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6th January 2016, 03:45 PM #16GOLD MEMBER
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The interchange and wrong use of "I" and "me" annoys me (or should I have typed I) intensely.
Even Mark Nicholas on the cricket used "I" instead of "me" the other day.Tom
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6th January 2016, 04:36 PM #17
My pet peeve's -
People who Capitalise lots of Words in what they Write (because they think they are Proper Nouns and need Caps), followed by people WHO upper CASE entire words for no apparent REASON that I am ABLE to work OUT because they ARE certainly not DOING it for emphasis in any WAY that makes sense.
And of course people who use an apostrophe as an indicator to say "Look out! There's an 's' at the end of a word coming up!!!!11".
I also must start commenting on American YouTube plumbing videos that it's "sol-der", not "sod-der", and the process is "sol-der-ing" not "sod-der-ing".
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6th January 2016, 05:10 PM #18rrich Guest
Or
"A mind is a terrible thing to waste." A common slogan in certain television commercials encouraging minorities to go to college.
Actually, a mind is NOT a terrible thing but it is terrible to waste the resources of a mind.
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6th January 2016, 05:25 PM #19
Maybe it's like aluminum, there is no i in the American spelling of aluminium.
https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics...older_without/
http://grammarist.com/spelling/aluminium-aluminum/
To grow old is inevitable.... To grow up is optional
Confidence, the feeling you have before you fully understand the situation.
What could possibly go wrong.
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6th January 2016, 09:15 PM #20
I read an article a while back that said that before the invention of the printing press that English as she was wrote was a free for all. There were no hard and fast grammatical rules. Fast forward to the invention of a new communication device called the mobile phone, and it was let off the leash again. It will be interesting to see where it will all end up.
TTLearning to make big bits of wood smaller......
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6th January 2016, 09:22 PM #21Taking a break
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Both are correct, depending on context. They way to determine which one to use is to remove the other party from the sentence and see if it still makes sense. For example:
"My mates and I are going to the cricket" (remove the mates and the sentence is still correct).
However,
"This gift is from my mates and I" doesn't work without the mates (you can't say this gift is from I), so you would say "This gift is from me and my mates" (or "my mates and me", both are acceptable).
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6th January 2016, 09:27 PM #22
Remember, kiddies, there's a world of difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
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6th January 2016, 09:31 PM #23
And capitals do not matter
I helped my uncle Jack off a horse.
I helped my uncle jack off a horse.
Hugh
Enough is enough, more than enough is too much.
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6th January 2016, 10:04 PM #24
The policeman said, the boy is a thief.
The policeman, said the boy, is a thief.
Play with that one?????
JimSometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important...
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6th January 2016, 10:05 PM #25
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6th January 2016, 10:41 PM #26
Or
I had an argument with my brother
I had had an argument with my brother
TTLearning to make big bits of wood smaller......
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6th January 2016, 11:56 PM #27
Another word that annoys me no end is payed instead of paid. What are they teaching this generation?
PeteWhat this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
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7th January 2016, 12:05 AM #28
Try this one
I saw a dead dog walking down the road
Walking down the road, I saw a dead dog
I saw walking down the road a dead dogThe person who never made a mistake never made anything
Cheers
Ray
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7th January 2016, 12:32 AM #29
ZOMBIE CANINES!!!! The apocalypse has come!!!!
(I vote the middle one for correctness...unless of course the dead pets really have arisen)
PS: Years ago I had an originals band called Dead Pets. Where I got the name from is probably a tale best left in privateEvery time you make a typo, the errorists win.
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7th January 2016, 08:29 AM #30