Ladies and Germs,

 

Please take a moment from your busy day to read the following information brought to you as a free service by the Grammar Police.

 

Life requires certain rules. You are of course quite familiar with some 15 (crash) oops TEN rules given to you by God on Mount Sinai known throughout the modern world as the Ten Commandments. You are (I am quite sure) also familiar with the four rules of firearm safety. It is common knowledge that there are other rules in life that are not only common sense but really good ideas such as: Don't eat the yellow snow. If the dog farts, you better let it outside. If you leave the house with an infant and no diapers for 'just a minute' you are guaranteed to require a Hazardous Materials Containment Device at some point in that 'short trip' when your child does the largest messiest ugliest stinkiest #2 you have ever seen, far eclipsing anything some drunk frat brother did on the floor in college.

 

Likewise, there are rules for grammar. These are not just 'good ideas'... So here's a primer to bring you back up to speed:

 

The word spelled "there" refers to a location. I left my car over there.

The word spelled "their" refers to ownership. I left my car at their house.

The word spelled "they're" is a contraction meaning they are. They're over at Joey Bimbo's playing cards.

 

The word caliber (with a B) refers to either an ugly as sin Dodge vehicle (Mopar guy here, no flaming required) OR the diameter of your bullets.

The word caliper (with a P) refers to a measuring device or a braking device on your motor vehicle.

 

The word when you are not winning is losing. From the verb to lose. Take off the e, add -ing and you have losing.

There is no such word as loosing. There is a word loosening. After eating Thanksgiving, the NJGF crew were loosening their belts.

 

There is no such thing as a Wheelbarrel. The device is a WheelBARROW. By the way, a barrow is a flat, rectangular frame used for carrying a load. (Thank you Dictionary.com)

 

Boar is a male pig. Bore is the center of our gun barrels. The word boring comes from the word Bore, 'boring' is the action of drilling a hole through.

 

I hope this has stimulated your cerebral cortex and becomes locked deep in your long term memory.

what are you even talking bout?know won here talks wrong.and everywun talk gooder and uses propher punquashin. wtf man dont hate.

This post is for the lose. Clearly we all know that I left my car at there house and that there car is a pos. I am also going to go and walk over their to make sure everything is ok. I'm also going to check the caliber on my car and make sure I have the proper caliper bullets for my gun so my boar doesn't get messed up.

 

 

pshhh what a silly post clearly we all know how to use propar english

Nice use of History of The World Part 1 humor.

 

 

Aside from that, you have way too much time on you hands :mrgreen:

oh I sooooooo want to edit the post and make all sorts of fun mistakes. =)

 

but will be moving this to general. =P

Oh please..... give me a brake.

 

I knows the english language, school taut me well. I dont not need you to point out mine mistakes.

 

So please spare us all the fact you all no everything.

This thread is going to get good :twisted:

Two words that I can't get correct(ly?) all the time, are advice and advise. Are there any tricks to help me remember the correct usage of both?

You get and give advice. and you advise by providing advice. now where does advize fit in.

And for the love of allah, it's a NJ Statute NOT a NJ Statue.

 

2C:39-blablabla is a statute...

The Pieta is a statue (by the great* Michelangelo by the way)

 

*great, not to be confused with grate.

 

 

Thanks

And for the love of allah, it's a NJ Statute NOT a NJ Statue.

 

2C:39-blablabla is a statute...

The Pieta is a statue (by the great* Michelangelo by the way)

 

*great, not to be confused with grate.

 

 

Thanks

I want to grate some great grade a cheese.

Mee to, I want too cheeses without two many choyces.

Stop being so REDiculous.

 

That one irritates me. It's RID. By the way, It's is only contracted when it's "It is". If you're referring to ownership, it's its.

 

The other is the lack of anyone. No one. NOONE is not a word. It could be a name, but it certainly doesn't mean "No Person"

How about "for all intensive purposes"

Souper salad? I ordered that once.

Crap, if this is what I have to look forward to in old age, I might just die now. You guys are a bunch of whiny old men, holy crap. You guys clearly need to get out and live a little, your not in the grave yet.

 

BTW Boondock Saints II is excellent for anyone who cares

Crap, if this is what I have to look forward to in old age, I might just die now. You guys are a bunch of whiny old men, holy crap. You guys clearly need to get out and live a little, your not in the grave yet.

 

BTW Boondock Saints II is excellent for anyone who cares

 

Amen Brother.

I have to agree with Dan on this topic. The lack of proper grammar on Internet forums irks me too! Laugh, snicker, belittle and cajole him. He will get the last laugh. A semester or two with Sister Smackyourhands and her big ass ruler will wipe that smirk off your face!

 

Dan, keep up the good work :clap:

You guys clearly need to get out and live a little, your not in the grave yet.

 

Nice misuse of 'your' Matt...

 

The words I have problems with are ensure and insure...

 

PK90 advised me of my rights. This is good advice.

 

Break = to destroy. Brake = stopping device.

It's not the spelling or usage of a word that gets me, it's the phrases like:

IIRC

btt

there's othere but I can't think of them right know. Maybe someone can make a glossary for us that are not computer savy.

I hate irregardless.

It's not the spelling or usage of a word that gets me, it's the phrases like:

IIRC

btt

there's othere but I can't think of them right know. Maybe someone can make a glossary for us that are not computer savy.

I'm working on one right now.

 

HERE

For bonus points, what's the difference between effect and affect?

 

Basically, if you learned to write in the era before spell checkers were widely available, this stuff bugs you.

 

If you learned to write with a spellchecker always a click away, then you likely don't care. All these errors (lose/loose, there/their/they're) etc. are ones that spell checkers don't pick out, so they've gradually become more and more "accepted".

 

I'd be curious to see what the distribution looks like if we did a poll on who is bothered by the lose/loose type errors and correlated it with their age...

This discussion may seem trivial to some, but considering how far behind America is in S.A.T. scores and overall grades compared to other countries is astounding. BUT...not to worry, I'm sure Mr. Obama will fix that too! YES WE CAN!!!!!

 

Oh, and for the bonus question. Certain gun laws AFFECT our way of living. Movies have special EFFECTS. Right?

The spell check and text message generations are destroying our education standards.

The spell check and text message generations are destroying our education standards.

 

 

Absolutely 100% right.

It's not the spelling or usage of a word that gets me, it's the phrases like:

IIRC

btt

there's othere but I can't think of them right know. Maybe someone can make a glossary for us that are not computer savy.

 

 

LOL. I am here LMAO. I hate that too, My friend does that all the time and every time he does it I tell him to STFU, JK . IMHO you guys are right. Anyways I have to go to the store. BRB.

 

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The spell check and text message generations are destroying our education standards.

 

Your Welcome

The spell check and text message generations are destroying our education standards.

 

Your Welcome

You're Welcome. Gawd, I hate that.

The spell check and text message generations are destroying our education standards.

 

Your Welcome

You're Welcome. Gawd, I hate that.

 

 

Ken, don't be so critical! How do you know he doesn't own the welcome??