This one's for Steve-Bad grammar and the people who hate it

[Feuer Frei!]

:D

Children are again to be subject to a rigorous examination in grammar. But why does it make adults so cross when other adults break the rules?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22403731

[fireftr18]

I try to use proper grammar, but will admit that I don't have the best grammar. I normally let bad grammar slide unless it is so bad that it's irritating or causes confusing sentences. For something minor, "grammar police" is irritating enough. I really hate when the person doesn't even know the rules.:know:

[Otto Fuhrmann]

I suppose if you are going to write anything you should put the effort in, but if you just get irritated or upset over someone missing a capital letter, then maybe just relax and sink some Allied shipping. :Kaleun_Cheers:

[Sailor Steve]

Missing a capital letter has nothing to do with grammar. Everyone makes mistakes and typos. What is annoying is when people can't even write their own language.

[Red October1984]

@ Steve

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[Sailor Steve]

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[Jimbuna]

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[Penguin]

What is annoying is when people can't even write their own language.

It is double-annoying to a non-native speaker, as it actually makes a text much harder to read, especially when people use a similar sounding word with a different meaning.

[kranz]

It is double-annoying to a non-native speaker, as it actually makes a text much harder to read, especially when people use a similar sounding word with a different meaning.
you waist your time:03:

as a non-native speaker I have to admit that I often have problems with words in which you double a letter (colleagues, -ed endings when sth gets doubled or it doesn't), words like proprietor, appreciated, and very rarely but still - homophones - here/hear but these are pretty easy to spot when I proof-read....not :D

[Red October1984]

you waist your time:03:

as a non-native speaker I have to admit that I often have problems with words in which you double a letter (colleagues, -ed endings when sth gets doubled or it doesn't), words like proprietor, appreciated, and very rarely but still - homophones - here/hear but these are pretty easy to spot when I proof-read....not :D

You seem to be doing fine so far. :03:

"Waste" instead of "Waist" :D

[kranz]

"Waste" instead of "Waist" :D

no way...:salute:

[Reece]

Missing a capital letter has nothing to do with grammar. Everyone makes mistakes and typos. What is annoying is when people can't even write their own language.
Well atleast I'm allways correct, and your spot on with that coment abowt other's Steve!:up:

[Herr-Berbunch]

I'm not a nazi but it does get my goat a lot of the time, I often bite my tongue. Particularly your/you're, there/their/they're, less/fewer. Also the good, old apostrophe.

I left school with very few educational qualifications, but over time my spelling and grammar has improved immensely. If I can do it then so can you, one word at a time. Please. :up:

Another bugbear of mine is pronunciation by my stepkids. Found has become fount, anything is now anythink. At least my daughter corrects her elders when they say glottal stops (t), and I hope she continues when she starts school in September.

[donna52522]

Wow, no wonder some of you do not have many friends in real life. :D

[Sailor Steve]

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[Platapus]

Irregardless of who did it, using bad grammar ain't writing English good.

[Herr-Berbunch]

:smug: Doesn't bother me too much when I know it's on purpose to wind me up. :smug:

[Cybermat47]

It is double-annoying to a non-native speaker, as it actually makes a text much harder to read, especially when people use a similar sounding word with a different meaning.

Worse, imagine if it got into the education system.

"Rite down evereefing yoo no abowt your'e famillee in twenti words ore les."

[Platapus]

hokd on fonux werkd fur me.

[Sailor Steve]

Again that's spelling, not grammar, though it is a pretty good example of how bad it could get.

It makes me grind my teeth when people don't know what an apostrophe is for, writing things like torpedo's instead of torpedoes.

[Cybermat47]

It makes me grind my teeth when people don't know what an apostrophe is for, writing things like torpedo's instead of torpedoes.

S'ame here'!

[Red October1984]

Wow, no wonder some of you do not have many friends in real life. :D

That one stings.... :oops:

:O:

[Sailor Steve]

That one stings.... :oops:

:O:
It doesn't bother me a bit. I don't need friends who don't care how they look, don't care how they smell and don't care how they write.

[Platapus]

My peeve I like to pet is when people do not understand the difference between coincidence, irony, and hypocrisy. They are not interchangeable!:/\\!!

[Red October1984]

It doesn't bother me a bit. I don't need friends who don't care how they look, don't care how they smell and don't care how they write.

I've got some friends...but not a whole lot. You don't need a whole lot...but it must be nice to not be ignored.

Oh well. :03:

[Platapus]

It makes me grind my teeth when people don't know what an apostrophe is for, writing things like torpedo's instead of torpedoes.

I am in the process of conducting mutiny against the government.

The DIA released a writing guidance which promulgated that ALL possessives will end in -- 's.

Torpedo
Torpedo's
Torpedoes
Torpedoes's

uh no. :nope: Not gonna happen.

[Sailor Steve]

...but it must be nice to not be ignored.
You don't need a button to ignore someone. I ignore some people, but I don't have them on my ignore list.

Oh well. :03:
Do you want to ignore me? I can make that happen.

[Red October1984]

Do you want to ignore me? I can make that happen.

No. I like you for the most part.... :D

I wish there was an Ignore/Block button in real life, Id ignore a ton of peoples' and Id block a few more?

[Armistead]

It doesn't bother me a bit. I don't need friends who don't care how they look, don't care how they smell and don't care how they write.

I don't care how my friends spell, but I aren't dealn with no smell..:D

[Armistead]

"Rite down evereefing yoo no abowt your'e famillee in twenti words ore les."


Nary a thang wrong wit dat....

[Red October1984]

Nary a thang wrong wit dat....

'Merica

[Onkel Neal]

Wow, no wonder some of you do not have many friends in real life. :D

I have lot's of friends! There's the lady with 47 cats, the neighbor who has every copy of the New York times since 1968, the guy with 5 motor-less trucks in his yard....

[Sailor Steve]

...lot's.
As I was saying...:dead:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Come on Neal, you know Steve prefers alot over lot's. :03:

[Sailor Steve]

No, lots is fine. I prefer people not throw apostrophes in where they don't belong. :sunny:

[frau kaleun]

Come on Neal, you know Steve prefers alot over lot's. :03:

That's not true. He likes alot lot's, but I wouldn't say he prefers it per say. For all intensive purposes he would of rather had alot of lot's than lot's of alots.

[Sailor Steve]

How well she knows me. I used to have a friend who said things like "For all extents and purposes".

[Herr-Berbunch]

I get what's wrong with that, they've used purposes when they actually meant dolphins. :D

[Sailor Steve]

That's a whale of a thing to say. Everyone should have a porpoise in life.

[Platapus]

How well she knows me. I used to have a friend who said things like "For all extents and purposes".


Better than "for all intensive purposes" which I have seen. :/\\!!

[Cybermat47]

That's a whale of a thing to say. Everyone should have a porpoise in life.

I just saw some purpose's.... wait, theyre torpedo's!

4 S'ov13t Ru5514's f1gh7 aga1ns7 3v1l, r1gh7 w1ng grammer!

[Red October1984]

4 S'ov13t Ru5514's f1gh7 aga1ns7 3v1l, r1gh7 w1ng grammer!

Don't even start that crap. Ugh...that is the thing that gets on my nerves.

Steve can be the Grammar Nazi and I'll be the "Dumb Gamer Speak Nazi" :dead: :/\\!!

[swamprat69er]

Grammar? Grammer? My Grammer died in 1973,