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by Arkytior » Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:59 am
The worst is everyone's atrocious grammar. My mum gave me a couple of magnets she found on the internet to put in my locker. One looks like a police badge and says, "Grammar Police: To Correct and to Serve", and the other one is a list:
Top Ten Grammar Peeves.
1) It's "I couldn't care less." "I could care less" means that you actually do care.
2) An apostrophe is never used to form a plural.
3) "Literally" means it actually happened, not that it figuratively happened.
4) "Loose" and "lose" are two different words.
5) "Your" and "you're" are also two different words.
6) "There", "their", and "they're" are actually three different words.
7) "Nonplus" does not mean what you think it means.
8) "Affect" is a verb. "Effect" is a noun.
9) "It's" is short for "it is". "Its" means "belonging to it".
10) "Irregardless" is not a word.
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by Lunaestrella » Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:59 pm
Oh my Gandalf! I love that! I do sometimes have spelling mistakes and stuff, and I always feel ashamed afterwards when I find them and correct them, though nearly always they are things that I confuse with the spelling of the word in Spanish. But I hate it when people mix up "your" with "you're" and "their" with "they're" and "there". But it drives me super insanely maddddddddd when they type like this:
U know thy r going 2 ur house
(I don't even know how to write like this properly, but I suppose you know what I mean.)
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by Arkytior » Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:04 am
Took me a minute, but yeah, now I get what you mean. If I had a hammer...their heads would all be smashed in. I see something along those lines, and my hands automatically twitch in the direction of the nearest sharp thing. Not to cut myself, but to cut them. Grr. It drives me MAD!!!
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by Meriadoc Brandybuck » Tue Aug 21, 2012 8:02 pm
Actually, it would be "nonexistent" not "unexistent"


Theoden wrote:Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
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