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02-13-2013, 06:48 AM
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Originally Posted by giacomini  it kinda bugs me too... and I'm not a native english speaker...  | +1  |
02-13-2013, 07:21 AM
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02-13-2013, 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by carlos840 I really hope that was ironic! | 
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02-13-2013, 08:41 AM
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Just one missing comma can make all the difference lol. |
02-13-2013, 10:11 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Memphis, TN | | Admittedly, I get irritated with things like this. Some of the ones I see a lot on TB:
Loose vs. Lose
Advice vs. Advise
To/Too/Two
I used to review/approve a lot of reports. One time, just to make a point regarding the importance of proper spelling, I sent this Far Side cartoon to some of the people I supervised: 
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02-13-2013, 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Unrepresented Your right. Anyone who has past third grade should of known this. I guess it's just two hard for people too bother to learn grammar rules. Their not that hard. Its a shame when a word isn't used for it's proper meaning. Or maybe I just have way better principals then everyone else (which certainly isn't much of a complement). |  |
02-13-2013, 10:34 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | I appreciate threads like this one, because the grammar nazis call themselves out for scrutinization.
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02-13-2013, 10:53 AM
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02-13-2013, 11:01 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Lots of words like that.
Accept/Except
Stationery/Stationary
Effect/Affect
Compliment/Complement
Metal/Mettle
come to mind.
Used to need a big bulky dictionary to get things right.
Nowadays with the Internet it's easier than ever.
People think if it passes the spellchecker it must be right.
nerp.
Also makes me blink when people use "whenever" instead of "when".
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02-13-2013, 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by basmicke Maybe part of the problem is that a lot of TB members, as myself, are foreigners and english is not our first language.
But I can understand your point. The fact that all different kinds of people, with different educational levels meet on this forum to discuss their interest for all things bass makes for some really interesting clashes in how to use the written word  | ^^^This. Some people are using translators etc... Just stop calling Bimmers Beamers. It's Bimmer dang it.
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02-13-2013, 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by DwaynieAD Do you mean grammar and spelling that is constantly changing and evolving? | Some might say dumbing down.
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02-13-2013, 11:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Unrepresented Your right. Anyone who has past Passed third grade should of known this. I guess it's just two hard for people too bother to learn grammar rules. Their not that hard. Its a shame when a word isn't used for it's proper meaning. Or maybe I just have way better principals then everyone else (which certainly isn't much of a complement). | They're I fixed it for you
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02-13-2013, 11:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Unrepresented Your right. Anyone who has past third grade should of known this. I guess it's just two hard for people too bother to learn grammar rules. Their not that hard. Its a shame when a word isn't used for it's proper meaning. Or maybe I just have way better principals then everyone else (which certainly isn't much of a complement). | I saw what you did there. |
02-13-2013, 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga Some might say dumbing down. | easily, but what the grammar nazi's are b******* about is no better than how far they've fell from previous generations.
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02-13-2013, 11:34 AM
| | | | Something that I can't stand to hear is when somebody says "whole nother". There is no such word as "nother". The term is "whole other". I hear this often with TV announcers and newscasters as well. |
02-13-2013, 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga Some might say dumbing down. | Well, that was Noah Webster's goal with standardization of American English - to make it easier. Of course, that was 180 years ago.
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02-13-2013, 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by two fingers It is amazing to me how many people (not just on this forum, but in general) have no idea how to use the words "then" and "than".
less then = wrong
more then = wrong
other then = wrong
taller then = wrong
shorter then = wrong (unless you were to type "I was shorter then than I am now.")
rather then = wrong
I know. Life is too short to get bugged by things like this. I get it. | What gets me is the use of there in place of their. |
02-13-2013, 12:13 PM
|  | Pardon my driving, I'm reloading | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: San Diego/LA | | | I'm getting sick of work emails that look a bit like this...."Wud u min sndn me the rprt?" or "wht tim will u b done?" Really? Skipping all those letters made your day that much more productive?
These aren't people on blackberrys or iphones...office full keyboard folks that send emails like teenage texts.
I usually write back: "uyqwtoyweywqtwqioywqeiew...got it?" |
02-13-2013, 12:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Gazman I found this quiet interesting. | |
02-13-2013, 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga Some might say dumbing down. | Exactly.
The culture shift of the early 90's started making it completely acceptable to use poor grammar, curse excessively, and become completely devoid of manners. Today, it is ridiculous just how stupid many people have become.
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