So, basicallyp), you're opposed to this word? Or to the over use of it?"Basically".
So, basicallyp), you're opposed to this word? Or to the over use of it?"Basically".
How about "hot water heater"?
for me, I say it "ridden" with a little T in there somewhere. Just can't stand when people double pronounce it like "WRIT-TEN"
I am in the wrong, I know it, but I don't care.
One that peeved me this morning...
"sit-chee-a-shun" instead of situation.
there's no Chee, Chi, or Cheeze, in "SIT-YOU-A-SHUN"
One that actually is probably MORE correct, but is still one I hate is when people over-pronounce the T's in written.
for me, I say it "ridden" with a little T in there somewhere. Just can't stand when people double pronounce it like "WRIT-TEN"
I am in the wrong, I know it, but I don't care.
How about "hot water heater"?
"Absorkee" instead of Absaroka, it's a town in MT & it's spelled Absaroka, it's NOT POSSIBLE to get the pronunciation of "absorkee" from the correct spelling.
I am no grammar expert but one that always seemed wrong to me is "You've got Mail"
Anything along those lines really bugs me. It's like they considered trying to read the word, then gave up halfway through and made up syllables for the rest of the word.
Also, my MIL adds extra syllables to words all the time. I can't think of any off the top of my head but I'll post one if it comes up.
That is using the present perfect tense. It is perfectly cromulent.
o plzp.s. Why hasn't Yuri piped in on this yet? He's the one with the improper English phobia.
Even worse than txt spk is literal txt spk - when idiots actually say things like "LOL" in spoken conversation.
Get out! Nobody really actually said "LOL" did they? I find that hard to believe, but it would be too weird to make it up.
I hope I'm not the "grammatically anal buddy" described in lschiavo's post.
That's another legitimate one......Just over used IMO.
No, I was not referring to you. I don't believe we have ever actually sat down to a heated grammar discussion...yet. (not that I would have much to add to the discussion...I used to not be able to spell engineer...now I are one...)
I'm sick of people using the "random". As in "I saw Sally the other day...that was random" Bullsh*t. Sally is your next door neighbor, jackass.
Perhaps they meant ironic.
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Just for fun, I really wanted to edit your post to misspell "engineer" but I thought that would be a dirty trick. Funny, though!
Have you noticed that my daughter speaks like a Yooper with a bad sixth grade education? I've given up hope on correcting her grammar. I sometimes just cringe when she and Christopher have a conversation. "I seen them guys yesterday." "Oh ya? Like, what did youse say?" ARRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH!
I remember being taught at school when I was about 9 years old that it was Arctic when referring to the southern polar region, and artic when referring to the north.....A couple of years ago, I came to realise that some teachers are dickwads. However, that piece of "wisdom" stayed with me until just a couple of years ago. My, how foolish I felt having got it wrong all those years.
Nothing wrong with a little french RSVP is OK by me.
My boss is fond of "begs the question" when what he means is "raises the question."
WTF does OK stand for while we are at it?
The letters, not to keep you guessing, stand for "oll korrect." They're the result of a fad for comical abbreviations that flourished in the late 1830s and 1840s. Read buttressed his arguments with hundreds of citations from newspapers and other documents of the period. As far as I know his work has never been successfully challenged.
My boss is fond of "begs the question" when what he means is "raises the question."
That one has practically slipped into common usage, as has the use of "effete" to mean "weak from decadence" when it really means "barren or no longer fertile."
I can't stand the omission of the verb "to be," as in "That freezer needs fixed."
I work in municipal planning, and people come in wanting to talk about the "right away" when what they mean is "right-of-way."
I would think that using "effette" in a sports bar may result in a fight.
Only if you explained it's meaning right after you used it.
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