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01-04-2017 09:46 PM
I've asked posters to correct my grammar. I sometimes use a slash / between two words, or a question mark (?). So, please feel free to correct my posts. Thank you.
01-04-2017 10:15 PM
@ROMARY wrote:I've asked posters to correct my grammar. I sometimes use a slash / between two words, or a question mark (?). So, please feel free to correct my posts. Thank you.
@ROMARY, if someone happened to remember your request and did correct you, at least ten posters would circle the correction like moths to a flame and proceed to insult them six ways from Sunday in righteous indignation ;-)
01-05-2017 11:38 AM
@Moonchilde wrote:
@ROMARY wrote:I've asked posters to correct my grammar. I sometimes use a slash / between two words, or a question mark (?). So, please feel free to correct my posts. Thank you.
@ROMARY, if someone happened to remember your request and did correct you, at least ten posters would circle the correction like moths to a flame and proceed to insult them six ways from Sunday in righteous indignation ;-)
LOL! Truer words have never been written!!!!!!!!!
01-05-2017 03:48 PM
Is this some kind of new "thing" I haven't seen before? Is it on purpose?
In a FB post, using "eye" for I (as in "Eye have seen"). This person used eye for I more than half a dozen times in a paragraph.
Seriously - if you made it through first grade you know "I."
01-05-2017 08:16 PM
I suppose they're trying to be cute...? Not that it actually is cute, but...I hate to think someone couldn't hack first grade!
01-05-2017 08:19 PM
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day. "In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. In some languages though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However," he pointed out, "there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative." A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah. Riiight."
01-05-2017 08:29 PM
@MacDUFF wrote:
I suppose they're trying to be cute...? Not that it actually is cute, but...I hate to think someone couldn't hack first grade!
Eye was "no one could be that dumb." 👹
01-07-2017 12:33 PM
"Eye" have an idea about why this happened. The Facebook poster had a broken cap "I" and knew better than to inflame Mrs. Hudson and the Sisters Mary by using the lowercase "i." In addition to the Grammar Police infraction of using "i" for "I," she or he was fearful of Facebook responses about his or her apparent lack of self-esteem (using little "i"). If so, the use of "Eye" was a smart fix (until the cap "I" could be fixed). I'm thinking this FB poster probably aced first grade (and beyond).
01-07-2017 12:58 PM
@MsLomo wrote:"Eye" have an idea about why this happened. The Facebook poster had a broken cap "I" and knew better than to inflame Mrs. Hudson and the Sisters Mary by using the lowercase "i." In addition to the Grammar Police infraction of using "i" for "I," she or he was fearful of Facebook responses about his or her apparent lack of self-esteem (using little "i"). If so, the use of "Eye" was a smart fix (until the cap "I" could be fixed). I'm thinking this FB poster probably aced first grade (and beyond).
I like this idea!
Regarding the bolded words...I knew it! I thought about it while driving to the grocery store the other day (I know that's weird lol) because I cringe when someone says, for example, "brother-in-laws" instead of "brothers-in-law!" I'm going to edit my post, and I hereby give you the credit.
01-07-2017 01:16 PM
Yesterday, I heard a radio announcer use the word "unquote" in a news report and thought to myself "there's no such word." I remember someone (Mrs. Hudson?) back in the day telling me that, but I double-checked it with M-W, and they have it as a word (first known use in 1915).
I've always used either "end quote" or "close quote." Maybe it's another example of something just sounding correct...??...
"quote Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water end quote"
"quote Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water unquote"
What do you think?
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