I don't know if anyone covered it yet, but my latest pet peeve is: your
It's bad enough when someone calls you an a**h***, but it really takes the cake if they say "your an a**h***". My an a**h***? How does that work? I mean, don't bother calling me an a**h*** or some similar insult, but not show enough intelligence and thought to use proper English.
Your: posessive. It means that you own it, or it belongs to you.
You're: you are. as in "you're an a**h***", or "you are an a**h***". (somehow, I don't think your English teacher would have used that as an example.)
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12:31 PM
Steve Normington Member
Posts: 7663 From: Mesa, AZ, USA Registered: Apr 2001
It's not even a complete sentence. Second of all, the word "cars" needs to have an apostrophe in it somewhere, to denote possession, i.e. "car's brakes" or "cars' brakes". Third, you have confusing pronouns... two 3rd-person plural pronouns (they and them) pointing to two different nouns. "They" could refer to the people or the brakes. Likewise for "them". And finally, I believe there should be a comma after the word "brakes", to seperate the two phrases.
Sorry, couldn't help it. I usually don't pay much attention to other people's grammar. But since you were trying to cite a correct example...
I said BETTER, not PERFECT I didn't feel like re-typing the whole thing, which is the only way to make it grammatically correct. As for the apostrophe, I used to have a grade school teacher that would always say you could only use the possesive apostrophe for a person, not an object, animal, or thing, and I wanted to see if anyone caught that and would post a link to a good explenation of it.
[sarcasm]accasionally we all make poor choices for the words we type. Some times it's misspeelled words, other times it's the wrong word at the wrong time. Four instance their was this one thread where almost everyone speeled at least one word wrong. Everyone needs to chill out and take a look at there own grammer and stop all the word hateing.[/sarcasm]
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04:49 PM
Blacktree Member
Posts: 20770 From: Central Florida Registered: Dec 2001
Holy crap, I start a thread to point out a simple mistake to help out my fellow members and yall start attackin each other. Thats just great! So much love!
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jstricker Member
Posts: 12956 From: Russell, KS USA Registered: Apr 2002
Slacker. We were on the road at that time to autocross at the last event in Salina, and here you were wasting time trying to correct spelling and grammar errors.
Want to bet who had the most fun??
John Stricker
PS: BTW, I beat Chris. Muwahahahahaha 2/10 of a second. I psycehed him out so bad he spun on his last run. I say again.......... Muwahahahaha
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Shouldn't that read "SO, with no further adieu, let class begin"? Let those without sin cast the first stone....
Sorry, AP....it's a Sunday morning, I'm in a weird mood, and I'm just playin' with you. Whenever one of these threads pop up, though, it's always like a magnet for me, and others, too...."let's see how many mistakes he makes while he's correcting us". I'm sure I've made a few mistakes in what I've written, too.
Have a good Sunday..
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Nov 17th, 2004
litespd Member
Posts: 8128 From: No where you want to be Registered: Aug 99
Slacker. We were on the road at that time to autocross at the last event in Salina, and here you were wasting time trying to correct spelling and grammar errors.
Hey, it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it..
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Want to bet who had the most fun??
Hehehehe....I have no doubt who had the most fun. I was bored...I'm betting you can't say the same!
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PS: BTW, I beat Chris. Muwahahahahaha 2/10 of a second. I psycehed him out so bad he spun on his last run. I say again.......... Muwahahahaha
About time, old man....oh, waittaminit....you're younger than I am... Nice to know our generation can still show the "youngins" a thing or two from time to time....
Oh, by the way....it's "psyched".....or is it?
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10:02 PM
Toddster Member
Posts: 20871 From: Roswell, Georgia Registered: May 2001
Are you sure you read the book right. Looks more like Hooked on Ebonics to me
Hooked on ebonics is a regular study in California.
------------------ Capable of extraordinary mental processes, such as mental telepathy POKEY transmits his super psychic forces To will steve(derangedsheep) back to health. Save the Sheep. Member of the get your azz better brigade.
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P.O.L. Mafia Member
Posts: 252 From: louisville, tn, USA Registered: Jun 2004
i give up, ive tried and tried, and cant figure out what this means. the "i so fa king" part seems clear enough, but what is "we todd id"?
we todd id = retarded
getting someone else to say it is funny as hell. did it to a coworker and he didn't pick up on it but everyone else did. he walked around the shop saying "I sofa king we todd id,,,,,, i don't get it" all day long. i laghed so hard my side hurt.
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lurker Member
Posts: 12351 From: salisbury nc usa Registered: Feb 2002
