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Know any grammar Nazis? (Original Post) FakeNoose Mar 2017 OP
And then I tell them to LOL Lib Mar 2017 #1
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So stolen. Throck Mar 2017 #5
+1 brer cat Mar 2017 #14
Another piece of wisdom: PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2017 #3
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I am guilty. 3catwoman3 Mar 2017 #8
I get it FakeNoose Mar 2017 #10
A few of our pet... 3catwoman3 Mar 2017 #12
Oh, dear lord. The "Him and me" usage. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2017 #15
This is one of my favs True Dough Mar 2017 #11
Good one! FakeNoose Mar 2017 #13
Please ...please be careful..they are all over here.. Stuart G Mar 2017 #16
............... Angry Dragon Mar 2017 #17

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,746 posts)
3. Another piece of wisdom:
Fri Mar 10, 2017, 09:42 PM
Mar 2017

A burro is an ass.
A burrow is a hole in the ground.

You need to know the difference.

3catwoman3

(23,815 posts)
8. I am guilty.
Fri Mar 10, 2017, 10:03 PM
Mar 2017

So is my soon to be 27 yr son. He was a certified writing fellow in college.

Several weeks ago we had a very interesting text exchange involving the proper placement of punctuation inside or outside parentheses.

Yes, we are word nerds.

FakeNoose

(32,351 posts)
10. I get it
Fri Mar 10, 2017, 10:32 PM
Mar 2017

For many years I was a professional typesetter and proofreader.
To my embarrassment I can't stop myself from correcting other people's spelling errors.
They just jump out at me. It's a disease!


3catwoman3

(23,815 posts)
12. A few of our pet...
Fri Mar 10, 2017, 11:05 PM
Mar 2017

...peeves are:

1. the ubiquitous apostrophe at the end of any word ending with an 's'

2. "Him and me went to the movies." People do it correctly in the singular. No one ever says, "Him went to the movies," or "Me went to the movies." Why doesn't it translate to the plural?

3. I have heard several instances of people making a possessive out of "I" - Mary and I's vacation.


PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,746 posts)
15. Oh, dear lord. The "Him and me" usage.
Sat Mar 11, 2017, 12:06 AM
Mar 2017

Some years back when my sister and I both had young children, I asked her why she didn't correct those usages from her children. She rather airily replied that they'd hear the correct usage from her (which they did) and would shift over to the correct usage. I knew then that wouldn't happen, and of course it didn't.

Meanwhile, because I'm such a grammar Nazi, my grown sons use lie and lay correctly.

Some years back, whenever a co-worker would post some sort of note on the communal bulletin board, I'd cheerfully make grammar and usage corrections. After a while, the co-workers would ask me to proof their notes before they posted them.

I have given serious thought to always having a bottle of white-out with me to correct the many errors I see in public.

Stuart G

(38,359 posts)
16. Please ...please be careful..they are all over here..
Sat Mar 11, 2017, 08:06 PM
Mar 2017

They are over there, and they are over hear...they are lurking in this topic and that topic.. They will get you when you least expect it...OPPPPPPPPS ....I hear one coming at me know...I had better scam out of here

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