I skimmed through this topic and I didn't see it mentioned but my biggest beef is people who use "your" as "you're".
Perhaps your exposed to it to much somewhere.
I skimmed through this topic and I didn't see it mentioned but my biggest beef is people who use "your" as "you're".
Yours and mine.
One that I hear a lot that irks me a bit although it may be grammatically correct is the expression "it's a good read", when referring to a book they've read. What's the matter with the old expression we used for years "it's good reading"? Another one is the word "utilize" which means absolutely nothing more than "use"- why use 7 letters when 3 will do to say exactly the same thing?
For some, it is just being pretentious.Ah, the more cylinders in a word, the more intelligent it sounds!
hehehe Is that like regardless and irregardless?
(irÅi gärdÆlis), adv. Nonstandard.Just look at all the posts here!
Has there ever been a more pathetic illiterate bunch of nobodies anywhere??
Grammar, out the window.
Punctuation totally unknown.
Coherent thoughts - forget it.
We are the victims of a generation of Unionized illterates masquarading as teachers. Not only us, but even more regrettably, our children and even more so, absolutely, cryingly regrettably, our grand children.
True. You have lived in this country a long time so you can no longer use the "immigrant" excuse. Masquerade is spelled with an "e" and illiterate is spelled with an "i". If you are going to tell us how dumb we are, at least spell it out to us with correct spelling.
Yeah, Y.J. In this country we have an old adage "practice what you preach"
I haven't been here all day so I am happy that there are others here to keep ol' Jack in line.
The trouble is when you do that he tends to get up on his hind legs.
... or cock a leg on his rocking chair. (squirt, squirt!)
Be nice Cliff, it's Mother's Day.
"True. You have lived in this country a long time so you can no longer use the "immigrant" excuse. Masquerade is spelled with an "e" and illiterate is spelled with an "i"."
If blacks, sorry, African-Canadians can use the "black" and "slavery" excuse time and time again, after 150 years, time again, surely I can use the "immigrant" excuse once more.
At least, I raised myself out of the gutter. If African-Canadians had done the same, this would not even be an issue.
Your arguement is pathetically weak if you have to resort to misspellings.
Sorry for offending your sensibilities by not spelling the favourite game of liberals (masquarede) correctly. Or for that matter, omitting an "I". If that is all you have to support your argument, I pity you.
Far less worse than your omitting any coherence.
JLM, your post #109 is a perfect example of mysterious nonsense.
So ... on that note, is it Mom or Mum?
"True. You have lived in this country a long time so you can no longer use the "immigrant" excuse. Masquerade is spelled with an "e" and illiterate is spelled with an "i"."
If blacks, sorry, African-Canadians can use the "black" and "slavery" excuse time and time again, after 150 years, time again, surely I can use the "immigrant" excuse once more.
At least, I raised myself out of the gutter. If African-Canadians had done the same, this would not even be an issue. (Excuse me?)
Your arguement is pathetically weak if you have to resort to misspellings.
I only commented on yours because I felt exactly the same way about what you had to say.
Sorry for offending your sensibilities by not spelling the favourite game of liberals (masquarede) correctly. Or for that matter, omitting an "I". If that is all you have to support your argument, I pity you.
Far less worse than your omitting any coherence.
Mum is usually the spelling used in Ireland and the UK and a few other places. Mom is a NorthAm thing but they both mean the same and sound sorta the same.
When I was a kid learning how to spell it was "Mum" and I notice whenever the Queen's Mother is referred to it's the "Queen Mum". I was probably in my teens or 20s before I encountered "Mom". Now 3/4 of the people use "mom". I think that may be an American bastardization.
People seem to have made misspelling a habit these days. As long as there are some that use correct spelling, I can't see the big deal until one misspeller calls another misspeller on their spelling. Then it's just funny.
Just had the same debate with a very Brit uncle. "Mom" is one of those damned colonial conspiracies, don'cha know?
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Oops! Perhaps not....
On the other side of the coin L.W. perhaps you've noticed that the English are the damndest spellers as is evident in words like "night" "right" and "light". And then you have "might" and "mite". And inconsistencies like "collar" and "holler" and "bough" and "tough"- not only can they not spell but they can't pronounce properly. I think when they were generating words they may have been doing under various degrees of sobriety and then just forgot the next morning.