STOP! Grammar Time... - Page 7

MacDUFF · ‎05-29-2015

Mary Chrismas and Hapy Channukkahh too alll u wunderfull grammer, speling, and puncheuation. werd nurds out their!

~~~ I call dibs on the popcorn concession!! ~~~

TX-starlight · ‎03-10-2010

I admin several BST groups on Facebook. You can't even imagine all the errors I see on there. It drives me CRAZY! Some people are uneducated & some just plain can't spell. I had 1 guy who botches his spelling up so much, if it had not been for the pic, no one would know what he was selling,lol....

I also have a friend who posts things that sound like she is a country bumpkin. I want to say to her, "you know better than that"!! but maybe she doesn't,lol...

x Hedge · ‎08-18-2016

Well . . . I've sure heard "boughten" around here, and it may be accepted as correct, but if we ever said it, my mother would've stopped us from saying it a second time. Aina hey?

That woman would stop me in mid-sentence if my pronunciation or usage was off. My parents spoke as they wished us to speak, and that meant they used a lot of words I didn't know. I spent my youth looking up words in our mammoth sized dictionary.

Making yourself understood by others has nothing to do with who went for how long to what school. I hated school and had trouble starting on the 1st day of kintergarden.

When it came to school, I remember a teacher diagramming sentences on the board.

Yes, yes . . . this modifies that, and so on (yawn).

What's the point?

I could never follow that. Nobody in class ever spoke or wrote any more clearly after enduring an hour of that stuff.

When we speak to each other we have gestures and facial expression and vocal cues that convey additional meaning beyond our words. Compared to everyday speech, most writing is a more formalized process, and like it or not, all those pesky things like grammar, spelling, and punctuation let us know what the other person is really saying.

That's why observing those pesky grammar lessons are so important when you make the move from thought or spoken into written.

Think of grammar, spelling, and punctuation as the gestures and expressive sound cues that convey additional meaning beyond your written words.

happygolfcartrider · ‎05-10-2013

@151949 wrote:
I don't think on a public message board anyone should think they have the right to correct other posters figure of speech, spelling or grammer or typing.Everyone has different skills and talents and as long as we can understand what someone is saying and the point they are making - who cares about spelling or grammer? IMO - some people think they are somehow a better person because they recognize or correct others - they are not though - they are simply rude. Many times things are corrected by someone on this board and the correction itself is actually incorrect.

@151949 I think to hurt a person's feelings by correcting them publicly shows more about the the person doing the correcting than the person that made the mistake.

Don't worry, be Happy!

shoesnbags · ‎03-10-2010

Well, I guess I'm a closet member of the grammar police because I would never correct someone's post, but my eyes just burn when I see an error. The one that really makes me crazy is "voila!" Every time I see someone write "wahla" or "wa-la" or "wah-lah" I cringe. It's not even phonetically correct, because there is a v sound at the beginning, not a w sound! Thanks for letting me get that off my chest, lol. Carry on!

"Breathe in, breathe out, move on." Jimmy Buffett

jubilant · ‎06-10-2010

I actually see this both ways. Mom was a stickler for good grammar and proper English. Dad....not as much. He used to tease mom and go around the house saying, "ain't got no" when she would correct us for saying "ain't". Her favorite line was, "that is not in the dictionary"! I will brag a little and say....I always received excellent grades in English class. Thank you, Mom!!!

Fast forward a "few" years and I find I am forgetting some of this "stuff".......that's where my dot....dot....dots come in very handy. I like the way they seperate my thoughts and make them easier to read and see (kind of like having more paragraphs) I have Blackbird Raven to thank for this! I always thought her dots made it easier to read, and for me, I don't want to go back and refresh my English skills. Any extra time I have.....I use trying to figure out Windows 10 so I can even be on this computer!

With all that said, I do see the humor in your post and am enjoying reading these posts. It's like Mom and Dad all over again!

PamelaSue72 · ‎09-22-2011

@alliswell wrote:
This is not necessarily a grammar issue, but starting sentences with "So . . ." or saying, "you know" or "like" multiple times in a sentence.

And ending the post with "Just saying". Ok, just saying....what? What are you just saying? You've already said it, so what are you trying to prove?

sallybusky · ‎01-06-2013

@shoesnbags: YES! There's at least one host on QVC who says "WaLA," and it annoys me. I've also seen/heard it on a couple tv commercials. This is definitely one of my many pet peeves. (Why is it a pet peeve? Can something just be a peeve?)