I was accused of being a gramma nazi on facebook the other day.
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Which brings me to the title of the post. Am I the only person that gets annoyed when I hear, or see in print, people using "of" instead of "have"?
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I was accused of being a gramma nazi on facebook the other day.
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Which brings me to the title of the post. Am I the only person that gets annoyed when I hear, or see in print, people using "of" instead of "have"?
No, and gramma instead of grammer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grumpy John
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Originally Posted by burraboy
Just keeping in the vane, vain, vein of the thread :D.
of or off
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Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker
I should off known. That makes no sense at all :).
There, their and they're
Your and you're
Ending a sentence with the word 'but'
Using commas for plurals
The list is endless
Not using punctuation.
i instead of I
How dare you taunt us with that? You rotten swine!:bns:Quote:
Originally Posted by burraboy
Just relax John. I don't actually feel annoyance any more, I just adopt an attitude of supercilious tolerance and only point something out if it causes some potentially serious change of meaning. You should try it.
Eye sit a muse 'd as eye have red such things in numerace places.
I do rather enjoy words though my spelling comes across rather deplorable when I'm using my phone
I do not usually let these things get to me, but the wording of the persons post suggested that the object in the photo was no longer available to be photographed. When in actual fact it was.Quote:
Originally Posted by labr@
had he said "I was at ..... " then it wood ave been write
Dave TTC
Turning Wood Into Art
"try to" and "try and"
I'm going to try to win the race. (correct)
I'm going to try and win the race. (incorrect - "and" makes the "try" successful by default so both words are superfluous)
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"Me and my mates..."
"My mates and I..."
I've asked around in teaching and literary circles on this one and haven't had a clear answer. I was taught and prefer the latter, but it seems the former is acceptable and correct now.
That's an easy one. Straight from the horses mouth so to speak...Quote:
Originally Posted by RedShirtGuy
"My husband and I would like to wish our loyal subjects......"
Not " Me and my husband....". :kneel:
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Originally Posted by Grumpy John
That makes heaps of cents too me!
The interchange and wrong use of "I" and "me" annoys me (or should I have typed I) intensely. :(
Even Mark Nicholas on the cricket used "I" instead of "me" the other day.
My pet peeve's -
People who Capitalise lots of Words in what they Write (because they think they are Proper Nouns and need Caps), followed by people WHO upper CASE entire words for no apparent REASON that I am ABLE to work OUT because they ARE certainly not DOING it for emphasis in any WAY that makes sense.
And of course people who use an apostrophe as an indicator to say "Look out! There's an 's' at the end of a word coming up!!!!11".
I also must start commenting on American YouTube plumbing videos that it's "sol-der", not "sod-der", and the process is "sol-der-ing" not "sod-der-ing".
Or
"A mind is a terrible thing to waste." A common slogan in certain television commercials encouraging minorities to go to college.
Actually, a mind is NOT a terrible thing but it is terrible to waste the resources of a mind.
Maybe it's like aluminum, there is no i in the American spelling of aluminium.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master Splinter
https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics...older_without/
http://grammarist.com/spelling/aluminium-aluminum/
I read an article a while back that said that before the invention of the printing press that English as she was wrote was a free for all. There were no hard and fast grammatical rules. Fast forward to the invention of a new communication device called the mobile phone, and it was let off the leash again. It will be interesting to see where it will all end up.
TT
Both are correct, depending on context. They way to determine which one to use is to remove the other party from the sentence and see if it still makes sense. For example:Quote:
Originally Posted by RedShirtGuy
"My mates and I are going to the cricket" (remove the mates and the sentence is still correct).
However,
"This gift is from my mates and I" doesn't work without the mates (you can't say this gift is from I), so you would say "This gift is from me and my mates" (or "my mates and me", both are acceptable).
Remember, kiddies, there's a world of difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
And capitals do not matter
I helped my uncle Jack off a horse.
I helped my uncle jack off a horse.
:doh:
The policeman said, the boy is a thief.
The policeman, said the boy, is a thief.
Play with that one?????
Jim
Is that as in a trolley jackQuote:
Originally Posted by A Duke
Dave TTC
Turning Wood Into Art
Or
I had an argument with my brother
I had had an argument with my brother
TT
Another word that annoys me no end is payed instead of paid. What are they teaching this generation?
Pete
Try this one
I saw a dead dog walking down the road
Walking down the road, I saw a dead dog
I saw walking down the road a dead dog
ZOMBIE CANINES!!!! The apocalypse has come!!!!
(I vote the middle one for correctness...unless of course the dead pets really have arisen)
PS: Years ago I had an originals band called Dead Pets. Where I got the name from is probably a tale best left in private :o
Sorry, but ...Quote:
Originally Posted by RedShirtGuy
It should have been "Me and me mates"!
A most enjoyable thread; thanks.
I cringe when I see or hear "us" used instead of "we" as from a news reader on TV recently "us Australians are living beyond..." should be we Australians.
The one that annoys me most is "somethink", "nothink" etc. I've heard supposedly well educated people pronounce words that way.
So, if the past tense of pay is paid, why isn't the past tense of play plaid? Is it because plaid is used by the yanks instead of tartan?Quote:
Originally Posted by fxst
And how come the past tense of say is said, but pronounced sed?
Not wonder I hated english, or should that be English, in school.
Only a matter of time before we return to the primeval grunt.
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Originally Posted by rustynail
I've an 18 year old that/whom/who/? is already there!
WhoQuote:
Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker
Actually "payed" is a legitimate word, and is in fact the past tense of "to pay" but a very different meaning of the word "pay" than you usually see it in.Quote:
Originally Posted by fxst
"Payed" is the past tense of the now archaic meaning of "pay" which means to seal a deck with rope and tar, and is not gramatically correct for having given someone money. However there are those out there who argue that it is in the dictionary so they can use it. Its like saying that "whether" and "weather" are interchangeable because they are both in the dictionary too.
Cheers
Doug
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Originally Posted by 62woollybugger
This is actually correct, some do think, others don't think
If the spell checker does not under line it it is OK.
:rolleyes:
Depends if you've got it set to American or English.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Duke