Kevin's Hetero MFM Poly-Fi V

The one that currently annoys me the most is "your welcome" instead of "you're welcome," but that's because I see it multiple times a day at work when I talk by instant messaging to the co-workers I provide help desk services to.

Tinwen, it's supposed to be "if I were being honest" and "that doesn't effect me."

Another few that tends to drive me nuts is "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less" and "I seen her at the store" instead of "I saw her at the store." Also, "I won her at that game" instead of "I beat her at the game." (really, she was the prize?)

I love this Weird Al song and it is all about these types of grammar issues. Word Crimes
 
Ellamenopea said:
These exspecially annoy me:

Can I axe you a question?
I'd rather go to Maui then Mexico.
Let's eat Grandma!
Happy Birthday Mark!
"I'm good. How are you?" NO!! You are WELL!
Your Welcome.
"Es Car Got." ( I heard three separate people order this on a cruise.)
If I was being honest.
Putting punctuation marks OUTSIDE of quotation marks.
I need to lay down.
It doesn't affect me.

I could go on and on!
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I think the good and well issue only matters if you say "I'm doing good" versus "I'm doing well," but I could be wrong. Doing good implies doing good works, like charity (or Superman :)), while doing well refers to your health. "I'm good" doesn't have the same implication of action that adding the extra verb in "I'm doing good" does.
 
I don't mind some incorrect terms of speech. Starting a sentence with a conjunction (e.g. "But") is fine, as is ending with a preposition. I will also forgive "who" and "whom" mixups, as I've been known to mix those up myself.

I guess my hang-up is when a lot of the clarity is lost, especially when it happens a lot, and a bunch of people are doing it. And when it serves no good purpose.

Effect (noun) and affect (verb) get mixed up a lot, as well as loose and lose, and your and you're. Also "s/he and I" is often misrendered, e.g. "her and I" when it should be "her and me."

How about words like "irregardless?"

And this isn't a spelling/grammar issue, but I hate it when people only do one carriage return between paragraphs, thus creating endless walls of text. Making one's individual paragraphs overly long has a similar effect.

Ending a string of sentences with a "double period" just makes me mad.. :mad:
 
How about "to much" when it should be "too much?" Rrrrrr.
 
Hannahfluke said:
Tinwen, it's supposed to be "if I were being honest" and "that doesn't effect me."
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I think that's backwards though? As an example, "The effects of that law being passed don't affect me" is correct, rather than the opposite. "She was unaffected by side effects", etc etc etc.
 
The word "effect" can be used as a verb, but if it is, it means to bring something into being (into effect) rather than to have an effect on something.
 
This also isn't a spelling/grammar issue, more of a style issue. Is it just me, or has the word "amazing" become overly popular these days? Everyone and their dog has an "amazing" relationship with an "amazing" partner. "Amazing" is the new go-to word that everyone understands no matter how it's applied. It's worse than, "Does that make sense?"
 
icesong said:
I think that's backwards though? As an example, "The effects of that law being passed don't affect me" is correct, rather than the opposite. "She was unaffected by side effects", etc etc etc.
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Yeah, after I wrote it, I realized I was probably wrong. I should have just answered the one I was sure about :).
 
I don't even pretend that I'm going to get affect and effect straight always.

I won't stress out on that one.

I sometimes feel a bit of frustration about the "amazing" dilemma when I try to describe people or experiences or whatever that are extremely exciting to me...ok, I've used "amazing" and "awesome" and now what?

I need to scrounge up some new superlatives.

Oh, and if I ask, "does that make sense?" I am actually soliciting an answer. Sometimes I am rambly (I'm sure you have never noticed this about me ;)) and I want to check in that I'm not losing everybody and my meandering train of thought has somehow reached a destination.
 
"Maybe I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time
Maybe I'm afraid of the way I love you
Maybe I'm amazed at the the way you pulled me out of time
And hung me on a line
Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you "

...and that's all I have to say about that.



for now anyway.


Leetah
 
Sounds like some kind of song lyrics. :)
 
Tinwen said:
Ok, I can see the problem with most of the examples, but can you please clarify the rest to me?

"I wish this pool had a lot less people in it."
"John, Carrie and Scott had to decide between them who would be captain."
Should it be "whom I love to watch", "fewer people" and... is it "choose" instead of "decide", or is there another problem?


I see this one a lot. What's the correct form?

Ooops, I could be guilty of those (and certainly of mixing then and than). What's the problem with the last sentence?
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Correct:

"I wish this pool had a lot fewer people."
"Fewer" is used in reference to a countable item like people.
"Less" is used when the item cannot be counted, like participation.


"John, Carrie and Scott had to decide among them who would be captain."
"Among" is used when there is a group.
"Between" is used when there are two.
 
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If anyone is interested in improving upon already correct grammar:

Eliminate "very" from your vocabulary. There is already a word for "very"-anything, so find it and use it. For example, you're not "very tired," you're "exhausted." I know that I still use "very" out of habit, but good writers seldom, if ever, use this word.
 
I myself am getting educated by these recent posts. :cool:
 
Rotting lololol
 
Corpsified and gross? ;-)
 
Inanimate? Deceased? Pining for the fjords? Bleedin' demised?

"He's not pining, he's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! He's expired, and gone to meet his maker! He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed him to the perch, he'd be pushing up the daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket! He's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS. IS AN EX. PARROT!!"

(yay Monthy Python!) :D
 
Worm food!
 
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