cute(?) spellers

It's not really heavy or political but here's one thing that bothers me...
People that try to be cute by spelling words to match the spelling of other close words in the statement (such as "Ken's Konfessions" or maybe "Kenfessions")

That and people who just can't spell for shit. My misspellings are mostly typos because I'm a sorry typist.

People who don't know the difference between there, their and they're really piss me off. Or to and too.

TexasBlue.... grammar nazi!

Yeah, I am. It annoys me to death because it just shows ya how horseshit our education is. Before I get jumped on by others.... I mean by how much money we our into it with shit results.

TexasBlue wrote:Yeah, I am. It annoys me to death because it just shows ya how horseshit our education is. Before I get jumped on by others.... I mean by how much money we pour into it with shit results.

*fixed*




But seriously... yeah, I know what ya mean. Our K-12 schools are disgraceful failures. And they've only gotten worse since the creation of the Department of Education. What does that tell you?

dblboggie wrote:

TexasBlue wrote:Yeah, I am. It annoys me to death because it just shows ya how horseshit our education is. Before I get jumped on by others.... I mean by how much money we pour into it with shit results.

*fixed*

Told ya I couldn't type for shit. Spell check for my lousy typing doesn't catch things like that.

dblboggie wrote:But seriously... yeah, I know what ya mean. Our K-12 schools are disgraceful failures. And they've only gotten worse since the creation of the Department of Education. What does that tell you?

Tells me plenty. My stance is that if something isn't working, try something different. Oh, ummm... like letting the states take care of it?

TexasBlue wrote:

dblboggie wrote:

TexasBlue wrote:Yeah, I am. It annoys me to death because it just shows ya how horseshit our education is. Before I get jumped on by others.... I mean by how much money we pour into it with shit results.

*fixed*

Told ya I couldn't type for shit. Spell check for my lousy typing doesn't catch things like that.

Yeah, I know. I make typos all the time... that's what editors are for.

TexasBlue wrote:

dblboggie wrote:But seriously... yeah, I know what ya mean. Our K-12 schools are disgraceful failures. And they've only gotten worse since the creation of the Department of Education. What does that tell you?

Tells me plenty. My stance is that if something isn't working, try something different. Oh, ummm... like letting the states take care of it?

Heaven forbid we localize education authority - returning it to the states where it belongs - and get rid of the more than useless Dept of Education. THAT would be too sane for our imperial federal government.

TexasBlue wrote:People who don't know the difference between there, their and they're really piss me off. Or to and too.

I screw those up all the time, though. I especially overuse their. Not because I don't know the difference, I just get careless and have brain farts.

kronos wrote:

TexasBlue wrote:People who don't know the difference between there, their and they're really piss me off. Or to and too.

I screw those up all the time, though. I especially overuse their. Not because I don't know the difference, I just get careless and have brain farts.

That happens to me... especially when I'm banging out a long response and not paying particular attention to grammar...

kronos wrote:

TexasBlue wrote:People who don't know the difference between there, their and they're really piss me off. Or to and too.

I screw those up all the time, though. I especially overuse their. Not because I don't know the difference, I just get careless and have brain farts.

It has happened to be due to conditions you described. But there's people who seriously don't know the difference.

Ooops. Their's people who don't no the difference.



Another annoying one is defiantly... when it should be definitely.

TexasBlue wrote:

kronos wrote:

TexasBlue wrote:People who don't know the difference between there, their and they're really piss me off. Or to and too.

I screw those up all the time, though. I especially overuse their. Not because I don't know the difference, I just get careless and have brain farts.

It has happened to be due to conditions you described. But there's people who seriously don't know the difference.

Ooops. Their's people who don't no the difference.



Another annoying one is defiantly... when it should be definitely.

As "there's" is a contraction of "there is," your use of "there's" above is not grammatically correct as that sentence should read "there ARE" people who don't know the difference...



*the strikes again!*

There are, there is, there was. There'was.

TexasBlue wrote:There are, (plural) there is, (singular) there was (singular past tense). There'was. (beats the snot outta me)

There'was = new contraction. I'm an inventor.

TexasBlue wrote:There'was = new contraction. I'm an inventor.

A neologism of your own eh? Seems a bit on the nose, no?

Yeah, I like making up new words.

"Rediculous" is one I see all the time, even from people I thought would've known better.

And there's this place out here where they sell "punkins" around Halloween.

Have you seen this one?