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  #1266607 24-Mar-2015 11:13
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dclegg: My favourites are when people totally butcher well known sayings & idioms.


yeah, but it's a mute point. Granted it's annoying when people make such fragrant errors, but I could care less. For all intensive purposes some people just make mistakes, it never seizes to amaze me how many.  Sure it would be nice to nip it in the butt, but it's all one in the same to me. 




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  #1266617 24-Mar-2015 11:21
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dclegg: My favourites are when people totally butcher well known sayings & idioms. I was at an indoor netball venue once where there was a sign misstating "For all intents and purposes" as "For all intensive purposes"


It gets up my goat when people do that.

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  #1266618 24-Mar-2015 11:23
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Glassboy:
dclegg: My favourites are when people totally butcher well known sayings & idioms. I was at an indoor netball venue once where there was a sign misstating "For all intents and purposes" as "For all intensive purposes"


It gets up my goat when people do that.


I was waiting with baited breath for someone to reply with an example.



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  #1266619 24-Mar-2015 11:24
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sidefx:
dclegg: My favourites are when people totally butcher well known sayings & idioms.


yeah, but it's a mute point. Granted it's annoying when people make such fragrant errors, but I could care less. For all intensive purposes some people just make mistakes, it never seizes to amaze me how many.  Sure it would be nice to nip it in the butt, but it's all one in the same to me. 


I hate how they get of Scott Free.

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  #1266624 24-Mar-2015 11:29
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I wud has at a guess that nun of youse is perfikt. 

(Oh dear $Deity I can't believe I typed all that, even in jest)




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  #1266641 24-Mar-2015 11:39
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Unfortunately all of this poor grammar will likely continue on, irregardless. tongue-out




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  #1266642 24-Mar-2015 11:40
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sidefx: yeah, but it's a mute point.


Moot.




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  #1266643 24-Mar-2015 11:41
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DarthKermit: Unfortunately all of this poor grammar will likely continue on, irregardless. tongue-out


I see what you've done there.




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  #1266648 24-Mar-2015 11:43
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Yeah, an the funny thing is the spellchecker thing passes "irregardless" with no problems.

Question BDFL: if someone was to call someone else a "grammar Nazi" on the forums would that be considered to be invoking Godwin's Law?




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  #1266651 24-Mar-2015 11:46
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Depends on context. In this discussion, probably not. In a political discussion, most likely yes.

And that would be either a permanent ban or a week holiday depending on user's history.




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  #1266796 24-Mar-2015 13:56
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Grammar: The difference between knowing your sh!t and knowing you're sh!t.

 
 
 
 

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  #1266802 24-Mar-2015 14:06
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KiwiNZ:
Glassboy:
KiwiNZ: Not directed at anyone but these types of threads no matter where they are always remind me of the lyrics of a certain song....

"Oh Lord it's hard to be humble
when you're perfect in every way."



We all make mistakes, I remember the last time I did.  It was a rainy day in 1991 .....


Dammit that used to be my line but I could always narrow it down to exact time :P


I made a mistake once, it was back in 1977. I thought I was wrong, but I was right.




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  #1266814 24-Mar-2015 14:13
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Youse jokers are just killing me

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  #1266822 24-Mar-2015 14:24
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And so remember all youse grammar fascists were not all as well at grammar as you be.




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  #1266828 24-Mar-2015 14:26
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andrew027: Grammar: The difference between knowing your sh!t and knowing you're sh!t.



I have an associate with a PhD who uses bad grammar.  




Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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