Folks, it's "TOE the line" not "TOW the line!"

[japple]

You aren't hauling that line anywhere!


Sorry, I've seen that several times recently and it really gets my goat.

[slackmaster]

1. And it's ROW to HOE

Not ROAD to 'HO.

[Atman]

22. What if you're driving to see a prostitute?

[steve2470]

46. hm learned something new, ty nt

[Drunken Irishman]

2. Irregardless, the point still stands for all intensive purposes.

[nobodyspecial]

5. lol

[japple]

10. You deserve a spanking for that!

[Scuba]

30. I hate "irregardless". "Regardless" was fine for decades, then common usage of the "irr" version...

... got it into the dictionary very recently.

You just can't take these matters for granite.

[NutmegYankee]

52. It's gneiss to see that joke made it through. nt

[On the Road]

90. It's Been Around for a Long Time

This cafe in Raleigh NC was founded in the late 70s, and the usage was old then.

[grntuscarora]

34. It's a mute point,

for all in tents, and porpoises.

[progressoid]

39. It's hard to get all your porpoises in tents.

[HillWilliam]

86. Agh! the puns! I'm a teepee! I'm a wigwam!

I'm too tense!

[CabCurious]

53. ostensively a blessing in the skies can make us beg and ax the question

[renie408]

66. Hilarious High Five! n/t

[CTyankee]

70. Irrespective of the evidence, the point still stands for all intensive purposes.

"Irregardless" as my father reminded me sharply when I was a smarty pants college student, is NOT A WORD in the English language. He was pretty hard-assed...

[Warpy]

75. You might find the consensus of opinion disagrees with you.

[Lint Head]

3. Unless the reference is a tug boat using a line to tow a barge.

[japple]

27. In that case, you'd be towing a barge--not towing a line!

eom

[Brother Buzz]

37. A tugboat may have many lines onboard, but a hawser is used to tow something.

[TheCowsCameHome]

63. Who are you callin' a haw, sir?

I resemble that, just sow you know.

[banned from Kos]

4. If loose and lose can't be mastered by any grown person toe/tow is

hopeless.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. Eye luce.

[longship]

40. And apparently: there, their, they're

two, to, and too, too.


These really piss me off, until I have to correct one of my posts, too. Then I relax a bit, until I again see somebody else doing it.

Fun thread.

[bvar22]

45. Don't forget you're and your.

...not one to cast asparagus.

[Wednesdays]

56. That, and "Christmas tree's"

Every winter I see such signs everywhere, but I have yet to find out what it is those trees possess.

[surrealAmerican]

67. I'd settle for writers getting women and woman correct.

It's a simple plural, but it's so frequently wrong.

[CabCurious]

6. I reject your word fascism

[slackmaster]

11. I reject your word fascism as well

Because the word Fascism is supposed to be capitalized.

[WinkyDink]

14. A pox on both your houses! It's "Fascism"! :-)

[CabCurious]

49. that's a Lie!

[pinboy3niner]

21. To put it in terms you'll understand...

...NO SUPE FOR YOU!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. Your Pet Goat?

Or goad?

[japple]

17. Neither

If a person says, "that really gets my goat," he or she is simply expressing that an occurrence or object has caused annoyance. The "that" in the statement might not even refer to an actual thing, but rather to a situation. It is also common for a person to direct the phrase at someone else as "you really get my goat," to indicate that the object of the comment is annoying the speaker.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-gets-my-goat-mean.htm

[ChairmanAgnostic]

74. I know, just jesting and joshing with you

[HooptieWagon]

9. Thank you!

That always irks me...

[WinkyDink]

12. It's a doggy-dog world.

[pinboy3niner]

13. Good luck on getting your goat back

I H8 misspelt wurds 2!

[BOG PERSON]

15. irregardless, language is a living thing

[CabCurious]

50. accept when its dead

i mean except.

[Wilms]

65. Well, you have to accept when it's dead, too. n/t

[trof]

16. Unless you're a mule hauling a canal boat.

Just had to add that.

[SoCalDem]

18. Freeper-to-English Glossary thread from the archive..enjoy

I don't know if it's in this thread, but they like to use "cowtow" over there

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4683108

and another

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3142096&mesg_id=3142991

[jberryhill]

19. I am not cow towing to your demands

And, yes, that lovely turn of phrase was once on Christine O'Donnell's site.

[htuttle]

20. Stop casting asparagus at people with bad grammer!

[Whisp]

23. I'll have you know my grammer was a fine, upstanding old lady. nt/

[pipoman]

24. There annunciating errors

are they're right as American citizens, so their!1!

[GoneOffShore]

25. The one that gets me is:

Lemme ax you a question.

Sure, let me fetch my chainsaw.

[TlalocW]

26. And it's Toad the Wet Sprocket

Not toed or towed.

TlalocW

[TlalocW]

28. Also...

It's, "What's that in the road ahead?" Not, "What's that in the road - a head?"

TlalocW

[southernyankeebelle]

29. Good lord does anyone want a beer? tow, row, ho, blow

[japple]

31. I've had a couple already!

[southernyankeebelle]

79. LOL, what? Beer or blow?

[Auntie Bush]

60. I cant bare the thought's of it!

How many mistakes are their in this post?

[southernyankeebelle]

81. That's ok honey as long as you know what is meant by the comment. I am happy people care enough to

respond to comments posted. I don't want to be the spell check patrol. Plus I don't want to hurt someone's feelings.

[Scuba]

32. The things we do with words are just some antics.

[central scrutinizer]

33. punctuation saves lives

[link:|

[immoderate]

35. I here it alot!

--imm

[progressoid]

36. Whatever floats your goat.

?w=529

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

38. Well

Well, that gets my boat.



(Umm. Feel like I should apologize now. Huh.)

[Sancho]

44. A rising tide floats all the goats!

baaaaaa....

[progressoid]

89. Only if they toe...err...hoof the line.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

41. IMO 2 different metaphors, one a cliche to avoid

"Toe the line" seems to convey shaping up a ragged formation of soldiers, and has become a very tired cliche.

"Tow the line" seems to refer to exerting dynamic effort on a towline along a nineteenth-century mulepath adjacent to a canal, or in a port setting where small tugboats are docking a ship.

Besides conveying a strong metaphorical image, "tow the line" seems like clever wordplay with a tired cliche.

[Le Taz Hot]

42. Yes, all of the sudden he

wanted to conversate about different things.

**cringe**

It's "all of a sudden" not "all of the sudden" and there's no such word as "conversate." The word is "converse."

[pinboy3niner]

47. Picky, picky, picky

[Le Taz Hot]

64. What can I say?

Former teacher. I tried a 12-step program but they kicked me out when I kept correcting the instructor's grammar.

[cynatnite]

43. The guilt is killing me...

I typed "tow" instead of "toe". Remembered this morning when I woke up.

[eShirl]

48. hurt suit

something a sub might be compelled to wear

[pokerfan]

51. This never seizes to amaze me

Irregardless, for all intensive purposes, this is a mute point and I could care less.

[rateyes]

54. I had went to

conversate with you about this here subject but got all tongue tied, and was afraid my words would get all twisted and my thoughts misconscrewed.

[SheilaT]

55. There are so many usage errors

that make me crazy. I may be the last person in North America who knows the difference between lie and lay, their verbal forms (lie lay lain and lay laid laid). Simply put, lie, which means to rest or recline, is an intransitive verb and stands alone. Lay, which means to put or to place, is a transitive verb and needs a direct object. You lay something down, like a book or a piece of cake. In the past you may have laid a book on the table.

You tell your dog to lie down. Yesterday you lay in bed until noon. And there have been times when you've lain in bed all day.

Lay also has a colloquial meaning connected to sex. I probably don't have to explain that one.

Now that this has been explained, further transgressions will be punished.

[grntuscarora]

61. Lier!

n/t

[Canuckistanian]

68. You laid that on a bit thick

But you obviously know the lay of the land where grammar is concerned!

[pinboy3niner]

71. For that, you win...

a lei!

[SheilaT]

85. Thank you. I wish to thank the academy for nominating me.

I wish to thank all of my friends, who call my The Grammar Witch to my face, and possibly something else behind my back.

I wish to thank all of the little people.

I'VE BEEN LEI'D!

To tell you how long since . . . oh, never mind.

[steve2470]

57. "groundation"

aka grounding in the well-educated South.

[taterguy]

58. I'll do whatever I damn well please with the line

[Ineeda]

59. And why is it that

there's always 'no way, shape, or form'? Why can't there be a way or a form once in a while?

[TheCowsCameHome]

62. Then keep your damn goat fenced in.

[WillowTree]

69. I always wince when someone is told to "relax and breath".

Grrrrrrrrrrr!

[RebelOne]

72. Was watching Nancy Grace tonight

and she kept referring to Ukraine as The Ukraine. Ukraine is a country. It is like referring to England as The England.

[Warpy]

73. My pet peeves here are "reign in excess" (it's REIN in because )

reins are something you use to inhibit forward motion in an unwanted direction) and "the GOP platform made me wretch," (it's RETCH, which might make you feel wretched but "wretch" is a noun).

Homonyms will get you every time.

[MADem]

76. Yes indeed. Stand at attention and put that toe up on that line!

One also holds the REINS of power--not the "reigns of power." That's fingernails on a blackboard to me! And don't even get me started when people start using "bait" for their "bated breath!" Gaaaaah! Fish for supper?

[flyingfysh]

77. don't forget the "straight jackets"

The proper term is "strait jacket"; think of "straits", which are places where a ship has very little room to maneuver.

[TeamPooka]

78. There is no "r" in the word "idea".

grrr...

[IDemo]

83. And there's only one u in "nuclear"

[RagAss]

80. That's a horse of a different feather.

[Moral Compass]

82. Tenets not Tenants

Since we're doing English lessons let's talk about some of the phonetic phuck ups I've seen lately.

"tenets" means basic principles underlying a philosophy or political position... "tenants" on the other hand are occupiers of land, rental property, homes etc...

You cannot talk about "tenants" of a political party or of a belief system. At least, I don't think you can.

If you are talking about not winning, you use the word "lose" not "loose". Loose is what your pants are when you lose a lot of weight.

There are also many differences in "there", "their, "they're"---in fact they all have different meanings. There any many things I don't like about their beliefs. Or--they're a bunch a Republican assholes.

Then there is "principals" and "principles". The principals of that partnership have no principles...

Okay, I'm done now.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

84. No need to cast asparagus, mate.

[Greybnk48]

87. It's "used to" not "use to" as in "I used to go there."

And "orientated" is not a word. It's oriented and orientation.

[Mister Ed]

88. "Quote" is a verb. "Quotation" is a noun.

I can't possibly tell you my favorite quote from Abraham Lincoln. I can only quote Lincoln, and tell you my favorite Lincoln quotation.

[MrSlayer]

91. Indeed. And it's "Hear hear!" and not "Here here!"

That one bothers me as well.