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6 Grammatical Errors That Need to Stop Now
July 09, 2015
| Jonathan Long
Posted on 08/30/2015 10:38:18 AM PDT by B4Ranch
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To: LS
A gift is free. "gifted it to me".....(Grrrr!)
Whatever happened to "gave"?
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posted on
08/30/2015 1:16:13 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: B4Ranch
Could care less (but don’t?) Couldn’t care less.(but do?)
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posted on
08/30/2015 1:17:00 PM PDT
by
mc5cents
(Pray for America)
To: Stepan12
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posted on
08/30/2015 1:17:44 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(When buying + selling are controlled by legislation, the first things bought + sold are legislators.)
To: Smokin' Joe
To this day I refuse to use "impacted."
I wish people would stop turning every word into a verb.
"Progress" wasn't a verb until about 1900.
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posted on
08/30/2015 1:17:45 PM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: arthurus
That’s the excuse. The real reason is that a dumbed down population is easier to rule over as oppose to serve.
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posted on
08/30/2015 1:19:16 PM PDT
by
piytar
(Good will be called evil and Evil will be called good.)
To: freebilly
.....I figured out pretty quick that knowing the difference between..... Just curious, as long as we're on the subject, should that be "quick" or "quickly"?
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posted on
08/30/2015 1:20:08 PM PDT
by
mupcat
To: arthurus
That’s the excuse. The real reason is that a dumbed down population is easier to rule over as oppose to serve.
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posted on
08/30/2015 1:20:18 PM PDT
by
piytar
(Good will be called evil and Evil will be called good.)
To: B4Ranch
Literally, I hate it when people literally use the word literally way too much.
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posted on
08/30/2015 1:21:06 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
To: LS
To this day I refuse to use "impacted." I will use it, but only when talking trouble with wisdom teeth.
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posted on
08/30/2015 1:22:01 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Yaelle
You caught it. Laz hasn't commented on the mis-spell. LOL!😂
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posted on
08/30/2015 1:22:57 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
To: cva66snipe
Good lawyers write in as much plain English as possible.
I will not hire lawyers who use too much “legalese” where not necessary.
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posted on
08/30/2015 1:23:30 PM PDT
by
piytar
(Good will be called evil and Evil will be called good.)
To: LS
Yeah, “impacted” is pretty dorky. Another one along those lines is “utilized” instead of “used”.
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
RIGHT: The company’s policies affected morale.
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posted on
08/30/2015 1:25:10 PM PDT
by
piytar
(Good will be called evil and Evil will be called good.)
To: COBOL2Java
To: arthurus
Yes - but can you see how someone who *needs* a rule will be confused?
To: HandyDandy
Einstein said, “If you can’t explain it in laymans terms, then you don’t understand it.”
As of now, that is one of my absolutely favorite sayings!
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posted on
08/30/2015 1:31:05 PM PDT
by
piytar
(Good will be called evil and Evil will be called good.)
To: Smokin' Joe
One may at some point in their life find themself with an impacted BM. And I don’t mean breast milk.
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posted on
08/30/2015 1:32:42 PM PDT
by
HandyDandy
(Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
To: mupcat
Just curious, as long as we're on the subject, should that be "quick" or "quickly"?'Zactly....
To: Smokin' Joe
Yeah, I hate that.
I think that boomed after the “re-gifting” episode on Seinfeld.
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posted on
08/30/2015 1:35:08 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: LS
‘To this day I refuse to use “impacted.”’
I think that’s because they don’t know which of “affect/effect” to use!
It should not be “impacted”, it should be “affected”.
I say this with extra chagrin since I am an engineer and “impact” is a very specific situation - i.e., a noun.
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posted on
08/30/2015 1:38:10 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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