Grammar Police- Page 2

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 4:27pm

The worst part is it's just 'definite' with an '-ly' on the end. It's not like it swerves you.

[Princeton78]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 4:33pm

This book will cure all your grammar problems. I adore it.

[matthius202]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 4:39pm

i love that book princeton! it's great :)

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 4:40pm

Popa, there are people who spell it "definitaly"?


I feel a migraine coming on...

[andyf]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 5:26pm

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

THAT BOOK IS MY LIFE!!!!

[CapnHook]

Posted: 7/10/13 at 7:44pm

I wanted to bump this thread up to the top.

SIX times today, after receiving correspondence via e-mail and Facebook, and also reading threads on these boards, I have seen the word "too" missing an 'o.'

"I want a cupcake, too!"
"I want to have a cupcake."
"I want two cupcakes."
"I want to have two cupcakes, too!"

[Jane2]

Posted: 7/10/13 at 7:54pm

Capn, the people who should heed that lesson don't care about being correct in grammar or spelling. They are arrogant enough to be annoyed when corrected.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 7/10/13 at 8:42pm

The ones that really make me cringe are people who seem to think "defiantly" is the same word as "definitely," the posters who talk about seeing some one "preform" somewhere, and talk about what "rolls" people might have been "casted" in.

[Jane2]

Posted: 7/10/13 at 8:48pm

The most ubiquitous error by far is present in almost every post I read. That is the incorrect usage of its and it's. This is also present in what you'd expect to be written by professionals. I'm talking about newspapers, magazines, and on tv.

Updated On: 7/10/13 at 08:48 PM

[CapnHook]

Posted: 7/10/13 at 8:52pm

I hear the word "casted" every day, and it's cringing.

[artscallion]

Posted: 7/10/13 at 9:08pm

Took this pic tonight outside a club that seems to be pretty picky about who it lets in. But not so picky about who does its signs.
"baggie pants," "below the waste or passed the knee" and "valid id's."

[StockardFan]

Posted: 7/10/13 at 9:10pm

Honestly if these kinds of things happen once in a blue moon, it's probably a typo. But when it happens continuously, it's just laziness. (Please tell me I spelled it's correctly there)

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 7/10/13 at 9:28pm

You're safe, Stockard

[StockardFan]

Posted: 7/10/13 at 10:27pm

LOL, thanks AEA!

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/10/13 at 11:28pm

So true, so true. I HATE apostrophe abuse! It kill's me. Especially during the Tony's. What do you guy's think?

(I have been guilty of typing preform.....I also have a problem with the word FROM. My fingers often type FORM. It's annoying to ME.)

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 7/10/13 at 11:36pm

"(I have been guilty of typing preform.....I also have a problem with the word FROM. My fingers often type FORM. It's annoying to ME.)"

Seeing the occasional typo from a long-time poster is something I can forgive (especially from somebody you know would not take being corrected as some sort of insult). After all, we're only human and we sometimes make mistakes. It's when I see somebody consistently and habitually make the same mistake that I start to get bothered.

One of my favorite grammar memes:

[CapnHook]

Posted: 7/10/13 at 11:45pm

That's fantastic. I'm going to print that out and post it at my office's bulletin board.

[javero]

Posted: 7/11/13 at 2:27pm

On-line, grammar abuse doesn't really upset me as many posters login from smart phones with tiny touch screens and the awfulness known as predictive text.

In the office though, that is another story. I really gets my goat when some of my colleagues start each sentence in email with the first word in lowercase because they can't be bothered with pressing the shift key. A very senior exec started the trend on the job years ago and the sheeple followed suit.

Interestingly enough, the division webmaster took issue recently with a viewer of his blog who pointed out his misspelling of a certain word. His response was " anyone who hasn't figured out how to spell a word in more than one way lacks creativity. So..."?

Updated On: 7/11/13 at 02:27 PM

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/11/13 at 2:32pm

Whaaaat? Misspellings are now considered "creative" choices??

Horrifying and hysterical all at the same time.

[javero]

Posted: 7/11/13 at 2:45pm

I promise not to split hairs over it but grammar is a loaded term. I've spent 25 years cranking out computer code in various programming languages many of which have formal grammars unlike the natural languages that I'm aware of, including American English. The natural languages have always been bent, twisted, contorted and redefined constantly to the point that they're barely recognizable in a span of a few hundred years.

I tend to avoid computer languages that don't have concise & formal grammars associated with them but for something as ever-changing as the American variety of English I'm hardly pedantic when it comes to on-line ephemera.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 7/11/13 at 2:47pm

shoulda, woulda, coulda...lol

[jnb9872]

Posted: 7/11/13 at 3:15pm

dramamama, I feel like the spirit of javero's story was the quote oft-attributed to Mark Twain: I never trust a man who can’t spell a word more than one way.

That said, I doubt there are writers of Twain's caliber wielding that opinion as their defense.

[Jane2]

Posted: 7/11/13 at 3:33pm

I see a difference between those who don't KNOW the correct spelling of a word, and those who ARE being creative and have a specific reason for changing around the spelling.

For example: "They bought there coat at Macys." (doesn't know, and made three errors, btw.)

"Oh dahlink, don't drop your pearls." (knows)