INTENSITY²
Start here => Games => Topic started by: Queen Victoria on July 08, 2012, 11:50:52 PM
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I could write a book. First four:
1) It's complexioned, not complected. Fair complexioned, not fair complected.
2) Between = choice of two, Among = choice of more than two.
Between Tom and Harry, Harry is the nerd.
Among Tom, Dick, and Harry, Harry is the Nerd.
3) Brunette means black haired, brownette means brown haired.
4) A male is blond, a female is blonde.
The Queen hath spoken and is allsome.
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I never knew that about blond/e, I just always thought it was spelt with an e on the end.
My absolute pet peeve is the plural word written with an apostrophe when there is no need for it. Such as banana's instead of bananas. Or DVD's instead of DVDs. There are a few examples around town that I should take photos of and put up here.
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I didn't know the word brownette, nor did I know the meaning of brunette.
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Your vs you're.
Pretty much everything Ricky writes :autism:
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Noun
brunette
1.brunette (a girl or woman with brown or black hair)
I've always used brunette to describe someone with brown hair :LOL: (I always went by the descriptions on the dye boxes :thumbup:) , the true definition itself if you read it is misleading, because it says brown OR black. Usually if someone had black hair, I referred to them as "raven-haired".
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In old English house is always a verb. The noun is hous.
The original 2 person singularis of be is not thou art but thou beest.
8)
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"rediculous"
It's RIDICULOUS, cuntstick.
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Spot the mistake:
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There is at least a period missing.
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A comma, actually.
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Oh, I meant a comma :facepalm2:
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I'd probably more likely use a semicolon.
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Grammar, spelling yuck :zombiefuck: I was never good at either and am very tolerant of mistakes
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Grammar, spelling yuck :zombiefuck: I was never good at either and am very tolerant of mistakes
It's fascinating. Originally they didn't use punctuation or anything. Like this: itsfascinatingoriginallytheydidntusepunctuationoranythinglikethis
Then the Romans started to have "half-high" periods. Later, in the Middle Age, they invented more and more symbols and writing rules. The most advanced punctuation today is probably in German.
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There are written languages today that do not use spaces.
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Thatisbraveofthemidsay
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Very brave indeed. It's a bitch to typeset and layout such scripts if you don't know the language, but there are ways to automate it.
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Welltheromansdiditmanuallybutthenagaintheywereveryverybraveindeedthoseromans
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ANDWRITINGINCAPITALSWASDEFAULTTOOTOENHANCETHEVISUALEFFECT
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YESTHEYCERTAINLYHADAFEELINGFORGREATNESSTHEROMANS
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THEGREEKWEREBRAVEONCAPITALISINGANDNOTUSINGSPACESTOOTHEROMANSDIDNOTMINDTHOSEINFLUENCESFROMGRAECIAATALLITISABUGGERTOREEDTHOUGH
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IFYOUWANTTOBEBRAVEYOUSIMPLYDONTMINDPETTYTHINGSLIKEREADINGDIFFICULTIESIMAGINEJULIUSCAESARMINDINGREADINGDIFFICULTIESHOWBRAVEWOULDTHATHAVEBEEN
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He could get a high educated slave to read it for him.
Those Romans did automatise things, by using non civilians. :M
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Middle Egyptian scripts had no vowels.
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Having only consonants is :viking:
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Problem is, with dead languages like that nobody knows how they actually sounded.
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universal hand signals work well!
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Not necessarily. The gesture we use for "OK" in the West means "shit" or "fuck" in some parts of the world.
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Not necessarily. The gesture we use for "OK" in the West means "shit" or "fuck" in some parts of the world.
Even better :viking:
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Languages are like LEGO; many pieces fit together at random but not all.
For instance the Swedish verb måla. It's about 100% coterminous with the English verb "paint". But the Swedish verb färga is not 100% coterminous with the English verb "colour". In English you also have a verb "dye" for that.
Or the other way around: the English word "grandfather" could be considered to be only 50% coterminous with any Swedish word, because there is one Swedish word for paternal grandfather and one for maternal.
Or the word "brave" 8) In German brav might mean "brave" as in English, but it's also another word for "good". Swedish bra and Italian brava only mean "good".
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Proper use of its vs it's. One of our bigger resident grammar nazis consistently confuses them.
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Anglicus qualibet una inepta lingua 8)
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Having only consonants is :viking:
Hebrew has no vowels either.
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I've read that "shit" in pidgin English is "Ash belong-um fire."
"Nice" originally meant "stupid."
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"School" originally meant "free time", because only those who didn't have to work for their living had time to study. Unlike in many other languages Swedish semester still means "paid holiday" (it literally means "six months", though).
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This signwriter should be ashamed of themselves:
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/renaeden/bananas.jpg)
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Having only consonants is :viking:
Welsh words seem to have 8 or 9 consonants in a row! :viking:
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overuse of double negatives
"You don't know nothing"
"No it don't"
FUCK!
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Your / you're
and same as renaeden - apostrophes where the shouldn't be
lazy spelling/grammar doesn't bother me (ie not using apostrophes when there should be one , or "tho" instead of "though" - i do that all the time on the internet), but otherwise it's annoying
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One grammar peeve is "got." "I've got to.....", just seems to grate on my ears. Unfortunately, I use it too often and my ears hurt too much. From what I've read there's no consensus on whether it's grammatical, but it doesn't seem proper to me.
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One grammar peeve is "got." "I've got to.....", just seems to grate on my ears. Unfortunately, I use it too often and my ears hurt too much. From what I've read there's no consensus on whether it's grammatical, but it doesn't seem proper to me.
How about The Four Tops singing Ain't No Woman Like The One Eyed Gott? :zoinks: That made no sense to me. :tard:
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One grammar peeve is "got." "I've got to.....", just seems to grate on my ears. Unfortunately, I use it too often and my ears hurt too much. From what I've read there's no consensus on whether it's grammatical, but it doesn't seem proper to me.
How about The Four Tops singing Ain't No Woman Like The One Eyed Gott? :zoinks: That made no sense to me. :tard:
I got nothing
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The way some say "none of us ARE".
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This signwriter should be ashamed of themselves:
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The apostrophe thing is even more common with acromyms for some reason. As if people just can't accept that big letters have a small letter after them without an apostrophe in between :P
bad grammar doesn't bother me at all. Online I mean. In an essay it would be different, but on internet forums I type pretty much how I'd speak. So I would probably put "none of us are" because that's what I'd say in conversation with someone
It's when people add something that shouldn't be there (ie got it wrong out of ignorance rather than laziness) that it bothers me. I know that's kinda asshole-ish. Which is why I try not to comment on grammar/punctuation mistakes as it shouldn't matter. Plus we all make them. Even people who are great at spelling and usually very careful about it all - you're bound to slip up sometimes.
It's weird how almost all of us have at least one or two grammar/punctuation pet peeves though.
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VIN number = Vehicle Identification Number number
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PIN number and ATM machine are other common ones
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a self-addressed envelope. it should be pre-addressed because an envelope can't address itself
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Why do you have that stupid 's or s' for genitive in English? :facepalm2:
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netspeak
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One grammar peeve is "got." "I've got to.....", just seems to grate on my ears. Unfortunately, I use it too often and my ears hurt too much. From what I've read there's no consensus on whether it's grammatical, but it doesn't seem proper to me.
Should it be "I have to..."? That is what I say anyway.
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One grammar peeve is "got." "I've got to.....", just seems to grate on my ears. Unfortunately, I use it too often and my ears hurt too much. From what I've read there's no consensus on whether it's grammatical, but it doesn't seem proper to me.
Should it be "I have to..."? That is what I say anyway.
Yes, it should. Perhaps people forget that the 've is have.
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One grammar peeve is "got." "I've got to.....", just seems to grate on my ears. Unfortunately, I use it too often and my ears hurt too much. From what I've read there's no consensus on whether it's grammatical, but it doesn't seem proper to me.
Should it be "I have to..."? That is what I say anyway.
Yes, it should. Perhaps people forget that the 've is have.
I wonder if it is a regional thing, in origin, to say "I have got to ..... ".
In some regions of the Netherlands, people say things like "Ik doe even koffie zetten". To me it sounds wrong, for them it is how it should be. (Do they talk like that where you live, Lutra?)
Dutch pet peeve, when it comes to grammar: Je moet je wel beseffen dat....... Aaaaaarrrrccchhhhhhhh. Beseffen is geen wederkerig werkwoord.
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^ Dunno.. if some say such. Here they say stuff like: jot, nut, hullie, zullie, ge-/worre, da wit oe wel eej, agge mahr leut et, hedde gij, etc.... :autism:
Plus, folks here (the inbred Berregenaeren) tend to end their sentence with 'eej(?)' a LOT. It's frikkin' disgusting.
Denk wel nu (on the plus-side again).. dat ik efkes 'n bakkie ga 'doen'.
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This signwriter should be ashamed of themselves:
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The apostrophe thing is even more common with acromyms for some reason. As if people just can't accept that big letters have a small letter after them without an apostrophe in between :P
bad grammar doesn't bother me at all. Online I mean. In an essay it would be different, but on internet forums I type pretty much how I'd speak. So I would probably put "none of us are" because that's what I'd say in conversation with someone
It's when people add something that shouldn't be there (ie got it wrong out of ignorance rather than laziness) that it bothers me. I know that's kinda asshole-ish. Which is why I try not to comment on grammar/punctuation mistakes as it shouldn't matter. Plus we all make them. Even people who are great at spelling and usually very careful about it all - you're bound to slip up sometimes.
It's weird how almost all of us have at least one or two grammar/punctuation pet peeves though.
I just assumed that character on top of the shack was named Choc Banana, and this was his shack. :dunno:
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Let me compare my local dialect with English and with standard Swedish:
hose - slang - schlång
fish- fisk - fesk
nag - tjata - tjôta
much - mycket - möe(t)
worn out - sliten - schleten
glasses - glasögon - glasöger
key - nyckel - nöckel
head - huvud - hôvve
:laugh:
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People who write "could of" instead of "could have". I guess they think since it is said "could've" that it is "of", not a shortened version of "have".
My sister has done this in various forms in texts to me 3 times. Her kids are homeschooled and she teaches them so she should know better.
I found on The Oatmeal "10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling":
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling (http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling)
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You must kill the offenders! :arrr:
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Also, people who say "irregardless". There is no such word!
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People who write "could of" instead of "could have".
omg I forgot that. that's the one I hate the most lol
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People who "went" instead of "said"
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People who say "yeah, no". It is becoming common here in Australia for people to say this and it sounds like they can't make up their minds.
When people write "you've got another thing coming". Instead it is "another think coming".
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People who say "yeah, no". It is becoming common here in Australia for people to say this and it sounds like they can't make up their minds.
When people write "you've got another thing coming". Instead it is "another think coming".
Maybe they announce the rare fact, for them, of "another thought coming" up. :zoinks:
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a self-addressed envelope. it should be pre-addressed because an envelope can't address itself
when i see 'SAE' i always assumed it referred to stamped addressed envelope and not self.
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People who say "yeah, no". It is becoming common here in Australia for people to say this and it sounds like they can't make up their minds.
When people write "you've got another thing coming". Instead it is "another think coming".
I could of done without hearing that myself. irregardless people keep saying it.
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Using "u" and "ur" for "you", "your" and "you're", and most chat speak in general.
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a self-addressed envelope. it should be pre-addressed because an envelope can't address itself
when i see 'SAE' i always assumed it referred to stamped addressed envelope and not self.
When I see SAE I think motor oil :fixin: :nerdy:
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People who say "yeah, no". It is becoming common here in Australia for people to say this and it sounds like they can't make up their minds.
When people write "you've got another thing coming". Instead it is "another think coming".
I could of done without hearing that myself. irregardless people keep saying it.
Well, if you think that, you've another thing coming.
:laugh:
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:headexplode:
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:headexplode:
Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves
I have to say that if I had a pet that used improper grammar and misspelled words, I wouldn't be peeved at all, I would be thrilled.
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u guys gettin' 2 srs over among spling n grama your m'king 2 biga dheal its no probl'm I got gud enuf skilz c? if u expeck moor you hve anuter thing cumming; i culd of rote beya bhut nope i got no car 2 who so... Nun of us are gettin' aney yunger
wat is scarry his twat u problemly understoold hull tat sssloter of d englsh langerage welcum to da futa of ow pleple wil wrote sunday
buydawy\ i luv danana's thay so gud I got 2 buy moor i also want b blonde 2 blewnets are 2 broun that remembers me i ned moneys from the ATM macsheen;
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'you're not wrong are you'
:evillaugh:
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People who say "yeah, no". It is becoming common here in Australia for people to say this and it sounds like they can't make up their minds.
When people write "you've got another thing coming". Instead it is "another think coming".
I could of done without hearing that myself. irregardless people keep saying it.
:rofl:
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u guys gettin' 2 srs over among spling n grama your m'king 2 biga dheal its no probl'm I got gud enuf skilz c? if u expeck moor you hve anuter thing cumming; i culd of rote beya bhut nope i got no car 2 who so... Nun of us are gettin' aney yunger
wat is scarry his twat u problemly understoold hull tat sssloter of d englsh langerage welcum to da futa of ow pleple wil wrote sunday
buydawy\ i luv danana's thay so gud I got 2 buy moor i also want b blonde 2 blewnets are 2 broun that remembers me i ned moneys from the ATM macsheen;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_mDTLphIVY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_mDTLphIVY)
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u guys gettin' 2 srs over among spling n grama your m'king 2 biga dheal its no probl'm I got gud enuf skilz c? if u expeck moor you hve anuter thing cumming; i culd of rote beya bhut nope i got no car 2 who so... Nun of us are gettin' aney yunger
wat is scarry his twat u problemly understoold hull tat sssloter of d englsh langerage welcum to da futa of ow pleple wil wrote sunday
buydawy\ i luv danana's thay so gud I got 2 buy moor i also want b blonde 2 blewnets are 2 broun that remembers me i ned moneys from the ATM macsheen;
Ricky? Is that you?
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u wot thnk i him?
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A couple I have seen on here:
Weather instead of whether.
Who's instead of whose.
Come on people! You should know better! :police:
Another:
Aloud instead of allowed. I saw it on Facebook.
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I don't think I have any. Grammar and spelling are somewhat alien to me and I struggle with it on most posts. In the past it has been one of the things that discouraged me from posting on forums and it still keeps me out of chats. So as long I can understand the meaning of a post very little bothers me
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I don't think I have any. Grammar and spelling are somewhat alien to me and I struggle with it on most posts. In the past it has been one of the things that discouraged me from posting on forums and it still keeps me out of chats. So as long I can understand the meaning of a post very little bothers me
I like your posting style, you come across as a funny guy. :green:
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I don't think I have any. Grammar and spelling are somewhat alien to me and I struggle with it on most posts. In the past it has been one of the things that discouraged me from posting on forums and it still keeps me out of chats. So as long I can understand the meaning of a post very little bothers me
I like your posting style, you come across as a funny guy. :green:
:agreed:
Parts is BRAVE.
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He is. Especially when he likens the BBC to big black cocks :o
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Argh.
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/renaeden/20121116_125824.jpg)
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Go on, kick that sign. You know you want to.
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I find errors on professionally produced things amusing
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I find errors on professionally produced things amusing
Ditto.
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See if you can spot it - it is on the orange sign. And on the black sign, isn't it meant to be espresso?
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/renaeden/20130122_125016.jpg)
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The menu board reads like chapter headings from a porn book.
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Possessive use of s on "coffee" :)
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Possessive use of s on "coffee" :)
My post was in addition to the possessive and misspelling.
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speling iz ova rayted enee waiy. ..their...I sed it...
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speling iz ova rayted enee waiy. ..their...I sed it...
weonhg eo clenwot ooe sqmf.
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wa zeg ie?????
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Spelling is essential as is grammar (and grampa). I have no idea what I spelled.
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(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/renaeden/c87bc560-443e-4a47-be84-28fc409f51a7_zpsd3c9bb1c.jpg) (http://s129.photobucket.com/user/renaeden/media/c87bc560-443e-4a47-be84-28fc409f51a7_zpsd3c9bb1c.jpg.html)
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(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/renaeden/20130730_161911_zpsb5f7467d.jpg) (http://s129.photobucket.com/user/renaeden/media/20130730_161911_zpsb5f7467d.jpg.html)
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/renaeden/20130625_110909_zps65432e0b.jpg) (http://s129.photobucket.com/user/renaeden/media/20130625_110909_zps65432e0b.jpg.html)
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Randy cured me of my spelling and grammar pet peeves.
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Not a problem with spelling but...
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/renaeden/20131123_140358_zpsd5c794a8.jpg) (http://s129.photobucket.com/user/renaeden/media/20131123_140358_zpsd5c794a8.jpg.html)
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You've got to love those google translations.
There's a Chinese HiFi company called FiiO. They make some very affordable and surprisingly good headphone amps. Their gear is fabulous, with great components and a sturdy feel. Quality, in other words.
But their manuals are terrible, to the point where I have seriously contemplated contacting them and offering to write their documentation for free, just because I love their products. I'm pretty sure they write the manuals in Chinese and then do a basic translation using Google, after which some poor sod will have to try to clean up the mess.
It never works.
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affect vs effect
too two to
their they're there
are vs our (are house is painted green)
I once lived in Massachusetts on a street where they combined the street name with a road sign:
Graves Ave
Dead End
Now they say no outlet but I haven't been back to see if they changed that one.
I have tons of these from grading papers but one of my favorites is from Turnitin, a plagiarism checking site:
Tracred by (my name)
A student writing an essay on African Americans:
"Their language is Ebonics which they seem to speak like"
Your spell checker is your enemy:
I was never allowed to have any black fiends
A discrimination to other groups is indigence
what you know and use too is a form of dissemination
they have an unflavored opinion of people
HIV is known as the lent virus
that is a good example of musculinity
He began to suffer from lunge disease
the loss took a hug toll on him
my aunt past away last summer
Student excuses and complaints:
the questions that I did not answer on my assignment were not there for me to answer.
I don't know why you done mark me down on grammer.
I had a dust bunny in my eye during the quiz
And my all time favorite definition of the Quran
"Quran was a man who lived in the middle east 1400 years ago."
I am grading final papers now; now you are suffering with me.
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The uni I go to also uses Turnitin. The top three you listed are pet hates of mine. I have never seen number four though (our vs are), those two words are not said the same here.
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It think it's really worst when the person clearly didn't care, and simply did the same thing over and over again for four fucking pages. People with an honestly poor grasp of English can be forgiven. But dude, I've heard you fucking speak. You obviously grew up with this language. I know that you know better. Now quit being an asshole and proofread.
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Have the spelling ability of a seventh grader; sometimes wish I had the guts to simply not care.
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^I would say you can spell better than a seventh grader, better than some of the people I go to uni with.
I remember a girl wanted me to hand her assignment in the next day along with mine. I agreed to. I took a sneaky peek at her assignment that night and boy, there were a fair few spelling mistakes.
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^I would say you can spell better than a seventh grader, better than some of the people I go to uni with.
I remember a girl wanted me to hand her assignment in the next day along with mine. I agreed to. I took a sneaky peek at her assignment that night and boy, there were a fair few spelling mistakes.
Yes, seventh grader; know this for certain. Spell check is my friend. :)
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Well, at least you know to use it. :) I have used it (weird but my spelling is getting worse as I get older) but I still spot mistakes from a mile away.
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actually seventh grade is pretty good. The NY Times is, I believe, done in 8th grade English - oh, what the snobs who read it don't know! It used to be 6th grade. Either they've improved or our standards have been lowered.
I might have said it before, but 'way back when, I was grading tests for my mom and studying for the graduate record exam - they look at that to see if you're smart enough for grad school. What a shocker to find words on her test that were on my vocabulary list. What was she teaching? Third grade. She said those words were standard third grade, from her teacher's prep books.
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In A.D 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us
the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
CATS: How are you gentlemen !!
All your base are belong
to us.
You are on the way to
destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
CATS: You have no chance to
survive make your time.
HA HA HA HA....
Operator: Captain !!
Captain: Take off every 'zig'!!
You know what you doing.
Move 'zig'.
For great justice.
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The European Commission has announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU, rather than German, which was the other contender. Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had room for improvement and has therefore accepted a five-year phasing in of "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make sivil servants jump for joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k", Which should klear up some konfusion and allow one key less on keyboards.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f", making words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e" is disgrasful.
By the fourth yer, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and everivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI COM TRU!
Herr Schmidt
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^Bloody hell, that is terrible!
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:lol1:
Everytime I read that, the sound of the language changes more and more to that of the Germans in Allo Allo. Allo Allo - Helga Undresses (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5PBF-AWPWg#)
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It iz vondeful.
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"Houw nais all zeez kidz in ze zoo."
Something like that was the spelling in a story I read long long ago, about two Dutch kids hearing some tourist talk.
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If you use the plural form, DO NOT USE THE APOSTROPHE! :GA:
It's "things", not "thing's".
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Found on amazon.com:
A Few Spays In The Mouth Can Keep Your Dogs Teeth Clean And Free From Infection
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Not just once but twice:(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/renaeden/20140217_083725_zpsspzgrlg6.jpg)
I actually scratched the apostrophe off this sign, you can just see it:
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You must kill them all! :arrr:
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Anyone for grapfruit?
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/renaeden/Mobile%20Uploads/20140225_114524_zpsmmw72nnv.jpg?1417169087524&1417169089004)
You would think a hospital would know better.
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/renaeden/Mobile%20Uploads/20140724_141235_zpsr5l0prty.jpg?1417169087524&1417169089004)
I used to go to this gym.
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I knew I shouldn't have read this thread. :GA:
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New peeve: writing breath instead of breathe. :GA:
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New peeve: writing breath instead of breathe. :GA:
:paperbag:
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New peeve: writing breath instead of breathe. :GA:
:paperbag:
Yes, I saw that! But what made me write that post was my friend who texts me a lot and she made that mistake 3 times, even after I corrected her the first time. Argh!
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In grammar school, I would leave the "e" off of "the."
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I used to catch myself writing "thay" instead of "they".
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Probably an autocorrect issue, but so many people online seem to misspell "barely" as "barley." :get: :lol2:
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My phone doesn't autocorrect, so I am glad I don't have to watch that. My Kindle does though, so any unusual words have to be watched because a number of times I have submitted a post only to see a "corrected" word that is totally wrong!
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One of my pet peeves is using an adjective rather than an adverb when modifying a verb. The PR has heard me complain and comment on this that she uses the adverb correctly.
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One of my pet peeves is using an adjective rather than an adverb when modifying a verb. The PR has heard me complain and comment on this that she uses the adverb correctly.
I missed out on learning about adverbs, adjectives, etc. when I was in school as I changed schools as were starting to learn about them and the new school had finished covering them.
So could you please give me an example, QV?
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One of my pet peeves is using an adjective rather than an adverb when modifying a verb. The PR has heard me complain and comment on this that she uses the adverb correctly.
I missed out on learning about adverbs, adjectives, etc. when I was in school as I changed schools as were starting to learn about them and the new school had finished covering them.
So could you please give me an example, QV?
An adverb modifies a verb. An adjective modifies a noun or pronoun.
"I feel bad about that." bad is an adjective modifying the verb feel. It should be "I feel badly about that."
Basically and general rule of thumb: add -ly to the adjective when making it an adverb.
And, "This is me." Wrong, switched around it becomes "Me is this." Should be "This is she." We won't even go into "Yup" "Wassup" "Yo."
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For once, someone got it right. The text at the bottom:
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Actually, it should be "try to," not "try and."
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For once, someone got it right. The text at the bottom:
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those seats have the same covering as our bus seats.
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i would like a fresh and crispy schnitzel burger with extra crispy gravy
i will feed it to the next student who writes "comprised of"
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i would like a fresh and crispy schnitzel burger with extra crispy gravy
i will feed it to the next student who writes "comprised of"
What's wrong with comprised of?
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i would like a fresh and crispy schnitzel burger with extra crispy gravy
i will feed it to the next student who writes "comprised of"
Can I just get the gravy and an order of fries?
I have no grammar peeves. I dropped out of high school, so I refrain from passing judgement on proper grammar usage.
I will only pass judgement on you if you can't use spell correct. :autism:
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i would like a fresh and crispy schnitzel burger with extra crispy gravy
i will feed it to the next student who writes "comprised of"
What's wrong with comprised of?
in about 20 years, nothing.
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/comprise-versus-compose
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i would like a fresh and crispy schnitzel burger with extra crispy gravy
i will feed it to the next student who writes "comprised of"
What's wrong with comprised of?
The "of".
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i would like a fresh and crispy schnitzel burger with extra crispy gravy
i will feed it to the next student who writes "comprised of"
What's wrong with comprised of?
in about 20 years, nothing.
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/comprise-versus-compose
Thanks.
i would like a fresh and crispy schnitzel burger with extra crispy gravy
i will feed it to the next student who writes "comprised of"
What's wrong with comprised of?
The "of".
So it would seem. Will have to remember that.
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book i will not be reading:
excerpt from one of the amazon "first" books, by an author who apparently has been honored by usa today and has sold one million books (not all of one title).
"Being that..."
the only time that should appear is if a character is saying it.
it was on the first page of the first chapter.
had to vent; it was burning holes in my brain.
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Being that it started the way it did, shouldn't you sue? :zoinks:
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i would like a fresh and crispy schnitzel burger with extra crispy gravy
i will feed it to the next student who writes "comprised of"
Crispy in that sign's case is spelt "cripsy".
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That's because it's comprised of crips. :zoinks:
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That's because it's comprised of crips. :zoinks:
So many things wrong with this. :GA:
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That's because it's comprised of crips. :zoinks:
So many things wrong with this. :GA:
Relax and eat you're chips. :trollface:
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That's because it's comprised of crips. :zoinks:
So many things wrong with this. :GA:
Relax and eat you're chips. :trollface:
:runaway:
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That's because it's comprised of crips. :zoinks:
So many things wrong with this. :GA:
Relax and eat you're chips. :trollface:
:runaway:
Why did you run over their? :trollface:
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LALALALALALA
Can't hear you, can't hear you, can't hear you...
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LALALALALALA
Can't hear you, can't hear you, can't hear you...
You forgot the FA.
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LALALALALALA
Can't hear you, can't hear you, can't hear you...
You forgot the FA.
He always forget's something.
(found this kind of error twice for the same word in a student's paper. she was doing it on purpose)
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LALALALALALA
Can't hear you, can't hear you, can't hear you...
You forgot the FA.
He always forget's something.
(found this kind of error twice for the same word in a student's paper. she was doing it on purpose)
ARRRGGGHHHHHHH
:GA:
Stop it. You're making me physically ill.
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They shouldn't of done that.
I feel mean!
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in which he means that based off of your reaction his words can effect you.
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You people ARE mean, making all these errors!
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I need to avoid this thread. :GA:
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The past tense of "text" is "texted," NOT "text." :bangbang:
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The past tense of "text" is "texted," NOT "text." :bangbang:
Texted does sound sort of weird. :dunno:
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The past tense of "text" is "texted," NOT "text." :bangbang:
Texted does sound sort of weird. :dunno:
I know better than you. :M :P
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The past tense of "text" is "texted," NOT "text." :bangbang:
Texted does sound sort of weird. :dunno:
I know better than you. :M :P
It's an ugly word. :arrr:
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I hate, "Y'all".
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Y'all should learn to love natural language. :P
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But thats wrong.
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I hate, "Y'all".
I ain't got no problem with "yall".
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They shouldn't of done that.
I feel mean!
I hate "should of" or "could of". It's "should HAVE", "could HAVE".
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That's why I said it, and put below that I felt mean.
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I hate, "Y'all".
I hate y'all too. :zoinks:
I hate, "Y'all".
I ain't got no problem with "yall".
Y'all need Jesus. :zoinks:
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I hate, "Y'all".
I hate y'all too. :zoinks:
:P
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I hate, "Y'all".
Queen Victoria occasionally says "y'all." My favorite example is the post in which she asked,
"How the fuck do y'all post a link to a Youtube video?!" That's how you do it. :2thumbsup:
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You people ARE mean, making all these errors!
Correcting errors is of the upmost importance.
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You people ARE mean, making all these errors!
Correcting errors is of the upmost importance.
That's correct. Correcting them before other people notice is even better. It's like it never happened.
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That's why I said it, and put below that I felt mean.
I didn't get it. I guess I didn't understand what "I feel mean" meant and that was a pet peeve, too.
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You people ARE mean, making all these errors!
Correcting errors is of the upmost importance.
Supposebly.
Another spelling pet peeve.
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Oh, yes. I know someone that actually says supposebly. Argh.
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:lol1:
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That's terrible. And funny.
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ouch.
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"My car needs washed."
"They need helped."
"That needs ate."
"This needs finished."
"His grass needs mowed."
:bigcry:
I can not stand it much longer.
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Vietmanese.
Yes, really! Look at it again. They do not say Vietnamese, they say Vietmanese.
:puke:
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As funny as that is, I feel that many average people will look at it and notice "ONE" mistake, maybe two.
Great find, Ren!
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Talking about one of the mistakes, I hate to see when people write compound words when they are not warranted AND the inverse as well.
There is a difference between "sometime" and "some time," right?
... any way and anyway (how about anyways? :green:)
... when ever and whenever
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I see the word "barely" spelled "barley" a lot online these days. Autocorrect gone wrong? :dunno:
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I see the word "barely" spelled "barley" a lot online these days. Autocorrect gone wrong? :dunno:
Barley any have it right. :zoinks:
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I see the word "barely" spelled "barley" a lot online these days. Autocorrect gone wrong? :dunno:
Barley any have it right. :zoinks:
I all most all ways get it right!
:P
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I see the word "barely" spelled "barley" a lot online these days. Autocorrect gone wrong? :dunno:
Barley any have it right. :zoinks:
Beer makes anything bearable.
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...if the pros out way the cons... :GA:
not so post to :zombiefuck:
these were taken from student submissions.
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I see the word "barely" spelled "barley" a lot online these days. Autocorrect gone wrong? :dunno:
Barley any have it right. :zoinks:
Beer makes anything beerable.
Fixed. :zoinks:
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I see the word "barely" spelled "barley" a lot online these days. Autocorrect gone wrong? :dunno:
Barley any have it right. :zoinks:
Beer makes anything beerable.
Fixed. :zoinks:
:clap:
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...if the pros out way the cons... :GA:
not so post to :zombiefuck:
these were taken from student submissions.
:zombiefuck:
Indeed!
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"These doors are alarmed"
On a set of doors at King's Cross.
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"These doors are alarmed"
On a set of doors at King's Cross.
I have seen signs like that in shopping centres. Usually at the back of the store.
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"These doors are alarmed"
On a set of doors at King's Cross.
Someone should work on calming them back down.
:dunno:
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"These doors are alarmed"
On a set of doors at King's Cross.
Someone should work on calming them back down.
:dunno:
:laugh:
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amazon dot com listing (i copied and pasted):
Cross Pens CroAT0625-6 Pearle Scent Blue Gel Ink Pen
someone corrected the spelling, lol.
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amazon dot com listing (i copied and pasted):
Cross Pens CroAT0625-6 Pearle Scent Blue Gel Ink Pen
someone corrected the spelling, lol.
I have found a tiny pearl inside an oyster that I had begun to eat before (approximately three thirty seconds of an inch in diameter, but it was beautifully colored and perfectly spherical as far as anyone could tell) and it smelled like the inside of an oyster, even after I spat it out and showed it off to everyone at the table.
So I am internally compelled to ask; what does "Pearle Scent Blue Gel Ink Pen" smell like, exactly?
:apondering:
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"These doors are alarmed"
On a set of doors at King's Cross.
Someone should work on calming them back down.
:dunno:
It's the terror threat. YOu'd be worried, too, if you had to live your life at King's Cross. :P
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"These doors are alarmed"
On a set of doors at King's Cross.
Someone should work on calming them back down.
:dunno:
It's the terror threat. YOu'd be worried, too, if you had to live your life at King's Cross. :P
Quite so, I am sure.
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"These doors are alarmed"
On a set of doors at King's Cross.
Someone should work on calming them back down.
:dunno:
It's the terror threat. YOu'd be worried, too, if you had to live your life at King's Cross. :P
Quite so, I am sure.
They stole my phone, you know. The doors were startled.
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Another possible autocorrect issue I keep seeing is "definitely" spelled as "defiantly." :soapbox:
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Another possible autocorrect isue I keep seeing is "definitely" spelled as "defiantly." :soapbox:
Shouldn't really should it? As definitely is used a lot more often.
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Another possible autocorrect isue I keep seeing is "definitely" spelled as "defiantly." :soapbox:
Shouldn't really should it? As definitely is used a lot more often.
I suspect people are spelling "definitely" as "definately," and the autocorrect picks the wrong match. :apondering:
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Idiots. Their own fault. Just a pity other people have to read it.
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Idiots. Their own fault. Just a pity other people have to read it.
I get cranky and start shaking my head at the uneducated millennials. :get: :lol2: :laugh:
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Kids.
(http://54.144.231.100/wp-content/uploads/When-Kids-Spell-Words-Wrong-and-they-end-up-dirty.jpg)
(http://54.144.231.100/wp-content/uploads/Adult-Word-Accidentally-Written-by-a-Child.jpg)
(http://54.144.231.100/wp-content/uploads/This-Kid-Was-Not-Trying-to-Be-Dirty-with-their-writing.jpg)
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:lol1:
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I like laughing about hores too. :zoinks:
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I come in peace...
(http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/funny-children-mistakes-10.jpg)
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It takes a very special teacher to do meth with the students. :heisenberg:
Also, hores. :rofl:
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Noo!!! Not Buzz Lightyear! He's my childhood hero. :heart:
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Noo!!! Not Buzz Lightyear! He's my childhood hero. :heart:
The composition is excellent, and the perspective on the bent leg is a skill young children don't generally have, so if it's legitimately a child's drawing then their spelling is excused.
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:rofl:
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Noo!!! Not Buzz Lightyear! He's my childhood hero. :heart:
The composition is excellent, and the perspective on the bent leg is a skill young children don't generally have, so if it's legitimately a child's drawing then their spelling is excused.
Very true. They wouldn't do the blinking light effects either.
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How about ...
"guaranteed warranty"
:hair:
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How about ...
"guaranteed warranty"
:hair:
:lol1:
I would not buy it.
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... can I not expect at least a close assemblance of ... (semblance?)
I know most of mine are more about horrid mis-usages than simple spelling errors.
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Mis-usages are just as relevant.
One thing I have wondered for a long time (I hope someone can help me with this), is it "suffice to say" or "suffice it to say"?
I have seen both and wonder if only one is correct or they both are.
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Suffice to say.
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Thanks odeon. Have you ever heard the other version?
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I don't think so. The Brits don't use it.
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People who write "defiantly" instead of "definitely". Don't they realise that it looks totally wrong and it has a totally different meaning?
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People who write "defiantly" instead of "definitely". Don't they realise that it looks totally wrong and it has a totally different meaning?
I've also seen it spelled "definately." I suspect "defiantly" is what autocorrect comes up with. :orly:
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Horror! My oldest sister spells "can't" as "carnt"! It is not a typo either as I have seen it a number of times and again just now.
The shame.
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Horror! My oldest sister spells "can't" as "carnt"! It is not a typo either as I have seen it a number of times and again just now.
The shame.
Does she pronounce it that way? Maybe her own accent is working against her. :P
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Horror! My oldest sister spells "can't" as "carnt"! It is not a typo either as I have seen it a number of times and again just now.
The shame.
Does she pronounce it that way? Maybe her own accent is working against her. :P
With the Australian accent, they are both said the same. We don't say the r and it does not rhyme with ant like it does for you Americans.
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That's defiantly wrong.
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That's defiantly wrong.
Don't be so stubborn about it.
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Poor internet spellers, listen up: If you lose weight, your pants will get loose. :facepalm2:
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Poor internet spellers, listen up: If you lose weight, your pants will get loose. :facepalm2:
Play fast and lose with the grammar. :P
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Poor internet spellers, listen up: If you lose weight, your pants will get loose. :facepalm2:
Play fast and lose with the grammar. :P
You're part of the problem. Stop encouraging them! :GA:
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Poor internet spellers, listen up: If you lose weight, your pants will get loose. :facepalm2:
Play fast and lose with the Grandma. :P
Fixed
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Poor internet spellers, listen up: If you lose weight, your pants will get loose. :facepalm2:
Play fast and lose with the Grandma. :P
Fixed
Disturbing!
So many levels ...
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Meddle, mettle, medal, metal!!!
Do I actually have to explain it all over again!??!
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Beside, besides. Aside, asides. Etc.
It happens!
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Or how about the commonly misused "conferencing?"
There is no conferencing, there is only conferring. They did not conference today, They conferred. You might have a conference to attend, but what you do there is not conferencing. It is conferring!
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I defiantly have to do some conferencing tomorrow.
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I defiantly have to do some conferencing tomorrow.
I can barley keep my sanity when I read such dreck. :headhurts:
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I defiantly have to do some conferencing tomorrow.
Take pics because no one with a brain believes you. :P
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http://www.dictionary.com/browse/conferencing (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/conferencing)
It's a fairly new addition. Only since 1865 or so.
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shall will
may can
VIN number
complected instead of complexioned
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http://www.dictionary.com/browse/conferencing (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/conferencing)
It's a fairly new addition. Only since 1865 or so.
You do understand that that is bullshit, right?
I do not care how many .coms they have in their name.
:LOL: