Practise is spelled Practice.

[Mitchell Royce]

If I've learned one thing in Linguistics it's that prescriptive grammar is no longer justifiable. As long as the speaker is understood there is nothing wrong with the way that speaker uses language. This is of course more true for spoken language.
Still, turning an absolute into a gradient is part of language developing.

Plus, some lenience for us foreigners would be much appreciated.

 

[Toasted]

If I've learned one thing in Linguistics it's that prescriptive grammar is no longer justifiable. As long as the speaker is understood there is nothing wrong with the way that speaker uses language. This is of course more true for spoken language.
Still, turning an absolute into a gradient is part of language developing.

Plus, some lenience for us foreigners would be much appreciated.

I dont think that prescriptive grammar is "no longer justifiable." I'd say that there are excellent arguments for prescriptive grammars - look at the French system. I think there are fewer arguments for descriptive grammars.

At the end of the day, there will always be a standard in any language. It will never be totally free. What we see in 'real world' linguistics is a merging of descriptive and prescriptve standards.

 

[PhatBasstard]

Is it just laziness? I am talking about the moments when I am in the middle of a post and then suddenly have to go.

Hmmm. Six in one, half dozen in the other. At least you clarified it.

 

[KSDbass]

But you where very close ...i'm impressed.

thats were! and i'm wasting my whole freaking summer on summer school, english, ironically enough. and you would put an "an" in front of s because it is pronounced like a vowel, "esss"

 

[Chris J]

"apostrophes"
"possessive"

boy this thread is fun!

Touché

 

[syciprider]

I'll axe my English teacher.

 

[LajoieT]

I'll axe my English teacher.

Your going to kill you're English teacher????

Instead why dont you's jus' aks a qeshton?

 

[Toasted]

I'll axe my English teacher.

Uhm?

 

[adisu]

thats were! and i'm wasting my whole freaking summer on summer school, english, ironically enough. and you would put an "an" in front of s because it is pronounced like a vowel, "esss"

hehehe
You should learn hebrew....it's very hard but if you'll learn it you will be able to learn arabic easily and japanese will be a piece of cake.

 

[bassicinstinct]

Uhm?

I think you'll find that should be:

U'hm?

 

[Vorago]

thats were! and i'm wasting my whole freaking summer on summer school, english, ironically enough. and you would put an "an" in front of s because it is pronounced like a vowel, "esss"

Hehe, I like this thread.

 

[malthumb]

Haven't wound my way through the whole thread yet so hopefully this is not a repeat......


Can people PLEASE learn the correct uses of MOOT and MUTE?

I cringe everytime someone says something like "Yeah, but that's a MUTE point." No it's not. If it were MUTE, you wouldn't have heard it.

MUTE means unable to make a sound.

MOOT refers to something that is a foregone conclusion.

There. I feel better now.

Peace,

James

 

[LajoieT]

Haven't wound my way through the whole thread yet so hopefully this is not a repeat......


Can people PLEASE learn the correct uses of MOOT and MUTE?

I cringe everytime someone says something like "Yeah, but that's a MUTE point." No it's not. If it were MUTE, you wouldn't have heard it.

MUTE means unable to make a sound.

MOOT refers to something that is a foregone conclusion.

There. I feel better now.

Peace,

James

Speaking of irony...

 

[clef360]

Lose / Loose. Congradulations.

dictionary.com
No entry found for congradulations.

Did you mean congratulations?
Suggestions:
congratulations
congratulation

I usually don't make any of the "their" "they're" mistakes in my head. Those two terms are just too different to me. I read a lot of books compared to most of my peers, and I frequently look up the definitions to words I don't know. I think that most people don't care enough to bother to look up words, but that can lead to improper usage. I guess it's not a big deal as long as we all can understand each other.

the one that annoys me the most is when people write "free reign". It's supposed to be "free rein", but I see it written the wrong way most of the time. It totally irks me.

 

[adisu]

....... I guess it's not a big deal as long as we all can understand each other.

exactly. like i said before:
"yu no what ,the importent ting is that yu understand what a parson his trying two sey. "

 

[Bushfire]

Now that weave payed ohmage two r oLd SkeWl Qu33ns English teacher's, cant we talk about bass's, er sumthin?

When you want a plural of something that ends in an 's' don't you just use an apostrophe? e.g bass' instead of bass's

 

[Cerb]

When you want a plural of something that ends in an 's' don't you just use an apostrophe? e.g bass' instead of bass's

The basses played well.
The bass' strings were broke.

 

[Bushfire]

What's the plural of Jesus then? Jesuses?

 

[phxlbrmpf]

--- "Practice" = noun, as in >> "I should be doing a bit of practice everyday"

As it seems to be okay to be a grammar nazi in this thread, "everyday" vs "every day" happens to be one of my favourite pet peeves, I see Internet people use the word "everyday" wrongly pretty much ... every day.

Why do they do it? Because both words/phrases sound the same, obviously.

"Every day" is an adverb phrase, describing HOW something is done, a synonym would be the word "daily".

"Everyday" is an adjective, describing WHAT something is like. A synonym would be "ordinary".

KuMBye YamALaWd's phrase should be "I should be doing a bit of practice every day."

Thank you very much for listening and let us now return to our regularly scheduled program/programme.

 

[bassicinstinct]

Jesi?

No, seriously, it obviously would be Jesuses. What is wrong with that?

Incidentally, "moot" does not mean "foregone conclusion". According to the Oxford english Dictionary, it actually means "arguable" or "subject to debate" - i.e. the OPPOSITE of "foregone conclusion".