Grammar Nazis
I can't stand it when people can't figure out when to use forms of 'me' and when to use 'I'.
Example: Dan and I's new house is great!
Yes, people actually do this. Biggest CRINGE
4 hours, 26 minutes ago
Grammar Nazis
To, Two and Too explained:
To–think of toward
Two–2
Too–also
99% of use can be summed up with these statements. It's not difficult.
10 hours, 38 minutes ago
Grammar Nazis
The your instead of you're mistake makes me freak out. ><
They're or their and there, as well.
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Grammar Nazis
I was a member on a forum for a long time. There was one thread that was a huge wall of text. It was probably under twenty sentences long, but the first sentence (I never got past that, because I could barely read it) was supposed to be six sentences. 1 month, 1 week ago
Grammar Nazis
i will use good grammar if i am writing a paper or a letter to someone i dont know. blogs, comments, texts, emails to friends. . . look forward to no punctuation besides periods or commas. no capital letters, no indentation--in fact no paragraphs of any kind. if you are my friend you will overlook this quirk. that is all. strangers, i will punctuate for you. 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Grammar Nazis
Grammar is all relative, man. It's like this; if you get paid to write (unless it's an alternative mewspaper, mag or something with more "stylized" writing) you should use good grammar. In my humble opinion, you should try to use good grammar anyway.
We do have a right to expect good grammar from larger publications and blogs, government agencies, schools, etc.. If you write for one of them, the Grammar Nazis keep you on your toes and you'll either get to know them and be friendly or live to crush them. If you are merely writing for your own blog, a friend's blog, or commenting on 4chan, grammar might be less important to you, so don't sweat the G-Nazi.
Twitter grammar...forgetta 'bout it.
If you rag people on Twitter about their grammar then you my friend, are a Grammar Nazi. If you spend very much time at all worrying about other people's grammar, you may miss out on what that person is trying to say. We all look different, we all act different and we all write different from each other...deal with it.
1 month, 3 weeks ago
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And to think...I always thought being an English teacher would be fun. 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Grammar Nazis
I keep correcting my English teacher on her grammar. Who else thinks this is a bit ironic? 2 months ago
Grammar Nazis
"Could care less"
Does anybody else get all riled up when somebody says, "I could care less"? Oh, so you COULD care a little less about the subject? What will it take for you to reach an absolute zero on your care meter?
"I couldn't care less" means that you care SO LITTLE about something that you couldn't POSSIBLY care any less about it.
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Grammar Nazis
The one that really REALLY irks me is when people misuse 'your' and 'you're'. It's not thaaat hard to figure out, people.
"Your the best."
Really? So it's my 'the best'? That makes no sense.
"You're mom."
Hm.. What? I am mom? No, no actually. I am not.
Come on folks, step it up. You're smarter than your grammar mistakes, I'm sure. :)
2 months ago
Grammar Nazis
I really get annoyed when ppl on public forums attack someone over bad english, some stupid spelling or grammar errors that didn't make you either misunderstand or "not" understand at all what the person was trying to say. Because English in fact is very commonly second language for internet users. We use it only so we could communicate with larger number of people and not so that they could call us stupid even though they are the ones who can't even imagine the possibility of someone actually being bilingual?!
Also, attacking someone for mistaking "than" for "then" or "bad" for "bed" or even "they" for "day" when some of those ppl are using internet to learn language in the first place, and all they can read are ROFL's, and DIAF's, and NIFOC's is simply hypocrisy.
2 months, 1 week ago
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Biggest grammar pet peeve: "Could OF." Weirdest grammar mistake I've seen: Swapping "in light of" for "in lieu of" or vice versa. 2 months, 2 weeks ago
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Actual excerpt from an email received from an employee;
"Weather anyone realizes it are not I'm work one day of the weekend every week (Sunday's), and I have not complained about it."
My head a-splode.
5 months, 1 week ago
Grammar Nazis
Does it get under anyone else's skin when people incorrectly spell the word "definitely"? Or, if they abbreviate it to "def"? I find it gets under my skin more and more because it's not a hard word to spell. I think people are just too lazy to sound it out. 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Grammar Nazis
Is it difficult to spell WEIRD correctly?
Also, the whole there/they're/their thing really bugs me. I HAVE to correct my friends if they get it wrong.
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Grammar Nazis
Wadda we got.
Too many criminal invesigation shows start with somebody saying this.
Aarg.
X
3 months, 1 week ago
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Knot two staunch ewe, butt your to won't too complement you're righting. 3 months, 1 week ago
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For years I've scolded people who write something akin to "I will revenge you." I would explain how 'revenge' is a noun and the verb they're looking for is 'avenge'. Well recently I corrected someone online who bothered to look it up on dictionary.com...and found that 'revenge' really can be used as a noun. My world no longer makes sense. I have no choice but to pretend to have never read that definition. 3 months, 2 weeks ago
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mytacism
n. excessive use of the letter M
My Madeline! my Madeline!
Mark my melodious midnight moans,
Much may my melting music mean,
My modulated monotones.
My mandolin’s mild minstrelsy,
My mental music magazine,
My mouth, my mind, my memory,
Must mingling murmur “Madeline.”
Muster ‘mid midnight masquerade,
Mark Moorish maidens, matrons’ mien;
‘Mongst Murcia’s most majestic maids,
Match me my matchless Madeline.
Mankind’s malevolence may make
Much melancholy musing mine;
Many my motives may mistake,
My modest merits much malign.
My Madeline’s most mirthful mood
Much mollifies my mind’s machine;
My mournfulness’s magnitude
Melts–make me merry, Madeline!
Match-making ma’s may machinate,
Manoeuvring misses me misween;
Mere money may make many mate,
My magic motto’s “Madeline.”
Melt, most mellifluous melody,
‘Midst Murcia’s misty mounts marine;
Meet me ‘mid moonlight–marry me,
Madonna mia! My Madeline!
– Walter Parke, “A Mellifluous Madrigal,” Ballou’s Monthly Magazine, January 1888
4 months ago
Grammar Nazis
I've spent like an hour reading stuff from this website, and I'm enjoying the hell out of it:
wsu.edu
Most of the stuff I already know (proper usage of "apiece," "all right" being two words, "everyday" being strictly an adjective, etc.), but some stuff is new to me, or puts to ease some of my doubts. One of my doubts being the words "anytime" and "everytime"; I've always thought they look incredibly strange, especially the latter, but wasn't ENTIRELY sure whether they were incorrect. (This author mentions "anytime" as having been accepted, however, and while I sometimes find myself accidentally using it, I try not to.)
This is my favorite tag on Simler.
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Grammar Nazis
'70s vs. 70's
Regarding omissions and apostrophe usage.
" '70s" implies the 1970s (or any '70s for that matter, but we know we're talking about the 20th century--or at least NOW we do; it could get confusing a century from now), the "19" being omitted.
"70's" just looks all kinds of wrong to me, because using an apostrophe to denote a plural form is usually incorrect (and in my mind, is always incorrect, but sometimes perhaps necessary, in regards to "A's" and "B's", though I'll prefer to use "As" and "Bs" without apostrophes).
Also, going on a previous post of mine: when using apostrophes to denote an omission (as in a conjunction or otherwise), a right single quotation mark or apostrophe is correct, not a left single quotation mark. So be careful when typing " '70s" in Microsoft Word or any other program that automatically converts keyboard characters to fancier punctuation marks. "’70s," not "‘70s."
Though I've learned tonight that "70s" without an apostrophe is also correct, according to Paul Brians:
wsu.edu
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Grammar Nazis
Voting...
Yes or no.
For or against.
Yea or nay.
It's not "yay." People aren't jumping up with their hands in the air, exclaiming, "Yay!"
Yet whenever I correct people on this, they turn it around to try and make ME look like the jackass. They smirk, they chuckle, and say, "You don't say 'YEA[H]!' jackass!" Then I have to explain to them that "yea" is pronounced like "yay" (not "yeah"), and that it means "yes."
Yet even then, they don't understand.
4 months ago
Grammar Nazis
Rock 'n' roll
Rock ’n’ roll
When using the more stylized apostrophe/single quote mark, you ought to use a right single quotation mark, not a left.
"Rock ‘n’ roll" is not correct. You're omitting the A in "and," just like you're doing with the D, thus you use a right single quote or apostrophe. You shouldn't be putting the N in quotations.
'Kay, I think that's all for tonight on my grammar Nazism...
’Kay, I think that’s all for tonight on my grammar Nazism…
(Odd I would use " 'kay," 'cos I never use "okay." It's strictly "OK" for me!)
(Odd I would use “ ’kay,” ’cos I never use “okay.” It’s strictly “OK” for me!)
4 months ago
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