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Pet peeve: bass players who write "BASE"?!?!?!?

#46
'Then' instead if 'than', it's all over the web. Get it straight! Musicians are supposed to be intelligent like other artists!

"I like this better THEN that." Wrong. It's "better THAN that." THEN denotes time, THAN is comparative. Easy.

'irregardless' ... doesn't exist, a double negative in one word of all things! It is 'regardless'.

And I'm sorry US citizens, you don't speak English. You speak American. In English color is spelled colour. Honor is spelled honour. Nothing wrong with American, just different, except American marketing has taught a whole generation that QUICK is spelled KWIK. :P Hahahahaha.

Oh, this is the humour section. Er, sorry.

Penguins. Penguins is funny lookin burdz.
 
#47
ulrich said:
Spelt is proper UK English.
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QFT

96tbird said:
'Then' instead if 'than', it's all over the web. Get it straight! Musicians are supposed to be intelligent like other artists!

"I like this better THEN that." Wrong. It's "better THAN that." THEN denotes time, THAN is comparative. Easy.

'irregardless' ... doesn't exist, a double negative in one word of all things! It is 'regardless'.

And I'm sorry US citizens, you don't speak English. You speak American. In English color is spelled colour. Honor is spelled honour. Nothing wrong with American, just different, except American marketing has taught a whole generation that QUICK is spelled KWIK. :P Hahahahaha.

Oh, this is the humour section. Er, sorry.

Penguins. Penguins is funny lookin burdz.
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Thumbs up!
 
#49
my pet peeve is when you have a big jar of penut butter....and you are almost to the bottom and you basically have to put your hand in the jar and you get penut butter on the back of your hand and knuckles.......drives me insane!:eyebrow:
 
#50
96tbird said:
And I'm sorry US citizens, you don't speak English. You speak American. In English color is spelled colour. Honor is spelled honour. Nothing wrong with American, just different, except American marketing has taught a whole generation that QUICK is spelled KWIK. :P Hahahahaha.
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When it comes to languages, I believe that the "proper" way to speak/write the language is the way that is most common, not the one that originated first. After all, people don't cite Old English as being "proper English" these days. By this guideline, American English is "proper English", since Americans with English as their first language constitute more than half of the global population for that group.

And "ain't" is a word. It is not common in most dialects, and I would cringe to see it used in formal speech or writing, but it is just as much a word as any other contraction.

And to get back to the original topic, I also dislike basests who can't spell their instrument's name!
 
#52
The sad thing is that people don't care enough about communicating to use the language accurately.

I'm as amused by typos as anyone, and most of them are pretty obvious. But when people won't go to the trouble of checking a word like Squier, they should not be surprised when others correct it.

At least the gent who first used the word "ain't" included the apostrophe!

And the Merriam-Webster online dictionary recognizes "ain't" as nonstandard English, but also notes that "It is used in both speech and writing to catch attention and to gain emphasis..." It was clearly used in that sense by the first person to use it.

Ain't - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
 
#53
96tbird said:
Humour often offends those that take themselves too seriously. By chance are you an engineer? :):):):) (humour).

And I never said ain't ain't a word. Must have been someone else. KWIK, however shouldn't be a word.:):):):):)
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I wasn't offended in the least. But as a speaker of American English living in Canada, I often get a lot of grief for the way I spell certain words (theater, meter, color, etc.), so I like to occasionally poke at those that say the differences from British English are incorrect. No, I am not an engineer :)

Yes, sorry, the new paragraph was my way of moving away from the quote. I think a couple of people commented on the OP's use of the word "ain't" earlier.

"KWIK" is used as a proper noun, so anything goes.
 
#54
totallyfrozen said:
That's your pet peeve? Seriously?
You need to take a look at the world around you. There are far more important things to be bothered about than that.

Recently, I saw an entry in the ebonics dictionary for the word "occurances". The entry said that "occurances" was "occurences spelt by a moron". Of course, "spelt" is a type of wheat and is not the same as "spelled". Yes, some like to use spelt in place of spelled but it's not proper English.

Moral of the story: Don't sweat the petty stuff...and don't pet the sweaty stuff.
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As others have pointed out, spelt is acceptable in the U.K. My American friends often critique me when I say someone "spat" on the ground. In Britain, spat is the past tense of spit, but for some reason in the U.S. spat is not an acceptable past tense version of spit.

What is considered correct where you are may be wrong somewhere else
 
#57
charlie monroe said:
Your grammar and typing skill also constitute an opportunity for improvement.

Many members of TB do not live in North America or use English as a first language.

Clean up your own backyard, glass houses, cast the first stone, call the kettle black...ad nauseum.

Let's try to create threads about positive things, yes?
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Actually...
ain't is a proper conjunction. It's old English, and for some reason, people from the south picked it up. So besides the fact that it is commonly associated with the uneducated, ain't IS proper.
Their are people who correct people who use ain't, their are people who use ain't thinking it's improper and their are few that understand it's entirety (;
 

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