It's LOSE, not LOOSE!!!

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Originally Posted by ADEE

Your kidding me right?

The proper usage should be
"I hate it when people don't know how to speak properly?"
Shouldnt it? (lol)

This thread is hilarious! I dislike it when people use caplock on random words in their sentences... oh yeah.. and randomly press enter in the middle of their statement.

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You're kidding about using your up there, aren't you?

asplundii, thank you for pasting that. I think that person should not be allowed to use the internet. It was painful to even read a sentence. Not to mention I had no idea where one sentence ended and another began.

I seriously think that everyone needs to read over everything they type, especially on a forum, or at least get firefox with spell check. Grammar and spelling don't bother me much because I espect it on the internet, but sometimes it is just excessive. If you can't spell words correctly in your thread title, then you shouldn't create a thread at all.

argh!

I'm finding the accidental spelling and grammar errors in this thread to be hilarious!
People call me a grammar nazi sometimes, but I'm far from it. I always try to use correct spelling and grammar, and get annoyed when others don't, but I'm not overly critical, either.
Of course, one of my friend's uses "board" instead of "bored", spells my name wrong half the time, and spells my sister's name wrong all the time. And she's a lit major! Lets see how bored she is when I whack her upside the head with this loose board, lol.

Its not just that people goof up and don't use the correct spelling/grammar. It's a reflection on society in general. It's now pretty much acceptable to be mediocre ("That's okay, Timmy. 27th place is still awesome!"). We almost encourage people to be dumb because we don't want to offend them. Each generation is getting less and less smart. I don't even know why teachers still hand out grades if everyone is going to pass anyway.


Screw that! You know what's better than 27th place? FIRST place! People need competition, it's how we achieve our goals and dreams. Keep telling folks it is okay to be "average" and soon, that is what everyone will be: average.

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Originally Posted by Mindibun

As an English major, and a grammar freak, I'm totally with you. The one that bothers me the most is when people mistake "your" and "you're". If you're not sure, just say the whole thing rather than the contraction. Its not "your stupid." Its "you are stupid." Hence, "you're."

Actually, I had a little funny list of grammar rules in my sig here once, and I got jumped on by everyone. They said they felt offended and whatnot. :rolleyes: Sorry, it's not my fault you can't understand elementary English rules, and its definitely not my fault that you feel the need to put down everyone who does.

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YES! exactly!

Anyone play WoW? Because there are certainly a lot of ROUGES in that game... :rolleyes:

The "loose"/"lose" thing probably bothers me the most, though. For some reason I just cringe when I see "loose" used as "lose"...

Oops double post,

Well... just let me have it I guess... "My pet peeve is dummies who double post!!!"

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Originally Posted by icygirl

The "loose"/"lose" thing probably bothers me the most, though. For some reason I just cringe when I see "loose" used as "lose"...

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Amen to that!

Wow, this thing is going way farther than I had expected! Good to see a little more support from the pro-proper spelling side. After the first few responses I figured I better just shut my mouth and let the thread die.

I think I'll start posting my "insignificant complaints" more often. ;)

Okay, just to play devil's advocate, here's a bit of Olde English from around 1000 AD (taken from the Wikipedia article). Anyone who is really serious about grammar mistakes should probably speak primarily in Olde English, since so much of the evolution of the English language has been by grammatical "mistakes"

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Cnut cyning gret his arcebiscopas and his leod-biscopas and Þurcyl eorl and ealle his eorlas and ealne his þeodscype, twelfhynde and twyhynde, gehadode and læwede, on Englalande freondlice.

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Yes, that IS English!

JonV

And verily, thyne will henceforth speaketh in ye olde tongues ;)