On use of been vs being

...and possibly some other common mistakes as well.

People, "been" and "being" are clearly two different words. Normally I would suggest trying to speak a sentence aloud if you were considering using "been" in it. However, I think the reason this mistake first started is that people keep dropping their Gs when they speak.

Correct:
I was being silly.

Incorrect:
I was been silly.

Similarly-

correct:
I was seeing a girl recently.

Incorrect:
I was seen a girl recently.

Do we all have that clear?
"Been" is one syllable, not two. If you want to use a two-syllable word, chances are you want to use "being".

Also, while I'm on the subject, please learn the difference between "thought" and "taught".
Examples:
-I thought this was all cleared up.

-I was taught by teachers in school.


By the way, if people want to start calling me a grammar nazi, or refer to grammar nazis, please be aware that grammar is spelled with two As, not an A and an E. The plural of nazi is nazis, not nazi's.

Thank you all for your time.

Mossy Monk

bluewolf wrote:

please be aware that grammar is spelled with two As, not an A and an E. The plural of nazi is nazis, not nazi's.

another groovy mystery solved gang

scojones

Here here! The amount of grammatical errors on here is incredible.. People seem to be unable to differentiate between there,they're and their.

Firstly, "they're" is short for "they are". "Their" represents ownership, an example would be: "Their shoes are red".
"There" should be used as follows: "There are alot of people in the pub today".

Thanks for your time.

Misty Moon

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garthv

dis thrd is da biggst wste ov space evr.

Karl Hungus

I find then/than rather annoying aswell.

For example, when someone would say "I prefer frosties rather then rice crispies" when they should have used than.

Sorry if I'm been anal here, but it really annoys me.

scojones

GaRtH_V wrote:

dis thrd is da biggst wste ov space evr.

die!

DEmeant0r

Whatever happened to the Spell Czech forum?

Demeant0r

Demeant0r wrote:

Whatever happened to the Spell Czech forum?

This isn't a bitchy thread, this is to make sure people know the difference. Hence why I didn't put it in the SC forum.

Ruu_Old

uughhh it makes me so angry I think im gonna explode here! *face goes red*

Oriel

I haven't seen anybody make the mistakes you're talking of.

galah

Here's another one that people usually spell wrong:

quiet means silent, not noisy

quite means WHOLLY, COMPLETELY, <not quite finished>
2 : to an extreme : POSITIVELY <quite sure> -- often used as an intensifier with a <quite a swell guy> <quite a beauty>
3 : to a considerable extent : RATHER <quite near>

Aporia

Could'nt
Theyr'e
Should'nt

:mad: :mad:

Or people who like ''alcahol'' and ''choclate''.

tman

sjones wrote:

Here here!

You mean "Hear", surely?

scojones

Nobody has corrected the mistake (or trolling attempt) I made and this makes me sad.

scojones

tman wrote:

You mean "Hear", surely?

We have a winner! Ding ding ding!

jsr

Some people have bad grammar, others have bad threads.
Should these rants be placed in the "get it off your chest" thread?!

tman

i'd usually let that slide, but this thread is so pointlessly anal that i just couldn't resist.:p

jsr

jsr wrote:

Some people have bad grammar, others have bad threads.
Should these rants be placed in the "get it off your chest" thread?!

This is NOT a rant.
I am trying to educate people here.

Sofaspud

Another one that gets to me, it's just a spelling mistake but it's really common.

"Definately/definetely" should be "definitely".

Incorrect use of apostrophes really annoys me too, for some reason.

Also, most people use "lol" in the wrong context, the correct context for it is:

Non existant. This term should not be used. Ever. By anyone. Ever.

DEmeant0r

lol, this thread is funny, lol, lol... lol! :rolleyes:

Sofaspud

Demeant0r wrote:

lol, this thread is funny, lol, lol... lol! :rolleyes:

ya, their definately funny's
*tries not to kill self*

FlutterinBantam

Is this just a thread for retards???

Sam Vimes

sjones wrote:

Here here! The amount of grammatical errors on here is incredible.. People seem to be unable to differentiate between there,they're and their.

Firstly, "they're" is short for "they are". "Their" represents ownership, an example would be: "Their shoes are red".
"There" should be used as follows: "There are alot of people in the pub today".

Thanks for your time.

I believe you mean a lot, not alot

Also, I think that a full stop between "ownership" and "an example" would be more appropriate. oooo, how exciting! I get to give out about grammar. Yay!

Here, here has previously been mentioned

Wertz

Oh whilst there's a thread open on this; it's ridiculous, NOT rediculous...I'm always amazed at the amount of people with otherwise seemingly good spelling/grammar, that consistently spell it wrong.

Oh and I'm currently having a very meaningful debate via PMs on the over usage of exclamation marks...the use of them in place of every full stop doesn't add anything to your post, other than to make you appear to be an ardent 10 year old with a terminal case of ADHD.

Goolay

One that bugs me, for some reason, is the use of loose in place of lose.

0utshined

sjones wrote:

Here here! The amount of grammatical errors on here is incredible..

Agreed. On the Internet, the only thing people know about you is the text that you type in your post. If you can't be bothered to edit your posts for spelling and grammar, you come off as lazy and stupid. This may not be the case, but that's the image you give others.

sjones wrote:

People seem to be unable to differentiate between there, they're and their.

I see this everywhere. People need to remember the sentence "They're there in their room". It illustrates the difference in one fun-sized line.

Sam Vimes

Wertz wrote:

Oh whilst there's a thread open on this; it's ridiculous, NOT rediculous...I'm always amazed at the amount of people with otherwise seemingly good spelling/grammar, that consistently spell it wrong.

Oh and I'm currently having a very meaningful debate via PMs on the over usage of exclamation marks...the use of them in place of every full stop doesn't add anything to your post, other than to make you appear to be an ardent 10 year old with a terminal case of ADHD.

in case you were commenting on my use of exclamation marks, the sentences in which I used them were exclamations and, as such, required an exclamation mark!!!!!!!1111111111onehundredandeleven

Wertz

Commander Vimes wrote:

in case you were commenting on my use of exclamation marks, the sentences in which I used them were exclamations and, as such, required an exclamation mark!!!!!!!1111111111onehundredandeleven

No no...someone else..I have absolutely nothing against them used in their proper context.
...and sparingly!

scojones

Commander Vimes wrote:

I believe you mean a lot, not alot

Also, I think that a full stop between "ownership" and "an example" would be more appropriate. oooo, how exciting! I get to give out about grammar. Yay!

Here, here has previously been mentioned

You sir, have found all of the eggs. Congrats

Tar.Aldarion

Demeant0r wrote:

Whatever happened to the Spell Czech forum?

It was made private. PM hullaballoo or me for those that want access.
Beware of the 'paddling of the sore asses' for entry!


I hate 'then' instead of 'than' and 'alot' instead of 'a lot'.
Theygrind my gears.

Pherekydes

Poor guys! Their, they're, there! Get some hot chocolate and go to bed with a good book like "Grammar to go.":p

Karoma

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Tar.Aldarion

Brilliant, Full stop.

simu

Mistakes can be funny, though. I love it when people use bean - My trousers were bean washed yesterday.

/craxx up

blu_sonic

I don't see why people get so anal about spelling/grammer on boards, i mean if you undersatand it why bring notice to it, if you can't thats a different story, my grammer online seems to be very bad, however when i write with a pen and paper or speak i'm 99% correct most of the time

Zillah

sjones wrote:

Thanks for your time.

I fear you may be wasting you're time.


Hehehe....

Dirk Gently

like accountancy, people who pull other people up on how 2 spell correctelely are wrong people. i dont' care if ye drink pepsi max and do extreme sports, y'our dull and your wrong. theirs' no need for dis thread!!!!!!! go rite a dictonry or sumtang.

up for anything

Karl Hungus wrote:

I find then/than rather annoying aswell.

For example, when someone would say "I prefer frosties rather then rice crispies" when they should have used than.

Sorry if I'm been anal here, but it really annoys me.

er, I hope this was a joke.:eek:

Pet

"I prefer frosties rather then rice crispies" when they should have used than.

No, they should have used to, and the "rather" is superfluous, unless they were using the conditional tense, and even then it's debatable. Also, don't forget to capitalise the brand names!

"I prefer Frosties to Rice Krispies."

or

"I would prefer Frosties rather than Rice Krispies."

tman

Shreddies are clearly FTW.

One thing that always seems to piss me off is "The add for xxxxxxx product"
Is it that hard to check how many Ds there are there in "advert"?

other than that, fill your boots:p

Hagar

It would certainly help if all the letters on my keyboard weren't so badly jumbled up.

FlutterinBantam

tman wrote:

Shreddies are clearly FTW.

One thing that always seems to piss me off is "The add for xxxxxxx product"
Is it that hard to check how many Ds there are there in "advert"?

other than that, fill your boots:p

Good post tman.... lets cut to the chase..... people who don't bother their fat butts to take any care with grammar and spelling are just lazy slobs, and no amount of smart post or insults will disguise this.
Anyone can make an odd typo,but FFs... some of the posts here are 3rd class national school standard.

Let's get honest here please

Aporia

It would certainly help if all the letters on my keyboard weren't so badly jumbled up

Hah yeah, that's happening me too everytime I press the ''n'' key it goes back to the start of the sentence. :mad:

Damn keyboard.

tbh

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present Of vs Have.

e.g. I would of gone mad.

Shouldn't it be I would *have* gone mad?

Also, everybody does this: Enter your PIN Number.

that'll be your personal identification number number then will it?

scojones

I like this thread

pbsuxok1znja4r

Speaking of being a complete idiot, I was once seeing this girl who used the word "lullaby" in a context in which she should have said "alibi".
Needless to say, she got dropped like a bad habit.

FlutterinBantam wrote:

lets cut to the chase

Ahem. Am I to take it that you meant to say "let's cut to the chase"?

FlutterinBantam

scouser.tommy wrote:

Speaking of being a complete idiot, I was once seeing this girl who used the word "lullaby" in a context in which she should have said "alibi".
Needless to say, she got dropped like a bad habit.


Ahem. Am I to take it that you meant to say "let's cut to the chase"?

That's what I meant Thomas ..indeed it was...

Let me clean that first sentence up for you...

I was seeing a girl once who used "lullaby" when she should have used "alibi".

See! Much cleaner and less pedantic:D

pbsuxok1znja4r

FlutterinBantam wrote:

That's what I meant Thomas ..indeed it was...

Let me clean that first sentence up for you...

I was seeing a girl once who used "lullaby" when she should have used "alibi".

See! Much cleaner and less pedantic:D

Evidently, not less pedantic...at all...
The name's Ro, BTW.

blu_sonic

i rekon dat dis tred shud be moved ta tha sepill cheeckers forim

Tar.Aldarion

Where that post will promptly be deleted.