Crappy grammar and malapropisms at this board

[Seamus]

It's Monday morning, and I'm in a horrible mood. Why is it that some of the people who post here have such crappy grammar and misuse so many words? Lack of subject-verb agreement, misused past and perfect tense (drank/drunk), improper use of pronouns and relative pronouns (who/whom, I/me), misused homonyms (there/they're/their), misused "big words" ("persay")--just some of the crimes that we have to witness all the time. Not to be a stuck-up little bitch or anything, but it's driving me crazy. If you grew up in an English-speaking country and are older than ten years old, you have no excuses for slaughtering our language.

[537]

"...you have no excuse for using slaughtering our language."

I been told my English is a lot gooder than most oh-ree-entuls, but that right thurrr made no cents to me.



edit: Oh, I see you edited...

[Seamus]

Yeah, I made that error because I had gone back and changed some things in the sentence, but forgotten to delete all of the original text. I'm not talking about you 537, just certain other individuals.

[applehead]

grammar mistakes are unfortunate.
spelling errors are preventable.

oh well. i guess no one cares 'cause
our posts aren't being graded.
you can be our grammar nazi and point
out mistakes. it never hurts to learn.

[SunWuKong]

English is not my first language, nor is it my best language persay. people are entitled to there opinions. to who do i owe it to use perfect grammar and spelling? nobody. and another thing... err... i drunk a lot of beer last night.

Yeah, I made that error because I had gone back and changed some things in the sentence, but forgotten to delete all of the original text. I'm not talking about you 537, just certain other individuals.


should be either "but had forgotten" or "but forgot". :smile:

[kitty]

It's Monday morning, and I'm in a horrible mood. Why is it that some of the people who post here have such crappy grammar and misuse so many words? Lack of subject-verb agreement, misused past and perfect tense (drank/drunk), improper use of pronouns and relative pronouns (who/whom, I/me), misused homonyms (there/they're/their), misused "big words" ("persay")--just some of the crimes that we have to witness all the time. Not to be a stuck-up little bitch or anything, but it's driving me crazy. If you grew up in an English-speaking country and are older than ten years old, you have no excuses for slaughtering our language.

don't you think you're being just a little bit grumpy? not everyone was taught proper grammar, and frankly, i think grammar can be limiting when it comes to really good writing -- you don't always want to get bogged down by the proper use of the semicolon.

anyways, consider typos and stuff as well. you, yourself, committed a grammar faux pas just by editing a sentence and forgetting to make subsequent changes.

it happens. personally, i type a stream of consciousness -- so my grammar reflects the way i speak more than the way i write.

[deez nuts]

closing this thread before seamus gets more emotional.