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Posted by TheatreBaby on Oct-07-2003 19:06:

I've never realized how upsetting grammatical errors are to some people. I just figure when someone produces a typo that they were thinking faster than they could type. Or that they were in a hurry. I'll have to try to type cautiously as not to upset the fragile state one might be in when reading posts on TA.

Posted by St_Andrew on Oct-07-2003 19:12:

quote:
Originally posted by Echo of Silence
I've noticed your English is exceptional. IMO. I get confused when the wrong word is used because I don't automatically know it is the wrong word. So I'm trying to make sense with the word used not knowing a different word should have been used. Do you do this?

Thanks, guess it's faaar from perfect though... i use wrong words all the time! it's really hard to know couse in Swedish (and Danish too?) we have the same word for a lot of things so then you presume it's the same in English (when you don't know any other word).... guess that can look weird sometimes but i hope they understand anyway

Posted by nekholm on Oct-07-2003 19:15:

My top 3 "most hated" would be to/too, than/then and there/their/they're.

Posted by TeKnoHe@d2025 on Oct-07-2003 19:17:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike
So spelling words correctly annoys you does it?

LoL, I was just fucking around...funny how many people are getting angry about it.

Posted by Essential1 on Oct-07-2003 19:17:

quote:
Originally posted by TheatreBaby
I've never realized how upsetting grammatical errors are to some people. I just figure when someone produces a typo that they were thinking faster than they could type. Or that they were in a hurry. I'll have to try to type cautiously as not to upset the fragile state one might be in when reading posts on TA.

It's not so much on message boards that it annoys me. It's mostly things like incorrect signs and such.
Also, seeing my buddy fuck up all the time on college papers that I proofread for him. It pisses me off because he got accepted and I didn't.

Posted by DasBrotBesser on Oct-07-2003 22:28:

LOL You stole my idea! Well, I guess it's your idea since you got to it first...

Anyway, one thing that I think is interesting to analyze is the shortened english used for road signs and whatnot (as in how it makes sense even if you leave helping verbs out etc.), but not when they shorten the english by taking out the wrong words! One example I can think of that drives me CRAZY is a sign in the shuttle that I take to class that says, "No standing front white line while bus is in motion." I guess it's kind of hard to explain, but to me it seems like the obvious choice, if they really needed to save two letters, would be to take out the last "is" so it would read, "No standing front of white line while bus in motion." What the shit is "front white line" supposed to mean?

Another one is run-on sentences without punctuation that I see everywhere on message boards it gets quite annoying reading whole paragraphs without commas periods semi-colons colons whatever it just seems like someone is writing on a third-grade level i just sit there and think shouldn't you be in bed li'l boy?

Posted by Endo on Oct-07-2003 22:31:

WTF is with people and "addicting"? Addicting is not an adjective!! It's addictive!!!!

Your and you're upsets me too

Posted by drizzt81 on Oct-07-2003 22:38:

Re: Re: Re: Offical grammar rant thread

quote:
Originally posted by joeh
You know what's worse though?

When people call a full stop a period.

ahhh.. finally, someone understands me. All my American friends make fun of me for saying full stop. But that is what I learned in school.

Posted by drizzt81 on Oct-07-2003 22:40:

quote:
Originally posted by nekholm
My top 3 "most hated" would be to/too, than/then and there/their/they're.

my MOST hated is:

hear vs heer vs here (in the end he/ she meant here)

Posted by drizzt81 on Oct-07-2003 22:42:

quote:
Originally posted by DasBrotBesser

^^ that annoys me to. It makes NO sense at all
translates to (word-for-word) "The bread better" ?? what is that supposed to mean?

I give you the 'typo' excuse though. You might have wanted your nick to be: "DasBrotMesser" -> The bread knife

Posted by Essential1 on Oct-07-2003 22:45:

Posted by DasBrotBesser on Oct-07-2003 22:59:

quote:
Originally posted by drizzt81
^^ that annoys me to. It makes NO sense at all
translates to (word-for-word) "The bread better" ?? what is that supposed to mean?

I give you the 'typo' excuse though. You might have wanted your nick to be: "DasBrotMesser" -> The bread knife

LOL finally! I was waiting for some crazy German to notice my name and freak out. Actually, it's from an inside joke between me and some friends in German class. There was a dialogue in the book where this guy finished up by saying, "Ja, da ist das Brot besser," and for some reason we just started cracking up, and now whenever we're saying something is cool, we just say, "Ja, da ist das Brot besser." After all, it IS the better bread...

Posted by netw3rkd on Oct-07-2003 23:07:

heh stop worring about how stupid people talk

Posted by Omegasox on Oct-07-2003 23:26:

Definitely is the most commonly mispelled word. Seriously, pay attention to it, I rarely see it spelled correctly. Doesn't bother me, but it always catches my attention.

'ur' definitely annoys me tho.

Posted by MrSquirrel on Oct-08-2003 00:02:

Peopel who don;t pay attention to teh words they are typing abotu.

That is usually what my threads look like before I go back and proofread them. I transpose a lot of letters and always seem to put semicolons instead of apostrophes. Don't know why I do that.

MrS

Posted by tha_broad on Oct-08-2003 00:14:

Re: Offical grammar rant thread

quote:
Originally posted by Essential1
seperate

SEPARATE

Posted by Nosmo on Oct-08-2003 00:38:

hookt on fonix wurkt 4 me.

Posted by Mako on Oct-08-2003 03:13:

quote:
Originally posted by MrSquirrel
Peopel who don;t pay attention to teh words they are typing abotu.

That is usually what my threads look like before I go back and proofread them. I transpose a lot of letters and always seem to put semicolons instead of apostrophes. Don't know why I do that.

MrS

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Petrty amzanig, huh?

Posted by drizzt81 on Oct-08-2003 03:31:

quote:
Originally posted by Mako
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Petrty amzanig, huh?

yes. In fact that totally boggled my mind.

Posted by Mako on Oct-08-2003 03:32:

quote:
Originally posted by drizzt81
yes. In fact that totally boggled my mind.

Illiterate kraut :P

Posted by DJ Chrono on Oct-08-2003 03:36:

I shall have been eating breakfast before lunch.

Posted by daffodil on Oct-08-2003 04:48:

i'm just going to respond to several things mentioned because i don't want to quote everything...

yes, i'm a grammar and usage nazi. yes, i usually do not capitalize. yes, i recognize the irony because i know irony is the opposite of what you would expect, not a coincidence. many people say ironic when they mean coincidence.

i do not fault people who don't speak english natively when they post. foreigners usually speak and write better english than most americans and brits.

i'm not "delicate" because i think people should have respect for the rules of the english language. if you can't express yourself effectively, i get the impression that you're unintelligent. it's hard to wade through a poorly written, rambling post so i normally don't even read them.

as for my biggest grammar peeve: very unique. unique is defined as "one of a kind," so there can be no degrees of uniqueness. something is either one-of-a-kind or it's not. an item cannot be "somewhat unique," "kind of unique," or "very unique." it's the one thing i always correct people on because it's like nails on a chalkboard.

Posted by DasBrotBesser on Oct-08-2003 05:42:

Thanks Daffy, you reminded me of some more pet peeves with that one.

ATM machine
PIN number
advanced planning
people who type daffy instead of daffodil
people who say Calvin & Hobbes isn't the best comic ever

Posted by Boomer187 on Oct-08-2003 06:03:

Well to me boards are informal so I could care less about grammar and syntax. I am more looking for semantics in posts, which seems to be rare (besides the ever so popular "PICS OR STFU"). Plus I suck at typing, sometimes my left hand is quicker than my right and "the" comes out as "teh". who cares.

heres one to think about, between compares only 2 things, you use among when there is more than 2.

and of course everything everyone before me said....

Posted by daffodil on Oct-08-2003 06:07:

quote:
Originally posted by Boomer187

heres one to think about, between compares only 2 things, you use among when there is more than 2.

i can't believe someone else knows that! i'm going to post a list of esoteric nonsense tomorrow, can't do it now.

have any of y'all taken the bremner test?

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