Grammar Gestapo
Oct. 28th, 2004 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
naruki_oniI have learned from much painful experience not to be a total ass when someone shows a genuine inability to type correctly. But the occasional typo or grammar/spelling mistake is still fair game, when discussed amiably. And flagrant and unrepentant offenders deserve whatever crap they catch from me or others.
That said, here is a place to note things that tick you off, or at least make you go "Hmm..."
This post was inspired by the repeated misuse by one poster of "whom" where "who" would have been correct. I say that as one whom [sic] has occasionally been guilty of such mis-usage, but the glaring errors are painful to ignore. ;-)
That said, here is a place to note things that tick you off, or at least make you go "Hmm..."
This post was inspired by the repeated misuse by one poster of "whom" where "who" would have been correct. I say that as one whom [sic] has occasionally been guilty of such mis-usage, but the glaring errors are painful to ignore. ;-)
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Date: 2004-10-28 07:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-29 12:28 am (UTC)Contractions are great... when used appropriately.
Date: 2004-10-29 10:30 pm (UTC)I was trying to finish that post as my friend was hustling out of her office, so the editing job was... lax. Sorry.
Routermg gives two good examples of one side of the there's/there're coin of misusage.
I though contractions just kind of happened.
Date: 2004-10-30 09:51 am (UTC)And two years later, the contradictions start.
Date: 2004-10-30 10:24 am (UTC)"There's" with plural nouns sucks too
Date: 2004-10-29 04:02 pm (UTC)"There's three great reasons to buy now!"
&c.
Blegh.