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Originally Posted by Platapus
I don't think I have ever heard anyone say "for all intensive purposes".
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We get it here quite a bit. I've actually seen it written that way.
Fools! It's "for all intents and purposes". "Intensive purposes" does not make any sense!
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Has anyone else heard anyone say these exact words? "I heart that movie"?
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I've heard the phrase used, but not often. Doesn't make it any less painful, though......
For all its' virtues, Texas is plagued with grammatical abominations, and I am not referring to "ain't" and "y'all". By my estimation, roughly half the populace is incapable of using apostrophes correctly. Another third show serious deficiencies in non-phonetic spelling. Even amongst the functionally literate, malapropisms are common.
Why don't we have a grammar-nazi sticky thread?