Susan's Place Transgender Resources

This was inspired by Connie and Arch about how grammatical errors are sadly becoming accepted into our language.

Why not post writing that you have seen that is incorrect and maybe for my sake tell me what is wrong?

We can have a laugh and learn at the same time.

Oh the title?

How, can you change the meaning of the statement with an apostrophe.


For  forever explanation I was sent this:

I have to explain to this guy that Jack Daniel's has an apostrophe in it, and one guy honestly said, 'You mean he followed Jesus?' 'Yeah, sir, he was one of the 12 apostrophes.


Have fun , : ; ' " ?

Cindy

I can never get its or it's straight.   >:(

In your case it is anatomy rather than grammer.

Hugs >:-)

I always heard it as Eats Shoots and Leaves.

Contribution that I tried but couldn't find a good internet example for: "F*** the police!" vs "F***, the police!"

Quote from: Cindy James on June 07, 2012, 06:03:03 AM
In your case it is anatomy rather than grammer.

Hugs >:-)

I tee it up, you hit it out!

This thread is doomed! Let us pray, lettuce spray. Hugs, Devlyn

Quote from: Felix on June 07, 2012, 06:14:40 AM
I always heard it as Eats Shoots and Leaves.

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

The incorrect comma makes it awesome.

Quote from: Cindy James on June 07, 2012, 06:03:03 AM
In your case it is anatomy rather than grammer.

Hugs >:-)

Sorry, Cindy, but this one drives me bat->-bleeped-<-. Grammar takes two a's.


One of my favourites is: "I feel badly." I always want to respond with "so... you're a sociopath?" (But that would be mean since they already feel bad.)

It's an over correction. The correct form is "I feel bad." But that sounds wrong to peoples' ears so they want to fix it to "badly." However, "badly" is an adverb, not an adjective, and modifies "feel." I.e. it means "I'm bad at feeling."

Commas can save lives. Compare

Let's eat Grandma.

with

Let's eat, Grandma.

Quote from: Felix on June 07, 2012, 06:14:40 AM
I always heard it as Eats Shoots and Leaves.

Is that anything like the law firm of Ketchum, Cheatham, and Howe?

Sorry, Cindy, but this one drives me bat->-bleeped-<-. Grammar takes two a's.

Ah Sarah, you found my deliberate mistake  :embarrassed:

'Eats Roots and Leaves' has Australian connotations that 'Eat Shoots and Leaves' does not 

"Whom" drives me nuts. I get a lot of students whom use it exclusively, probably so they will appear intelligent. Unfortunately, these are invariably the same students whom do not know the difference between who and whom.

Gawd, that was so hard to write.

Another one I often see: theirself. This bothers me on so many levels that I don't even know where to begin. And when I see theirself or themself, I'm always tempted to ask, "Oh, are this persons bigender? Or maybe they is even trigender?"

My real hate is the use or the lack of use of the apostrophe.

I recently read that a modern English writing program suggested, or even recommended, that the use of the apostrophe should not be encouraged, as it upsets people who didn't understand the meaning and use of an apostrophe.

Sounds good to me. A good educational choice.

If you don't know what it means ignore it, it goes away.

I wonder if the authors of the proposal understand what an apostrophe means?

I see folks make all kinds of spelling and grammar mistakes everyday  :)  I just do my best to be understanding and not let it bother me too much

I am afraid I could never be in 'agreeance' with you.  When I hear that one I feel the need for a revolver.

The only thing which gets on my nerves slightly is when people insist on using text speak in an online environment where character limits aren't an issue.

'U' instead of 'You' irritates me. It's not as though the keys are far apart, or take a superhuman effort to press.

I get driven nuts by "that's very concerning" (which suddenly seems to have sprung up like a weed everywhere). I'm not fond of -ee either, as in standee, attendee. Oh, and the now-ubiquitous "I miss not..." when people mean "I miss...", as in "I miss not skating in winter."

Your instead of you're is the most common mistake I see these days. Your signifies ownership. You're means you are.

A lot comes next. I see it spelled like this: alot and allot.  ::)

Then instead of than. ???

There instead of their. :(

To instead of too. >:(

I find this trend very disturbing. Where are the spelling and grammar police? :police:

Jennifer

Quote from: Jennifer on June 08, 2012, 08:31:47 AM
Where are the spelling and grammar police? :police:

They're busy dealing with everyone who eats donuts instead of doughnuts.

They're eating the do[ugh]nuts :).

My favourite birthday card ever:

Two girls on the front. One asks, "Where's your birthday party at?"

The second replies, "Don't end a sentence with a preposition."

You open up the card and the first girl asks, "Where's your birthday party at, bitch?"

Quote from: Sarah7 on June 08, 2012, 12:13:52 PM
My favourite birthday card ever:

Two girls on the front. One asks, "Where's your birthday party at?"

The second replies, "Don't end a sentence with a preposition."

You open up the card and the first girl asks, "Where's your birthday party at, bitch?"

Story about a kid who's parents used to get him to go to sleep by reading to him from a boring book about Australia. Finally the kid's had enough. As he hears his mother come up the stairs and sees her carrying the book, he says:

"What did you bring the book I didn't want to be read to from about down under up for?"

Ending a sentence with 7 prepositions.

Quote from: agfrommd on June 08, 2012, 12:23:06 PM
Story about a kid who's parents used to get him to go to sleep by reading to him from a boring book about Australia. Finally the kid's had enough. As he hears his mother come up the stairs and sees her carrying the book, he says:

"What did you bring the book I didn't want to be read to from about down under up for?"

Ending a sentence with 7 prepositions.

Okay, that deserves some kind of award.

Quote from: justmeinoz on June 08, 2012, 07:19:33 AM
I am afraid I could never be in 'agreeance' with you.  When I hear that one I feel the need for a revolver.

That's right up there with "betterance."

Quote from: Jennifer on June 08, 2012, 08:31:47 AM
I find this trend very disturbing. Where are the spelling and grammar police? :police:

Jennifer

Oh, hi! Currently our resources are a little stretched so we have been forced to limit our actions to officially printed material like books and whatnot. Some websites privately employ a small security detail to regulate articles, but overall, as far as the internet goes, you're on your own. Sorry, we try our best.

-- Sarah, editor (aka "spelling and grammar police")

"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." Schoolteacher Edna Krabappel comments that she never heard the word embiggens until she moved to Springfield. Miss Hoover, another teacher, replies, "I don't know why; it's a perfectly cromulent word."

from "Lisa the Iconoclast" episode of the Simpsons

Embiggen - it's a Pennsylvania thing, apparently :).

The 7 Prepositions Award suggestion reminds me of the Trent Reznor Prize for Tricky Embedding - http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002621.html (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002621.html)