If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Your least favourite grammar mistakes

Options

23-01-2012 5:21pm

#1

Loadsamoney

Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭

Join Date: August 2011

Posts: 3

Most of them seem to stem from laziness/leaving school at the age of 14.
My pet hate;

They + Are = "They're"

Not "there" Or "their"!

6

Comments

Options
#2 23-01-2012 5:21pm
El Weirdo

Registered Users Posts: 11,646 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2008

Posts: 10894

Sticky fail, it seems.

Your move, Dr.Bollocko.

0
Options
#3 23-01-2012 5:22pm
Celly Smunt

Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2009

Posts: 9409

"just having a lye down" :mad:

0
Options
#4 23-01-2012 5:23pm
Dravokivich

Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2004

Posts: 22058

Couldn't give a shít to be honest. I consider remarking on how someone said something to be rather childish and foolish as it completely misses the point of what they were saying too.

0
Options
#5 23-01-2012 5:24pm
PseudoFamous

Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭

Join Date: April 2011

Posts: 3489

I have a few friends from the midlands who seem to be convinced that the word is "do'nt", and put it into writing, too.

0
Options
#6 23-01-2012 5:24pm
sensibleken

Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2009

Posts: 5568

Oh get a life!

bloody grammar nazis

0
Advertisement
Options
#7 23-01-2012 5:26pm
matrim

Registered Users Posts: 7,517 ✭✭✭

Join Date: June 2003

Posts: 7387

Their are just do many I dont know where to start

0
Options
#8 23-01-2012 5:26pm
The King of Moo

Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2011

Posts: 8138

Loadsamoney wrote: »

Most of them seem to stem from laziness/leaving school at the age of 14.
My pet hate;

They + Are = "They're"

Not "there" Or "their"!

That one, and the similar "your" instead of "you're."

And of course "would/could/should of."

I could go on all day about grammar mistakes so I'll just mention one more:

"If I had of done better at school, I'd have a better job now."

Where's the "of" coming from? It doesn't make any sense there! I assume people saying/writing this are mistakenly confusing "'ve" (short for "have," as in the "would of" mistake) for "of," but the sentence would still be wrong if it said "If I had have..."
There should be no "have" or "of" at all, and I don't know why people include them in these cases (third conditional sentences, if I recall correctly).

I will point out though, that while I get very annoyed by bad grammar mistakes, I despise Grammar Nazism, and think that correcting the grammar of someone who hasn't asked you to is the height of rudeness.

0
Options
#9 23-01-2012 5:27pm
marketty

Registered Users Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2010

Posts: 1058

A girl I knew would often have Facebook statuses using 'know' where 'no' should be, eg 'there's know way I'm paying this household charge', 'feck know milk left', 'my baby got know daddy' and so on.

0
Options
#10 23-01-2012 5:27pm
TanG411

Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2008

Posts: 2750

"Your great".

Your great what?

0
Options
#11 23-01-2012 5:29pm
later12

Closed Accounts Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2010

Posts: 10803

Persistently correcting others' spellings seems to be mistaken by some as the express route to some sort of intellectual superiority.

Well done. Your intelligence can be summed up with a child's pocket dictionary. It can be bought for €4.99.

0
Advertisement
Options
#12 23-01-2012 5:29pm
seamus

Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2001

Posts: 67070

PseudoFamous wrote: »

I have a few friends from the midlands who seem to be convinced that the word is "do'nt", and put it into writing, too.

When I was a nipper working in a well-known supermarket chain, we all had to wear t-shirts one day for a promotion. It had something written on it, don't remember what, but I do remember that one of the words was "d'ont".

Had to wear the thing all day. Scarleh.

0
Options
#13 23-01-2012 5:30pm
Captain_Generic

Registered Users Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2010

Posts: 1393

ThinksAmoral wrote: »

"Your great".

Your great what?

.....period?

0
Options
#14 23-01-2012 5:31pm
sensibleken

Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2009

Posts: 5568

If you are completely incapable of understanding a sentence because of a missplaced apostrophe or mispelt 'your' then if afraid its you thats the idiot, not the other person

0
Options
#15 23-01-2012 5:32pm
Orando Broom

Registered Users Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2006

Posts: 3265

'Of' instead of 'have'. You fücking dopes.

0
Options
#16 23-01-2012 5:32pm
GLaDOS

Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,208 Mod ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: November 2005

Posts: 22559

Lose/loose

Our/are

It's like they're not even trying.

Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test

0
Options
#17 23-01-2012 5:33pm
WoollyRedHat

Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2007

Posts: 10074

See's sticky at top of forum, starts thread on grammar mistakes.
Problem?

0
Options
#18 23-01-2012 5:40pm
Jimoslimos

Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭

Join Date: August 2006

Posts: 4912

I do it for the sense of moral and intellectual superiority I feel when looking down on the lesser grammar Jews, aswell as grammar gypsies, grammar homosexuals, etc.*

*Joke mods!

0
Options
#19 23-01-2012 5:41pm
Oranage2

Registered Users Posts: 11,130 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: April 2010

Posts: 10926

BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN

0
Options
#20 23-01-2012 5:42pm
Mr.Biscuits

Closed Accounts Posts: 750 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2012

Posts: 731

Cant abide grammer nazis nor speeling freaks.

And if the above sentence gets on you're tits - maybe you have ODC and not so perfect afterall!

0
Options
#21 23-01-2012 5:43pm
_feedback_

Registered Users Posts: 4,269 ✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2005

Posts: 4130

Oranage2 wrote: »

BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN

Ever heard of punctuation?! :rolleyes:

:pac::D

0
Advertisement
Options
#22 23-01-2012 5:45pm
furiousox

Registered Users Posts: 6,901 ✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2008

Posts: 6661

"I seen" and "I done"
It's f'king rampant in this country! :mad:

CPL 593H

0
Options
#23 23-01-2012 5:47pm
mikom

Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2008

Posts: 16102

The best mistakes are when the poster is trying in vain to appear all intelligent.

Exibit A.

paddyandy wrote: »

It'l be the "coo d graa" that will bury Ireland if they legalise soft drugs .Ireland has'nt coped well with anything since the foundation of the state .

0
Options
#24 23-01-2012 5:47pm
_feedback_

Registered Users Posts: 4,269 ✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2005

Posts: 4130

This thread is quiet boring in fairness. You could of thought of a better one OP.

0
Options
#25 23-01-2012 5:48pm
Loadsamoney

Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭

Join Date: August 2011

Posts: 3

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056526338

Oh.

Only seeing that now.

0
Options
#26 23-01-2012 5:49pm
Jimoslimos

Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭

Join Date: August 2006

Posts: 4912

furiousox wrote: »

"I seen" and "I done"
It's f'king rampant in this country! :mad:

I smell an imposter........

Oooh, nice ninja edit! Spared for now!

0
Options
#27 23-01-2012 5:51pm
harney

Registered Users Posts: 1,215 ✭✭✭

Join Date: August 2002

Posts: 1055

Taught instead of thought

0
Options
#28 23-01-2012 5:55pm
Caraville

Registered Users Posts: 854 ✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2011

Posts: 843

I don't generally correct someone's poor spelling and grammar, but I still will never accept that it's ok that people are consistently shoddy with it.

The odd mistake is grand, but there's no excuse for constantly getting things wrong. People should make it their business to know how to read and write properly (assuming they have no intellectual/learning disability).

0
Options
#29 23-01-2012 5:56pm
ImpossibleDuck

Registered Users Posts: 1,154 ✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2010

Posts: 1099

Your LEAST FAVOURITE grammar mistakes

Surely no one has a favourite grammar mistake?

When they make a mistake does someone go up and say "Hey, that one's my favourite!:D" ?

0
Options
#30 23-01-2012 6:07pm
Jimoslimos

Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭

Join Date: August 2006

Posts: 4912

Caraville wrote: »

I don't generally correct someone's poor spelling and grammar, but I still will never accept that it's ok that people are consistently shoddy with it.

The odd mistake is grand, but there's no excuse for constantly getting things wrong. People should make it their business to know how to read and write properly (assuming they have no intellectual/learning disability).

Yeah, totally agree with this. I'll overlook mistakes like it's and its, their and there, or your and you're, since I'm probably guilty of making these before. I also will take into account the nationality of the poster.

I just find it strange that txt spk is frowned upon and indeed banned here (I think, is it?) but poor grammar, spelling and punctuation is considered ok. Double standards?

0
Advertisement
Options
#31 23-01-2012 6:33pm
quietriot

Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭

Join Date: January 2012

Posts: 345
Jimoslimos wrote: »

I just find it strange that txt spk is frowned upon and indeed banned here (I think, is it?) but poor grammar, spelling and punctuation is considered ok. Double standards?

It seems to be a current trend in social media. People seem to get aggressive and defensive if you correct their spelling or grammar, seemingly feeling as though they've been made to look like an idiot, yet doing nothing on their own end to prevent that perception being formed again. They'd rather blame the person that pointed out their error than themselves for having made it.

Something I was linked recently was the twitter account @grammer_man https://twitter.com/grammer_man . It's a bot that uses a wikipedia page of common grammar mistakes to point the mistake out to those who made it on twitter. A lot are accepting of the correction, judging by the responses, however some of the people receiving the correction are extremely aggressive.

I don't understand why "grammar nazis" are made to be the villains. Is bad spelling and grammar acceptable now? There is no quicker way, in text based media, to make oneself look like an idiot than with consistently bad grammar.

Some things that irk me regularly:
The confusion between "there", "their" and "they're". The difference between the three is extremely simple to understand.

"Loose" being used for "lose". The same idiots appear to never make the reverse mistake.

"You're" and "your". Straight forward ignorance.

"Then" and "than". You don't have more hash then Anto, bud.

"Could of", "would of", "should of". Sheesh.

0