grammar rant

Girl From Mars · by **Girl From Mars** » Mon Mar 12, 2022 9:47 pm

On the misprinted signs end of things: I've seen a van around that claims it's driver does fitted batrooms. Also there's a sign on the way into town just over the Annesly Bridge that advertises the clearing of 'greese traps'.

BrideOfRecession · by **BrideOfRecession** » Mon Mar 12, 2022 10:38 pm

Girl From Mars wrote:On the misprinted signs end of things: I've seen a van around that claims it's driver does fitted batrooms. Also there's a sign on the way into town just over the Annesly Bridge that advertises the clearing of 'greese traps'.

Actually it is "its driver" not it's - oops! :o0

by **BusyMom** » Tue Mar 13, 2022 11:45 am

candlequeen wrote:Was anyone else really paranoid that they'd spell something wrong when replying to this topic?

I've gotten caught out earlier in this thread alright - so yes, I am now!

Girl From Mars · by **Girl From Mars** » Tue Mar 13, 2022 7:45 pm

BrideOfRecession wrote:
Girl From Mars wrote:On the misprinted signs end of things: I've seen a van around that claims it's driver does fitted batrooms. Also there's a sign on the way into town just over the Annesly Bridge that advertises the clearing of 'greese traps'.

Actually it is "its driver" not it's - oops!

This one has always confused me. I know the possessive apostrophe applies in the case of 'Sharon's computer'. When I think of the 'it' version- as in "it's driver" I would put the apostrophe in there because if I used van, as in "the van's driver" - is that not the way to do it? I know this is really badly written but it's hard to talk about apostrophes without pointing to them!

ETA- Just found a website on the possessive apostrophe, I get it now! In the words of Ralph Wiggum: I'm learnding!

StupidSexyFlanders · by **StupidSexyFlanders** » Wed Mar 14, 2022 12:45 pm

Advise - verb, to give advice

Advice - noun

by **number1cat** » Wed Mar 14, 2022 11:11 pm

I've lost count of the number of grammatical turds that people empty out of their mouths and from their pens and keyboards which make me want to claw and yowl. One colleague who claimed to have worked as a teacher (!) constantly says "I seen this", "I done that", "them things" (pronouned "dem tings") and yet I doubt if she ever considered that her grammar prevented her from being retained as a teacher. Oh, yeah, school politics kept her out of a job, not her own mouth. Umm, I don't wish to sound like a complete b1tch but I always thought that a teacher with bad grammar would be like a doctor who had poor or no hand hygiene - not someone you could take seriously or whose advice you would be comfortable taking.

My other pet hate is getting emails written as though they are d@mned text messages. One colleague I have does that all of the time and I know that she is not so overwhelmed with work that she couldn't stretch to using actual words. In fact I said how much I dislike such messages today and Bambi didn't even register. Short of saying "that includes your messages, dim tits" (to paraphrase Charlie Harper's "numb nuts"), I'm not sure how obvious I could have made it for her. O:|

Oh well, she's probably lkn 4wd 2 slbr8g St Paddys day. Arrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhh!

by **Twirler** » Fri Mar 16, 2022 1:58 pm

I can forgive text messages or tweets in text speak. I still loathe it, but the character limitations mean I'll accept (not except) it. Apart from those two occasions, there is no excuse for it. I've hidden people from my news feed on Facebook because their use of text speak drives me nuts.

Luckily my husband is a grammar nazi too, he's been known to reply to my emails giving out if I've made an error due to typing too quickly. Annoying, but my ex used to spell incorrectly or use incorrect grammar sometimes and when he'd send me loving text messages all I would see would be the errors and that was far more annoying!

There's a man I work with who always says "we was". I want to shake him and shout at him until he stops doing it. >:o)

Mrs W · by **Mrs W** » Fri Mar 16, 2022 2:25 pm

candlequeen wrote:"Be Pacific". What, wet and salty?

My SIL is a great one for "killed him dead" well you hardly killed him alive did you?

There's a sports reporter on 2fm who can't pronounce his "th's" and it drives me demented.

I've also just spotted a thread looking for a "Chocolate Foundation" O:|

carjam4eva · by **carjam4eva** » Fri Mar 16, 2022 2:51 pm

Love this thread Some of you are hilarious

My particular pet hate is people not using adverbs

'You played brilliant' instead of brilliantly Or worst one ever 'You done good' Bleugh!!
I saw (not seen)a sign up on a building site once which read 'DRIVE SLOW'

Mrs W · by **Mrs W** » Fri Mar 16, 2022 3:17 pm

carjam4eva wrote:Love this thread Some of you are hilarious

My particular pet hate is people not using adverbs

'You played brilliant' instead of brilliantly Or worst one ever 'You done good' Bleugh!!
I saw (not seen)a sign up on a building site once which read 'DRIVE SLOW'

Am i missing something? I don't get it...

Jacqueline Hyde · by **Jacqueline Hyde** » Fri Mar 16, 2022 5:46 pm

Drive slowly.

by **babyblabber** » Sat Mar 17, 2022 11:18 am

can' believe no one has mentioned one (that i've actually ranted about before!): do be/does be.

as in "i do be watching..." or "he does be saying..." WTF is that supposed to mean?!!!! drives me MENTAL!

and for the record i'd from dublin and my mum has always been mum. am defo irish not english but always thought of mammy and mam as either something people from the country say (including my mum called her mother mammy) or something from a roddy doyle book.

Polly2011 · by **Polly2011** » Fri Apr 20, 2022 11:28 pm

Altar vs alter
Alter is what you might do with your dress if it doesn't fit properly... Altar is that 'thing' that is significant if you are having a wedding in church. And breathe................

penguinkisses · by **penguinkisses** » Sun Apr 22, 2022 8:55 am

Their is know way in the world I wood ever make grammitical or spelling mistakes. I'm much two careful when it comes too chequing back over my work. :innocent:

Dolbert · by **Dolbert** » Sun Apr 22, 2022 4:39 pm

This is a treadmill:

This is a thread mill:

It's a treadmill because you tread on it, genius.

More people seem to spell this the wrong way than the right way, why they have such a mental block about that particular word I have no idea.

Ah, I feel better already :o0

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