I feel like I'm on the wrong planet!!

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For the past two days more people have used his instead of he's that I am actually starting to lose screws over it.

Also then and than.


WHAT THE HELL. Do people even know English?! :@ :@ :@

 

 

Cressica

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I know what you mean - I'm a bit of a stickler for these things too. AND QUITE RIGHTLY SO  :@

I saw a sign the other day "Sandwiche's to take away"  grrrrrrrrrr . . .

But the worst, for me, at the moment is the number of times I see "would of" instead of "would have"

I think "Planet GoodGrammar" needs to orbit a bit closer to Earth, send down some pods which will disperse little grammar police-aliens to bonk offenders on the head with a huge sponge mallet.

 

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LOL I'm probably guilty of would of. I'll start saying would've :P :bolt:

YAY grammar police! :D

 

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Heres a gud pichure of grammer poleeece in acshun...

 

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 :lol:

Then/than is the one that drives me nuts. I haven't seen he's/his yet, but I really hope I don't have to at any point. I don't understand how some people can't grasp the basic idea of apostrophes signalling possession.

 

Sandra Piddock

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I get a bit annoyed - make that very annoyed - when people scatter apostrophes like confetti, without checking if they're either marking possession (of things) or omission (of letters).

Another pet peeve of mine is when beople write - or say - that they are 'bored of' something. You can be bored with the conversation, or bored by all the Presidential campaigning, but you cannot, and should not be bored of them.

 

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Ha ha beople! XD

!LMAO! I am laughing so hard. Thank you sooo much for that !LMAO!. Worst time to typo: in a grammar thread XD.


Aaaanyway. I'm one of the bored of people. I think. Can't remember.

 

Kenny

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I've learned to get less annoyed by seeing those mistakes all around me. First I would make a point of it, tell people about it, but you only get bad reactions and I just let it be. I try to focus on my own writing and sometimes give feedback by copying their lines and correcting it in my own way, hoping they would notice.

 

Bunny

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Yeah I'm over people being upset at me I don't care and do it anyway ha ha.

 

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 As someone who teaches writing at a university, I am always shocked and awed and sad when college educated kids can't spell or write a coherent sentence. :X it honestly makes me sad and kinda depressed about the state of the world! And then I realize that not everyone cares about words and communication the way I do. Sigh.

Yet, somehow I continue fighting the good fight, armed with chalk and a passion for teaching the youth how to make sense in writing. I must have the faith. Or I'm just a masochist! :)

 

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FlanneryCam (09:42pm Fri, Sep 14, 2012)
As someone who teaches writing at a university, I am always shocked and awed and sad when college educated kids can't spell or write a coherent sentence. :X it honestly makes me sad and kinda depressed about the state of the world! And then I realize that not everyone cares about words and communication the way I do. Sigh.

Yet, somehow I continue fighting the good fight, armed with chalk and a passion for teaching the youth how to make sense in writing. I must have the faith. Or I'm just a masochist! :)
  Actually I do think it is really important for people to be able to communicate effectively in written form.  I took a college class in 2009 and I remember the instructor going over the basics such as "too, two and to" and "their, there and they're".  I am older so I was blown away that people in college did not have a good handle on things that should have been nailed down in junior high.  I guess junior high has changed from the 1970's when I was going through it!

 

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This makes me wonder if the emphasis of English education is no longer on grammar and effective communication.
I finished high school in 1995 and at the time, things seemed to moving towards interpretation and application of information rather than retaining fact for future use. This is just cerebral meandering however, possibly thinly disguised as opinion.
I handed in an essay for a university course last year and was told by my tutor that leaving an indent at the beginning of a paragraph was old hat and that leaving a blank line was now the thing to do. I'm not THAT old, am I?

 

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In complete honesty I prefer indents in personal letters, and blank lines in formal letters and essays...it's just easier to gauge how much information is in the paragraph.

Also as a question....how the hell can they remove the English part of English?! That's like teaching a foreign language in "theory"...

 

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Mouse (03:20pm Thu, Sep 20, 2012)
I handed in an essay for a university course last year and was told by my tutor that leaving an indent at the beginning of a paragraph was old hat and that leaving a blank line was now the thing to do. I'm not THAT old, am I?

You're not that old, no, but things DO change and that is standard now. I think it's more a difference of handwriting versus computer-typed papers now. We indented when writing by hand, but now we leave empty spaces in between. I prefer it that way, too.

 

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Also, this is why I came back to this thread and then I forgot to include it:

 

MissTickle

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Maybe you are on the wrong planet.   Greetings fellow alien.  :|

 

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The amount of he/his that I'm seeing messed up lately is disgusting. It's like an epidemic and it's spreading!!

 

Triss

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I guess people often mistake pronunciation of the word with its actual meaning. I used to read some fanfiction in the past and it was a common mistake.

 

Victor Leigh

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Let's face it. Things do change and the good, old English language has survived all these centuries because it can adapt to change.

Just as an illustration, look at the word "Good bye". That's how we spell it now, right? I remember when I was a child, it was spelled another way like this "Good b'ye". There was an apostrophe between the "b" and the "y".

I hope the day won't come when apostrophes go out of fashion and we end up with "hes" as a replacement for "he's" but it can happen. When that time comes, "hes" would be the correct spelling and you will have to look up "he's" under archaic spelling, or something like that.

 

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Wow I had no idea! Why was it spelled like that? With the apostrophe?

 

QuirkyJessi

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I have never seen the apostrophe like that at all. I can understand the evolution of the language, though, and how we have changed and added words over time. I don't think we'll be replacing "he's" with "hes" just yet, though.

 

Victor Leigh

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I think this is how it happened.

In the beginning, when someone left to go on a long journey, he was sent off with a blessing like "God be with ye". 'Ye', of course, was the Olde English equivalent of 'you'. Over time, that "God be with ye" became shortened into "God b'ye" and then became "Good b'ye" before ending up as "Good bye".

Mind you, though, this is just the speculation of an armchair linguist with no pretensions whatsoever as to historical accuracy.

 

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Interesting. Today I saw two store signs with mistakes.
I was not even being watchful. I see frequent problems with 'your and you're,' which to me is so simple.
Then there is its and it's. Dang I know I make some mistakes too but some of this stuff seems too easy.
For an aging (or more exactly, aged) hippie like me, I have to ask if part of it is the result of texting and the great need to compress. I don't text. I do e-mail but not text.
And I don't feel a great and pressing need to add that skill to my list.
Oh well.
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Well it can't be anymore cause the whole 60 char limit is over....and when it was around your and you're became ur lol.

I think it's laziness and nonspecific school instructions past like 2nd grade. Kids should be constantly reminded of this stuff all the way.

 

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Bunny (05:40am Thu, Nov 22, 2012)
Wow I had no idea! Why was it spelled like that? With the apostrophe?

I once heard that it was an archaic spelling of "God be with you" - something like "God B'Ye". Not sure if that's true or not but it seems to make sense ...

ETA: Oops - sorry - just saw that Victor said the same thing.

We're on the same wavelength, Brother!  ;)

 

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SifuPhil (10:23am Sun, Nov 25, 2012)
Bunny (05:40am Thu, Nov 22, 2012)
Wow I had no idea! Why was it spelled like that? With the apostrophe?

I once heard that it was an archaic spelling of "God be with you" - something like "God B'Ye". Not sure if that's true or not but it seems to make sense ...

ETA: Oops - sorry - just saw that Victor said the same thing.

We're on the same wavelength, Brother!  ;)

Either that or somehow we are related in our previous lives. Or *gasp* telepathy exists after all. Hmmm, I rather like that last possibility.

Now I do text. With atrocious spelling. And I can switch back to writing in proper English. So I don't think texting leads to bad English. The culprit, I would say, lies with teachers who teach English and think that bad English is acceptable.

 

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Yes, I think it's lack of knowledge and laziness. When I used your and its without their other parts it was because I didn't know any better. I didn't know when to use it's and to be frank I knew about you're but I could never remember how to spell it or when to use it either ha ha.

When I was learning to write I kept forgetting how to spell is and are XD.


My dad made me feel better though because he forgot how to spell "a"....so the conversation went like this:

Dad: how do you spell A?
Teacher: A?
Dad: yeah.
Teacher: A.
Dad: ...yeah how do you spell it?
Teacher: A.

I believe he threw a tantrum lol.

 

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