LOOSE vs LOSE, sorry, spelling primer

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Irregardless is a personal favourite of mine. I had never heard it said before coming to the US. My wife said it in a sentence and I thought it was really sexy! Hey! She's deliberately talking like a moron to be cute! That was a clever play on words!.................Buggar. That was a rude awakening when the truth dawned.

 

[Mischief_Brewing]

Irregardless is a perfectly cromulent word!

In fact, it embiggens me to use it!

 

[TxBrew]

Irregardless is a perfectly cromulent word!

In fact, it embiggens me to use it!

That's awful noble of you.

 

[Ricand]

My pet peeve is the word 'affect'. It seems to have left us entirely. Everyone seems to use effect for both definitions.

Haha- you sound like Yuri now.

I'm not really a grammar nazi, but the one that gets me is "your". Your, you're, and worse, ur, are NOT interchangeable.

I'm now an old lady (grandma and all), but the other thing I can't get is textspeak. If you can't even spend the time to type out "you", and use punctuation, I can't spend the time formulating an answer to your (youre, ur) question.

I have a poster for that.. had to clean it up a bit for this location..

 

[Hang Glider]

Rickand- you're previous post effected me grately. I shall enlist the aide of a tooter to halp my skilz

 

[cheezydemon3]

Irregardless of your tooter, it will have no affect on your status as a pretard.

 

[Special Hops]

I'm loost.

 

[GoldMiner]

Quick! How many steps between Kevin Bacon and Miss Piggy?

Kevin Bacon - A Few Good Men with Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson - Blood and Wine with Michael Caine
Michael Caine - The Muppet Christmas Carol

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Um, Bacon? Pig? ONE! Or 75

 

[Randar]

legendary e-mail from former **** of a boss I had as a fresh-out...

"It's a loose-louse situation"....

EPIC. you can't make that stuff up.

 

[Emerald]

Um, Bacon? Pig? ONE! Or 75

Why Bacon of course-it makes everything better.:rockin:

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

legendary e-mail from former **** of a boss I had as a fresh-out...

"It's a loose-louse situation"....

EPIC. you can't make that stuff up.

You would think that with two chances he could have hit the target! Great stuff!

 

[DrinksWellWithOthers]

One that bugs me is the use of Belgium instead of Belgian; as in "Please critique my Belgium wit recipe". It seems to only happen with Belgium/Belgian though. You never hear anyone say, "Hey try this Germany Pils!" or "I'm brewing an America Amber tomorrow."

 

[Yuri_Rage]

funneh...this thred only attracts pplz who dont need no grammer class it prolly wont effect teh ppl dat rly needs it

 

[Yuri_Rage]

You never hear anyone say, "Hey try this Germany Pils!" or "I'm brewing an America Amber tomorrow."

I like Indian pale ale.

 

[FromZwolle]

asian and oriental. but don't try to correct anyone who gets it wrong or you'll just end up with that zombie stare for twenty minutes.

 

[JetSmooth]

asian and oriental. but don't try to correct anyone who gets it wrong or you'll just end up with that zombie stare for twenty minutes.

I always find it's best to spin them around in a circle rapidy to disorient them. :fro:

 

[conpewter]

isn't oriental the one that is looked down upon at this point in time? Seems that derogatory terms change every year and go through cycles. I'm about to loose my mind!

 

[HenryHill]

Ooh, I love these threads.

should HAVE, not "should of" (also, would and could)

...and everyone who is not currently or formerly the Queen's subject, stop using the word "whilst"!

There, I said it.

whilst puroozing the thred, I notissed U aparntly never heard have 'shoulda, woulda,.. coulda'

 

[arturo7]

How about the blatant misuse of "peruse."

It means to read carefully but people often use it to mean glance over.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

How about the blatant misuse of "peruse."

That's so "random."

 

[conpewter]

How about the blatant misuse of "peruse."

It means to read carefully but people often use it to mean glance over.

I'm guilty of this one, didn't know it meant to read carefully.

 

[cheezydemon3]

How about blatant mis-use of the word "archetype"?

I mean WTF??????

 

[Hang Glider]

[rant] and misuse of myriad - that one gets my goat!

Myriad - many, varied

there are a myriad of beers in this store? NO!

there are myriad beers in this store - (correct)

/rant

 

[cheezydemon3]

[rant] and misuse of myriad - that one gets my goat!

Myriad - many, varied

there are a myriad of beers in this store? NO!

there are myriad beers in this store - (correct)

/rant

Excellent point!

My "archetype" comment didn't get a "random" award?

I don't know what it means either.lol.

 

[arturo7]

I don't know what it means either.

There's this thing called a dictionary.

 

[cheezydemon3]

If I gave a damn what it meant, this wouldn't be fun anymore.