Your You're Their There They're

[Snoopster]

I am pretty much in agreement with Noam Chomsky and his idea that grammar is etiquette and meaning/communication is much more important.

But I can't get over how many adults do not know the difference between these words. I taught fifth graders and they all knew the difference.

I actually saw a post that said, "Your stupid."

It doesn't bother me if you use the above words incorrectly, but I will judge you and feel inherently superior to you.



/sweet grammar blog

 

[lost in a sea]

well it is a little anal for a stoner forum,,

if you want to feel superior to us then i think we're all ok with that

 

[Herbophile]

I'm no grammar expert but to vs too bothers me as well as the ones you mentioned. A vs an and who vs whom are ones that I can never keep straight and I probably use wrong most of the time. I'm sure there are others that I can't get right also but I can't think of them at the moment.

 

[lost in a sea]

to and too annoys me too but mostly when i do it,,

 

[Herbophile]

Gonna. That's a word I really hate mainly because my boy texts it to me all the time. It's really not that hard to type out "going to". I know it's picky but I cringe every time I see that word.

One of my grammar short falls is punctuation. Commas and what not.

 

[Snoopster]

http://www.apostropheabuse.com/

 

[Luv-U-Long-Time]

Accidentally happens on occasion,but I don't think unreasonable to expect.It is only 8th grade English composition.

Of course it would annoy you,you were a teacher if I recall.I think it's particularly pecant when someone uses one incorrectly while calling someone stupid.Irony at it's finest.

Keeps me comin back

 

[Guest50138]

 

[TribalSeeds]

Make everybody read this thread before they're allowed to post.

 

[Herbophile]

Another one that bothers me is when people use are instead of our or vice versa.

 

[Ultra Current]

I hate when people dont have common sense a lot more than poor speling. If speling got me anywhere in life, i would learn. If you cant figure out what people are talking about from reading the sentences, i feel bad for you. You are a walking computer. I wonder how was jesus's spelling. I hope your spelling skills makes you wheel barrols of money. You probably hate money too.

 

[Tom Hill]

A lot of 30somethings and younger are already heavily tainted. In a few more years we'll have college students showing up talking about r u cum 2nt w brice r wt?

I'm not really one to talk though, english/grammar was for girls as far as I was concerned, compared to math.

 

[kmk420kali]

You think them are knowing how to put they're foot up you're ass...but them only know their going to trip...and fall on thay wreckdom--

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Don't loose your temper.

I read about loss lost loosely but don't know what it means. Loose losers, maybe?

 

[bicyclebenny]

The one that infuriates me the most is the misuse of the reflexive pronoun "myself" when the speaker/writer means "me". In my experience, cops are the worst offenders; they think it makes them sound smart, but not to me. Example: "Larry and myself saw the perp..." So wrong; just go with "Larry and I" and sound as though you're educated.
Another is should of, could of. It's should have, could have. I don't cringe so much on forums unless the writer is snarky while at the same time making grammatical errors. That irony amuses me.

 

[Don Dump]

 

[ShroomDr]

no love to two and too?


When i go to the strip club, there cant be too much pussy; ill take two at a time please!


to is a place
too is an amount
two is the number

1/2 of people never use 'too'.
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[guest86120975]

Drives me fucking CRAZY, it's one of my pet peeves! I'm glad someone posted this. Also don't forget about then -vs than

 

[MaynardG_Krebs]

Your write!

mgk

 

[bombadil.360]

who cares what noam chomsky thinks though?

the guy is a proven idiot.

good spelling skills should be totally independent of that idiot's opinion.