Improper wording...... i mean.... really....

cyn4him
cyn4him Posts: 83 Member
edited 12:36PM in Chit-Chat
Ok. I have no doubt that there are others who have seen this and had the urge to correct... I don't correct as I know that noone is perfect. But just a couple of peeves that I only face on weight loss forums.

1. I do not want to "loose" weight. I want to lose it. I do want my pants to become loose though....

2. A pound is a pound. A pound of fat weighs 1 pound. A pound of muscle weighs 1 pound.......
A pound of muscle is smaller than a pound of fat though....

3. I saw this one and just giggled... "An ounce of water weighs about an ounce I think."
Yes... why I think an ounce just might weigh an ounce... hmmm...

ANYWAY.....Guess this is what happens when you marry an English major and get corrected for a few years.

Would love to hear some others if you all would be so kind as to share. Might make me smile a little.
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  • cyn4him
    cyn4him Posts: 83 Member
    No one???
  • kathym42
    kathym42 Posts: 26
    Funny thing about your post...noone isn't a word and you used it in your description of your pet peeves about others grammar
  • cyn4him
    cyn4him Posts: 83 Member
    I know. I caught it after I did it. Oops. Lol. Miss that space regularly.
  • HellsKells
    HellsKells Posts: 671 Member
    Funny thing about your post...noone isn't a word and you used it in your description of your pet peeves about others grammar

    others'
  • BostonMatt
    BostonMatt Posts: 258
    It drives me crazy when people put more than one period at the end of a sentence..... Just one please.
  • halobender
    halobender Posts: 780 Member
    3. I saw this one and just giggled... "An ounce of water weighs about an ounce I think."
    Yes... why I think an ounce just might weigh an ounce... hmmm...
    I giggled at this because an ounce of water does, actually, only weigh about an ounce.

    One fluid ounce of water weighs 1.043 dry ounces; fluid ounces are different from dry ounces.
  • kathym42
    kathym42 Posts: 26
    Yes but I'm not the grammar police so I can make mistakes. It was a very minor one.
  • kathym42
    kathym42 Posts: 26
    :smile:
  • beccaboo0713
    beccaboo0713 Posts: 74
    It drives me crazy when people put more than one period at the end of a sentence..... Just one please.

    Well, if it's three periods then it's an ellipsis, which is an actual punctuation. It's just that a lot of people use it wrong.
  • HellsKells
    HellsKells Posts: 671 Member
    Yes but I'm not the grammar police so I can make mistakes. It was a very minor one.

    so was the one you pointed out. :wink:
  • cyn4him
    cyn4him Posts: 83 Member
    I think this falls in with no one is perfect. Lol. Mostly was referring to the very common things I have seen on many weight loss and fitness sites. Said it here like this because I am not going to correct or attack anyone directly..... but I am curious of other things like this that people have noticed.
  • abetterjune
    abetterjune Posts: 219
    This isn't gramatical. Nor does it annoy me. In fact I love how my son says "Did you put finach in my foothie?" instead of spinach and smoothie. hah.
  • kathym42
    kathym42 Posts: 26
    I only pointed it put because that was what she was complaining about...otherwise I wouldn't have said a word
  • HellsKells
    HellsKells Posts: 671 Member
    The ones I see the most are the ones that confuse:

    Your/You're
    Their/There/They're
    Than/Then
    Affect/Effect
  • tistal
    tistal Posts: 869 Member
    Do. Not. Care.
  • OhKelsey1
    OhKelsey1 Posts: 139
    I'm a writer, so if you get me started on grammar pet peeves, I'll never stop! However, the one that currently kills me the most is "use to" and "suppose to" in place of "used to" and "supposed to." I just can't take it!
  • kathym42
    kathym42 Posts: 26
    I only pointed it put because that was what she was complaining about...otherwise I wouldn't have said a word
  • halobender
    halobender Posts: 780 Member
    the one that currently kills me the most is "use to" and "suppose to" in place of "used to" and "supposed to." I just can't take it!
    Those crush my soul a little, as well.
  • jkt69
    jkt69 Posts: 11
    This isn't gramatical. Nor does it annoy me. In fact I love how my son says "Did you put finach in my foothie?" instead of spinach and smoothie. hah.

    My boy calls them floozies not smoothies :)
  • FlyByJuly
    FlyByJuly Posts: 564 Member
    nevermind!
  • kaylurzz
    kaylurzz Posts: 121 Member
    Lose and loose drive me crazy!

    Same with your and you're and there, their, and they're . URKS ME SO MUCH!
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    oh.. but i do want to loose my weight..

    i want to go out into the world, sew its wild oats, raise some hell, gain some maturity in the process and eventually settle down with someone else's loosed weight and then have fat fat babies
  • Bobby_Clerici
    Bobby_Clerici Posts: 1,828 Member
    No one???
    When people say muscle weighs more than fat, they are correct.
    A gallon of muscle weighs more than a gallon of fat.
    Muscle weighs more BY VOLUME.
    People do not always say it right, but that is what they mean.
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    It drives me crazy when people put more than one period at the end of a sentence..... Just one please.

    Well, if it's three periods then it's an ellipsis, which is an actual punctuation. It's just that a lot of people use it wrong.

    I do this. I use it wrong all the time.

    But, I do it because I want to emphasize the pause in thought, more than a period would. I do this in conversational writing like forums or tweets. I would not do it in a professional setting.
  • kathym42
    kathym42 Posts: 26
    lol, do you mean IRKS you so much? :laugh:
  • Absidey
    Absidey Posts: 116 Member
    So many grammar nazis! Where are the punctuation dictators? /sigh

    In all seriousness, though, I HATE "set" in place of "sit." It seems to be really common in the south, but I never noticed it in CA, NV, WY, or ID.
  • kathym42
    kathym42 Posts: 26
    Lose and loose drive me crazy!

    Same with your and you're and there, their, and they're . URKS ME SO MUCH!

    lol, do you mean IRKS you so much? :laugh:
  • kathym42
    kathym42 Posts: 26
    Yes but I'm not the grammar police so I can make mistakes. It was a very minor one.

    so was the one you pointed out. :wink:

    I only pointed it put because that was what she was complaining about...otherwise I wouldn't have said a word
  • Sassy922
    Sassy922 Posts: 399 Member
    It drives me crazy when people put more than one period at the end of a sentence..... Just one please.

    excess periods don't bother me, but for some reason I've been seeing ,,,,, a lot lately and that makes me stabby. at first I thought it was a typo, but I see it more and more.

    also I have a friend on fb that...types her status...like this and random "..." in the middle....of her sentences.
  • StarkLark
    StarkLark Posts: 476 Member
    3. I saw this one and just giggled... "An ounce of water weighs about an ounce I think."
    Yes... why I think an ounce just might weigh an ounce... hmmm...
    I giggled at this because an ounce of water does, actually, only weigh about an ounce.

    One fluid ounce of water weighs 1.043 dry ounces; fluid ounces are different from dry ounces.
    Came here to say this! :laugh: :laugh:
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