(06-27-2020, 10:44 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 10:40 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote: one of my peeves is spellin and gramer nazi's.


just kidding couldn't resist

but on a serious note there were many famous people that couldn't spell for shit.

Quote:“You need not be concerned in writing to me about your bad spelling, for in my opinion as our alphabet now stands the bad spelling, or what is called so, is generally best, as conforming to the sound of the letters and of the words.”
Benjamin Franklin

15 Famous Thinkers Who Couldn’t Spell

(06-27-2020, 10:48 PM)guohua Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 10:40 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote: one of my peeves is spellin and gramer nazi's.


just kidding couldn't resist

Yes, that is one of the reasons I never tried to return to ATS after I was Banned.

i just call them spellin and gramer nazi's, and say you understood what i meant didn't you.

(06-27-2020, 10:56 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 10:48 PM)guohua Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 10:40 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote: one of my peeves is spellin and gramer nazi's.


just kidding couldn't resist

Yes, that is one of the reasons I never tried to return to ATS after I was Banned.

i just call them spellin and gramer nazi's, and say you understood what i meant didn't you.

Yes, 
纳粹语的拼写和语法 (Nàcuì yǔ de pīnxiě hé yǔfǎ)

(06-27-2020, 04:58 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 04:55 PM)Lumenari Wrote: Interchanging the words "lose" and "loose".

Biden is going to loose the election, for instance.

It seems to have gotten worse the last decade or so online.

I give credit to our failing education system.

I only have one thing, and it doesn't really peeve me, but it does catch my attention. That is the word irregardless. I spent half my life having it drilled into my head that there was no such word as irregardless. Imagine my surprise when I found out that the word was misused so much, that is is now accepted, and is even in the online dictionary.

At that point I realized in this brave new world, though there is nothing new under the sun, things will always be changing while they remain the same.

In fairness to the education system, when social media went nuclear, and children spend more time interacting on their cellphones than face to face, the need of abbreviations to keep communication via texting flowing at a productive pace, spelling has morphed into something that destroyed the benefit of spelling and grammar. Hieroglyphics were resurrected and, emojis and emoticons were born.

I must have really pissed off someone really bad in my life, because I sure as hell am living in interesting times.

two words i constantly use wrong if i'm not looking is, whether and weather.
i'll type weather every time, and post it some too.

well i be damned i used too correctly, i think

(06-27-2020, 03:56 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: What about you? Do you have any pet peeves? 

As a matter of fact, I do! Folks trying to sound like their vocabulary is bigger than it really is by misusing "wreak", as in "to wreak vengeance". It's wreak, not reek - reek is an objectionable scent. 

Furthermore, they misuse the tenses of it. The past tense of "wreak" is "wrought", not "wreaked" - yet I see even alleged journalists abusing it as in "Party A wreaked havoc on Party B's widgets". There is no such sentence construction in proper English, no such word as "wreaked". Proper English would be "wrought havoc" when speaking of past events.

"Wreak" is from the Old English for "work". The past tense of modern "work" is "worked", but the past tense of "wreak" is "wrought" as in "wrought iron". Word and sentence construction rules were different in it's day.

Just use words you know how to use, and all will be well with the world.

Don't even TRY to use Elizebethan English unless you are well versed in it! I cannot count the times when I have seen and heard - even preachers - abuse Elizabethan English - especially "thee", "thy", and "thou" - when trying to make up Bible quotes that don't exist, or Shakespearean quotes that can not be found in Shakespeare anywhere...

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(06-27-2020, 11:40 PM)Ninurta Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 03:56 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: What about you? Do you have any pet peeves? 

"thee", "thy", and "thou"

you know i'm glad you said something about that. i laugh every time i hear some preacher or so called prophet start giving a prophecy or a word God spoke to them using those words.

God doesn't talk like that, and if he did talk to you he would use langue that you would understand. not "thee", "thy" "thou"and thine.

(06-27-2020, 11:58 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 11:40 PM)Ninurta Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 03:56 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: What about you? Do you have any pet peeves? 

"thee", "thy", and "thou"

you know i'm glad you said something about that. i laugh every time i hear some preacher or so called prophet start giving a prophecy or a word God spoke to them using those words.

God doesn't talk like that, and if he did talk to you he would use langue that you would understand. not "thee", "thy" "thou"and thine.

And you know this because?  How many times have you heard God speaking to you?

Just messing with you. I had to pay you back.  

(06-28-2020, 12:01 AM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 11:58 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 11:40 PM)Ninurta Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 03:56 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: What about you? Do you have any pet peeves? 

"thee", "thy", and "thou"

you know i'm glad you said something about that. i laugh every time i hear some preacher or so called prophet start giving a prophecy or a word God spoke to them using those words.

God doesn't talk like that, and if he did talk to you he would use langue that you would understand. not "thee", "thy" "thou"and thine.

And you know this because?  How many times have you heard God speaking to you?

Just messing with you. I had to pay you back.  

somebody use to talk to me all the time, but i think now it was the devil seeing the outcomes of the things he told me to do.

(06-27-2020, 11:58 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 11:40 PM)Ninurta Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 03:56 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: What about you? Do you have any pet peeves? 

"thee", "thy", and "thou"

you know i'm glad you said something about that. i laugh every time i hear some preacher or so called prophet start giving a prophecy or a word God spoke to them using those words.

God doesn't talk like that, and if he did talk to you he would use langue that you would understand. not "thee", "thy" "thou"and thine.

Funny you should mention that. Years ago I had a friend named "Animal". One day Animal was talking to an alleged "prophet" who was making his prophetic pronouncements in 17th century English. After a while, Animal stops the guy and says "Can't your God speak plainly? Can he not comprehend Standard English of the modern day? I'm only asking because he seems not to be very well versed in 17th century English, either!" ROFLMFAO!


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(06-28-2020, 12:06 AM)Ninurta Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 11:58 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 11:40 PM)Ninurta Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 03:56 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: What about you? Do you have any pet peeves? 

"thee", "thy", and "thou"

you know i'm glad you said something about that. i laugh every time i hear some preacher or so called prophet start giving a prophecy or a word God spoke to them using those words.

God doesn't talk like that, and if he did talk to you he would use langue that you would understand. not "thee", "thy" "thou"and thine.

Funny you should mention that. Years ago I had a friend named "Animal". One day Animal was talking to an alleged "prophet" who was making his prophetic pronouncements in 17th century English. After a while, Animal stops the guy and says "Can't your God speak plainly? Can he not comprehend Standard English of the modern day? I'm only asking because he seems not to be very well versed in 17th century English, either!" ROFLMFAO!


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lol, yea when they try to get all bible in their speech, i gotta stop listening.

on a side note, glad there's not any real bad spelling nazis here calling me out. i've had to go and fix a bunch of errors and not real sure if i fixed them right even with spell checker.

(06-28-2020, 12:16 AM)hounddoghowlie Wrote:

(06-28-2020, 12:06 AM)Ninurta Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 11:58 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 11:40 PM)Ninurta Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 03:56 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: What about you? Do you have any pet peeves? 

"thee", "thy", and "thou"

you know i'm glad you said something about that. i laugh every time i hear some preacher or so called prophet start giving a prophecy or a word God spoke to them using those words.

God doesn't talk like that, and if he did talk to you he would use langue that you would understand. not "thee", "thy" "thou"and thine.

Funny you should mention that. Years ago I had a friend named "Animal". One day Animal was talking to an alleged "prophet" who was making his prophetic pronouncements in 17th century English. After a while, Animal stops the guy and says "Can't your God speak plainly? Can he not comprehend Standard English of the modern day? I'm only asking because he seems not to be very well versed in 17th century English, either!" ROFLMFAO!


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lol, yea when they try to get all bible in their speech, i gotta stop listening.

on a side note, glad there's not any real bad spelling nazis here calling me out. i've had to go and fix a bunch of errors and not real sure if i fixed them right even with spell checker.

(06-27-2020, 11:14 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: I only have one thing, and it doesn't really peeve me, but it does catch my attention. That is the word irregardless. I spent half my life having it drilled into my head that there was no such word as irregardless.

My mother used to use irregardless all the time and it drove me crazy. Every time I see or hear it it makes me think about her and cringe a little that I could never get her to stop saying it. She was also fond of talking in a British accent but that's another story entirely.

Sometimes I fancy myself a bit of a writer. Not that I can really write but it is something that I do a lot of as those poor email pen pal friends of mine can attest. In fact, even though I know nobody will read it, I have a 6,100 word post waiting in the wings for the right moment that may or may not ever come?

I wish I would have paid more attention in high school but I was distracted by personal issues and I never went to college. I get confused on how to do things the right way sometimes, don't know when to use a colon as opposed to a semi-colon or when using a quotation, if the punctuation should be inside or outside of the punctuation mark?

I'm pretty good with their/they're/there and your/you're/urine and it's/its but question whether who's and whose is right every time I write it even though I've looked it up a gazillion times.

I attribute half my writing problems to being old and half blind and not being able to proofread my own writing worth a damn.

(06-28-2020, 12:18 AM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote:

(06-28-2020, 12:16 AM)hounddoghowlie Wrote:

(06-28-2020, 12:06 AM)Ninurta Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 11:58 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 11:40 PM)Ninurta Wrote:

(06-27-2020, 03:56 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: What about you? Do you have any pet peeves? 

"thee", "thy", and "thou"

you know i'm glad you said something about that. i laugh every time i hear some preacher or so called prophet start giving a prophecy or a word God spoke to them using those words.

God doesn't talk like that, and if he did talk to you he would use langue that you would understand. not "thee", "thy" "thou"and thine.

Funny you should mention that. Years ago I had a friend named "Animal". One day Animal was talking to an alleged "prophet" who was making his prophetic pronouncements in 17th century English. After a while, Animal stops the guy and says "Can't your God speak plainly? Can he not comprehend Standard English of the modern day? I'm only asking because he seems not to be very well versed in 17th century English, either!" ROFLMFAO!


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lol, yea when they try to get all bible in their speech, i gotta stop listening.

on a side note, glad there's not any real bad spelling nazis here calling me out. i've had to go and fix a bunch of errors and not real sure if i fixed them right even with spell checker.

Wonder who that could be?   :smallwink:

 i'm not pointing fingers  

i was told once like stoner william that i have a mild form of dyslexia and it shows up more when i write or type.
me i think it's due to the fact that my brain out runs my ageing fingers, and i'm lazy.

(06-28-2020, 12:29 AM)hounddoghowlie Wrote: me i think it's due to the fact that my brain out runs my ageing fingers, and i'm lazy.

Haha! You forgot to capitalize Me!  

The other half of my problem is that my fingers often keep going while disconnected from my brain entirely.

(06-28-2020, 12:34 AM)Freija Wrote:

(06-28-2020, 12:29 AM)hounddoghowlie Wrote: me i think it's due to the fact that my brain out runs my ageing fingers, and i'm lazy.

Haha! You forgot to capitalize Me!  

The other half of my problem is that my fingers often keep going while disconnected from my brain entirely.

alright now i'm gonna have to start pointing fingers, and calling names.

(06-28-2020, 12:20 AM)Freija Wrote: I attribute half my writing problems to being old and half blind and not being able to proofread my own writing worth a damn.

I earned the perks for being old, so I claim them whenever I can and if I can get away with it. I gave up the the whole spelling and grammar thing, after sweating over the writing of a three page professional report I sent to  my young boss. I emailed it to her asking for her opinion, she wrote me back, and this is what she wrote. "K".

"K". That was it. Just a capital letter "K". 

I lost it for a hot second, then I remembered my self anger management techniques and realized, the old world of communication is gone. Learn, adapt, and move forward. As long as I don't have to compromise my moral beliefs or sell my soul, I can be flexible, most of the time.

Sometimes I feel like I am living through a Twilight Zone episode.

Quote:I attribute half my writing problems to being old and half blind and not being able to proofread my own writing worth a damn.

I wouldn't trade all the crap that I've gained from getting to be old if it actually meant that to be young again I'd need to be the same self confident, omnipotent dumb ass that stumbled and fell all over my perceived omniscience at every turn.

(06-28-2020, 01:08 AM)Antisthenes Wrote:

Quote:I attribute half my writing problems to being old and half blind and not being able to proofread my own writing worth a damn.

I wouldn't trade all the crap that I've gained from getting to be old if it actually meant that to be young again I'd need to be the same self confident, omnipotent dumb ass that stumbled and fell all over my perceived omniscience at every turn.

Yeah. I get hours of amusement laughing at all the crap I did as I traversed through life. I never thought of myself as pretty or perfect.

After all of these years, I now realize that I was pretty ignorant and perfectly foolish. I don't regret any of it. They were a time of learning and I learned much, and I learned well.

Now instead of being startled by that strange old lady looking back at me from the mirror, I smile at her. I nod at her with a smile, and she smiles back.

(06-28-2020, 01:21 AM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote:

(06-28-2020, 01:08 AM)Antisthenes Wrote:

Quote:I attribute half my writing problems to being old and half blind and not being able to proofread my own writing worth a damn.

I wouldn't trade all the crap that I've gained from getting to be old if it actually meant that to be young again I'd need to be the same self confident, omnipotent dumb ass that stumbled and fell all over my perceived omniscience at every turn.

Yeah. I get hours of amusement laughing at all the crap I did as I traversed through life. I never thought of myself as pretty or perfect.

After all of these years, I now realize that I was pretty ignorant and perfectly foolish. I don't regret any of it. They were a time of learning and I learned much, and I learned well.

Now instead of being startled by that strange old lady looking back at me from the mirror, I smile at her. I nod at her with a smile, and she smiles back.

Yes.....to all of that. In spite of it all, life is good. (-;