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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 928 Views
Come on, man. Verbing weirds language. Ghavrel - 06/04/2017 01:21:17 AM 639 Views
The Oxford comma is an abomination. The other is called a greengrocer's apostrophe. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:00:57 PM 649 Views
Tell that to the First Circuit. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/04/2017 05:42:01 AM 342 Views
No, I'll let the Supreme Court smack their asses for it. Tom - 08/04/2017 01:28:11 AM 529 Views
I'm pretty carefree about language unless it becomes difficult to understand aerocontrols - 06/04/2017 01:42:29 AM 665 Views
Creative vocabulary can be funderfully great Tom - 06/04/2017 08:14:23 PM 573 Views
Bruh Larry - 06/04/2017 01:46:45 AM 636 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 683 Views
Not really Larry - 09/04/2017 07:28:27 PM 988 Views
Then you have throw in be like *NM* random thoughts - 06/04/2017 06:29:25 PM 313 Views
I don't believe I've ever heard either. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:14:49 PM 611 Views
You're lucky Larry - 09/04/2017 07:26:39 PM 1017 Views
Let's party damookster - 06/04/2017 02:02:19 AM 642 Views
That last one is a stylistic/usage error. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:03:26 PM 602 Views
I've never understood how it's an 'error' at all. Legolas - 09/04/2017 07:10:14 PM 674 Views
Sports commentators here do it all the time damookster - 09/04/2017 08:03:05 PM 587 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 315 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 373 Views
Fair enough. Legolas - 09/04/2017 08:21:50 PM 619 Views
There, their, they're. *NM* TyrReborn - 06/04/2017 03:28:16 AM 331 Views
Ugh *NM* Tom - 06/04/2017 08:16:48 PM 349 Views
I Tom all over the place when I see fewer/less botched. nossy - 06/04/2017 08:51:13 AM 589 Views
And further/farther Cannoli - 06/04/2017 03:03:49 PM 660 Views
I only mastered that recently. nossy - 06/04/2017 04:44:35 PM 651 Views
My husband too. Sareitha Sedai - 06/04/2017 08:10:46 PM 645 Views
You know, I take that violation of my third example as a compliment. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:16:33 PM 552 Views
Saying "borrowed" instead of "lent" Belals Girl - 06/04/2017 04:13:21 PM 657 Views
Yikes, who says that?! nossy - 06/04/2017 04:47:31 PM 563 Views
Kill it with Fire. Cannoli - 06/04/2017 05:19:08 PM 627 Views
who the hell says that? random thoughts - 06/04/2017 06:31:17 PM 588 Views
Never heard that. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:17:40 PM 589 Views
I think it might be a Midwestern thing ßelals Girl - 06/04/2017 11:53:27 PM 591 Views
I lived for most of my early years in the Midwest and never heard that Tom - 08/04/2017 01:25:25 AM 586 Views
In the crick. *NM* nossy - 08/04/2017 03:48:09 PM 349 Views
Oh I've heard that Tom - 08/04/2017 11:09:16 PM 598 Views
Interesting. I always thought only non-native speakers made that mistake. *NM* Legolas - 09/04/2017 07:03:19 PM 348 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 651 Views
You keep doing that, sparky *NM* Tom - 06/04/2017 08:18:23 PM 315 Views
No worries Tommy *NM* random thoughts - 07/04/2017 07:29:53 PM 324 Views
Many rules are there for the sake of clarity. The Shrike - 06/04/2017 08:28:16 PM 637 Views
between you and me there is no lack of clarity random thoughts - 07/04/2017 07:35:09 PM 583 Views
I'm literally gobsmacked aerocontrols - 06/04/2017 06:31:10 PM 587 Views
It did. I mentioned it. *NM* damookster - 06/04/2017 07:02:33 PM 326 Views
shame on me! aerocontrols - 06/04/2017 07:03:55 PM 569 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 309 Views
Re: I'm literally gobsmacked ßelals Girl - 06/04/2017 11:58:08 PM 617 Views
Your first one is my top pick also. Sareitha Sedai - 06/04/2017 08:01:00 PM 589 Views
The subjunctive is tricky at times. *NM* Tom - 06/04/2017 08:36:33 PM 340 Views
Using the word 'of' instead of 'have' is my biggest one these days. The Shrike - 06/04/2017 08:22:44 PM 768 Views
Yeah. Sareitha Sedai - 06/04/2017 08:27:47 PM 590 Views
Now my non-edited post lives again. The Shrike - 06/04/2017 08:31:26 PM 538 Views
Well Sareitha Sedai - 06/04/2017 08:39:57 PM 587 Views
That's an awesome movie. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:49:11 PM 602 Views
I do like it a lot. The Shrike - 07/04/2017 07:06:49 PM 615 Views
One of my faves. nossy - 07/04/2017 10:57:53 PM 567 Views
Irregardless *NM* Jeordam - 06/04/2017 09:18:32 PM 380 Views
A few Aviendha - 07/04/2017 01:26:38 AM 610 Views
funny thing about being a noob *NM* random thoughts - 07/04/2017 07:27:26 PM 307 Views
Is that you keep making the same stupid mistakes years later *NM* random thoughts - 07/04/2017 07:28:01 PM 314 Views
In the latin alphabet jehovah begins with an i Roland00 - 09/04/2017 06:42:02 AM 585 Views
Your number one is my number one. Rebekah - 09/04/2017 10:52:23 PM 870 Views
I rarely see sentences with however joined with a semicolon, come to think of it. Larry - 09/04/2017 11:38:10 PM 1049 Views
It is not an error inasmuch as a stylistic choice Stephen - 13/04/2017 05:44:39 PM 647 Views
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