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ITT: We complain about common errors and misconceptions

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    Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    RabidDeathMoose wrote: »
    FCD wrote: »
    "it's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"

    "its" is the possessive form of "it"

    GET IT RIGHT, FUCKERS!

    Don't stop there, it's not difficult to make sure that while typing a word you believe to be correct, take the extra half a second and make sure what you're typing is what you mean to type.

    "Your" vs "You're"

    "There" vs "Their" vs "They're"

    etc etc

    fresh

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    Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Defender wrote: »
    Hey LD, um...what's with that sig?

    It's from some news article that Manifest linked to me a few days ago.
    Purportedly from an IM conversation between an army recruiter and a potential recruit.

    I don't even remember what it says now because I don't display sigs currently, but man is it funny!

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    DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    It says "YOU GO BACK TO AFRICA AND DO YOUR GAY VOODOO LIMBO TANGO AND WANGO DANCE AND JUMP AROUND AND PRANCE AND RUN ALL OVER THE PLACE HALF NAKED THERE AND PRACTICE YOUR GAY MORALS OVER THERE THAT'S WHERE YOU BELONG"

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    Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    i am so lolling rite now

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    The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    I've always pronounced the first R in February, but most people don't. I'm not sure if that's correct.

    I also say "coupon" differently than almost everyone I know. I'm probably saying it wrong, but it might be one of those "both ways are acceptable" things. I say "khoo-pon" whereas most people say "kyoo-pon".

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    AWIYAWIY Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    When did "itch" become a verb?

    What happened to scratching?

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    Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Most people I know say khoo-pon.

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    JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    heheh khoo-pon

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    DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    The Geek wrote: »
    I've always pronounced the first R in February, but most people don't. I'm not sure if that's correct.

    I also say "coupon" differently than almost everyone I know. I'm probably saying it wrong, but it might be one of those "both ways are acceptable" things. I say "khoo-pon" whereas most people say "kyoo-pon".

    Your pronunciation of coupon is correct, theirs is not.

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    QuadropheniaQuadrophenia Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I'm pretty sure you don't pronounce the first R in February. Also, I hate when people pronounce the S in Illinois. That's stupid.

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    The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    AWIY wrote: »
    When did "itch" become a verb?

    What happened to scratching?

    They fought.

    And bit.

    They fought and fought and bit.

    Fought fought fought.

    Bit bit bit.

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    MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    too -> "Too much information!"
    to -> "We went to the hoedown"
    2 -> 1+1

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    RabidDeathMooseRabidDeathMoose Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    This doesn't really piss me off, but it's an odd bit of language.

    People who pronounce Tuesday (normally: TWOSDAY) as CHOOESDAY

    Anyone else run across this?

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    DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    "Itch" was always a verb.

    "This itches."

    "Scratch it."

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    ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Kyoo-pon is a silly way to say it.

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    MenaceMenace regular
    edited March 2007
    I read that as khoo-porn

    why must you tease so

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    Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    AWIY wrote: »
    When did "itch" become a verb?

    What happened to scratching?

    Oh man I hate that one too.

    In high school marching band we had a (I can't remember the name for the person who leads the marching band) who would try to keep us still by yelling "DON'T ITCH!"
    Man if I could stop myself from itching it would be the best power ever! And now that you've said that, every inch of my skin is itchy!

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    PataPata Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Guys language is determined by who speaks it so if enough people say things the way you're all hating on it becomes the right way.

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    DirtyDirtyVagrantDirtyDirtyVagrant Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Defender wrote: »
    It says "YOU GO BACK TO AFRICA AND DO YOUR GAY VOODOO LIMBO TANGO AND WANGO DANCE AND JUMP AROUND AND PRANCE AND RUN ALL OVER THE PLACE HALF NAKED THERE AND PRACTICE YOUR GAY MORALS OVER THERE THAT'S WHERE YOU BELONG"


    Is this the second time I've seen this? What IS this?

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    AWIYAWIY Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Defender wrote: »
    "Itch" was always a verb.

    "This itches."

    "Scratch it."

    Okay, right, you got me.

    I am just perplexed by people who exclaim things like "Hold on, I need to itch my leg!"

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    TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    My mother calls khaki pants "chinos". I know there are some pants called chinos but whenever she says it I keep hoping nobody catches it at the edge of their hearing and think she's saying something about Chinese people.

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    JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Quadrophenia wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure you don't pronounce the first R in February. Also, I hate when people pronounce the S in Illinois. That's stupid.

    The first r used to be pronounced but no longer is. Either pronunciation is still acceptable.

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    NucshNucsh Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Pata stop being stupid

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    The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    I hate ending written sentences with prepositions because it's technically improper grammar, but switching around the whole sentence to make it work makes it look odd and so I sometimes just let it go.

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    Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Kyoo-pon is a silly way to say it.

    I'm gonna go have some syoop. It might be tyoof to eat withyoot a spyoon.




    Ok that last one doesn't apply, but "spyoon" is a fun word.

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    RabidDeathMooseRabidDeathMoose Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    The Geek wrote: »
    I hate ending written sentences with prepositions because it's technically improper grammar, but switching around the whole sentence to make it work makes it look odd and so I sometimes just let it go.

    I hate doing that too... O_o


    I TOO HATE DOING THAT!

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    MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    RabidDeathMoose wrote: »
    The Geek wrote: »
    I hate ending written sentences with prepositions because it's technically improper grammar, but switching around the whole sentence to make it work makes it look odd and so I sometimes just let it go.

    I hate doing that too... O_o


    I TOO HATE DOING THAT!

    "I hate doing that!"

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    MavinashMavinash Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    ITT: people vent anger over lingual and dialectic evolution.

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    AWIYAWIY Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Lord Dave wrote: »
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Kyoo-pon is a silly way to say it.

    I'm gonna go have some syoop. It might be tyoof to eat withyoot a spyoon.




    Ok that last one doesn't apply, but "spyoon" is a fun word.


    I've gt t gt th fck t f th Sth!

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    MenaceMenace regular
    edited March 2007
    funner

    usually people realize it's wrong though, it sounds so odd

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    mcpmcp Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I used to know a guy that couldn't pronounce Massachusetts.

    He would say 'Mass-a-chew-chits".

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    tsplittertsplitter Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I hate it when people use the word like in every fucking sentence

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    The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    I hate when people use "less" when they should be using "fewer" instead.

    You have less money. You have fewer dollars.

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    JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    huh.

    kyoo-pon is acceptable.

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    Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    AWIY wrote: »
    Lord Dave wrote: »
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Kyoo-pon is a silly way to say it.

    I'm gonna go have some syoop. It might be tyoof to eat withyoot a spyoon.




    Ok that last one doesn't apply, but "spyoon" is a fun word.


    I've gt t gt th fck t th Sth!

    Man it's not all the vowels.

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    webberwebber Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Mavinash wrote: »
    ITT: people vent anger over lingual and dialectic evolution.

    Y'all.

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    NucshNucsh Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    What

    You say it as khoo-pon?

    Weird.

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    FCDFCD Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    In my head, I pronounce Wednesday as "wed-NESS-day", though I always say "wens-day" out loud.

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    NucshNucsh Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Y'all is a perfectly acceptable contraction of 'you all'

    As long as you spell it out "Y'all" and not "Ya'll"

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    RabidDeathMooseRabidDeathMoose Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Mavinash wrote: »
    ITT: people vent anger over lingual and dialectic evolution.

    ITT: people are venting their anger over how on occasion, despite how something might be SEEN as being correct, it still implies lazy use of the language along with giving the impression of being sub-educated...

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