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STOP! Grammar Time...

MacDUFF — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 02:24:02 GMT

As a proud and long time member of the Internet Grammar Police (who admits to misusing ellipsis and having trouble with tenses), I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate and commend the following posters:

@cherry for correct usage and spelling of one of my favorite words, kerfuffle;

@StylishLady for correctly abbreviating the Latin expression "et cetera" (i.e. etc., not ect.); and

@Moonchilde for correct usage and spelling of a word I had to look up to refresh my memory, execrable.

How weird is it that these things brought a smile to my lips??!

"Grammar Police: To educate and correct...and nit-pick you to death over petty violations of rules of writing you never heard of."

...which, yes, incorrectly ends the sentence with a preposition, but, hey, the description fits LOL!

Ladies, I thank you all!

edited to correct spelling, I kid you not...roflol!

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MacDUFF — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 02:39:11 GMT

Grammar Police mobilize against

the lack of capital letters in the

crawler at the bottom of the screen.

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ladyroxanne — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 02:44:17 GMT

you're too much @MacDUFF!

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MacDUFF — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 02:45:49 GMT

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Love my grandkids — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 02:46:13 GMT

Love your post! I am also a self-proclaimed member of the spelling and punctuation police! When I hear someone, anyone, use a verb when it should be an adverb, I mentally correct them!! Terrible, I know, but I can't stop myself LOL. And no, I never ever do it aloud.

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MacDUFF — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 02:46:34 GMT

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MacDUFF — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 02:48:29 GMT

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Mz iMac — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 02:56:17 GMT

¡ʎuunɟ ooʇ

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Moonchilde — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 02:57:02 GMT

LOL @MacDUFF!

Although I knew the meaning of the word very well, when I typed it, I had doubts. I had left out the second "e" so had to go back and add it.

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Beth-QVC — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 03:00:56 GMT

This post has been removed by QVC because it is offensive to some

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MacDUFF — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 03:01:50 GMT

@Love my grandkids

I know exactly what you mean! Sadly, I had to learn the hard way to keep my big mouth shut...or is it "closed?" LOL. Sometimes, I have to just sit on my hands for a while! Double negatives drive me to distraction.

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MacDUFF — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 03:03:20 GMT

@Moonchilde wrote:
LOL @MacDUFF!

Although I knew the meaning of the word very well, when I typed it, I had doubts. I had left out the second "e" so had to go back and add it.

@Moonchilde

I'm serious when I say that this admission makes me feel better LOL!

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Moonchilde — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 03:11:10 GMT

Mercy! I clicked on and watched the Youtube clip for "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" (have loved it for years) mentioned in another thread. The commenters sounded like (i.e. wrote like) cavemen. English, what English? OMG.

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StylishLady — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 03:21:19 GMT

Somewhere my old English and Writing teachers must be smiling.

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Moonchilde — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 03:43:44 GMT

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Moonchilde — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 03:51:08 GMT

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Moonchilde — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 03:52:07 GMT

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Justice4all — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 05:24:57 GMT

@MacDUFF

Always good to combobulate before the New Year

Whoops......I found an o......oh, it belongs here....to.... to..o..too

There you go....TOO

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Justice4all — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 05:27:02 GMT

@MacDUFF wrote:

Looks like a stick up. They have a very thorny problem.

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just bee — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 16:10:23 GMT

Better-half gave me this shirt.

If you do it once, it's a typo. If you do it more than once...