"I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar" - NY Times- Page 2

[doodlenyc]

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.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

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

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

[Calvin]

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.

[best12bars]

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.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

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.

[best12bars]

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

"Amazing" in America.

"Brilliant" in Britain.




Just don't.

[doodlenyc]

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.)

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

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.
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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

[madbrian]

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!

[LizzieCurry]

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

LOL. I belong to that Facebook group.

[PB ENT.]

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?)

[doodlenyc]

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

nope

[HumATune]

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

[Mister Matt]

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

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

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

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

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

[best12bars]

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

If he looks like that hese shure two.

[Elphaba]

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'.....

[touchmeinthemorning]

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.

[smartpenguin78]

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.

[best12bars]

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.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

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

Bobby Steggert belongs to that Facebook group!

I'm in love.

[~FloweryFriend~]

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".

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

[RetroBoy]

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

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

[keen on kean]

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

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

[Rathnait62]

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

The current commonplace misuse of apostrophes really irks me.

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