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StreetHeat
United States225 Posts
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Dalguno
United States2446 Posts
On June 11 2011 16:12 StreetHeat wrote: My biggest one is "loosing" instead of "losing" Ah, or when someone says "Yeah Sheth won Idra." | ||
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TheAmazombie
United States3714 Posts
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SolHeiM
Sweden1264 Posts
On June 11 2011 16:19 TheAmazombie wrote: The one that irks me to no end is "alot". I had a teach who drilled it into us that "A Lot is 2 words, it is always 2 words, it is never 1 word. A Lot - 2 Words!" Yeah I do that alot (lol), and then I see the red squiggly line and I have to go back and add a space in between a and lot. | ||
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Randomaccount#77123
United States5003 Posts
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Pangpootata
1838 Posts
On June 11 2011 16:28 Barrin wrote: You could of just posted this in one of the other grammar nazi threads. Anyways, these kinds of things bother me to. Though, there not necessarily bad persay. Bare in mind that not everyone's first language is English, though it is for alot of us. Your the one who brought this up, but will talk about this more if you want. + Show Spoiler + + Show Spoiler + + Show Spoiler + There are 9 grammatical errors in the paragraph above. Can you find them?!+ Show Spoiler + Please don't hurt me I swear I'm not trolling and that this is just training for people who struggle with these kinds of things themselves! I found ten. | ||
Empyrean
17050 Posts
What the fuck. | ||
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HuskyMUDKIPZ
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ilovejonn
Canada2548 Posts
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uriel-
Singapore1867 Posts
Confusing "their" with "there" can be annoying too, especially if it occurs multiple times in the same paragraph. Hmm, it seems as long as it doesn't look awfully and outright wrong I'm fine with it. | ||
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Torenhire
United States11681 Posts
Judgment. It feels like there should be an "e" there, as in Judgement. Messes me up all the time. | ||
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deathly rat
United Kingdom911 Posts
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okum
France5778 Posts
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
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Redmark
Canada2129 Posts
On June 11 2011 21:10 deathly rat wrote: How do grammar Nazis feel when they (inevitably) make mistakes themselves? Oh look, I made a mistake, better fix it. lol what sort of attitude is that? "Hey teacher, why are you here when you make mistakes? Get out, you obviously shouldn't be teaching". | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On June 11 2011 22:36 Redmark wrote: Oh look, I made a mistake, better fix it. lol what sort of attitude is that? "Hey teacher, why are you here when you make mistakes? Get out, you obviously shouldn't be teaching". I prefer my own mistakes, honestly. I can edit my posts and fix them. Frequently, if I'm not sure if I got something right while typing, I'll go back and look at it two or three times, and if I figure it out, I fix it. That being said, sometimes I'm less worried about grammar than technical accuracy. If I'm discussing computer stuff, I'm much more concerned about my facts than spelling or syntax. I feel way worse getting that stuff wrong, too. | ||
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Rinrun
Canada3509 Posts
On June 11 2011 22:21 okum wrote: No misspelling is more annoying then this. Oh no you di'int. :O | ||
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Chef
10810 Posts
Seriously, I don't know what you grammar Nazis are thinking. Unless the meaning is unclear or you've been asked to edit, don't bring it up because chances are there's about a thousand errors you make that only writers could correct (but won't, because that's why they're fucking writers: they're better than you at writing). For example, you don't seem to know how commas, ellipses, colons or quotations marks work, especially when they're very close to each other. Which is fine because it's a forum post, not a formal essay. I rarely use proper grammar on forum posts and emails too. I feel like grammar Nazis always end up being people who learned one or two words that they commonly misspelled as a child, but don't actually know that much about English. As someone whose passion is writing, I've learned that spelling and grammar are very rarely the crux of communication (which is what language is for). | ||
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arb
Noobville17921 Posts
On June 11 2011 21:10 deathly rat wrote: How do grammar Nazis feel when they (inevitably) make mistakes themselves? like this | ||
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Cauld
United States350 Posts
All of the misspellings and incorrect word choices annoy me slightly and usually affect the way I think about the author, but none of them annoy me as much as misused idioms. | ||
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