Grammar matters

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coby2

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Willie-T said:
I think you misspelled "I".
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oh I love that, the i's. Always makes them suspicious when they're English or American. That must be a scammer!!
Met a lot of those scammers, they all wrote i. Lol one guy said he was a christian minister and he wrote i and god. Then he had a Facebook page with dozens of pictures of himself, from the left angle, from the right, in this nice suit, in that fancy suit. Aren't you supposed to share the gospel or something when you're a minister?
 
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SparkleEyes

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YES! Proper grammar, punctuation and spelling matter a great deal! :cool:
 
Dude653

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I think my two biggest grammatical pet peeves are the misuse of I and me and the misuse of whom.....
It's like how do people not understand the basic fundamentals of their own language?... here's what I want to say to these people.
Between you and me, you and I should discuss your horrendous Grammar skills. You are someone to whom I would like to send a grammar textbook.
 
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wwjd_kilden

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Dude653 said:
I think my two biggest grammatical pet peeves are the misuse of I and me and the misuse of whom.....
It's like how do people not understand the basic fundamentals of their own language?... here's what I want to say to these people.
Between you and me, you and I should discuss your horrendous Grammar skills. You are someone to whom I would like to send a grammar textbook.
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I try my best to avoid that kind of grammar by simply saying "someone I would like to send a grammar textbook to" :p
So far I don't think I've heard the word whom used any other place than in a friends episode where the use of the word was discussed
 
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Dude653 said:
I think my two biggest grammatical pet peeves are the misuse of I and me and the misuse of whom.....
It's like how do people not understand the basic fundamentals of their own language?... here's what I want to say to these people.
Between you and me, you and I should discuss your horrendous Grammar skills. You are someone to whom I would like to send a grammar textbook.
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Grammar should not be capitalized in the above sentence.
 
Willie-T

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wwjd_kilden said:
I try my best to avoid that kind of grammar by simply saying "someone I would like to send a grammar textbook to" :p
So far I don't think I've heard the word whom used any other place than in a friends episode where the use of the word was discussed
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Yet, the proper use of it is so simple to understand and practice. Almost as easy as knowing the "him and I, he and her, and them and me" confusion. We might have had an excuse in school because we were trying to learn so many "rules", all at one time. But as adults, we have all the time in the world to spend a few minutes finding out which of these utterances are either "right or wrong."
 
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BeyondET

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coby2 said:
Spelfout nekt Mexicaanse criminelen | NOS

In the Mexican state of Michoacan , four criminals got caught by a misspelling. They drove around in a fake police car which looked exactly like a real one. There was only one difference : the spelling of a word on the side of the car.

The gang members had the word " division" written with a c instead of an s. This aroused suspicion at a military patrol that drove past. The soldiers stopped the car and grabbed the men .

The four men are members of a drug cartel. The State Secretary of Public Security says the cartels have owned more fake police cars. It has announced an operation in order to detect them .
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Spell out New Mexico Criminals
 
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coby2

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AuntieAnt

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Whut?? I ain't seein' no errors. :confused:
 
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wwjd_kilden

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What is annoying in Norway is that people use English / American grammar on Norwegian words, which make them incorrect :p

Norwegian tends to couple words together to make a new one, while you keep them separate:

ie:
Onion rings (Onion = Løk. Rings = Ringer)
SHOULD be spelled : Løkringer
...but many kids/ teens now are so used to separating words (due to google? :p ), that they write the incorrect
"Løk ringer"
.... which means : Onion (is) ringing / calling

:p
 
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coby2

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wwjd_kilden said:
What is annoying in Norway is that people use English / American grammar on Norwegian words, which make them incorrect :p

Norwegian tends to couple words together to make a new one, while you keep them separate:

ie:
Onion rings (Onion = Løk. Rings = Ringer)
SHOULD be spelled : Løkringer
...but many kids/ teens now are so used to separating words (due to google? :p ), that they write the incorrect
"Løk ringer"
.... which means : Onion (is) ringing / calling

:p
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Oh yes that's the same in Dutch. They seperate everything.
 
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ember

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besides grammar, it's also punctuation

 
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jennymae

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wwjd_kilden said:
What is annoying in Norway is that people use English / American grammar on Norwegian words, which make them incorrect :p

Norwegian tends to couple words together to make a new one, while you keep them separate:

ie:
Onion rings (Onion = Løk. Rings = Ringer)
SHOULD be spelled : Løkringer
...but many kids/ teens now are so used to separating words (due to google? :p ), that they write the incorrect
"Løk ringer"
.... which means : Onion (is) ringing / calling

:p
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And that's why yalls language is so hard to learn. I mean how is a person learning Norwegian supposed to know what "Bevisverdivurderingsmetode" means...I'm not even sure that is a word lol.
 
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coby2

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jennymae said:
And that's why yalls language is so hard to learn. I mean how is a person learning Norwegian supposed to know what "Bevisverdivurderingsmetode" means...I'm not even sure that is a word lol.
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You can start with Dunglish and how do you call that in Sweden? lessons.

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Dude653

Dude653

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This is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
 
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jennymae

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Dude653 said:
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This is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
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I thought it said "I don't have a pic of my sister, and I love Wendy Johnson Bratton".

Where I'm from people are talking kinda crazy at times, and the grammar is way beyond bad:p

Here's a few "exerpts":

Ya done good - You did well
Ya talkin' bout? - What are you talking about?
Ya done done? - You already done?
Ya act like ya raisn'd - You need to behave like you have gotten some raising
I'll teach you how'ta don't - I will make sure you're not doing that again
Ya quit that, Miss Smartiepants - Will you please stop doing that, girl
Them ain't your ways - This is not how you are usually behaving

:)
 
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