"I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar" - NY Times- Page 2
"I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar" - NY Times
#25re: '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.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#26re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times
Posted: 10/30/07 at 12:29pmPeople use "utilize" a lot when they really mean "use," too.
#27re: '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.
#28re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times
Posted: 10/30/07 at 12:33pmIf people would just type gooder, I might give them the respect they so desperately and obviously crave, for all in tents and poor purses.
blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#29re: '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.
#30re: '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.
blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22
#31re: '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.)
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#32re: '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
#33re: '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!
#34re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times
Posted: 10/30/07 at 1:08pmLOL. I belong to that Facebook group.
#35re: '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?)
#36re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times
Posted: 10/30/07 at 1:12pmnope
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#37re: '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
#38re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times
Posted: 10/30/07 at 2:17pmSonofMammaMiaSam - Thank you for providing the cover letter for my job interview this week.
#39re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times
Posted: 10/30/07 at 2:20pmYou r kwhite wellkum mr. Mat. I hope u dew wel on the oral xam.
#40re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times
Posted: 10/30/07 at 2:39pmIf he looks like that hese shure two.
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#41re: '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'.....
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#42re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times
Posted: 10/30/07 at 6:38pmThe 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.
#43re: '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.
#44re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times
Posted: 10/30/07 at 6:53pmPeople get confused, because if you said, "Sara and I were both invited to the show," you would be right.
blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22
#45re: '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.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#46re: '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".
RetroBoy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/1/07
#47re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times
Posted: 10/31/07 at 9:39amWhat is yo all talking about. I is what I is. Now leave me bee.
keen on kean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#48re: 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar' - NY Times
Posted: 10/31/07 at 10:02amAs a matter of pronunciation, my pet peeve is "ax" instead of "ask."
#49re: '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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