| Author | Message | ||
     Fast1075 |
Bad English...bad english Some Bad English is fine with me.  (Message edited by fast1075 on September 13, 2010) | ||
| Buelltours |
from a fellow badwebbers personal page...   | ||
| Ratbuell |
Court - BRAVO!! Do they, by chance, submit electronically at all? If it were me, I'd read...grade (fail, at that stage of the educational game - like you said, if they're in Ivy League business school, they should know better)...hit "spell check", correct all, re-save, and give back to the student. And make them memorize it. | ||
| Iamarchangel |
Court You got me there. Mum and dad always told me that "got" was not a word. I take it out off any formal writing. Yes, I write a lot. Yes, I spend almost an equal time proofing. Yes, I've been published. Do I really care about the Oxford comma, no. Or formal English on a forum, again, no. Do I think big whoop when somebody goes off on a tear over it, yes. However, regarding your charge to academia, I am in full agreement. | ||
| Pwnzor |
Lord knows it's not my long suite Neither is it your long suit. I couldn't let it fly, considering the subject of the thread, sir. Carry on. | ||
| Pkforbes87 |
My pet peve is "conversate". Not a word, not ever going to be a word since it's meaning is already taken by a shorter word which actually exists: converse. | ||
| Paint_shaker |
Hey, I just bought me some new Converse (Chuck Taylors even)! | ||
| Ulywife |
What drives me crazy is the misuse of "I". It's not always "I". Sometimes it's correct to use "me". People who are being paid to write for TV programs do it all the time! Drives me up the wall! Mum and dad always told me that "got" was not a word. My oldest will come in as ask "Do you got any money?"...my response is "no" as I give her the look! She will come back with "Do you have any money?" My mother stayed on me regarding my grammar. My typical response was "whatever". Now I do it to my kids. Usually all I have to say is "excuse me" and they repeat the sentence with correct grammar. You can't rely on the school system to teach them grammar. Have you heard some of the teachers? My kids have better grammar than some of them. It's sad that these are the people who are trusted to educate our children. I may not always be correct, but I think I do a pretty good job at teaching my children the correct way to speak and ask for things. I've expressed to them that the way they they speak and carry themselves will carry them far in life and could be the difference between them and someone else for a job/promotion in the future. Rant over. | ||
| Blake |
>>> I take it out off any formal writing. You're killin' me!  "Irregardless"; what moron invented that word? "Got" is a word. Just poor grammar to use it after "have". One or the other alone will suffice. AOL should be sued for "you've got mail." We once suffered a big shop scandal concerning the B-2 bomber effort at LTV. The shop had accidentally dumped tension-head and shear-head fasteners into the parts bin for just one of those configurations (I don't recall which) and had been using fasteners from the bin for some time without realizing the problem. The difference in the two types of fasteners being the angle of the countersink, tension-heads having a greater angle and more meat to carry the tension in a countersunk titanium fastener. Shear heads didn't need to carry tension and so for weight-savings had a much shallower angle of countersink. The issue became known as the great "commingled" fastener scandal. I refused. I just called it the "mingled" fastener scandal. Yet, "commingled" was then and is indeed a word.  The scandal was that once installed, there was no way to determine which type of faster it was. They looked identical. There was much hand-wringing about having to remove ALL the fasteners for inspection and from what date onwards. | ||
| Blake |
I was caught speeding. I got a speeding ticket. I now have a speeding ticket to pay. I | ||
| Cityxslicker |
costed as in that motorcycle costed me 5K | ||
| Reepicheep |
My oldest just had a math teacher take off half a point because he failed to show his work solving a math problem... The problem was 10^12 / 10^8, The answer was supposed to be written with an exponent (10^4). I told him to just show his work next time, and that she won't be the last unreasonable boss he will be working for. | ||
| Jb2 |
What really pisses me off is all the damn grammar police. I have terrible keyboarding skills plus a mild case of lysdexia. Then, on top of that, I have all these friends who are engineers and now I find out that my intermittent blunders really bothers them. Cross my tees, dot my eyes, stick a pencil in your side!!!  (edited for grammar) HA!!! (Message edited by jb2 on September 14, 2010) | ||
| Doerman |
When did servers start using: "Are you still working on that." Well, I didn't go to a restaurant to work on something. Unless they think the steak they served was hard as shoe leather. Then it might be considered work. | ||
| Buelltours |
What about "Which muffler do you run?" Is that correct American English? I studied English as a second language and never came across this use of the word "to run". Makes me swallow hard every time.... | ||
| Court |
Of course . . . I've long subscribed to my personal "wordnastics". When I see a word that needs improved I just up 'n do it. Example . . ."Simultaneously" makes no sense to me. However, "Sameultimeously" does. | ||
| Chopped_burban |
My biggest issue is actually formatting more than spelling or grammar. When I get e-mails from Human Resources in my corporate e-mail account that have the text in pink, purple, green, etc., I want to scream. Second item in the same category is type font. Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, Courier and the like are all fine. Can we knock it off with the crazy scripts that can barely be read? Nothing screams, “I’m a moron!” like making an error while shouting it in pink Brush Script MT. Please, we’re not in third grade anymore. Grow up and conduct yourself in a professional manner at work. Save the pink loopy stuff for napkins at the bar or playing with your kids. | ||
| 86129squids |
Court- that's craptastic!!! I've not done too poorly in school- over the years I've proven that I'm best at grammar, spelling, syntax and such. Not THE best, but purty guuuddd.. I remembered a book that I'd heard about some time ago, looked it up... http://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Illustrat ed-Punctuation/dp/159240488X/ref=pd_sim_b_72 Anyone read this? Oh yeah, here's one of my fave personal word mash-ups: Smegmalicious!! | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Oh my dear friends, it gladdens my heart to know that I'm not alone. Another pet peeve is mispronunciation. It's Mitsubishi, not Mitsibushi! And Mr Powell your name is pronounced collin not cohlin. Yes, I just committed a cardinal sin, I started a sentence with And. I'll be drummed out of the Grammer Polis now. | ||
| Rainman |
My grammar done told me not to make no fun of folks what ain't as learned as me. | ||
| 86129squids |
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| Ted |
i'm no grammar spengalli, but past-history' & irregardless' bug me !  | ||
| Sparky |
Why do some people insist on using "then" instead of "than" when used in a comparative context? How about those using "must of" when thinking "must have"? Why, colloquialims or what? They ought to have their grammar checker updated (or go back to school... ). (Message edited by sparky on September 14, 2010) | ||
| Danger_dave |
I find Americans bitching about English ironic. Irregardless. | ||
| Danger_dave |
>- this is where Grumpy says 'coming from an Australian that is ironic' -< | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Ah, but Dave is a Commonwealth citizen (for the moment) & therefore, like myself, one on Her Majesty's loyal subjects. Furthermore he's a professional wordsmith who has to set an example to up all.  | ||
| Danger_dave |
Ah - but I have carp typing. | ||
| Danger_dave |
In my lounge room earlier were Aussies, Kiwis, a South African and a daughter of Yorkshire. I think we were speaking the same language. 'T were a laff n'all. | ||
| Blake |
Buelltours, I'd think that "what muffler do you run" is okay grammatically. Think of the muffler as a machine that is being run, meaning being operated. | ||
| Skntpig |
www.engrish.com Lost in translation. |
