then - maybe because of the lecturer who was an interesting person. as for your kind linking : yes, i'm for descriptive linguistics. sorry for any mistakes in this post. |
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ARGH i can't believe i'm still making that mistake :/ thanks for pointing it out. |
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i hate it when something is happening 'tonite' |
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bad spelling is not cool |
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2cool4skool |
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when your the keyfumbler, all these things are acceptable |
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hihi i am not an native speaker of englisch |
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is that a song ? |
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by now it probably is.... :/ |
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it probably goes like this : |
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Effected or affected? |
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Depends on the context...? |
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"that delay nicely effected the song" |
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To affect something is to change or influence it, To effect something is a rather formal way of saying `to make it happen'. Confusingly, either may produce an 'effect' or result. ('An affect' is a technical term in psychology.) |
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When writing these two blighters I always have to think about it first. |
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