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JavaGuy - Student  |
Someone else brought up grammar on another thread, and I can no longer keep silent. I'm generally not into nitpicking grammar on individual posts, so I'll make a general post on grammar: -They're, their and there: People use these interchangeably all the time, and it drives me bonkers. Nobody should be allowed to enter High School without knowing this, but an amazing number of kids get their (that's _their_) diplomas still not knowing it. They're = "They are," a contraction. Their = The possessive form of "they," that which belongs to "them," whoever they are. There = At or in that place, as in "over there." -Your and you're: Another one of these. You're = "You are," another contraction. Your = The possessive form of you, belonging to you. -It's and its: An excusable mistake. It's = "It is," a contraction. Its = The possessive form of it. Possessive pronouns don't have the apostrophe. -Should of, would of, could of: All wrong! It's should have, could have and would have. Those can be shortened to should've, etc., which sounds kind of like "should of," which explains the confusion, but it's "should have." -Who and whom: "Who" is a subject, e.g. "Who totally owned you in Matrix?" "Whom" is an object, e.g. "Whom did you totally own in Matrix?" It doesn't matter if it's a direct or indirect object or an object of a preposition. And one last grammatical pet peeve: "Someone is working on their combos in there." Note the subject of this sentence, "someone." That's a singular. "Their" is the plural form. If it were more than one someone, "Some people are working on their combos," okay. The singular form, however, is "his," as in "Someone is working on _his_ combos in there"--and yes it's "his" in the gender-ambiguous case where the sex of the "someone" is not known unless you actually want to write out "his or her." Okay, I'm done. Now I'll post this and probably see that I've made some egregious grammatical error myself. ;p _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Gil-Galad - Student 
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Quote: Lol gotta love that first post
Quote: -Should of, would of, could of: All wrong! It's should have, could have and would have. Those can be shortened to should've, etc., which sounds kind of like "should of," which explains the confusion, but it's "should have."
Haha that had puzzled me for so long! But is it nowadays actually OK to say "should of"? I think I've seen it used in some pretty official and professional contexts...  No. Anyone who uses it in that way in any offical capacity should be demoted at the very least. Good bump by the way! Mine: 'I could care less'. This annoys me because it means the exact opposite of what people are trying to say with it. Correctly, the phrase is 'I couldn't care less', but seems to have been changed by someone along the way and the incorrect form widely adopted. The meaning is to express how little you care about a given thing, so by saying 'I could care less' you are in fact saying exactly the opposite. This annoys me far more than it should. Feh. _______________ |JAA| since 02/05/06 Green for life |
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ZantuS - Student 
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Lol gotta love that first post
Quote: -Should of, would of, could of: All wrong! It's should have, could have and would have. Those can be shortened to should've, etc., which sounds kind of like "should of," which explains the confusion, but it's "should have."
Haha that had puzzled me for so long! But is it nowadays actually OK to say "should of"? I think I've seen it used in some pretty official and professional contexts... _______________ Happiness is the ability to say "So what?" |
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Battlin' Billy - Student 
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True! On any kind of chat thingy, I don't use caps and don't use much punctuation. It's easier that way! _______________ Midbie Council Member #2 - Profile ID 2073 | Member of B@rtM@ulS@ar | Owner of Monty's 2000th comment & D@RtHM@UL's 8100th comment | Former Padawan of SilkMonkey & Arcuss JA Goaltender & NHL Fan | Fellow Rush fan to Axion|Plo Koon is my oldest JA friend Post your RL pics HERE! | Post you JK2/JK3 screenies HERE! |
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
One thing is chat where it goes fast, another thing is on the forums where there's no race. *cough* |
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genes!s - Student 
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Sinestro said: yeah, all that l337 speak crap, or however you spell, is so stupid, ash and me only use it jokingly. Also, commas and periods. USE THEM!!! I seem to be the only one using them on mIRC, and on MSN. _______________ I am the purifier, the light that clears all shadows. The most inactive active member of the JA. |
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Flamori Athena - Student 
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What??? _______________ «±» 21st on the Midbie Council, Profile ID: 2027 «±» True wisdom is the knowledge that you know nothing. |
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Battlin' Billy - Student
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Yeah, what DJ said! Here's another common mistake, even our President does this: nuclear - pronounced new-clee-arr, not new-cue-lar _______________ Midbie Council Member #2 - Profile ID 2073 | Member of B@rtM@ulS@ar | Owner of Monty's 2000th comment & D@RtHM@UL's 8100th comment | Former Padawan of SilkMonkey & Arcuss JA Goaltender & NHL Fan | Fellow Rush fan to Axion|Plo Koon is my oldest JA friend Post your RL pics HERE! | Post you JK2/JK3 screenies HERE! |
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ioshee - Student 
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<---owned... by Javaguy _______________ One of the Belouve boys |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council 
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Menaxia: A spelling mistake or 3 or 5 is cool by me. Lord knows I fo that often enough.  I direct my ire towards the "KTHXBYE" or "LOLOLOL U R GAY" crowd. _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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GremReaper - Student 
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Now some people have a hard time remembering all the details in grammer. Use me as an example. I had trouble with grammer and spelling back in grade school and I still have troubles with it. If I go back and read all the papers I did 10-20 years ago. I can see the difference in my grammer and spelling. I have come a long way. It takes a lot of pratice to get better with grammer and spelling. Time to keep on learning. Don't forget to proof read you postings. That helps me. _______________ Xfire--kdgremreaper |
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Battlin' Billy - Student
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I didn't mean to sound like I was singling anyone out here. Here's another common mistake: at least - 2 words a lot - 2 words _______________ Midbie Council Member #2 - Profile ID 2073 | Member of B@rtM@ulS@ar | Owner of Monty's 2000th comment & D@RtHM@UL's 8100th comment | Former Padawan of SilkMonkey & Arcuss JA Goaltender & NHL Fan | Fellow Rush fan to Axion|Plo Koon is my oldest JA friend Post your RL pics HERE! | Post you JK2/JK3 screenies HERE! |
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Menaxia - Student 
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I hope this is not going to disavantage those of us who are dyslexic and are almost incapable of posting without making at least one mistake in spelling, grammer and punctuation? I know that's not what this thread is really about, but a little tollerence plz DJ Sith? _______________ This is not the place to look for me This comment was edited by Menaxia on Jun 12 2003 04:05pm. |
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JavaGuy - Student 
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One more... To and too- To = a preposition, or part of an infinitive, e.g. "to be," "to say," "to own" (I might do a whole post on infinitives!). Too = Also ("Me too!"  or to an excessive degree ("Too cool!"._______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Sinestro - Student 
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yeah, all that l337 speak crap, or however you spell, is so stupid, ash and me only use it jokingly. Also, commas and periods. USE THEM!!! _______________ Keep On Rocking In The Free World |
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Broda Dagre - Student 
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Kudos, Javaguy, kudos. It's about time that someone out *there* said something about this subject! *Tips his proverbial hat in Javaguy's direction* _______________ Fact of the day: In New York City, rats bite about 311 people in an average year. However, 1,519 residents are bitten annually by other New Yorkers. |
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Battlin' Billy - Student 
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OK, I guess that was a bad example. I guess I meant using a 'z' instead of an 's' for plural words. _______________ Midbie Council Member #2 - Profile ID 2073 | Member of B@rtM@ulS@ar | Owner of Monty's 2000th comment & D@RtHM@UL's 8100th comment | Former Padawan of SilkMonkey & Arcuss JA Goaltender & NHL Fan | Fellow Rush fan to Axion|Plo Koon is my oldest JA friend Post your RL pics HERE! | Post you JK2/JK3 screenies HERE! This comment was edited by Battlin' Billy on Jun 11 2003 05:56pm. |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council
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Billy: as far as I know "warez" means "warez" its not a funny spelling for anything. I'm sure the kids would hate going around saying they're a member of an "intellectual property and software theft" group. _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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Battlin' Billy - Student
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It drives me nuts two! What also drives me nuts are words spelled like: rawks warez l33t dat (instead of that) da (as in, da bomb) hizzy, shizzy, etc. _______________ Midbie Council Member #2 - Profile ID 2073 | Member of B@rtM@ulS@ar | Owner of Monty's 2000th comment & D@RtHM@UL's 8100th comment | Former Padawan of SilkMonkey & Arcuss JA Goaltender & NHL Fan | Fellow Rush fan to Axion|Plo Koon is my oldest JA friend Post your RL pics HERE! | Post you JK2/JK3 screenies HERE! |
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Silencio - Student 
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grammar rox0rZ you're box0rZ _______________ Second-in-command of the mighty FiZZsters |
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JavaGuy - Student 
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Nope. It's a predicate nominative (noun). Pronouns coming after the verb "to be" are predicate nominatives, not direct objects. Predicate nominatives are in the case of the subject. A rule of thumb is this: If you say that A is B, you should be able to switch it around and say that B is A without changing the pronouns you use for either (though the form of the verb "to be" might change). For example: "I am he" or "He is I" (both are the correct form). It's "who they are." _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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SilkMonkey - Distributor of Cold Ones 
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Shut up Ioshee. DERP! _______________ |-HK-47 -SilkMonkey: You are receiving a warning for being_too_sexy. If you do not stop, action will be taken against you.|| (11:13:43) � Virtue dances for Silk ||Smiling owner of Smilykrazy's 6000th comment =) ||Odan Wei's Proud Big Brother|| Janus is my official TaruTaru Cuddly Animal Type Person. ||(@Virtue) Or you could just be a man and set fire to your genitals.....you won't fall asleep for days after that.......trust me.||Thomas Skywalker er for sexy for sitt eget beste!!!!| Not changing sig until the JA loosens up. (Started: Aug 31, 2005) |
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ioshee - Student
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I think you mean "whomever" they are Javaguy. _______________ One of the Belouve boys |
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Fonz - Student 
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What your talking about is total rubbish, you should of put it's content elsewhere God i'm funny ...really though some of these gramatical errors are inexcusable if English is your (<----- note, and commend me ) first language. _______________ Support bacteria, they're the only culture some people have. |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council 
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I'm REAL sore about the use of so called Internet grammar. Informally saying "cya" and "kewl" every once in a while amongst friends is cool. Putting that "u r" crap in the real world or not being able to go 2 minutes online without saying "OMGWTF" or "LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" doesn't cut the mustard with me. It's like you're trying to broadcast your own stupidity (present company excluded on the stupidity comment ). I realise its mostly kids that do this. Case in point: my 13 year old cousin from LA. Before I begin let me say that I love my cousin dearly. She's really cool and smart if you talked to her IRL. She has the Internet grammar of your average 13 year old AOL addlebrained simian oaf. I can't AIM back and forth with her for 5 minutes without getting a headache. One day she decided to stop using punctuation. She kept this phase up for quite some time. Grrr Let it be known to ALL JA members: If you turn in a JAK trial exam or email me or something official to the JA I will ignore it or outright fail your exam w/o reading your answers. Remember the rules you learned in grade school: punctuation, spelling, and grammar. _______________ My car is made of Nerf. This comment was edited by DJ Sith on Jun 11 2003 03:50am. |
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SilkMonkey - Distributor of Cold Ones
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Grammaticalize this! Your the biggest DERP their ever wood bee. _______________ |-HK-47 -SilkMonkey: You are receiving a warning for being_too_sexy. If you do not stop, action will be taken against you.|| (11:13:43) � Virtue dances for Silk ||Smiling owner of Smilykrazy's 6000th comment =) ||Odan Wei's Proud Big Brother|| Janus is my official TaruTaru Cuddly Animal Type Person. ||(@Virtue) Or you could just be a man and set fire to your genitals.....you won't fall asleep for days after that.......trust me.||Thomas Skywalker er for sexy for sitt eget beste!!!!| Not changing sig until the JA loosens up. (Started: Aug 31, 2005) |
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