A fast glance at who started the thread would hopefully of allied you're fears.
Yes, the whole sentence was for you
$1 to the first person to point out everything wrong.
Supposably and Expecially (excetera, excetera, excetera)
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A fast glance at who started the thread would hopefully of allied you're fears.
Yes, the whole sentence was for you
$1 to the first person to point out everything wrong.
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Does textses instead of texts count? Even if it doesn't, it gets bloody annoying when you've heard it every day you've been at work for the past sixteen months.
I don't know if I can complain about the pluralization of a noun that's fewer than 10 years old.
Maybe textses will become the accepted form.
Another I've seen here is "issue an infraction." Guilty parties commit infractions, the authorities don't "issue" them - but they can warn them for an infraction, or say that a certain action by the guilty party was an infraction of the rules for something.
(sorry, but I just had to say it as it was starting to annoy the grammar national socialist within me
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(sorry, but I just had to say it as it was starting to annoy the grammar national socialist within me
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I sometimes try to be an anal-retentive grammar nazi who's overly concerned with people's word choices and pronunciation, but in the end, I just can't do it.
Does textses instead of texts count? Even if it doesn't, it gets bloody annoying when you've heard it every day you've been at work for the past sixteen months.
I don't know if I can complain about the pluralization of a noun that's fewer than 10 years old.
Maybe textses will become the accepted form.
I've always gone on the assumption that it's one text, three texts. Textses... I don't even know where that would fit.
Textses are what Hobbitses send on their phoneses, preciousssss......Does textses instead of texts count? Even if it doesn't, it gets bloody annoying when you've heard it every day you've been at work for the past sixteen months.
I don't know if I can complain about the pluralization of a noun that's fewer than 10 years old.
Maybe textses will become the accepted form.
I've always gone on the assumption that it's one text, three texts. Textses... I don't even know where that would fit.
I noticed this too, but in this case, the board software's to blame - it calls what we issue "infractions". Essentially it's coined a new noun - consider it that the punishment issued when an infraction of the rules occurs is called an Infraction.
Add to that "number" and "amount".
If you see this written down or pronounced really clearly then, fair enough, it's wrong but the person could be saying "would've" which is correct (and where the whole would of confusion comes from in the first place)
I'm still fighting a rear-guard battle for "presently" to mean 'some time soon', not 'now' but I think I may have already lost that one.
To "sure up" a gap instead of "shore up". I heard this a lot listening to a new financial advisor confirm his appointments. He's out of the business now. Wonder why. 
Pacific instead of specific. Used to work with a guy who said that a lot.
Not really a malapropism, but when people use the word "go" to indicate what someone said. Drives me up the wall.
Pacific instead of specific. Used to work with a guy who said that a lot.
Not really a malapropism, but when people use the word "go" to indicate what someone said. Drives me up the wall.
So, like, then he goes, "You bitch!" and I'm like, "Dude!", then goes, like, "What bitch?", and then I go....
So you fight infractions with "infractions" in the end. And here I was thinking two wrongs don't make a right...
Another thing is the misuse of the word "literally" - a rate posh word, apparently - and its constant misuse always has me punching the walls in fury, metaphorically. Now I've got blood all over my keyboard, figuratively speaking.
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