Been or Being!!!!

Meeeee79

Can anyone tell me why people get so confused about these 2 words?!

It's something that is really getting on my wick of late.

I have been to the shop, not I have being to the shop.

I fell after being tripped, not I fell after been tripped.

Arrrghhh!! Rant over, please and thankyou!

Roger Hassenforder

Meeeee79 wrote: »

Can anyone tell me why people get so confused about these 2 words?!

Its something that is really getting on my wick of late.

I have been to the shop, not I have being to the shop.

I fell after being tripped, not I fell after been tripped.

Arrrghhh!! Rant over, please and thankyou!

It's
FFS

Jim Bob Scratcher

Quite been a complainypants

Meeeee79

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

It's
FFS

:P

lawred2

lawred2

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

Quite been a complainypants

seriously?

Meeeee79

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

Quite been a complainypants

This is really aggravating my OCD :D:D

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Meeeee79 wrote: »

Can anyone tell me why people get so confused about these 2 words?!

It's something that is really getting on my wick of late.

I have been to the shop, not I have being to the shop.

I fell after being tripped, not I fell after been tripped.

Arrrghhh!! Rant over, please and thankyou!

People get the mixed up because they sound alike and hear/speak them more often than they see/write them down. Similar to Could of/could have.

Wossack

Meeeee79 wrote: »

Can anyone tell me why people get so confused about these 2 words?!

It's something that is really getting on my wick of late.

I have been to the shop, not I have being to the shop.

I fell after being tripped, not I fell after been tripped.

Arrrghhh!! Rant over, please and thankyou!

if you tripped while in the shop, you may be entitled to compensation

wil

Bean.

Persephone kindness

Mr Bean.

Meeeee79

Wossack wrote: »

if you tripped while in the shop, you may be entitled to compensation

Yes I probably would have being entitled to compensation but i didn't want to be seen as been a complainypants

Alun

OSI wrote: »

You would have taught people would have being thought these things in school.

Or even in collage

Wossack

Meeeee79 wrote: »

Yes I probably would have being entitled to compensation but i didn't want to be seen as been a complainypants

sounds like you may have hit your head ($$$), I ask that you continue speaking in this manner when we make the formal complaint

Jim Bob Scratcher

lawred2 wrote: »

seriously?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

wil wrote: »

Bean.

Persephone kindness wrote: »

Mr Bean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx4b0WmAy8s

Alun

I don't have a problem with people being unable to spell some words, my own personal problem words are satellite and accommodation mainly due to not knowing whether some letters should be single or double.

But misspelling a word as a totally different, but similarly sounding, word with a totally different meaning really annoys me. Examples on boards abound, such as ...

taught - thought
break - brake
tread - thread
affect - effect
college - collage
quite - quiet

osarusan

They're pronounced much the same way most of the time, with the 'g' in being rarely heard, so people get lazy and type them incorrectly.

I'd imagine that most of the people who do it actually know the difference and would get it right when writing something of more importance. Facebook posts and boards comments...who cares. It's a bit sad when people highlight some spelling or grammar mistake.

UNLESS it's a mistake in a post which is itself commenting about another poster's mistake. Then it's absolutely fair game.

RoboRat

This thread gives me piece of mind... as long as people don't loose there cool.

osarusan

Really pisses me off when I see that kind of mistake on signs and advertising though - just today I saw an ad for a BBC 4 series on Japan, and it had a number of mistakes with possessive apostrophes. 'We will explore it's unique history' and similar.

That's the BBC FFS.

fancy pigeon

"Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as: the process of removing weeds from one's garden"

Alun wrote: »

I don't have a problem with people being unable to spell some words, my own personal problem words are satellite and accommodation mainly due to not knowing whether some letters should be single or double.

But misspelling a word as a totally different, but similarly sounding, word with a totally different meaning really annoys me. Examples on boards abound, such as ...

taught - thought
break - brake
tread - thread
affect - effect
college - collage
quite - quiet

are - our

I'm stationery as I eat my desert

Ted Plain

I recently posted something with "being" instead of "been". I am very much aware of the difference between been/being, there/their/they're, its/it's and all of that.

Sometimes people just type the wrong word without thinking.

Thank you for providing me a platform to publicly confess this.

GBX

Wossack wrote: »

if you tripped while in the shop, you may be entitled to compensation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHbNunk0xVY

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Your been reli annoyin bout dis, i just wanna tank god for evrytin i am blessed to hav tru friends and off course a proud mammy 2 my 2 little angles

Meeeee79

GBX wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHbNunk0xVY

Well this escalated quickly!

Meeeee79

osarusan wrote: »

I'd imagine that most of the people who do it actually know the difference and would get it right when writing something of more importance. Facebook posts and boards comments...who cares. It's a bit sad when people highlight some spelling or grammar mistake.

Its a lighthearted thread about my own personal feelings on a general mistake people make, not a specific mistake by a specific person on a specific thread, if you think its sad don't read it! And whatever you do don't get yourself worked up! As you say, who cares! :P

Nabber

Ireland - are land
Atlantic- adlantic

Am I doing it right?

wil

RoboRat wrote: »

This thread gives me piece of mind... as long as people don't loose there cool.

Ill give you a peace of my mind FFS no one says cool anymore, it's dope or sick.

Isn't language ridiculously phoney.:p

Persephone kindness

A HUMAN BEAN

biko

Please stop using ! when you should be using ?

osarusan

Meeeee79 wrote: »

Its a lighthearted thread about my own personal feelings, if you think its sad don't read it! And whatever you do don't get yourself worked up! As you say, who cares! :P

No, this thread isn't sad at all, I'm talking about being a grammar nazi just for cheap internet points in a thread that is about something unrelated.

Persephone kindness

biko wrote: »

Please stop using ! when you should be using ?

Over my dead body!!!!!!!???

miece16

bin

Meeeee79

biko wrote: »

Please stop using ! when you should be using ?

Is this ok!!!!!!

I notice a lot of people on boards saying weary instead of wary and advice instead of advise.

I'm weary of walking alone at night, can anyone advice me where I can get a taxi? - that sort of thing.

Maybe it's autocorrect

wil

biko wrote: »

Please stop using ! when you should be using ?

...WHY!

GBX

biko wrote: »

Please stop using ! when you should be using ?

How dare you tell me what to do ???????

Wossack

biko wrote: »

Please stop using ! when you should be using ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtVjRG7PB_4

fancy pigeon

¿

Just use an interrobang instead‽

murpho999

I can't stand when people use apostrophes in plural's.

Many people seem to think they are required for words ending in a vowel such as taxi's.

Meeeee79

murpho999 wrote: »

I can't stand when people use apostrophes in plural's.

Me to (another one of my pet hates! The list is getting longer as this thread develops!)

RobertKK

To being or not to been that is the question...if you didn't pay attention at school.

Zebra3

I'm a human going.

Persephone kindness

Zebra3 wrote: »

I'm a human going.

I'm gone.

Glenster

Meeeee79 wrote: »

I have been to the shop, not I have being to the shop.

Never heard or seen it.

The Diddakoi

Defiantly instead of definitely

mad muffin

Beened

Meeeee79

mad muffin wrote: »

Beened

Ah don't go too mad there now

LordSutch

Meeeee79 wrote: »

Can anyone tell me why people get so confused about these 2 words?!

It's something that is really getting on my wick of late.

I have been to the shop, not I have being to the shop.

I fell after being tripped, not I fell after been tripped.

Arrrghhh!! Rant over, please and thankyou!

I have been to the toilet ....

I am a human being.

pickarooney

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I notice a lot of people on boards saying weary instead of wary and advice instead of advise.

I'm weary of walking alone at night, can anyone advice me where I can get a taxi? - that sort of thing.

Maybe it's autocorrect

Well that's certainly the most ambiguous sentence I've ever seen used to illustrate the difference between two words!

BorneTobyWilde

Ima human bean, I make ms takes .