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#169712 23-Mar-2015 19:30

Why is it posters on Geekzone seem to struggle with the very simple word "of".

I understand how laziness leads you to write "your" rather than "you're", but how do you mistake "of" for "have"?

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#1266129 23-Mar-2015 19:36

I of not seen anything like that on here.

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#1266133 23-Mar-2015 19:37

sidefx: I of not seen anything like that on here.

Corrected: I of not seen anything like that on hear.

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#1266134 23-Mar-2015 19:39

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#1266135 23-Mar-2015 19:39

Glassboy: Why is it posters on Geekzone seem to struggle with the very simple word "of".

Same reason there's no question mark at the end of your sentence - nobody gets it right all the time ;-)

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#1266136 23-Mar-2015 19:41

Rappelle: I would of thought that's a pretty noob mistake.

Do not blame me for all have you're mistakes

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#1266139 23-Mar-2015 19:43

Glassboy:
I understand how laziness leads you to write "your" rather than "you're"

I don't think that's laziness... :(

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#1266140 23-Mar-2015 19:44

RunningMan:
Glassboy: Why is it posters on Geekzone seem to struggle with the very simple word "of".

Same reason there's no question mark at the end of your sentence - nobody gets it right all the time ;-)

Busted! Touche!

But I do agree with the OP, the level of mis used words is high these days. Ignoring text speak, it's basic grammar. There/their is my pet hate.

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#1266142 23-Mar-2015 19:45

And how many here, responding to this thread, carefully checked what they typed before posting? I may or may not admit to that.

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#1266145 23-Mar-2015 19:48

People make mistakes, for some of it. Unfortunately, there's also a lot of people who just don't know the difference, and consistently misuse words. Just because they've registered on GZ does not make them magically brighter than the general population - though one would imagine the average may skew higher in more closed groups such as this.

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#1266146 23-Mar-2015 19:49

tdgeek: And how many here, responding to this thread, carefully checked what they typed before posting? I may or may not admit to that.

Everyone did have course.

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#1266160 23-Mar-2015 20:20

Inphinity: People make mistakes, for some of it. Unfortunately, there's also a lot of people who just don't know the difference, and consistently misuse words. Just because they've registered on GZ does not make them magically brighter than the general population - though one would imagine the average may skew higher in more closed groups such as this.

People make mistakes sure. But some aren't mistakes, are errors. For example someone who should know better (degree in communications, working in marketing) sent me an email asking to replace "your" with "you're" in a couple of sentences. I replied asking "Where?" and he said "on this page I linked"... I replied "Yes, but which one you want replaced?"

Basically there were four "your" and all correctly used. He wanted all replaced with "you're". I made him aware of the error of his ways.

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#1266197 23-Mar-2015 20:46

That sort of thing is pretty widespread, so I guess you have to blame our schools.

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#1266217 23-Mar-2015 20:51

ojo: That sort of thing is pretty widespread, so I guess you have to blame our schools.

Trust me, I do blame schools. Having to correct misspelt spelling word corrections has taught me that mostly my children are learning despite their teachers.

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#1266237 23-Mar-2015 20:58

That is fine if this was a form of formal communication, but this is informal and people type quickly. Also you get tablets autocorrecting etc. I see more errors of those types of grammatical and spelling errors in the newspaper these days. One that gets to me though, is 'their' and 'there' , as many people don't know the difference.

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#1266246 23-Mar-2015 21:06

Inphinity: People make mistakes, for some of it. Unfortunately, there's also a lot of people who just don't know the difference, and consistently misuse words. Just because they've registered on GZ does not make them magically brighter than the general population - though one would imagine the average may skew higher in more closed groups such as this.

Quite so.

There are a lot of people who do not have a clue about grammar.

When using the phrase "there is a lot of" or "there are a lot of" you have to look at what comes after the "of" in order to know whether you should use "there is" or "there are". The word people is a plural so you need to say "there are a lot of people". The word sugar is singular so you should say "that is a lot of sugar in this coffee".

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