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ESP Member Elite
since 2000-01-25
Posts 2556Floating gently on a cloud.... |
What are yours? My biggest at the moment is when people write "your" when they mean "you're"...I know it's only an apostrophe and an e missing but they are completely different!!!!!!! Hehehehe sometimes it does irk me though *checks back into the local mental institute* I'd love to hear what peeves you people on the English front? Luv, Liz xxx PS I know for many here, English isn't your first language...this is by no means a dig at you, just me being silly....  "Gorge the honey from life, and live through the stomach aches knowing they will pass..." ~Liz Pinard 2003~ |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
English errors, grammatical errors, spelling errors can occur all the time, especially when posting directly to the site, as I'm doing now. Of course, Ron provided dictionary.com up above [Yea! Ron!] so a lot of us have NO CHOICE not to fix an error, especially spelling errors...because he's put in a handy-dandy way of checking for ourselves. I think a lot of it has to do with just being lazy. Or trying to talk "in the lingo" of some of the writers today. Which, I personally find, to be very sad. To me, it shows a lack of professionalism. Would I really want to come back years from now and find stuf posted jus b/c I cud do it? Nope. Any top-quality magazine or literary agent wouldn't look twice at some of the stuff we see now and then. But I'll allow that there is a genuine mix of excitement, enthusiasm, some reasons to "hurry and post it!" before the thought dies...but still, I will always be appreciative if any of my work slips by with a spelling or grammatical error that just makes your hair turn gray, Liz, and will be grateful if you say "did you really mean to type in 'such and so' Sun, huh, did you? Really???" So feel free to call me on it when you see it...because I don't like finding it anymore than you do! Hugs...  |
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ESP Member Elite
since 2000-01-25
Posts 2556Floating gently on a cloud.... |
*Enjoying a good laugh here*....I'll be sure to be especially nit-picking with ALL of YOUR posts, Sun!!!! rofl! Thanks for replying Luv, Liz xxx "Gorge the honey from life, and live through the stomach aches knowing they will pass..." ~Liz Pinard 2003~ |
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Ron
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-05-19
Posts 8669Michigan, US |
quote: Mmmm. Have you started nit-picking yet, Liz? When you do, you're planning on telling Karilea what's grammatically questionable with that sentence, right? |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Ron, that's the ONLY one you found? ROTFLMFO.... |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
ROTFLMAO> i hat al them dum misstaks |
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morefiah Member
since 2003-03-26
Posts 150Spanish Town, Jamaica |
misteaks?? What mestaiks? |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Alright I have alot of'm.... (totally improper)...  |
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Local Rebel Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-21
Posts 5767Southern Abstentia |
THis is a po-try sight. Whate're happent to po-tic lisense? heh! But the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the title was your/you're In the words of Churchill -- ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.  |
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Skyfire
since 2000-12-27
Posts 3381Riding |
LOL everything drives me crazy, from grammar, to punctuation, to spelling. When I'm not in the right mood though, I let everything slide. BUT in English, my friend made me proof read all his essays cause he knew that I'd find at least one error that he and his other proof readers had missed. Whether or not that makes me picky, I don't know, but it's one of my quirks, and it's one that I cherish... Even my journal entries are pretty much free from any major errors (yes, I edit my journal entries). lol I think I need a life . |
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IcyFlamez89 Member
since 2003-02-14
Posts 292Jersey City NJ |
oh boy, then all of you keep away from my posts! I am the result of a typical dysfuctional family |
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Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136Mobile, AL |
Don't U hate when people write like this? I hate 2 C people who do this 2. Will someone please tell them 2 stop B4 I go mad, track everyone down, and beat them over the head with a Spelling book?  That is totally irritating. When people message me on Yahoo, AIM, or MSN to tell me they noticed in my profile that I like poetry they sometimes chat like this. I promptly put them on my ignore list or I tell them if they wish to hold an intelligent conversation they should use actual words. Is that mean? I don't think it is too much to ask someone to chat with me as if we're adults with decent vocabularies. I have also read poetry and prose where people write like this. The first one I see, I stop reading immediately. Harsh? People are going to make grammatical errors, but to do it on purpose is just totally annoying. You could hurt me with your bare hands. You could hurt me using the sharp edge of what you say. JEWEL |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
allathisizdrivnmenuts especialy CUZ i jes don wanna havta think or spelit out rite such airagance! |
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LoveBug
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Member Elite
since 2000-01-08
Posts 4697 |
Well.. I don't like when people make stupid mistakes, and are just too lazy to fix them. Lik e if someonne saiip somehinig like thisd Oh, make me Thine forever |
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Chanson Senior Member
since 2000-08-19
Posts 1559Up Creek w/Out Paddle |
One petpeeve is the use of "could of" as in "I could of eaten a horse". It's HAVE-- I could HAVE eaten a horse. Ok, I'm hungry now. And "ty" for thank you and "cu" for goodbye and "prolly" for probably when I am IM'ing. If I am not worth the few keystrokes it takes to type the words completely than why bother typing in the first place? Or when I can't tell the difference between a statement and a question because they neglect punctuation marks. I can understand making typos because I make more than I would like. It's usually because of sloppy finger placement and not a reflection on our grammar/punctuation skills. And that brings up another pet peeve: The absense of properly capped words. No doubt ee cummings has a huge fan base but I am not one of them. And one more: The excessive use of emoticons and smilies. I bet there are some people who can't sleep at night if they forget to add that tenth smilie to their last message! *L To each his own though, eh? |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Their's never a doubt that there grammatical usage is they're nemesis... |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
LOL at your reply Nan ....theirs, there's, its, it's..... My third grade teacher would be pulling here hares outta her hed ifen she'da red summa these poetreys and replys. LOL. But, are we getting so serious and formal that we cannot tolerate reading poetry and prose which is clearly written to imitate speech? Would you ban the write that oozes of street talk? And what about about satire? Don't we want real-world colorful colloquialisms to bleed through to our senses? Are we sometimes acting like college graduate snobs, not wanting to share space with 'uneducated' or 'improperly trained' writers? I hope not. OK, I'm done ranting.  But I do get annoyed with sloppiness, and being asked to plow through a boring poorly written poem. |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Me and English teachers still think what proper grammar usage is most important... I'm having such fun obliterating my syntax in this thread... |
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Magicmystery Senior Member
since 2002-02-13
Posts 821Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
Mine are when people use "then and "than" interchangably. Then pertains to a point in time. Than is a choice decision. I have relatives that do this and I am constantly going over their stuff. Sherry |
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Bonfirelight Member
since 2003-06-19
Posts 85London, England |
Would "2B or not 2B" have been any lesser a question? After all a rose by any other name.. Just think, maybe in years to come this shorthand will become the written English language (Noooo!) after all it is more compatible with computers and the internet in general..and English is a constantly evolving language.. Think i'll start only writing in dead languages :lol: |
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Magicmystery Senior Member
since 2002-02-13
Posts 821Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
Cogito itaque ego sum...... very alive language for me N'est pa?....LOL How do you "murder" a "dead Language"... we're all having too much fun here with English. sherry |
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Bonfirelight Member
since 2003-06-19
Posts 85London, England |
iway inkthay ereforethay iway amway would be my best guess. :p |
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Krawdad Member Elite
since 2001-01-03
Posts 2597 |
"Think i'll start only writing in dead languages" aaarrrrrrrrrgggghhhhhhhh !!! Kraw' |
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timothysangel1973
since 2001-12-03
Posts 1725Never close enough |
HEY YA'LL, It's called conscious "FINGER-TRIPPING" I get picked on way too much for the way that I speak. I was born southern, and sometimes I forget that I can't always talk the way my mama and daddy raised me...haha I finger-trip all the time. Now, I will be a nervous wreck each time I post.....haha Love Ya'll Tima C. Please visit my website: www.southerncountrywebdesign.com/~heart/ |
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Wind
since 2002-10-12
Posts 2981 |
potato pototo, lets call the whole thing off. I said I'm going to buy a gun and start a war, |
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Alnilam Member
since 2003-07-04
Posts 75 |
ok so not to sound rude, because that is surely not my intention, especially coming into this conversation late but the first thing that came to my mind is my mom telling me "don't sweat the small stuff"...it usually makes me a little mad when she tells me that and I am venting something, but there is nothing any of us can do about some of these people's issues with typing correctly, or not being lazy about their typing. I, too, have many issues with people typing or writting in this way, but can also find myself guilty of these mistakes in my off times as well. Good luck with dealing with all these wonderful pet-peeves.  ~*Alnilam*~ |
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