^I spent months scoring a Texas High School exam, where student after student wrote that fences in Texas were all made by a Mr. Bob Wire.
Give me strength...
Give me strength...
When the Grammar Nazi's strike!
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^I'll bet anything that the phrase "hunker down" shows up in a textbook next year.
HISD at its finest.
HISD at its finest.
I'm gonna put that on my tombstone.
I hate when people say "the proof is in the pudding." Uh, no, the proof OF the pudding is in the EATING. 
No, those last two would be declarative phrases - the words "this is" are understood to be at the beginning of those titles.
FWIW, the original novel on which Who Framed Roger Rabbit is based, Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary Wolf, has the missing question mark in its title.
On the topic of eggcorns, the use of "irregardless" drives me up the wall.
“Irregardless” is a conflation of “regardless” and “irrespective,” resulting in an unintentional double negative.
One can allow for colloquialisms and a bit of grammatical leeway in pop culture. Although I still cringe when I see the title of Sheryl Crow’s song “Everyday Is a Winding Road.” It’s “every day,” dammit. Two. Fucking. Words.
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Possibly something confined to the British Isles, but Alexandra Burke's song Broken Heels annoys me. The title of the song appears in several lines which all use this construction:
"You know I can do it better than you, I can do it even better in broken heels"
That doesn't mean what she thinks it means. She means '... I can even do it better in broken heels'. What she says is that she does 'it' better with broken heels than without them, which makes no sense at all.
What makes it even worse is the correct version would fit fine.
was he dyslexica or had some other learning issues as a child?
when i actually take a grammar class i do well but, it goes away soon after.
unlike my issues with reading that i was able to over come is just have big problem with certain language skills.
if i am writing something important i will go and get help with proofreading.
Now the bizarre part is that people will bring me something they are working on to see how it flows.
I ' am pretty decent at being able to tell if the point is being made or if the wording is awkward. Moreso with sometthing written by someone else then me.
Well, that's true of everybody. It's always a good idea to have someone else proofread your stuff.
. . . Now the bizarre part is that people will bring me something they are working on to see how it flows.
I am pretty decent at being able to tell if the point is being made or if the wording is awkward. Moreso with something written by someone else then me.
"More so" is two words.
TWO . . . FUCKING . . . WORDS!!
The spelling as one word is becoming increasingly common, however, and may well be accepted as standard ten or twenty years from now.
But that doesn't mean I have to like it.
Never the less, it probably will.
I don't have any problem with it. That's just the natural evolution of language. Which was the probably-too-subtle point of my last Post. 
Not anymore.
Dyslexic? He was never diagnosed, but I'm fairly certain he is. He even thinks he is. If it's not about numbers or programming, he's fairly lost.
I'm the opposite. I can handle anything, as long as no numbers are involved.
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