Merged spelling/grammar threads

[Kahuna Burger]

I have only one peeve, which I hold in check most of the time because such grammer peeves are just silly. But sicne this is the thread to mention it and no one else has...

"The point is mute."

well, since points can't talk, I guess they are mute, but what you want to say is that the point is MOOT! The only thing worse than people writing this is when they SAY IT!!!!!

Now I feel so much better...

Kahuna Burger

 

[johnsemlak]

My favorite pet peeve is the subjunctive mood. If only people were to use this correctly, the world would be a better place.

My pet peeve is also the subjunctive mood. Many people try to say it exists in English because they studied it in Ancient Latin or Greek or whatever.

Subjunctive is pretty much dead in English. Get over it

 

[Morbidity]

G'day,

Inappropriate use of the apostrophe irritates me, s'eriou'sly... And omitting "u" from, for example, flavour, colour, humour... and we need to bring the USA and Canada back into line by sending them to gaol for all of the above offences. (That's easy for me to say, residing in another former English penal colony...)

Cheers,
Crass.

Oh yes! Definitely bring back the 'u's. Armour has a 'u' in it and I refuse to believe otherwise!

 

[Morrus]

I'm going to merge the two spelling/grammar threads - mainly because I haven't used the nifty "merge" function in a while.

 

[Dinkeldog]

Oh yes! Definitely bring back the 'u's. Armour has a 'u' in it and I refuse to believe otherwise!

I could never understand why you wanted it spelled "aurmor".

 

[Kahuna Burger]

it's INTENTS AND PURPOSES you halfwits! Not "Intensive Purposes".

All indents and porpises?

All incense and portages?

 

[Mercule]

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.

Oh! Sign me on for this one.

'Literally' != 'extremely'.
'Literally' != 'figuratively'.
'Literally' = 'exactly as written (spoken)'.

Most of the mistakes listed above bug me, but one I haven't seen mentioned yet that just sends shivers down my spine is "thx" or "tnx" for "Thanks".

And along the same lines as our British friends and their "u"s in armor, etc. I hate to see "Light" turned into "lite" or "night" to "nite". Hey, I'm not even real happy about "donut" vs. "doughnut", but I've reconciled myself to that one.

Man, I just realized how truly anal I can be.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

I have only one peeve, which I hold in check most of the time because such grammer peeves are just silly. But sicne this is the thread to mention it and no one else has...

"The point is mute."

well, since points can't talk, I guess they are mute, but what you want to say is that the point is MOOT! The only thing worse than people writing this is when they SAY IT!!!!!

Now I feel so much better...

Kahuna Burger

And people who say "mute" when they mean "moot" here in Milwaukee also refer to someone's area of expertise as their "billy whack"--I thought the world was bailiwick, but apparently I've been wrong all these years.