gorocks99
Posts: 10,760
Feb 14, 2011 10:33am
karen lotz;677813 wrote:No one on OC does this.
I seen it before, your lying
karen lotz
Posts: 22,284
Feb 14, 2011 10:34am
gorocks99;677815 wrote:I seen it before, your lying
Your a moron.
Bigred1995
Posts: 1,042
Feb 14, 2011 10:38am
It took me a few minutes to get this one, then I LOL'd!Fab4Runner;677784 wrote:
You have some issues!
zambrown
Posts: 1,093
Feb 14, 2011 10:45am
Fab, I feel your pain. All of the above are major pet peeves of mine. I don't claim to be perfect with English and grammar, but Damn! Some of the posts I read just make me want to smack someone! LOL
O-Trap
Posts: 14,994
Feb 14, 2011 10:55am
Nah. 1th.justincredible;677729 wrote:So 4th?
I'm actually with you on this, Fab. It drives me up the wall to see the word "of" instead of "have" in the examples you gave.
The worst, though, is when people say "supposably." I want to pull their head off and throw it in front of a Mack truck.
Belly35
Posts: 9,716
Feb 14, 2011 11:10am
I have been weighed, I have been measured, and I have been found wanting
O-Trap
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Feb 14, 2011 11:20am
Belly35;677893 wrote:I have been weighed, I have been measured, and I have been found wanting
... a period at the end of my sentence.
Thread Bomber
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Feb 14, 2011 11:38am
Several in fact........
O-Trap
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Feb 14, 2011 11:47am
Thread Bomber;677937 wrote:Several in fact........
If we're going to get technical, he could have used semicolons and been gravy.
ernest_t_bass
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Feb 14, 2011 11:48am
karen lotz;677818 wrote:Your a moron.
That's "you're."
karen lotz
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Feb 14, 2011 11:51am
What a idiot.ernest_t_bass;677954 wrote:That's "you're."
O-Trap
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Feb 14, 2011 11:52am
karen lotz;677958 wrote:What a idiot.
He should of went to school and learned to talk right.
ernest_t_bass
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Feb 14, 2011 11:57am
karen lotz;677958 wrote:What a idiot.
That's "an."
Belly35
Posts: 9,716
Feb 14, 2011 11:57am
O-Trap;677952 wrote:If we're going to get technical, he could have used semicolons and been gravy.
Thanks
I have been weighed, I have been measured, and I have been found wanting
karen lotz
Posts: 22,284
Feb 14, 2011 11:58am
ernest_t_bass;677966 wrote:That's "an."
You think your funny or something?
karen lotz
Posts: 22,284
Feb 14, 2011 12:00pm
O-Trap;677959 wrote:He should of went to school and learned to talk right.
He was probably to cool for that.
O-Trap
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Feb 14, 2011 12:13pm
Belly35;677968 wrote:I have been found wanting
You have been found wanting some colon?
Belly, I never knew ...
krambman
Posts: 3,606
Feb 14, 2011 12:55pm
Fab4Runner;677717 wrote:WTF is up with people writing "of" instead of "have?!"
"Would of," "could of," should of" . . . are you kidding me? I am easily annoyed (maybe too easily annoyed) with mistakes like this, but I just don't get how people can think this is correct, or how they can let this slide when they see it. I mean, would it make sense to use would've, could've, or should've if it was "of" instead of "have?" No. What grade do we learn things like this? I can't ever remember a time when I didn't know it.
Sorry, but I just had to rant about this. We all have our pet peeves.
P.S. Why do people get pissed when you correct them on things like this? If I make a mistake I would prefer someone tell me so I don't go around sounding/looking like an idiot.
There, I corrected all (or at least most) of your grammatical errors.
karen lotz
Posts: 22,284
Feb 14, 2011 12:56pm
krambman;678058 wrote:There, I corrected all (or at least most) of your grammatical errors.
Shouldn't you have used "Their"?
Fab4Runner
Posts: 6,196
Feb 14, 2011 12:58pm
krambman;678058 wrote:There, I corrected all (or at least most) of your grammatical errors.
Much appreciated!
Thread Bomber
Posts: 1,851
Feb 14, 2011 12:59pm
You need a noun for your sentence.
krambman
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Feb 14, 2011 1:02pm
karen lotz;678061 wrote:Shouldn't you have used "Their"?
No, and punctuation marks should always fall inside of quotation marks, never outside.
I was almost an English major in college, so simple grammar mistakes are one of my biggest pet peeves. It is easily the most annoying thing on message boards. Usually if a post has multiple mistakes I don't finish reading it.
karen lotz
Posts: 22,284
Feb 14, 2011 1:04pm
Maybe "they're" then?
krambman
Posts: 3,606
Feb 14, 2011 1:05pm
I think that everyone should be required to own and read a copy and Strunk and White's The Elements of Style.
http://academic.csuohio.edu/simond/courses/elos3.pdf
http://academic.csuohio.edu/simond/courses/elos3.pdf
karen lotz
Posts: 22,284
Feb 14, 2011 1:06pm
Seriously though, I didn't know that about the punctuation. I thought that only applied when you are actually quoting what a person said. Doesn't seem right if I would have typed "Their?".