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rune > 9 months ago, 19 Dec 2018

rune

193 posts

19 Dec 2018 5:40pm

your and you're

"The difference between knowing your sh** and knowing you're sh**"

CAPITALS

"Helping your uncle Jack off a horse. or. Helping your uncle jack off a horse."

Any others?

mclovin

724 posts

19 Dec 2018 8:16pm

To and too
There, their and they're.

Makes anyones argument useless if they've used the wrong word. So many people just don't know the differences.

Mark _australia

23526 posts

19 Dec 2018 7:01pm

Let's eat Grandpa

Let's eat, Grandpa

Grammar can save a life.

The one that ****s me badly is "you should of....."

No, it is "should have". When shortened it is "should've" which does sound like "should of" but it isn't written like that. It is "should've"
To hear very intelligent people say "should of" or even worse write "should of" is a bit annoying.
Many teachers don't get it.

Don't get me started on Americans.......

Mark _australia

23526 posts

19 Dec 2018 7:02pm

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mclovin said..
To and too
There, their and they're.

Makes anyones argument useless if they've used the wrong word. So many people just don't know the differences.

You missed an apostrophe their.

mclovin

724 posts

19 Dec 2018 9:42pm

Some things are done on purpose.

stamp

QLD

2795 posts

19 Dec 2018 9:23pm

'nother' is not a ****ing word! i hate hearing 'it's a whole nother....'

and 'wellness' ****s me, too. it's wellbeing.

Kamikuza

QLD

6493 posts

19 Dec 2018 9:24pm

Oxford comma.

rune

193 posts

19 Dec 2018 7:28pm

How about "whether the wether can withstand the weather"

bit obscure I know, maybe I should just say wanker

rod_bunny

1089 posts

19 Dec 2018 8:00pm

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rune said..
your and you're

me and mine... Gramma, died in 2000.
(English and German)

Mr Milk

NSW

3120 posts

19 Dec 2018 11:52pm

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rune said..
How about "whether the wether can withstand the weather"

bit obscure I know, maybe I should just say wanker

I thought wethers and wankers came from different planets.

musorianin

QLD

597 posts

19 Dec 2018 11:14pm

Who can resist a grammar-nazi thread? Here's a couple that sh** me, more to do with meaning than grammar.
"Fulsome" means insincere, not "full"; "enormity" is not just something large, but means an outage, like genocide. I here ?? politicians and news/sports announcers getting these too ??wrong all the time ??.

gs12

421 posts

19 Dec 2018 9:24pm

Eats, shoots & leaves.

Kamikuza

QLD

6493 posts

19 Dec 2018 11:29pm

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musorianin said..
outage

Poodle

867 posts

19 Dec 2018 9:35pm

My grammar said if you cant say something nice, don't say anything....

James

549 posts

19 Dec 2018 9:59pm

This thread is " so fun "

cisco

QLD

12364 posts

20 Dec 2018 2:16am

One One was a racehorse.
Two Two was one too,
One One won one race.
Two Two won one too.

robbo1111

NSW

649 posts

20 Dec 2018 7:18am

I bought a new sail then brought it to the beach

DunkO

NSW

1147 posts

20 Dec 2018 7:41am

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robbo1111 said..
I bought a new sail then brought it to the beach

Then stepped through it.

japie

NSW

7145 posts

20 Dec 2018 7:41am

Should of is an interesting one Mark.

Should have, or should've, whilst correct grammar is utterly meaningless.

Should implies that it ought to be done in the future. Have implies the past. So telling someone that they ought to do something in the future in the past is, well, meaningless.

Thats why young children, when berated with this logic, look at you as though you're gormless.

japie

NSW

7145 posts

20 Dec 2018 7:46am

And the erosion of language is deliberate according to many:

www.goodreads.com/book/show/225849.The_Deliberate_Dumbing_Down_of_America

musorianin

QLD

597 posts

20 Dec 2018 7:42am

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Kamikuza said..

musorianin said..
outage

And I proof red that so carefully

jonnulla

NSW

74 posts

20 Dec 2018 8:52am

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rune said..
How about "whether the wether can withstand the weather"

bit obscure I know, maybe I should just say wanker

My recent favourite, 'a shipping ship shipping ship shipping shipping ships'

Marsbars

546 posts

20 Dec 2018 7:39am

I always thought dept was a contraction of department but now it seems it is something the liberals have got us into.

Mark _australia

23526 posts

20 Dec 2018 8:27am

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japie said.. And the erosion of language is deliberate according to many: ttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225849.The_Deliberate_Dumbing_Down_of_America

would one ever need to deliberately dumb down America?

Mark _australia

23526 posts

20 Dec 2018 8:29am

Upcoming - not a word. It is forthcoming.

TripleJ - every fkn thing was "dropped" not released.
I understand the reference but it gets really annoying to hear "dropped" every 2mins like they are trying so hard to sound cool.

robbo1111

NSW

649 posts

20 Dec 2018 12:37pm

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DunkO said..

robbo1111 said..
I bought a new sail then brought it to the beach

Then stepped through it.

No that was the old sail

rockmagnet

QLD

1458 posts

20 Dec 2018 11:43am

"Stationary" as I once saw in a shop directing me to the stationery isle.

I have some trouble with " to". Or is that "too"?

myusernam

QLD

6154 posts

20 Dec 2018 11:53am

evlPanda

NSW

9207 posts

20 Dec 2018 3:26pm

Grammar.

jonnulla

NSW

74 posts

20 Dec 2018 4:28pm

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