And, in my profession, I have to change the spelling when I want to see examples or find tutorials from Europe, "jewelry" or "jewellery"... Jeweller, Jewelled, Jewelling... it's interesting how things evolved.
You Can Literally Use the Word Literally, Literally Anyway You Want?
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Wow! No way!
I hate that, and I hate that the dictionary decided to dumb down to conform to societal stupidity.
I hate that, and I hate that the dictionary decided to dumb down to conform to societal stupidity.
When I was a kid, people around me didn't use the slang "cool." So, hearing it being said in movies and TV just sounded weird to me, and then as soon as I adjusted to it, the 80's brought us the use of the word "hot" to mean the exact same thing, ha ha.
And now we have "hawt" and "kewl." Reckon the oldheads just need to get good.
Speaking on behalf of grammar nazis as a professional grammar nazi myself, the strangle misuse of using object pronouns as the subject of sentences has been a battle I fear will never be won:" Me and her have fought that battle for too many years!"
Sadly, to compound grammatical idiocy, the younger generation is insisting that everyone publicly announce their own personal pronouns - not because they ever cared to use pronouns correctly in the first place, but because they have discovered a new way to use grammar to enforce and propagate their political agenda of gender neutrality - whatever? Right? You know what I mean?
I rebel. I told my employers my personal pronouns are either beep, bop, and boop or if they find these "ones" confusing, thee, thou, and thine.
Thank goodness, I retire in four months.
Sadly, to compound grammatical idiocy, the younger generation is insisting that everyone publicly announce their own personal pronouns - not because they ever cared to use pronouns correctly in the first place, but because they have discovered a new way to use grammar to enforce and propagate their political agenda of gender neutrality - whatever? Right? You know what I mean?
I rebel. I told my employers my personal pronouns are either beep, bop, and boop or if they find these "ones" confusing, thee, thou, and thine.
Thank goodness, I retire in four months.
I'm sorry. I just couldn't help it.
I would hate for my old English teacher to read my posts I make on this tiny little SE iPhone. It's like using sausages to pound out a message on a micro-typewriter, ha ha. I make typos in almost every post.
Sometimes, when I am feeling ornery, I'll ask the knucklehead of the moment the following question, "Mrs. Jones has a car. Not an exceptionally nice one, but it does belong to her. If I were to write about the car in question and refer to car by adding the words Mrs. Jones preceding the word car, how should I correctly punctuate the words Mrs. Jones.
Few can ever answer correctly. Fewer can correctly state why the correct answer is in fact correct or what the purpose and role of an apostrophe is when it comes to creating a possessive noun. It is an argument for the ages.
Few can ever answer correctly. Fewer can correctly state why the correct answer is in fact correct or what the purpose and role of an apostrophe is when it comes to creating a possessive noun. It is an argument for the ages.
Yes, and the edit a post feature on this site doesn't always allow you to repair any damages you may discover after hitting the post reply button.
Irregardless, and for the record, I literally blame the misuse of apostrophes with some singular possessive nouns on the Lutherans.
I think he gives us five seconds after we hit post to edit, ha ha. So, read it quickly.
And, as you guys may have noticed, I just can't bring myself to type out LOL. I read that in my mind, pronounced out, and it doesn't have as happy a sound in my head as "ha ha."
Yes, I've noticed. For a site that has in its rules admonitions to use correct grammar, having a little more time to repair mistakes would be helpful. Often times for me, I can't "see" the errors until I actually publish them. I wouldn't want to tell you how many times I had to "fix" mistakes in my doctoral dissertation when I went through that process decades ago. It was expensive to ...ready..."say the least". I fear I won't be able to help myself now. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
I had to go through the same. I like to tell people who ask me about it that it is just like being flogged by wet noodles for two years, ha ha.
I don't think our moderators comb our posts with a fine comb. The rule is mainly for those who leave their caps key locked or folks that just exclude punctuation or capitalization altogether. We get a few...
Now, thread titles are a different story. If they aren't capitalized in the correct fashion, it brings down the whole site's score in the search engines, and Kevin works hard to keep the forum in the first few results when someone searches for things that we discuss on here.
If that first paragraph didn't have two punctuation mistakes that were immediately apparent to me, I would find it markedly less humorous.
Can we rename this thread? I vote for "Old Men Complaining About How Everyone Else is Doing it Wrong" or something similar.
The path to ignorance is a slippery slope.
Yep, that's what I mean, LOL. I am a groggy old man in the morning, that is for sure. It's only afterwards I catch'em.
No worries, just found it funny. I have done the same thing more times than I wish to admit. ? In my case I am usually (un)fortunate enough to have a teenager be the one correcting me.
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