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Post by loxfiredance on Aug 21, 2009 4:25:43 GMT -5
My mum wrote me a birthday card from my dogs, and spelt "Boggart" wrong. She put "from the Bogot" and I was like WHO THE HELL IS THAT
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Post by Rinkái on Aug 21, 2009 6:26:01 GMT -5
^hahahaha. xDD
And Clover: your & you're drive me nuts as well. Some people (I've seen a few on here) just don't know the difference and use them madly, as if that'll make up for it. ¬___¬
Your: it is yours. It is your hand. You're: You're beautiful. You're drunk. (a shorter form of 'you are'. If 'you are' doesn't fit, don't use it).
Because "it is you are hand" doesn't make sense. K people? xDDD
Also, I just want to point out that words like "pics" and "biscuits" have NO apostrophe. At all. There is no "pic's" or "biscuit's" unless the biscuit owns something, which I highly doubt. >>;;;
I should really stop correcting people. Really. Because I've got dyslexia and they get me back when it causes me to make mistakes, lol! But then again, I don't really mind being corrected. It's easier than seeming stupid for constantly making that mistake, and sometimes I even go looking to be corrected; especially when my darn dyslexia is targeting one word and ganging up on me with my brain too. Then I go and ask someone the correct spelling. XDD
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Post by Josh on Aug 22, 2009 1:40:54 GMT -5
I like when people correct me because it reminds me not to make the mistake again. I keep spelling a word wrong but I forgot what it was
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Post by The Almighty Kuzonnn on Aug 22, 2009 9:45:36 GMT -5
I'd be delighted if I was.
My bigger mistakes are with on and in, I was told. I'm improving a bit, though. There are also times where I don't make sense.
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Post by Devilchun on Aug 26, 2009 21:43:02 GMT -5
I'd far rather be corrected on my pronunciation/spelling/grammar than keep making the same mistake over and over and then find out later ... I'll take short term embarrassment over long term any day.
They/they're/their, then/than, and your/you're all bother me, as do misplaced apostrophes ... but most of all words spelled phonetically. That's my pet peeve. x.x; "Per say" instead of "per se" really gets me, despite the fact that that might seem like a pretty insignificant mistake, haha. OH AND. "I could care less." That isn't technically a grammar or spelling error, I guess, but it doesn't make sense. "I couldn't care less" is the correct form of that saying, as in "I care so little about X that I could not care less."
/endrant
Haha. I'm so full of hate. :<
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Post by Zekumi on Aug 26, 2009 22:03:40 GMT -5
^ GAAAH. I felt like I was the only person ever (exaggeration, but you get what I mean) who knows it's 'per se'. I sometimes think people see me type it and look at it going "What in the world is that? Did she make that up?" xD Every once in awhile I'll type or write so fluently I'll glance over a 'Your' instead of a 'You're', but I'm pretty sure I always catch myself. Ironically, I've seen like 10 different people in the past week on Wajas or PCG put 'rediculously'. x3 I don't have it in me to point it out, though. :P My mum wrote me a birthday card from my dogs, and spelt "Boggart" wrong. She put "from the Bogot" and I was like WHO THE HELL IS THAT *big LOL* XD
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Post by loxfiredance on Aug 27, 2009 5:08:36 GMT -5
^ Aww lol X) IT WASNT FUNNY AT THE TIME U NO. :<
And eep, I agree with Devilchun. It's Per se, not Per say. Who's per? What's he saying? TELL ME >_<
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Post by .Kathy.@.Tabbloza. on Aug 27, 2009 10:12:04 GMT -5
If someone notices a recurring grammar problem in what I say or write, I'd appreciate being told of it. Just recently, I found out when to use periods inside or outside of the parenthesis:
This is a complete sentence (and this is a phrase). (This is a complete sentence.)
Found this out when I was practicing grammar and vocabulary on freerice.com... I always thought the period went inside the parenthesis no matter what. The above two sentences were written EXACTLY that way on the site, same exact words. It wasn't until four or five tries at it that I noticed "OH THEY'RE TRYING TO TELL ME SOMETHING!" xD
Then again, I do not think one needs amazing grammar skills to be a good writer. The novel I read for AP Lang & Comp this summer was chuck full of grammar mishaps (I even think there were some your/you're mistakes), and it was still a great story. The grammar didn't matter one bit.
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Post by Kari <3 on Aug 27, 2009 16:44:29 GMT -5
It bothers me to an extent, I try not to make mistakes and I wince when others do it but I've already gotten into so much trouble for my big fat mouth anyways so I try to keep mum. I don't like it when people correct my pronunciation, though. I say 'sorry' as 'surrey' and 'want' as 'wunt' (apparently that's a jewish thing?). Everyone says everything differently (I have a friend that pronounces milk as 'melk'), so why bother? At least I don't pronounce 'cat' as 'dog', right? There's a few more but it just makes me want to go ARGH!
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Post by Cher on Aug 28, 2009 11:36:32 GMT -5
I agree with everything that everyone has said about grammar/spelling mistakes. It all drives me crazy, but I don't feel comfortable correcting people I don't know that well on their mistakes. However, I -would- like it if people corrected me on my mistakes, so that I can learn and fix them quickly, instead of repeating them and potentially humiliating myself.
As far as pronunciation goes, I think that people correcting me on my pronunciation is unnecessary. I completely agree with Kaerii; everyone pronounces words differently, and a lot of it depends on where you live. However, if I'm pronouncing something severely wrong so that it doesn't even sound like the same word, THEN I'd like to be corrected.
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Post by raerae on Aug 28, 2009 12:46:09 GMT -5
Haha my pastor says "often times" a lot, with the t, which annoys me because my mom and me always think of it and say it without the t. But apprently both are correct? >.> It still gets to me. And a someone my mom knows pronounces "doll" like "dowl". xD It's kind of funny.
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Post by Amber@Flummery on Aug 29, 2009 21:30:45 GMT -5
Being Dyslexic, I get alot of people correcting me, but It jsut gets so irritating when Im corrected all the tiem! ;3; EDIT ^ see? terrible type. D:
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Post by Rinkái on Aug 29, 2009 21:50:30 GMT -5
Haha my pastor says "often times" a lot, with the t, which annoys me because my mom and me always think of it and say it without the t. But apprently both are correct? >.> It still gets to me. And a someone my mom knows pronounces "doll" like "dowl". xD It's kind of funny. Both pronounciations are correct in my mind.. I think 'ofTen' is how it is -supposed- to be pronounced, though. And Amber, I'm dyslexic too! *dyslexia highfive* I just have it very mildly.
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