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01-17-2009, 04:09 AM
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I have seen "Sorry for the inconvience" signs in stores several times. Once I asked a store worker what an inconvience was. She didn't know.
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01-17-2009, 08:22 AM
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#182
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Its unappropriate two tell people what there grammar should be. Irregardless of weather your smarter then them. 
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01-17-2009, 08:24 AM
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#183
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
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I think you mispelled grammer... 
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Numbers is hard
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01-17-2009, 08:43 AM
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#184
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2008
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I don't think I can take this anymore!
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01-17-2009, 09:26 AM
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#185
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: May 2008
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you reached you're limit? 
ta,
mew
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01-17-2009, 10:00 AM
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#186
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by mews
you reached you're limit?
ta,
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You folks are cruel.
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01-17-2009, 09:41 PM
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#187
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 1,502
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True story: When I first started learning Engrish, I always wondered why everyone kept talking about their grandmas in class. I thought, "Those grandma stories are nice, but can't we move on to some new topic?"
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01-18-2009, 05:58 AM
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#188
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Quote:
Originally Posted by REWahoo
I've resisted posting on this thread to this point but I've seen this phrase/word used incorrectly three times in the past couple of days: "make due".
If we still have month left over at the end of the money, we make do, not make due...although I sometimes want to make dew.
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Somehow that reminds me of the Karnak joke "What collects on your dippity in the morning?"
Also, I can honestly say I never in my life had a month left over at the end of my money.
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01-18-2009, 08:59 AM
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#189
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Central, Ohio, USA
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Anyone with grand kids and "technically inclined" kids that "text message each other". Now there is a totally new language - takes a lot of study to see what is being said. Eventually, they will be implanting the cell phones at birth.
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01-18-2009, 09:04 AM
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#190
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
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Quote:
Originally Posted by retire@40
Also, I can honestly say I never in my life had a month left over at the end of my money.
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What, you never experienced being poor? You've been deprived of a real character-building experience. 
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01-18-2009, 01:09 PM
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#191
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: At The Cafe
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Quote:
Originally Posted by REWahoo
I've resisted posting on this thread to this point but I've seen this phrase/word used incorrectly three times in the past couple of days: "make due".
If we still have month left over at the end of the money, we make do, not make due...although I sometimes want to make dew.
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make do da?
the correctest gramma yet:
“everything was mighty satisfaction...”
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01-19-2009, 08:39 AM
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#192
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: North of Montana
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My pet peeve is people who use 'less' when they mean 'fewer' as in: "there were less people in the store today"
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01-19-2009, 11:13 AM
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#193
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hooverville
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CuppaJoe
the correctest gramma yet:
“everything was mighty satisfaction...”
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All satisfaction is good, but mighty satisfaction is best. And isn't this a nice song?
Ha
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01-19-2009, 12:37 PM
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#194
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Pocono Mtns.
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"Everything was mighty SATISFACTUAL"
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01-20-2009, 01:28 AM
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#195
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 2,713
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here's a tasty one:
whole hardily (for whole-heartedly, I assume)
Also, I have spotted a couple of "illicit"s where "elicit" should have been used. I need to keep a text window open just to capture these because I have seen some eye-openers that I forget now.
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01-20-2009, 07:51 AM
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#196
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Central MS/Orange Beach, AL
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I think I'm gonna quit posting hear. Cause I know I have to be ignoring the hell out of y'all. 
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Investing style: Full time wuss.
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01-25-2009, 10:21 PM
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#197
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2008
Location: No fixed abode
Posts: 8,765
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We wouldn't even have this thread if people could follow these simple rules:
Don't use no double negative.
Make each pronoun agree with their antecedent.
Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
About them sentence fragments.
When dangling, watch your participles.
Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
Just between you and I, case is important too.
Don't write run-on sentences they are hard to read.
Don't use commas, which aren't necessary.
Try to not ever split infinitives.
Its important to use your apostrophe's correctly.
Proofread your writing to see if you any words out.
Correct spelling is absoluteley essential.
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01-26-2009, 12:15 PM
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#198
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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That's funny, Harley.
Same as many others, I have committed some of the above offenses. I have tried to be careful and often went back to correct the mistakes I could find. In an impromptu setting like this, I tend to use a more colloquial style and sprinkle some emoticons to be sure the readers know I am just joking or teasing. We are not writing a dissertation or a peer-reviewed journal article after all. It appears some may be bothered by the informal style. It's tough to please them all.
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01-26-2009, 05:41 PM
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#199
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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"between you and I"
Think about it: Between I?
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01-26-2009, 06:28 PM
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#200
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hooverville
Posts: 22,983
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadbh
"between you and I"
Think about it: Between I? |
Between I and I is a great love...
Ha
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