I did derive great pleasure from pointing out to a friend who has a University education that the 1000 business cards he had got printed included the erroneous line " No Job To Small ".
I did derive great pleasure from pointing out to a friend who has a University education that the 1000 business cards he had got printed included the erroneous line " No Job To Small ".
I did derive great pleasure from pointing out to a friend who has a University education that the 1000 business cards he had got printed included the erroneous line " No Job To Small ".
Mine is 'somethink' which is like nails down a black-board to me >:(
So often said by so many on TV - many of whom speak rather well otherwise.
I had a huge row with someone on FB about it once who was able to post examples (found online) backing-up their point that it is okay to pronounce it like that.
There was a trend a while ago to deliberately misspell words that were commonly misspelled on chat rooms due to typing fast e.g. 'teh' for 'the'. This was to allude to the poster being a chat room dude and hence 'cool'. Anyone who commented on these words obviously was not aware of this and so showed that they were 'uncool'. Examples of other deliberate errors I can remember are cloths for clothes, mixing up lose and loose etc. Recently I was going to point out to a poster in the TV DS forum that the word was aerial not ariel (the soap powder) but I wondered if this was the 'cool' way to spell that word.
Nowadays a lot of incorrect spelling on forums and newspaper comment sections is down to people using phones and tablets with tiny touch screens, and also predictive text howlers. It's also common for txtspk to crop up in job applications, exam answers and even ordinary conversations. The comedian Bill Bailey claims he overheard a teenager telling his mate a joke. The mate didn't laugh, but replied 'Lol'.
The worst offenders for me are "your" instead of "you're" and the absolute irritant, extraneous apostrophes. >:(
I've seen people write "he sell's" instead of "he sells", "writer's" instead of "writers" and it just drives me mad. It has got to be the worst grammatical mistake one can make in my view. Dreadful.
The worst offenders for me are "your" instead of "you're" and the absolute irritant, extraneous apostrophes. >:(
I've seen people write "he sell's" instead of "he sells", "writer's" instead of "writers" and it just drives me mad. It has got to be the worst grammatical mistake one can make in my view. Dreadful.
I'm seeing more instances of who's when it should be whose.
I've seen people write "he sell's" instead of "he sells",
"writer's" instead of "writers" and it just drives me mad.
It has got to be the worst grammatical mistake one can make
in my view. Dreadful.
..This is only likely to get worse, state educated children have adopted this "jafaican" dialect and it's not only effecting how they write but how they speak.
I think it has something to do with the changing way in which people pronounce words. Quite a lot pronounce their as there so they're bound to get mixed up.
..This is only likely to get worse, state educated children have adopted this "jafaican" dialect and it's not only effecting how they write but how they speak.
..This is only likely to get worse, state educated children have adopted this "jafaican" dialect and it's not only effecting how they write but how they speak.
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[ that is wrong ain't it ? ]
Ouch.
Two more which annoy me:
People wrongly spelling "computer program" as "computer programme".
People wrongly using the word "software" as if it referred to a single specific item, for example "I'm going to download a software to edit photos."
I admit it does annoy me a bit when people refer 'TV programme' as 'TV program'.
probably a programmer who is programming
That one really makes people look dumb.
So often said by so many on TV - many of whom speak rather well otherwise.
I had a huge row with someone on FB about it once who was able to post examples (found online) backing-up their point that it is okay to pronounce it like that.
Not in my f**king house it ain't!
Nowadays a lot of incorrect spelling on forums and newspaper comment sections is down to people using phones and tablets with tiny touch screens, and also predictive text howlers. It's also common for txtspk to crop up in job applications, exam answers and even ordinary conversations. The comedian Bill Bailey claims he overheard a teenager telling his mate a joke. The mate didn't laugh, but replied 'Lol'.
If the teachers are unable to use the correct spelling in formal correspondence, then what hope is their* for the children.
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I've seen people write "he sell's" instead of "he sells", "writer's" instead of "writers" and it just drives me mad. It has got to be the worst grammatical mistake one can make in my view. Dreadful.
Ikr? Totes amazeballs.
I'm seeing more instances of who's when it should be whose.
Quelle apostrophe!