Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put.
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This thread is a capitol idea!!
“I’m going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.” General James Mattis, USMC
^ The worst is when autocorrect tries to "helpfully" change a less-common word into a more-common one. Fuck you, autocorrect, I know what I'm doing!
^This - for quote of the decade...
Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht Anders tun. Gott hilfe mir. Amen. - Martin Luther In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. - Pascal
My biggest pet peeve is intolerance for contemporary vernacular.
Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht Anders tun. Gott hilfe mir. Amen. - Martin Luther In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. - Pascal
I sometimes use "enquiry" instead of "inquiry" just to see if anyone notices. Unfortunately there is a lawyer I use a lot who consistently pronounces it "inkry".
The man who gives his woman everything ends up with nothing. Not even the woman.
It drives me bats when people put apostrophes in plural (not possessive) nouns. Example: I saw three cat's in the yard
It also bothers me that my niece in law who went to a fancy university up North can't get to and too straight in her Facebook statuses. It's not a single possible typo incident, either. It's a repeated error. Example: Sorry I've been to busy to upload any pics of the new house.
My pet peeve is principal/principle; especially at NASA where many projects are conducted by people trying to discover principles instead by principal (chief) investigators.
Perhaps the worst of my pet peeves: incorrectly using the word "literally" as an all-purpose intensifier, especially in sentences where the exact opposite is true. No, you did not "literally" explode from excitement, but you are literally making the English language a poorer one by gradually eroding the ability to denote when one is speaking the literal truth as opposed to speaking figuratively or exaggerating for effect.
Steven Pinker talks about this in "The Language Instinct" (great book btw). Using 'literally' in a non-literal sense is a well-established practice, and there are even instances from Mark Twain (e.g., "he was literally rolling in money").
So "literally" can be used an intensifier after all.
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“I’m going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.” General James Mattis, USMC
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^This - for quote of the decade...
Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht Anders tun. Gott hilfe mir. Amen. - Martin Luther
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. - Pascal
My journey
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Commas save lives.
Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht Anders tun. Gott hilfe mir. Amen. - Martin Luther
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. - Pascal
My journey
How will you live well today?
How will you live well today?
It also bothers me that my niece in law who went to a fancy university up North can't get to and too straight in her Facebook statuses. It's not a single possible typo incident, either. It's a repeated error. Example: Sorry I've been to busy to upload any pics of the new house.
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes:
Eta All in front of y'all to make it correct
How will you live well today?
Using 'literally' in a non-literal sense is a well-established practice, and there are even instances from Mark Twain (e.g., "he was literally rolling in money").
So "literally" can be used an intensifier after all.