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08-21-2012, 01:18 PM
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Annoying and Unacceptable Misnomers
I read a lot of articles, forums, and social sites on the internet, and I am appalled at the constant butchering of the English language. My peeve surrounds the misuse of words. Share your examples. My contributions:
"Lisa is a very pretty women." "I am so sorry for your lost." You get the idea. Oh, and if you don't see anything wrong with my examples, you might want to skip this thread. 
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08-21-2012, 01:28 PM
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Commits weekly crime
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My favorite is...
I got into a reck, because I was wreckless driving!
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08-21-2012, 01:57 PM
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I walked over their to check out they're new car. Later, there going to take me for a ride.
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08-21-2012, 02:00 PM
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"I could care less" That drives me crazy. And, does not even make sense.
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08-21-2012, 02:00 PM
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I'z dunt no wut yer bumpin' yer gumz aboot
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08-21-2012, 02:07 PM
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And, by the way, or BTW, you mispelled contributions.
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08-21-2012, 02:07 PM
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I took an english class sophomore year of college and our professor made us find 50 misspelled and/or misused words in local newspapers. Surprisingly enough it was not that hard to find them.
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08-21-2012, 02:15 PM
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irregardless: not a word, you mean "regardless"
there/their: there is a place; their means it belongs to them to/too: to comes just before or after a verb (an action word); too means also, very or excessively wash: notice that I didn't spell it "warsh" water: again, not spelled "warter" creek: its not a damn crick I am sure more will come to me later......... Last edited by Apex Motorsports; 08-21-2012 at 03:55 PM. |
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08-21-2012, 02:26 PM
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Either is acceptable.
crick 2 (krɪk) — n ( US ), ( Canadian ) a dialect word for creek
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08-21-2012, 02:48 PM
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Great examples! Keep them coming.
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08-21-2012, 02:51 PM
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Back on topic now.
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08-21-2012, 03:32 PM
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Literally .. As in "it literally blew my head off"
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08-21-2012, 03:39 PM
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your/you're (biggest complaint)
there/they're/their to/too it's/its (confusion on possessional) "how could you LOOSE to that Mustang?" And I could go on... Lack of punctuation. Lack of capital letters. Excess of capital letters (great example of this is Ted... love his work, hate his posts haha). Ironically to list these, I have a lack of complete sentences, punctuation, and capital letters.
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