"Loosing" vs. "Losing" - read & save my sanity!
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Grammar: The difference between knowing your *kitten* and knowing you're *kitten*.
AMEN! AMEN AND ANOTHER AMEN!0 -
I will probably think your funny but when some yahoo tries to attack me b/c my grammar on this post isn't academic standard I will know you missed the point. :-)
What's the point in attacking other people for their bad grammar & then telling them not to attack you for your bad grammar (which you have displayed on this post)?
Ridiculous & petty.
Some people have learning difficulties, you never know.
spot on, I do not understand why it's so irratating, we are not here to improve our grammer, just ourselfs ;-)0 -
Grammar: The difference between knowing your *kitten* and knowing you're *kitten*.0
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I picked up the word monies from economics and finance textbooks. It is also in real dictionaries so apparently it is a real word. Why would you say it isn't? Just not common outside of the world of finance most likely.
yep! monies is a real word!0 -
Personally I think its just the way the English language is evolving. If you read newspapers from 100 years back, the language used then has changed a lot. As forms of communication change, with the advent of text messaging, twittter, email etc, the written word is probably evolving faster than it ever has. Words and phrases that were once only common in certain areas have become global, words take different meanings, others are used less often. I don't get why people get upset about grammar and spelling. To me, its just a form of snobbery. As long as I can understand what they are trying to say, I'm good with that. Not everyone is great at putting words down on paper, some people may find it difficult to read and write, so pulling them up on it may make them less likely to post, because they don't want someone nit picking over an out of place apostrophe, or a misspelled word.
Ya know [sic] - I realize that language evolves. It just happens.
But to blatantly ignore correct usage because you're TOO DAMNED LAZY to learn the correct stuff? Inexcusable.
Or, to put it in layman's terms: STFU N00B.0 -
Grammar: The difference between knowing your *kitten* and knowing you're *kitten*.
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I will probably think your funny but when some yahoo tries to attack me b/c my grammar on this post isn't academic standard I will know you missed the point. :-)
What's the point in attacking other people for their bad grammar & then telling them not to attack you for your bad grammar (which you have displayed on this post)?
Ridiculous & petty.
Some people have learning difficulties, you never know.
spot on, I do not understand why it's so irratating, we are not here to improve our grammer, just ourselfs ;-)
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Note: Not one period at the end of either sentence. Irony.
Love this! There's also another one that is baby seals on a dance floor that says "Stop clubbing, baby seals!". Cracks me up0 -
How very entertaining seeing you lot across the pond debating grammar when you can't spell favour, colour and many more! :laugh:
That used to bug me when I first moved to America (born and raised in Leicestershire, UK), but after a while I started kind of liking it. The extra 'U' really isn't necessary when you get down to it. It doesn't change the inflection of the spoken or written word. I'm cool with that.0 -
Haha! I LOVE THIS!!! My biggest pet peeve is when people PURPOSELY misspell words, like YUH instead of YOU. Seriously?? How hard is it to spell YOU correctly? COME ON!!0
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Spell Check has made me stoopid.
I'm just glad I don't have to write things out by hand. Computers have destroyed my penmanship. Oh and my laziness. Computers and laziness have destroyed my penmanship.0 -
Seriously. You accept "ur" as proper grammar in a post, but get upset about it's instead of its, or too instead of to?
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So the point is....you are complaining about use of grammar while butchering it yourself?
Besides the fact that this topic has been beaten to death like an old gray mare, you might get people to take you a bit more seriously if your own post correcting people wasn't fraught with errors and issues. But that's just my opinion.0 -
I'm just glad I don't have to write things out by hand. Computers have destroyed my penmanship. Oh and my laziness. Computers and laziness have destroyed my penmanship.
Oh - wow. Good thing you clarified.
I thought for a second that computers had destroyed your laziness and I was rather impressed!0 -
Ooohh, don't get me started; I am a Grammar Nazi by profession! The one that really gets to me is when people mix up "me" and "I". For example: "Are you coming to the shop with David and I?", when it should be "David and me". The rule is always: take the other person out of your sentence and see if it still makes sense with just you in it. We wouldn't say "Are you coming to the shop with I?", would we? Unless you are Yoda; then you are forgiven... :flowerforyou:0
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Licence in the context of Poetic Licence should have a C not an S as you used because it's NOT a verb in that context.
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Something I've only come across since moving to NC is people that think "license" (as in driver's license) is plural because it ends with an "s" sound:
"May I see your driver's license?"
"Hold on, I'll get them."
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How very entertaining seeing you lot across the pond debating grammar when you can't spell favour, colour and many more! :laugh:
That used to bug me when I first moved to America (born and raised in Leicestershire, UK), but after a while I started kind of liking it. The extra 'U' really isn't necessary when you get down to it. It doesn't change the inflection of the spoken or written word. I'm cool with that.
Color confuses me as there's a shop where I used to live called 'Color' & it's pronounced "Co-lore/Co-law" so when I'm reading something written in American English I sometimes have to stop & tell myself that it says 'colour'.0 -
I agree with you Fred77. It's not like we're grading papers here. Time and a place for everything.0
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money is already plural. it is a plural noun.
one would not say "I have 1 money." or "I have 2 monies."
Funk and Wagnalls would disagree with you as would Merriam-Webster. They show "moneys" and "monies" as the plural of money. While you are correct that you don't say 1 money or 2 monies, you do say something like "Bob's money" or "the collective monies of various estates." The term "monies" appears often in financial/business/economic circles.0
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