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Common grammar and usage errors
12/22/04
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Posted on 12/22/2004 9:32:13 AM PST by georgiadevildog
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To: Petronski
"I could care less,"That was originally an ironic usage, a trivialization of the subject, as in, "I suppose there are things that would interest me less but it is all so uninteresting that I can't be bothered to recall what they are."
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posted on
02/25/2005 2:15:51 PM PST
by
arthurus
(Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE.)
To: green pastures
"Hear! Hear!" is correct as in "Hear him!"- listen to him.
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posted on
02/25/2005 2:18:52 PM PST
by
arthurus
(Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE.)
To: Southflanknorthpawsis
Every student should brush up on their grammarThis is officially (as in politically) correct in order to avoid ever using his, him, her, hers in this brave new world of zero distinction between the sexes. As the PC People more and more dictate English usage the third person will become the universal pronoun.
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posted on
02/25/2005 2:23:19 PM PST
by
arthurus
(Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE.)
To: TerP26
I have drunk 8 beers. It just doesn't sound right.Especially when your wife policed up 12 emptie.
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posted on
02/25/2005 2:38:52 PM PST
by
arthurus
(Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE.)
To: georgiadevildog
"Accept," and "except."
They are nearly opposite from one another.
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posted on
03/20/2005 3:08:14 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Tax-chick
"Picture" and "pitcher" are not quite identical in pronunciation.
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posted on
03/20/2005 3:12:01 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Chad Fairbanks
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posted on
03/20/2005 3:33:04 PM PST
by
toddlintown
(We don't need no stinkin' passports.)
To: lepton
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posted on
03/20/2005 3:34:44 PM PST
by
toddlintown
(We don't need no stinkin' passports.)
To: lepton
In North Carolina they are :-).
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posted on
03/20/2005 4:28:50 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(If you can't baffle them with b*llsh*t, nuke them with Niceness!)
To: Tax-chick
If the grammar ping is still in force, please add me.
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posted on
04/11/2005 7:35:15 PM PDT
by
AntiBurr
("The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."-- Ecclesiastes)
To: AntiBurr
You're added. I haven't been online too much, recently, but I still send out a Typso ping every couple of weeks or so. Sometimes there are a ton of really good ones, and sometimes there's nothing!
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posted on
04/12/2005 4:19:38 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Do not fear the words of a sinner, for his splendor will turn into dung and worms.)
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