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You're lucky Larry Send a noteboard - 09/04/2017 07:26:39 PM

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For me, the worst currently are:
  1. Between you and I... (or any similar use of I in oblique positions)
  2. If I was a betting person... (or any similar failure to use the subjunctive)
  3. Attempts to make non-existent verbs out of nouns



That and cuz.



I'm back teaching middle school boys in a residential treatment program for emotional/behavioral disorders. I recently learned there that "finessing" really means to lie and manipulate people to get something like more snacks or an MP3. The slang here is...interesting.

Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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Please share the grammatical and/or orthographic errors that most irritate you. Tom - 06/04/2017 12:20:27 AM 1391 Views
Come on, man. Verbing weirds language. Ghavrel - 06/04/2017 01:21:17 AM 1046 Views
The Oxford comma is an abomination. The other is called a greengrocer's apostrophe. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:00:57 PM 1080 Views
Tell that to the First Circuit. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/04/2017 05:42:01 AM 563 Views
No, I'll let the Supreme Court smack their asses for it. Tom - 08/04/2017 01:28:11 AM 908 Views
I'm pretty carefree about language unless it becomes difficult to understand aerocontrols - 06/04/2017 01:42:29 AM 1032 Views
Creative vocabulary can be funderfully great Tom - 06/04/2017 08:14:23 PM 988 Views
Bruh Larry - 06/04/2017 01:46:45 AM 1025 Views
Does anyone really address cousins or siblings by the relationship term? I hate that on TV & films Cannoli - 06/04/2017 05:21:25 PM 1075 Views
Not really Larry - 09/04/2017 07:28:27 PM 1492 Views
Then you have throw in be like *NM* random thoughts - 06/04/2017 06:29:25 PM 576 Views
I don't believe I've ever heard either. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:14:49 PM 1030 Views
You're lucky Larry - 09/04/2017 07:26:39 PM 1518 Views
Let's party damookster - 06/04/2017 02:02:19 AM 1047 Views
That last one is a stylistic/usage error. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:03:26 PM 1025 Views
I've never understood how it's an 'error' at all. Legolas - 09/04/2017 07:10:14 PM 1071 Views
Sports commentators here do it all the time damookster - 09/04/2017 08:03:05 PM 980 Views
I can see how that would be annoying - just not how it's a grammar/vocabulary error... *NM* Legolas - 09/04/2017 08:11:18 PM 543 Views
which is why I preceded my original comment by stating it was not part of Tom's question *NM* damookster - 09/04/2017 08:14:25 PM 610 Views
Fair enough. Legolas - 09/04/2017 08:21:50 PM 1046 Views
There, their, they're. *NM* TyrReborn - 06/04/2017 03:28:16 AM 558 Views
Ugh *NM* Tom - 06/04/2017 08:16:48 PM 616 Views
I Tom all over the place when I see fewer/less botched. nossy - 06/04/2017 08:51:13 AM 1013 Views
And further/farther Cannoli - 06/04/2017 03:03:49 PM 1061 Views
I only mastered that recently. nossy - 06/04/2017 04:44:35 PM 1021 Views
My husband too. Sareitha Sedai - 06/04/2017 08:10:46 PM 1039 Views
You know, I take that violation of my third example as a compliment. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:16:33 PM 969 Views
Saying "borrowed" instead of "lent" Belals Girl - 06/04/2017 04:13:21 PM 1061 Views
Yikes, who says that?! nossy - 06/04/2017 04:47:31 PM 994 Views
Kill it with Fire. Cannoli - 06/04/2017 05:19:08 PM 1035 Views
who the hell says that? random thoughts - 06/04/2017 06:31:17 PM 985 Views
Never heard that. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:17:40 PM 1015 Views
I think it might be a Midwestern thing ßelals Girl - 06/04/2017 11:53:27 PM 975 Views
I lived for most of my early years in the Midwest and never heard that Tom - 08/04/2017 01:25:25 AM 997 Views
In the crick. *NM* nossy - 08/04/2017 03:48:09 PM 571 Views
Oh I've heard that Tom - 08/04/2017 11:09:16 PM 1014 Views
Interesting. I always thought only non-native speakers made that mistake. *NM* Legolas - 09/04/2017 07:03:19 PM 565 Views
I am annoyed by people who get upset with outdated rules and expect the rest of us to care random thoughts - 06/04/2017 06:28:33 PM 1125 Views
You keep doing that, sparky *NM* Tom - 06/04/2017 08:18:23 PM 579 Views
No worries Tommy *NM* random thoughts - 07/04/2017 07:29:53 PM 568 Views
Many rules are there for the sake of clarity. The Shrike - 06/04/2017 08:28:16 PM 1039 Views
between you and me there is no lack of clarity random thoughts - 07/04/2017 07:35:09 PM 1029 Views
I'm literally gobsmacked aerocontrols - 06/04/2017 06:31:10 PM 976 Views
It did. I mentioned it. *NM* damookster - 06/04/2017 07:02:33 PM 577 Views
shame on me! aerocontrols - 06/04/2017 07:03:55 PM 962 Views
I've never liked that word. It sounds like someone savoring come from a blowjob. *NM* Tom - 06/04/2017 08:19:14 PM 537 Views
Re: I'm literally gobsmacked ßelals Girl - 06/04/2017 11:58:08 PM 998 Views
Your first one is my top pick also. Sareitha Sedai - 06/04/2017 08:01:00 PM 980 Views
The subjunctive is tricky at times. *NM* Tom - 06/04/2017 08:36:33 PM 589 Views
Using the word 'of' instead of 'have' is my biggest one these days. The Shrike - 06/04/2017 08:22:44 PM 1200 Views
Yeah. Sareitha Sedai - 06/04/2017 08:27:47 PM 999 Views
Now my non-edited post lives again. The Shrike - 06/04/2017 08:31:26 PM 935 Views
Well Sareitha Sedai - 06/04/2017 08:39:57 PM 1024 Views
That's an awesome movie. Tom - 06/04/2017 08:49:11 PM 1037 Views
I do like it a lot. The Shrike - 07/04/2017 07:06:49 PM 1008 Views
One of my faves. nossy - 07/04/2017 10:57:53 PM 945 Views
Irregardless *NM* Jeordam - 06/04/2017 09:18:32 PM 666 Views
A few Aviendha - 07/04/2017 01:26:38 AM 1007 Views
funny thing about being a noob *NM* random thoughts - 07/04/2017 07:27:26 PM 534 Views
Is that you keep making the same stupid mistakes years later *NM* random thoughts - 07/04/2017 07:28:01 PM 543 Views
In the latin alphabet jehovah begins with an i Roland00 - 09/04/2017 06:42:02 AM 1458 Views
Your number one is my number one. Rebekah - 09/04/2017 10:52:23 PM 1424 Views
I rarely see sentences with however joined with a semicolon, come to think of it. Larry - 09/04/2017 11:38:10 PM 1596 Views
It is not an error inasmuch as a stylistic choice Stephen - 13/04/2017 05:44:39 PM 1155 Views
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