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#26

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 12:26pm

Using "anyways" to begin a sentence makes you sound idiotic. I refuse to read or listen to anyone after they use it....
...and that leaves off alot of bwwers.

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#27

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 12:29pm

People use "utilize" a lot when they really mean "use," too.

#28

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 12:32pm

Utilize is a useless word. Or is that a utilizeless word?

But hopefully still gets the award for most abused adverb.

#29

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 12:33pm

If people would just type gooder, I might give them the respect they so desperately and obviously crave, for all in tents and poor purses.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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#30

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 12:36pm

Speaking of overused words - Amazing used to be a big one. That word has seemed to have lost all meaning.

Interesting is fast following in amazing's footsteps.

#31

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 12:37pm

"Amazing" in America.

"Brilliant" in Britain.

Just don't.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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#32

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 12:50pm

"to death"

or worse

"to deaf"

btw, I will admit to not being the best typist (thus, no capitals in this post.)

#33

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 1:00pm

To hoom it mae cunsern,

I waunt to apply for the offiser job what I saw in the paper. I can Type real
quik wit one finggar and do sum a counting.

I think I am good on the phone and no I am a pepole person, Pepole really
seam to respond to me well. Certain men and all the ladies.

Im lookin for a Jobb as a offiser but it musent be to complicaited.

I no my spelling is not to good but find that I Offen can get a job thru my
persinalety. My salerery is open so we can discus wat you want to pay me and
wat you think that I am werth,

I can start imeditely. Thank you in advanse fore yore anser.

hopifuly Yore best aplicant so farr.

Sinseerly,

BRYAN nikname Beefy

PS : Because my resimay is a bit short - below is a pickture of me.
.
.

Employer's response:

Dear Beefy-I mean Bryan

It's okay honey, we've got spell check. You're hired.

Updated On: 10/30/07 at 01:00 PM

#34

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 1:03pm

I'll throw in one of my pet peeves. I hate it when people improperly use 'I' instead of 'me'. For example, the question "Do you want to go to the movies with Mary and I?"
IS INCORRECT!

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

#35

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 1:08pm

LOL. I belong to that Facebook group.

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#36

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 1:11pm

What!!! you mean the "brest witer on BWW" is not getting her raise???

But... now that we have "Eug Loven", as BWW desk editor, I'm sure he will catch all our mistakes...except for one 'ole shadow who never makes grammatic mistakes and says novenas for all we who do.(gosh was that proper grammar?)

www.pbentertainmentinc.com BWW regional writer "Philadelphia/South Jersey"

#37

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 1:12pm

nope

#38

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 2:12pm

Here's one:

It should be "Each student must bring book his or her book to class" not "Each student must bring their book to class".

Updated On: 10/30/07 at 02:12 PM

#39

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 2:17pm

SonofMammaMiaSam - Thank you for providing the cover letter for my job interview this week.

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#40

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 2:20pm

You r kwhite wellkum mr. Mat. I hope u dew wel on the oral xam.

#41

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 2:39pm

If he looks like that hese shure two.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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#42

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 4:41pm

and then there was the uneducated co-worker who used to say
Liberry instead of Library

That really got to us all.......can you imagine calling a public library and asking to speak to the 'Liberrian'.....

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#43

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 6:38pm

The indefinite third person is common in speech, and I think in verbal interaction is easier and more appropriate than saying the sexist "his". His/Hers is tiresome, and "hers" is sexist as well. In formal papers, I would opt for "one" instead of "theirs" -- although in ten years, I will almost guarantee that "theirs" falls into normality. If Jane Austen used it often, I have no problem using it.

"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'" -- unknown

#44

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 6:44pm

I tend to feel the same way, but I sometimes make some of the same mistakes that irk me.
Unfortunately this morning I said this to my boss:
"They invited both Sara and I to the show."

I always hate when people use I when me is right, but sometimes it seems to happen.

I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.

#45

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/30/07 at 6:53pm

People get confused, because if you said, "Sara and I were both invited to the show," you would be right.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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#46

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/31/07 at 4:43am

Bobby Steggert belongs to that Facebook group!

I'm in love.

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#47

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:22am

I hate it when people misuse moods, saying things like, "I wish I was..." or, "If I Was..." instead of, "I wish I were..." or, "If I were..."

I hate it when people attempt to quantify absolute terms. A woman cannot be "a little pregnant" or "very pregnant". Either she is, or she isn't. Something cannot be "very unique", as being unique means that it is one-of-a-kind. It would be impossible for something that is one-of-a-kind to be MORE one-of-a-kind than everything else that could be labeled as such.

I hate when people add "s"s to stores names, saying "Kroger's" instead of "Kroger", "Meijer's" instead of "Meijer", or "Jewel's" instead of "Jewel".

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Updated On: 10/31/07 at 08:22 AM

#48

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/31/07 at 9:39am

What is yo all talking about. I is what I is. Now leave me bee.

#49

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/31/07 at 10:02am

As a matter of pronunciation, my pet peeve is "ax" instead of "ask."

#50

re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times

Posted: 10/31/07 at 10:21am

The current commonplace misuse of apostrophes really irks me.

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Updated On: 10/31/07 at 10:21 AM

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