Grammar Nazis Untie

[Ziggidy]

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Good luck with that. AXE has been the official "ask" for many decades and spoken by many colors!

 

[AndreusMaximus]

I admit I'm a bit of a grammar nazi. I don't take it to the extreme, but there are certain words that drive me nuts. I blame social media and the fact that the dumbest members of society are also the most vocal. Here's a list in no particular order:

1. Affect / effect (Shooting without hearing protection can effect your hearing.)
2. Seen / saw (I seen my neighbor at the Walmart's.)
3. Brake / break (I changed the breaks on my car this weekend.)
4. Then / than (I locked the door and turned off the lights than I went to bed.)
5. Of / have (I would of cooked supper, but my wife beat me to it.)

Add to the list as necessary.

I'm a bit of a grammar nazi myself, I have to admit, but for some funny reason #2 (Seen/saw, e.g., I seen a deer up yonder the other day) doesn't really bother me so much. Maybe its because I've been around lots of folks who speak that way, and they all know it ain't grammatically correct, they just do it anyways because that's how they grew up talking. For some reason it only gets under my skin when the bad grammar is the result of someone just flat out having no clue about the difference, like happens a lot with affect vs. effect.

 

[ditcherman]

anyways

Really?

 

[ditcherman]

Frank Zappa disagrees.

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Listening now.
He didn’t overuse them, he used them just right.

 

[Bugzilla]

I can’t care about this thread if I have two read the other threads to too keep up on everything.

 

[AndreusMaximus]

Really?

Oh, crap! That one slipped right by me. I'll turn in my grammar nazi card now.

 

[ditcherman]

Oh, crap! That one slipped right by me. I'll turn in my grammar nazi card now.

I’d expect that from a Michigander for sure, but not really a bloomy.

 

[Methane Herder]

Pop quiz...... Punctuate the following correctly.
THAT THAT IS IS THAT THAT IS NOT IS NOT IS THAT IT IT IS.

Clue, from an old issue of Road &Track P.S.

MH

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Pop quiz...... Punctuate the following correctly.
THAT THAT IS IS THAT THAT IS NOT IS NOT IS THAT IT IT IS.

Clue, from an old issue of Road &Track P.S.

MH

THAT THAT IS, IS. THAT THAT IS NOT, IS NOT. IS THAT IT? IT IS.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

And for the record, I had never heard of that quiz. *preen*

 

[NHT3]

If you use it long enough Webster will just add it rather than try to correct the masses, that's the world we live in now. As the politicians have discovered, tell a lie long enough and it's accepted as the truth.
"Welp" was added to the dictionary in 2018 and it's one that really annoys me. Whelp is the term for a female dog giving birth (no males don't give birth yet but I'm sure that will be accepted soon)

 

[mom45]

I admit I'm a bit of a grammar nazi. I don't take it to the extreme, but there are certain words that drive me nuts. I blame social media and the fact that the dumbest members of society are also the most vocal. Here's a list in no particular order:

1. Affect / effect (Shooting without hearing protection can effect your hearing.)
2. Seen / saw (I seen my neighbor at the Walmart's.)
3. Brake / break (I changed the breaks on my car this weekend.)
4. Then / than (I locked the door and turned off the lights than I went to bed.)
5. Of / have (I would of cooked supper, but my wife beat me to it.)

Add to the list as necessary.

So .... would you like the title corrected?

 

[mom45]

I could of just done it....but thought I would ask.

 

[Hoosierdood]

So .... would you like the title corrected?

It was actually on purpose. The intentional misspelling is the joke. My brain/sense of humor is... different.

And now you just made me Denny myself.

 

[ditcherman]

It was actually on purpose. The intentional misspelling is the joke. My brain/sense of humor is... different.

And now you just made me Denny myself.

I got it, it’s been putting a smile on my face every time I see it.

 

[nipprdog]

Pop quiz...... Punctuate the following correctly.
THAT THAT IS IS THAT THAT IS NOT IS NOT IS THAT IT IT IS.

Clue, from an old issue of Road &Track P.S.

MH

THAT, THAT IS, IS. THAT, THAT IS NOT, IS NOT. IS THAT IT? IT IS.

 

[mom45]

It was actually on purpose. The intentional misspelling is the joke. My brain/sense of humor is... different.

And now you just made me Denny myself.

I suspected as much...but it did give me the chance to use "could of" in this thread. That one makes me crazy.

 

[ditcherman]

I suspected as much...but it did give me the chance to use "could have" in this thread. That one makes me crazy.

We’ll played.

 

[ditcherman]

Stolen from the “Coleman” thread because they belong over here!

 

[Old Dog]

Eral, oral, for oil.
Excape for escape.
Rule for Rural (out in the country) this one is really bungled by the news media and advertisers. There is an R in the middle!
"R" for our and hour.