The grammar nazi thread

[Plugger35]

Off and of.
How can anyone not get that right?

Piss of

 

[Doc_]

Piss of?

FIFY.
Cat? Must be cat.

 

[Gough]

I reckon of/off is more due to spellcheck not picking it up than error.

 

[Doss]

When I was a kid I chimed in on a conversation between my father and uncle where they were talking about something ricocheting.

Next thing I asked them was, "is Rick O'Shea a player?"

I'm still waiting for someone to do this in written form. The circle will be complete if it ever happens!

 

[Gough]

I thought an innuendo was an Italian suppository.
Did Spike Milligan write that gag?

 

[HairyO]

Im write their with you man. Pisses me of no end.

 

[Back One Out]

These seem to be happening more and more often.

For one in particular, it comes up with astounding regularity and consistency.

Lose and loose!

So to clear things up.

Some people wear loose fitting pants

You can win or lose a bet

Your team can be losing

But loosing is not a word!












I feel better now! Thanks

Better Losen Up ?

 

[Hoops]

bit old, but so is Weird Al

 

[Better Loosen Up]

My favourite jockey one... i say that because you hear them say something along these lines so often...

He's done good

 

[Mitchell54]

His instead of he's. I had no idea that this was something people could get wrong but, clearly, I've underestimated the stupidity of society.

Quite easy to believe in my opinion. 7% of the USA believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

I see whose and who’s mixed up a lot.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

People's obsession with a giant wall of text.

I don't get it.

I get exhausted reading it.

 

[raskolnikov]

I see this a lot on classifieds.

"Dinning table for sale"

A spinning, winning dinning table?

 

[ShanDog]

This thread makes me rage in a primal way, which is quite ironic.

 

[SwampCreature]

This thread makes me rage in a primal way, which is quite ironic.

THAT’S NOT IRONY AT A -

wait, I see what you did there

 

[Plugger35]

I bet a lot off you loosers in this thread are on the doll.

 

[RelaxMax]

I bet a lot off you loosers in this thread are on the doll.

Defiantly!

 

[RelaxMax]

"I could care less"

*shudder*

 

[RelaxMax]

Oh and "my bad"

 

[SwampCreature]

I use that a lot

My bad

 

[SwampCreature]

I’d argue that’s more slang than poor grammar

 

[RelaxMax]

Ether eider

I'm not a fan

 

[Scotland]

I bet a lot off you loosers in this thread are on the doll.

Could you be more Pacific?

 

[kickazz]

This thing is better then that.

 

[Scotland]

This thing is better then that.

Your wrong.

 

[ShanDog]

Obviously incorrect grammar shits me, but there's a different aspect of speech that people regularly stuff up that is even worse, relating to the meaning of words.

An easy example is the flagrant misuse of 'everyone' when speaking in generalities, or "XYZ is really common" when its statistical significance is somewhere in the vicinity of 10%. That's not ****ing common.

Language is so important. It's the foundations of civilization, yet we treat it like a play thing or weird uncle that we just have to endure each Christmas. The importance of accurate and deliberate communication can't be understated!