Merged spelling/grammar threads

[Felix]

Hmmm... Meta forum? It has been almost 500 posts and a year and a half. Guess I will check that out. Heh.

Much obliged, Eric.

Clay, pogre: consider the line in the sand drawn!

 

[Mercule]

Felix, FWIW, I feel your pain.

I really hate having to read a sentence twice because the person writing it used a word that makes no sense. Yes, I can figure it out, but I could also figure it out if everytime someone meant "car", they wrote "cargo". The mistakes are on about the same level.

 

[alsih2o]

Hmmm... Meta forum? It has been almost 500 posts and a year and a half. Guess I will check that out. Heh.

Much obliged, Eric.

Clay, pogre: consider the line in the sand drawn!

mine is there/their...my pbp crew makes my skin crawl with that one.

 

[Heretic Apostate]

ROGUE!!!!

It's rogue, darn it! Not rouge! Rogue, rogue, rogue!!!!

What?

Oh, right, medication time.

How about people who use contractions, but then don't contract?

For instance, "I'am" instead of "I'm". That's bothersome...

 

[the Jester]

Its and it's bugs me, and so do the whingers. I don't quite know what whinging is....

 

[pogre]

mine is there/their...my pbp crew makes my skin crawl with that one.

Their, their, Clay - your just sensitive.

BTW - Elvis needs boats any ETA on those?



No, really - I'm done this time

 

[Derulbaskul]

(snip)To add to the topic: WanderingMonster beat me to the punch on the subject of "Should of". That one just amazes me. For the sake of completeness, I'd like to add "for all intensive purposes" to the list. Fanog

Yep, I was about to add a rant about these two as well although my pet hate for all time will be the confusion between "its" and "it's". Frankly, I don't understand why people would not want to write better particularly as these are the messageboards for a fan site devoted to an extremely verbal game.

Cheers
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[johnsemlak]

Since we're talking about things that irritate people, one thing that irritates me a lot is (or 'are'?) grammar police.

 

[Felix]

Please, use the proper term.

Grammar Nazis. Not grammar police. Not grammar po-po's. Not grammar rollers. Grammar Nazis.

ARE YOU UNDERSTANDINK?

 

[Ashwyn]

How about misusing "literally"? As in, "I was so hyper I was literally[i/] climbing the walls!" That drives me crazy. Figuratively speaking of course. Well, typing anyway.