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You're lucky Larry Send a noteboard - 09/04/2017 07:26:39 PM

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For me, the worst currently are:
  1. Between you and I... (or any similar use of I in oblique positions)
  2. If I was a betting person... (or any similar failure to use the subjunctive)
  3. Attempts to make non-existent verbs out of nouns



That and cuz.



I'm back teaching middle school boys in a residential treatment program for emotional/behavioral disorders. I recently learned there that "finessing" really means to lie and manipulate people to get something like more snacks or an MP3. The slang here is...interesting.

Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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Please share the grammatical and/or orthographic errors that most irritate you. Tom - 06/04/2017 12:20:27 AM 848 Views
Come on, man. Verbing weirds language. Ghavrel - 06/04/2017 01:21:17 AM 571 Views
The Oxford comma is an abomination. The other is called a greengrocer's apostrophe. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:00:57 PM 574 Views
Tell that to the First Circuit. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/04/2017 05:42:01 AM 303 Views
No, I'll let the Supreme Court smack their asses for it. Tom - 08/04/2017 01:28:11 AM 469 Views
I'm pretty carefree about language unless it becomes difficult to understand aerocontrols - 06/04/2017 01:42:29 AM 585 Views
Creative vocabulary can be funderfully great Tom - 06/04/2017 08:14:23 PM 503 Views
Bruh Larry - 06/04/2017 01:46:45 AM 566 Views
Does anyone really address cousins or siblings by the relationship term? I hate that on TV & films Cannoli - 06/04/2017 05:21:25 PM 613 Views
Not really Larry - 09/04/2017 07:28:27 PM 912 Views
Then you have throw in be like *NM* random thoughts - 06/04/2017 06:29:25 PM 283 Views
I don't believe I've ever heard either. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:14:49 PM 528 Views
You're lucky Larry - 09/04/2017 07:26:39 PM 967 Views
Let's party damookster - 06/04/2017 02:02:19 AM 573 Views
That last one is a stylistic/usage error. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:03:26 PM 532 Views
I've never understood how it's an 'error' at all. Legolas - 09/04/2017 07:10:14 PM 592 Views
Sports commentators here do it all the time damookster - 09/04/2017 08:03:05 PM 523 Views
I can see how that would be annoying - just not how it's a grammar/vocabulary error... *NM* Legolas - 09/04/2017 08:11:18 PM 288 Views
which is why I preceded my original comment by stating it was not part of Tom's question *NM* damookster - 09/04/2017 08:14:25 PM 337 Views
Fair enough. Legolas - 09/04/2017 08:21:50 PM 549 Views
There, their, they're. *NM* TyrReborn - 06/04/2017 03:28:16 AM 303 Views
Ugh *NM* Tom - 06/04/2017 08:16:48 PM 322 Views
I Tom all over the place when I see fewer/less botched. nossy - 06/04/2017 08:51:13 AM 523 Views
And further/farther Cannoli - 06/04/2017 03:03:49 PM 588 Views
I only mastered that recently. nossy - 06/04/2017 04:44:35 PM 586 Views
My husband too. Sareitha Sedai - 06/04/2017 08:10:46 PM 576 Views
You know, I take that violation of my third example as a compliment. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:16:33 PM 476 Views
Saying "borrowed" instead of "lent" Belals Girl - 06/04/2017 04:13:21 PM 559 Views
Yikes, who says that?! nossy - 06/04/2017 04:47:31 PM 487 Views
Kill it with Fire. Cannoli - 06/04/2017 05:19:08 PM 557 Views
who the hell says that? random thoughts - 06/04/2017 06:31:17 PM 506 Views
Never heard that. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:17:40 PM 513 Views
I think it might be a Midwestern thing ßelals Girl - 06/04/2017 11:53:27 PM 520 Views
I lived for most of my early years in the Midwest and never heard that Tom - 08/04/2017 01:25:25 AM 513 Views
In the crick. *NM* nossy - 08/04/2017 03:48:09 PM 314 Views
Oh I've heard that Tom - 08/04/2017 11:09:16 PM 519 Views
Interesting. I always thought only non-native speakers made that mistake. *NM* Legolas - 09/04/2017 07:03:19 PM 316 Views
I am annoyed by people who get upset with outdated rules and expect the rest of us to care random thoughts - 06/04/2017 06:28:33 PM 575 Views
You keep doing that, sparky *NM* Tom - 06/04/2017 08:18:23 PM 284 Views
No worries Tommy *NM* random thoughts - 07/04/2017 07:29:53 PM 293 Views
Many rules are there for the sake of clarity. The Shrike - 06/04/2017 08:28:16 PM 559 Views
between you and me there is no lack of clarity random thoughts - 07/04/2017 07:35:09 PM 518 Views
I'm literally gobsmacked aerocontrols - 06/04/2017 06:31:10 PM 510 Views
It did. I mentioned it. *NM* damookster - 06/04/2017 07:02:33 PM 295 Views
shame on me! aerocontrols - 06/04/2017 07:03:55 PM 509 Views
I've never liked that word. It sounds like someone savoring come from a blowjob. *NM* Tom - 06/04/2017 08:19:14 PM 277 Views
Re: I'm literally gobsmacked ßelals Girl - 06/04/2017 11:58:08 PM 546 Views
Your first one is my top pick also. Sareitha Sedai - 06/04/2017 08:01:00 PM 523 Views
The subjunctive is tricky at times. *NM* Tom - 06/04/2017 08:36:33 PM 307 Views
Using the word 'of' instead of 'have' is my biggest one these days. The Shrike - 06/04/2017 08:22:44 PM 687 Views
Yeah. Sareitha Sedai - 06/04/2017 08:27:47 PM 525 Views
Now my non-edited post lives again. The Shrike - 06/04/2017 08:31:26 PM 467 Views
Well Sareitha Sedai - 06/04/2017 08:39:57 PM 514 Views
That's an awesome movie. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:49:11 PM 524 Views
I do like it a lot. The Shrike - 07/04/2017 07:06:49 PM 542 Views
One of my faves. nossy - 07/04/2017 10:57:53 PM 501 Views
Irregardless *NM* Jeordam - 06/04/2017 09:18:32 PM 352 Views
A few Aviendha - 07/04/2017 01:26:38 AM 543 Views
funny thing about being a noob *NM* random thoughts - 07/04/2017 07:27:26 PM 277 Views
Is that you keep making the same stupid mistakes years later *NM* random thoughts - 07/04/2017 07:28:01 PM 284 Views
In the latin alphabet jehovah begins with an i Roland00 - 09/04/2017 06:42:02 AM 519 Views
Your number one is my number one. Rebekah - 09/04/2017 10:52:23 PM 801 Views
I rarely see sentences with however joined with a semicolon, come to think of it. Larry - 09/04/2017 11:38:10 PM 975 Views
It is not an error inasmuch as a stylistic choice Stephen - 13/04/2017 05:44:39 PM 579 Views
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