Among Friends

[MacDUFF]

---

@Moonchilde wrote:

---

@Texasmouse wrote:

---

@MacDUFF wrote:

... Double negatives drive me to distraction.

---

...

Me too!

...

It don't make me no never mind 👹

---

@Moonchilde

@Texasmouse

A triple negative!!!!!!!    

[MacDUFF]

---

@alliswell wrote:

This is not necessarily a grammar issue, but starting sentences with "So . . ."

...

---

Hi @alliswell

I have some good news for you!  The "wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University" agree...starting a sentence with "so" is at the top of their 41st Annual List of Banished Words!!

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/

[handygal2]

Many people-- especially young, educated ones-- say "He was like..." instead of "He said..." That drives me nuts!

[SunValley]

---

@MacDUFF wrote:

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!

---

@MacDUFF "long term" is, in this instance, a compound modifier and should be hyphenated. Lol. Truly, I love your post!

[handygal2]

Here's another: It's the misuse of "l" versus "me." Bear with me here!... Take the sentence "She gave it to me." That's simple enough. But add another person, and it gets all messed up for so many. "She gave it to him and l" is so commonly said, and so WRONG. It's "She gave it to him and ME." Lol.

[handygal2]

---

@Moonchilde wrote:

---

@Texasmouse wrote:

---

@MacDUFF wrote:

@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.

---

@MacDUFF

Me too!

I hear double negatives CONSTANTLY where I live. I think people whose first language is Spanish tend to do this because double negatives are correct in that language.  I guess they assume they're also correct when speaking English.  I do, however, have an English-speaking co-worker who uses double negatives and I think, to myself, she should know better! 

---

It don't make me no never mind 👹

---

I learned in elementary school that a double negative is a positive. That's not a difficult concept to grasp. If you say "l don't want nothing," it means you do want something. Then, taken one step further, a triple negative would still be a negative. "I never don't want nothing" would mean "l never want something." This makes my ears hurt, lol.

[CalminHeart]

I understand the grammar police thing.  My dad has a PhD and taught English, Grammar, and History to middle and high school students his whole life.  There are many errors that used to bug me too.  As I got older, I realized that not everyone had a parent who taught his kids and students correct grammar.  Not everyone had access to the same kind of education I had.  Not everyone even had a good education. Some parts of the country pronounce words differently than where I live.    I quit judging others some time ago.  I don't have room in my brain to judge others for pronunciation, grammar, what someone wears or believes, etc.   Life is much happier without it.

[Justice4all]

---

@SunValley wrote:

---

@MacDUFF wrote:

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!

---

@MacDUFF "long term" is, in this instance, a compound modifier and should be hyphenated. Lol. Truly, I love your post!

---

@SunValley

vedy interestink

[chickenbutt]

We just need to get rid of pronouns altogether.  

Every time I hear a sentence that starts with 'Me and...' my head explodes.

[MacDUFF]

Many people still care about grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc., but I agree that it's rude to correct someone in public (including on the internet).  Some of the most appreciated and useful lessons I've received have been when I was corrected in private.  Most people corrected me in order to help me.

Even though I generally give people the benefit of the doubt (typos happen!) and I totally get colloquialism, I admit that I correct these errors in my head all the time...and I cringe...a lot!!  I can't help it!!  (I proofread manuscripts for publication in medical journals...loved that job!) 

I'm just one of those who loves everything relating to language...I love hearing (and seeing) it used properly.  For someone like me, it's interesting, and I spend a ridiculous amount of time checking the old Strunk and White!!

Hope everyone is enjoying their evening!

These things came to mind after a quick proof of my post:  Too many "I's"; is there a hyphen in well-educated?; and, of course, my misuse of ellipses.  I also took out a comma and, then, put it back...twice. LOL!