Grammer lesson of the day

[Cliffmeister2000]

I love this - This is grate. Not that any of your needing this infermation - but it never herts to have a english refresher. I find that two many people on the forum are always makeing to many mistakes in there spelling. Feel free two pass this along too all of you're freinds and realatives. Weather they need it or not it will make there lifes and communications much easier.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

[caseydog]

I do beleive you may be reffering to me, and Im quiet ofended by you're remarcks. My mother was a english techer. Me and my sister learned eccelent speling and we write very good.

CD

[absolutsnwbrdr]

me fail inglish? thats' umpossible!

[nevadatear]

Cd, dont u mean: "me and my sister learnt eccelent speling and we right good."

We all type before we think some times, this forum is more like conversation than formal writing, and that is expected, and I make my share of typing mistakes, but we could all benefit from a little thought and review before we press "submit", if only to make it easier on others having to figger' out what we have to say! Getting rid of those pesky red underlines before we post (right click on the underline for spell check) cleans things up significantly!

My pet peeve is the misuse of the apostrophe. It seems every use of 's' must have an apostrophe before it. S mean plural, apostrophe means "belong to the the word before or after." I found these two in the Reno newspaper in ads on the same page. Don't we have proofers anymore?

$2.95 Sloppy Joe's (what belongs to sloppy joe?)
Free beer Tuesday's (now I have to find Tuesday so she can give me my free beer). Had to get that off my chest.


Love the list! two more common ones I see often to add:

Advise vs Advice. A person advises you by giving advice
Choose vs chose. I chose to chop off my thumb(bad choice). I would never choose to chop off my thumb.

[Dave A]

Yes mam, i will now go sit in the corner facing away from everyone and place my dunce's cap on.


Dave

[Alan and Lianna]

Well, we may all be smarter than we think...

I cnduo't bvleiee taht I culod aulaclty uesdtannrd waht I was rdnaieg. Unisg the icndeblire pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whoutit a pboerlm. Tihs is bucseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Aaznmig, huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghhuot slelinpg was ipmorantt! See if yuor fdreins can raed tihs too.
So yes we are smaretr tahn we thnik...

Alan

[Prem]

Exquooz me! Yuz guiz caint right fur beenz an yur sintax suks eevan wurz. Wuhr was yu edgeucated? Ittz jus a kryan shaam.

[Roly Nelson]

Alan, htat waz a creat poast and eye waz abel to reed everi bit uv it. It is amazin what the humen mind iz kapable of fokusin on. Sum ov us dont reel-ly under stand wat aktual korrect riting iz al aboutt. Sew, hear eye goe, stammeriln and clammering to make meyself under-stud. Sum of us jusst don hav the smartz to undurstand korrect pronunsurmation or speling of the ritten wurd. Thankx four yor klarilfikation of mutch of ar Englesh Languisch, it reely duzz my hart good. O, buy da weigh, kan eue explanne haue importnant it iz to spel korectli, and aktukally pronounse da wordz korrectly? Gud luk on yer explanation, I hain't god a klue wat eye am riting about, so help-my. Goood luk on yer persivationstuff. Hay, wat duz that meen anyway? Eye unerstand dat I may gradduatie from da tird grad sumtime nest yere, aftur 5 yers in da same grad, eye sur hop sew. O my God, mi hed iz beginning to hert.......Ahhhhh.
Aul mi luv and absulutely mutch mor of dat khind of stufff...........Roly ~~

[caseydog]

Well, we may all be smarter than we think...

I cnduo't bvleiee taht I culod aulaclty uesdtannrd waht I was rdnaieg. Unisg the icndeblire pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whoutit a pboerlm. Tihs is bucseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Aaznmig, huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghhuot slelinpg was ipmorantt! See if yuor fdreins can raed tihs too.
So yes we are smaretr tahn we thnik...

Alan

It's funny, but we do read in shapes, not in letters. I learned that in college as an art major. Within limits, we really can read through mistakes, as long as the words fall into recognized patterns.

That being said, I sometimes encounter posts here, and on every other forum, that challenge my brain's ability to read shapes.

BTW, I used the apostrophe correctly in that last sentence.

CD

[caseydog]

Alan, htat waz a creat poast and eye waz abel to reed everi bit uv it. It is amazin what the humen mind iz kapable of fokusin on. Sum ov us dont reel-ly under stand wat aktual korrect riting iz al aboutt. Sew, hear eye goe, stammeriln and clammering to make meyself under-stud. Sum of us jusst don hav the smartz to undurstand korrect pronunsurmation or speling of the ritten wurd. Thankx four yor klarilfikation of mutch of ar Englesh Languisch, it reely duzz my hart good. O, buy da weigh, kan eue explanne haue importnant it iz to spel korectli, and aktukally pronounse da wordz korrectly? Gud luk on yer explanation, I hain't god a klue wat eye am riting about, so help-my. Goood luk on yer persivationstuff. Hay, wat duz that meen anyway? Eye unerstand dat I may gradduatie from da tird grad sumtime nest yere, aftur 5 yers in da same grad, eye sur hop sew. O my God, mi hed iz beginning to hert.......Ahhhhh.
Aul mi luv and absulutely mutch mor of dat khind of stufff...........Roly ~~

That would make perfect sense to me at 2AM at a South Central gathering. Then, I would forget it.

CD

[Prem]

CaseyDog wrote:

It's funny, but we do read in shapes, not in letters. I learned that in college as an art major. Within limits, we really can read through mistakes, as long as the words fall into recognized patterns.

That being said, I sometimes encounter posts here, and on every other forum, that challenge my brain's ability to read shapes

And then there are texting short-cuts. Even worse.

[caseydog]

CaseyDog wrote:

It's funny, but we do read in shapes, not in letters. I learned that in college as an art major. Within limits, we really can read through mistakes, as long as the words fall into recognized patterns.

That being said, I sometimes encounter posts here, and on every other forum, that challenge my brain's ability to read shapes

And then there are texting short-cuts. Even worse.

wtf r u talking about?

CD

[starleen2]

(no words were harmed in the making of this post)

[Aaron Coffee]

Well, we may all be smarter than we think...

I cnduo't bvleiee taht I culod aulaclty uesdtannrd waht I was rdnaieg. Unisg the icndeblire pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whoutit a pboerlm. Tihs is bucseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Aaznmig, huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghhuot slelinpg was ipmorantt! See if yuor fdreins can raed tihs too.
So yes we are smaretr tahn we thnik...

Alan

I think I was able read that faster (or is it quiker)than if it was printed correctly.

[caseydog]

Είναι όλα τα ελληνικά σε με.

CD