September 27, 2003

Grammar Which Be Not Well 

This is the first post from my book of semi-intelligent thoughts. It's a list of grammatical errors people make, and why they're annoying. By the way, if you look at this list and think to yourself, "hey, what's wrong with those?" then please retake your elementary school English class. Here goes nothing:
-Where it's at, etc.
-Reesees peesees
-expecially/excape
-Antartica
-anyways
-eye-ther
-off-ten
-so DO I/so DID I/so AM I, etc. (caps=emphasis in pronunciation)
-nucular
-"everyday" used where "every day" should be
-confrontate (thanks, Jack Osbourne)
-mischievious
-"can I axe you a question?"
-using "itch" instead of "scratch" ex. "I can't stop itching these bugbites!"
-heighth
-saying "minus" instead of "subtract"
-excetera
-expresso
-drownd
-'nother is not a real word
-besides the point
-would of/could of/should of
-"verse" instead of "versus"
-confusing "their" and "they're"
-using "and" instead of "an" (and vice versa)
-visa versa
-apostrophes do not make words plural!!!!!

There. That should do it. I actually came up with a couple of those as I was writing, so it's not the exact same list that's in my book, but you get the idea. I have to get up at 8:15 tomorrow for marching band practice, so I really shouldn't still be up now. Tomorrow, I'll post some more stuff from my book and possibly a journal entry or two (I'll be putting those on here too; I said there was no point, right?) Keep checking back for updates. Go Orange!

Posted by CD on September 27, 2003 01:17 AM
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Semi-Intelligent Comments

I'm appreciative of your list but I can't help noticing some errors in the paragraph which follows it. For instance, "exact same" seems redundant. Also, the comma after "Tomorrow" is unnecessary. I hope you will accept this criticism with the understanding that everyone makes mistakes.

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