Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves

['andersom']

wa zeg ie??

[Queen Victoria]

Spelling is essential as is grammar (and grampa). I have no idea what I spelled.

[renaeden]

[Bastet]

Randy cured me of my spelling and grammar pet peeves.

[renaeden]

Not a problem with spelling but...

[odeon]

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.

[WolFish]

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.

[renaeden]

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.

[conlang returns]

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. 

[Jack]

Have the spelling ability of a seventh grader; sometimes wish I had the guts to simply not care.

[renaeden]

^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.

[Jack]

^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.

[renaeden]

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.

[WolFish]

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.

[RageBeoulve]

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.