Please Portray Your Pleasant Pedantry Presently

2456710

Comments

  • JellyBeanJellyBean Sunny SoCalGold Women Posts: 5,054
    Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put. 
    Enneagram type 9w1
  • CrashaxeCrashaxe Partytown, which is wherever I am.Gold Men Posts: 1,243
    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

    Katt_ioHildaCornersSisyphus
  • Mark72Mark72 OhioSilver Member Posts: 2,007
    Ben said:
    ^  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 journey

    SisyphusGuitarGirlpornwidow
  • KattKatt USASilver Member Posts: 4,554
    edited December 2014
    Let's eat, Grandpa!

    Let's eat Grandpa!

    Commas save lives.
    magentaShepardHildaCornerspornwidow
  • never_againnever_again CanadaSilver Member Posts: 1,372
    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.
    Mark72Angeline
  • AvalinetteAvalinette In the kitchenSilver Member Posts: 1,316
    @Chief_TC, your interest in love languages was piqued, not peeked.
    [Deleted User]Angeline_ioJellyBean
  • TenneeTennee Next Stop: AwesomevilleSilver Member Posts: 5,963
    Surely I'm not the only one who had Blazing Saddles pop into his head reading this...right?



    "Fall down seven times, stand up eight"  Japanese Proverb

    How will you live well today?
    Katt[Deleted User]
  • KattKatt USASilver Member Posts: 4,554
    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.
    HildaCornersJellyBean
  • dalefdalef Silver Member Posts: 1,963
    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.
  • TenneeTennee Next Stop: AwesomevilleSilver Member Posts: 5,963
    edited December 2014
    Have we covered Its/It's, and which is actually possessive,   yet?  Boy I've had arguments over this one...
    "Fall down seven times, stand up eight"  Japanese Proverb

    How will you live well today?
  • Frank_LondonFrank_London in transitSilver Member Posts: 1,853
    Ben said:
    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.
    JellyBean
  • SisyphusSisyphus Silver Member Posts: 1,094
    Tennee said:
    IRregardless.../shudders/


    ^^^^THIS

    TenneeJellyBeanpornwidow
  • RebuildingHusbandRebuildingHusband Southern USASilver Member Posts: 1,953
    If people use literally when they don't literally mean 'literally', I could care less.
    That's one that figuratively, not literally, chaps my ass. If you could care less then you probably should. 
    give a shit and try, or go be miserable by yourself - AlphaBelle
    KattJellyBeanHildaCorners
Sign In or Register to comment.