English Corner

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Originally Posted by Duxxy

Why are you sorry? I practically have to bite my tongue to keep from correcting the poor sole who uses irregardless :barf
Can't stand it!
I have a real problem with the word ain't - I know it's now recognized as a word but it sounds harsh to my ear.

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Oops, Duxxy, I'd misunderstood your original "irregardless" post. I thought I was disagreeing with you. :shrug
But now I AM; I use ain't, and am proud of it. But I don't use it in a professional setting.
Although, one of my earliest memories was arguing with a boy at my babysitter's that ain't was not a word. When my dad came to pick me up that afternoon, I demanded that he tell this boy that ain't wasn't a word, and he said he couldn't because it was. (can you tell I was already a budding English major at age 4? :) )
oh, and ps; :yeahthat with your sig line! (although I'm sorry to see me and Stargazer go...;) )

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Originally Posted by SCRUMPOT

And laugh alot.

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:omg

Definately... NO!!!

It is definitely! :nod

Marley - I am soooooo busted. Yes, okay, okay.... Do I have to write A LOT 1000 times?

Another linguistic pet peeve.... people who say "it's a doggie-dog world." It is NOT! It is, if anything, a "dog-eat-dog" world! Irksome.
And those who write "should of" instead of "should have." I see this one in newspapers and am tempted to whip out the Red Editing Pen of Death, mark it up and send it to the paper. (caveat: I work at a newspaper, so I obviously am talking about papers other than my own. :))

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And those who write "should of" instead of "should have."

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I agree. It drives me mad.

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Originally Posted by Lucy

I see this one in newspapers and am tempted to whip out the Red Editing Pen of Death, mark it up and send it to the paper.

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Lucy, I used to work at a newspaper as well, and I know the feeling! We actually had folks that would take the time to go through our entire paper and red-mark all the improper entries and typos and mail them in.

The editors always acted as if those folks were blathering psychotics tho :laughs

Beyond Should of....

shoulda

woulda

coulda....

In English English a has replaced er.....but what is the a doing here....?

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Originally Posted by Bumpkin

Lucy, I used to work at a newspaper as well, and I know the feeling! We actually had folks that would take the time to go through our entire paper and red-mark all the improper entries and typos and mail them in.

The editors always acted as if those folks were blathering psychotics tho :laughs

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Exactly; every paper I've worked for has gotten those (although the smaller the paper, the more frequent they are) and they're almost always anonymous. :)
And I've had editors who put errors IN my stories, so it's in their own interests to overlook those letters.... :winkgrin

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Originally Posted by SCRUMPOT

Marley - I am soooooo busted. Yes, okay, okay.... Do I have to write A LOT 1000 times?

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Since it's Thanksgiving, I'll let it slide. ;)