When the Grammar Nazi's strike!

[Finn]

Few years back, I was writing letters back and forth with an former coworker after I moved to Maryland (she doesn't like using a computer) and it got a bit unnerving when she kept using "here" when she meant either "hear" or literally "here" to the point where it was confusing. I tried to encourage her to be more careful. I haven't heard from her.

oh well.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I guess I just lack that gene which causes some to forever inflict themselves upon others for no reason other than to gratify their own ego.

Not noticably.

 

[thestrangequark]

I love when people on craigslist advertise a chair and "automan."

 

[Miss Chicken]

Few years back, I was writing letters back and forth with an former coworker after I moved to Maryland (she doesn't like using a computer) and it got a bit unnerving when she kept using "here" when she meant either "hear" or literally "here" to the point where it was confusing. I tried to encourage her to be more careful. I haven't heard from her.

oh well.

I remember being told as a child that 'hear' looks like it an ear in it (meaning the letter 'a') but that could also mean the word 'ear'.

I was told the remember piece was a 'piece of pie'

That definitely could be remember by the "finite". That separate had part of a part (par).

 

[scotpens]

Few years back, I was writing letters back and forth with a former coworker after I moved to Maryland (she doesn't like using a computer) and it got a bit unnerving when she kept using "here" when she meant either "hear" or literally "here" to the point where it was confusing.

I have a bug up my ass about people who express agreement or support by writing “Here, here” instead of the correct “hear, hear.” The former is how you call a pet.

 

[Nick086]

What happen to all of the grammer Nazis? I use to see them all the time on the message boards correcting people's grammer. I remember I use to get corrected all the time on IMDB's messages boards. What was really insulting, I would have non English speaking Europeans correcting my English.

 

[Sephiroth]

^I ran them off with my mace of run-on sentences

 

[Nick086]

^I ran them off with my mace of run-on sentences

hahahhaha the minority, became the majority.

 

[RJDiogenes]

No, those with low standards have always been in the majority. That's why society creeps along so slowly.

 

[Deckerd]

That definitely could be remember by the "finite".

One of my particular thorns. People who use 'definate' and 'definately' drive me crazy. I don't know whether this is just a UK problem. I hope so. I wouldn't like all of you to be suffering this pain.

 

[RoJoHen]

I guess I just lack that gene which causes some to forever inflict themselves upon others for no reason other than to gratify their own ego.

Not noticably.

 

[danellis]

I'll put my hand up to being guilty of that one: I try to at least remember to look it up though! (Really, all the Is shouldn't be that hard to manage <shrug>)

dJE

That definitely could be remember by the "finite".

One of my particular thorns. People who use 'definate' and 'definately' drive me crazy. I don't know whether this is just a UK problem. I hope so. I wouldn't like all of you to be suffering this pain.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I used to say definite. Someone corrected me on it and I fixed it. That's a spelling concern, not a grammar one, though. I think I stopped making spelling mistakes when I downloaded spell check for firefox

Anyway, as can be seen in the above example, if someone corrects me politely, I say "woops," fix the mistake, and move on. It's only a big deal if people make a big deal out of it.

 

[KJbushway]

I don't have spell check.

 

[B.J.]

It's standard with Firefox. On the advanced tab of the Options, click "Check my spelling as I type."

 

[KJbushway]

Will try it.

 

[Subcommander R.]

Subject-verb agreement is my own particular albatross.

 

[LitmusDragon]

I used to say definite.

Erhm, isn't definite the correct spelling? Or is that your spellchecker at work again?

 

[RedShirt]

I don't have a problem getting through posts with bad grammar and spelling but there are a small handful of posters here who have a habit of forgetting entire words in their zeal to reply. It can make divining their intention a bit of a challenge, especially when it is something crucial like "did" or "not".

 

[RoJoHen]

I don't have a problem getting through posts with bad grammar and spelling but there are a small handful of posters here who have a habit of forgetting entire words in their zeal to reply. It can make divining their intention a bit of a challenge, especially when it is something crucial like "did" or "not".

For some reason, when I type too fast, I have a tendency to completely forget my negatives: not, no, etc. It has the effect of making my points the total opposite of what I intend.