Hey you guys aren't that bad on grammar policing. A month ago I had sent a letter to my mom for her birthday. My wife received a call from her a week later, she was going off the wall on her for 10mins then I took the phone and she proceeded to go off on me for an hour about my grammar and told me she was going to slap me. So you guys ain't that bad. Also I know my setup is bit complex. The dsp 1 something up with it. Walking around while it on. It decides to sent a big wave distortion through everything. Specially when it's bumped. Iam plain on just throwing a yamaha dsp a1000 in just to make things simpler.
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That's nuts! Is she an English teacher?
Next year, send her a ChatGPT-generated, and Grammarly-corrected AI message.
M70AB2
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A few other favorites:
A job I had years ago, one woman would write “Type-O” for “typo,” as in “typographical error.”
A secretary dismissed work early via email due to “in climate” weather. I actually also heard that in a radio commercial.
“Conscious” instead of “conscience.” “Per say.” “Wala.” “Physco” for “psycho.” “Could of.” “For tay.”
A job I had years ago, one woman would write “Type-O” for “typo,” as in “typographical error.”
A secretary dismissed work early via email due to “in climate” weather. I actually also heard that in a radio commercial.
“Conscious” instead of “conscience.” “Per say.” “Wala.” “Physco” for “psycho.” “Could of.” “For tay.”
I don’t understand how my daughter with an MBA starts sentences with “Me and …”. She learned how to use first-person pronouns correctly, but people in her generation prefer to sound like they were raised in the ghetto.
Out here in central Pennsylvania, my wife and I have come to believe that the apostrophe—used incorrectly and willy-nilly on menus, signs, advertisements—is a way to make something fancy—educated-sounding. It’s like the ubiquitous insertion/misuse of “I” when it should be “me”—as in: “He gave it to her and I.” People are afraid to use “me” because it might sound stupid. I know people with graduate degrees who commonly make this mistake.
But in the case of the misplaced apostrophe, here’s an example we saw on a hairdresser’s sign:
Kut’s By Kristy
You spun
to your pearl.
The usage in lyrics seems correct, but the title is misleading...though I now chit about English.
To OP:
twitch54
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LOL, how true and then there's texting...............
M70AB2
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My cousin would send these huge emails with no indenting, just a massive Wall O’ Text.
I finally had to ask for paragraphs as it was too difficult to read and keep my place.
Someone I knew who owned a company would constantly say “supposably” and “irregardless.”
A wire service writer I knew often said “deemos” for “demos” and “fanthom” for “fathom.”
I finally had to ask for paragraphs as it was too difficult to read and keep my place.
Someone I knew who owned a company would constantly say “supposably” and “irregardless.”
A wire service writer I knew often said “deemos” for “demos” and “fanthom” for “fathom.”
I've had to copy some of those into Word and hope the editor can help.
I can tell when someone is angry or drunk by the way they write or text. It's like a massive stream of stupefying consciousness (or unconsciousness).
Yes, English is hard. American English is hard. Being a “live language” where misuse of the language eventually becomes acceptable makes it harder. Checking and searching however, is painfully easy.
For decades, the misuse of “they” as a singular pronoun was the mark of poor grammar, now it’s accepted as a woke usage, If so however, why isn’t it correctly used with singular subjects “they is”? Simple sloppiness.
The “i before e” rule is complicated if you didn’t memorize the little rhyme, “its and it’s” can confuse but again it’s a simple rule-breaker that you only need to memorize once, the proper pronunciation of “a” and “the” has now become the less common where “ay” and “thee” is more common among common folks, I think that the most common source of linguistics is now youtube videos and “reality” shows. Don’t even start on the pronunciation of nuclear, realtor, jewelry, … see how they’re spelled and pronounce them correctly.
I find it sad that we can’t spend a little time to look up our spelling, punctuation, and pronunciation when it is right at our fingertips. AI will not know the difference because its only reference is the same internet that is littered with inaccurate information and it will give the most common answer based on clicks and frequency in the internet. AI has no real intelligence to know the difference (not yet anyway). This will drive the future and become the “common usage” which will quickly make its way to the collegiate dictionaries and into people’s references.
I received a resume’ recently, for a customer-facing employee who didn’t do enough checking and research to properly use apostrophes in his resume’. He doesn’t know it. He also made other mistakes, not even worth an interview in my assessment. He will not know why, which is a problem for him but I won’t have him sending emails etc. to customers looking like he didn’t finish high school and/or doesn’t care enough to check his work thoroughly.
I’ll get off of my rant here, as forums are informal and to a great extent we don’t worry about the overuse of apostrophes, but at least know the difference people. It matters to people you will never know about and if you’re in the working world it can influence your future if you write and speak in “Me and …” or “.. with Rick and I.” Level grammar.
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I'm kinda lazy. If something takes too much effort to understand, I don't read it. Or if it's a video, I don't watch it.
I may come back later — when I have more time — to try to "translate" the message.
i can't hardly be bothered to capitalize letters but i do try to google the spelling if i am unsure.
i sit at my desk at an angle and i do all my typing with my left hand and have my right hand on the mouse so pressing the shift key is a hassle.
i sit at my desk at an angle and i do all my typing with my left hand and have my right hand on the mouse so pressing the shift key is a hassle.
foilage?
It goes without saying, … why do people say that and then tell you what it is that “goes without saying”?
When someone says “a number of” or “numerous”, does he know that one is a number?
When someone says “a number of” or “numerous”, does he know that one is a number?
Obviously: It goes without saying or, more to the point: It is what it is. What it be like.
You can issue all the fatwas you want condemning the replacement of 'give/gave' with 'gifted', but no one will pay any attention. Even the New York Times is using it now. I used to get bent out of shape about 'irregardless' rather than 'regardless', and 'hopefully' when 'I hope', but now that seems quaint.
GRRRRRRR!
GRRRRRRR!
How about “Do you want to hear something?”
There really are no options. Just say whatever you are going to say. Right?
There I go again! Acting just as my Dad did.
