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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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 Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject: Its the new Its! (Do you see your name?) |
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People, this has got to stop.
Type the word 'everyday' into Dave's's search form. Click on any random link in the results, press Ctrl+F, type the word 'everyday' once more. I will wager an entire month's salary that the word is being used incorrectly. That's how often it's misused on this site (this site for English teachers and college graduates).
I ran the same query myself just now and searched each thread of 10 pages or fewer from the first page of results. Of the fiftyish threads I surveyed, only about 3-5 contained instances of the word 'everyday' being used correctly. (Some threads had the word used incorrectly by more than one poster, or in some cases, more than once by the same poster in the same post.) This means that there is between a 90-95% chance that a person who is getting paid to teach English does not know the difference between the adverbial phrase 'every day' and the adjective 'everyday'.
Let's pause a moment. Do YOU know the difference?
Here's what Bartleby says:
Spelled as one word, everyday is Standard as an adjective: These are my everyday clothes. The adjective-noun combination every day, as in Every day is a new opportunity, can also serve as an adverb, as in I have lunch with them every day. Spelling the adverb as one word is Nonstandard.
By Nonstandard, what they mean is you are a louse for thinking otherwise.
I am not here to ridicule or scorn those who don't know. Sure, I've always considered it common sense and am shocked and abhorred that so many college educated English speakers didn't already know, but I'm willing to lay the blame on your apparently lackadaisical teachers and professors. BUT, now you know, so please.. please.. put a godamn space between 'every' and 'day' from now on, always, just to be safe. Otherwise, you might make my cutey baby Quin cry:
Q!
| rowdie3 wrote: |
| I teach University and adults. Scoffield is huge!!! I talk about him everyday with numerous students. |
| dmbfan wrote: |
| I don't see you mentionding the reasons WHY I have gotten upset. This is Korea........teachers come and go everyday. |
| spliff wrote: |
Sure I couldn't be arsed w/ making numerous trays of ice everyday in order to feed that thing! Anyway, where would I put my food? What's that thing got for a motor a couple of squirrels?  |
Ironically, in a thread about why Koreans have a hard time learning English:
| JZer wrote: |
| If you have a 50 minute class like I teach, even if you have class everyday of the week, you would be lucky to speak English for more than 15-20 minutes a week. |
(from the same thread, same poster)
| JZer wrote: |
| I might think of something better later but one aspect might be that since most Koreans will not be hit over the face with using English everyday, the only way people will really learn English is to seek it out as a hobby. |
| khyber wrote: |
| When I leave my house, I take my ipod, phone, wallet, keys, tissues, and a book. I'm not keen to wear cargo pants everywhere I go, everyday. |
| goodsounz wrote: |
| I go to English class everyday at 8am. |
| pheeeel wrote: |
| I did some homework, got stoned everyday, and played guitar. Yea, college was rough. |
| toddswift wrote: |
| JOLLY BEE! thats where I have been eating everyday, great breakfasts, pancakes, corned beef hash with a hotdog, burgers aint too bad! |
| jimmiethefish wrote: |
| I recently went on vacation - alone. Everyday, at least one concerned Korean would ask me where my friends were and their reactions when I explained I was travelling alone ranged from confused to mystified to seriously concerned. |
| gyopogirlfromtexas wrote: |
| Her nickname in the whole dorm was "pornstar." She did it at least 2x everyday, but she is s o loud that sometimes people 2 floors above us would wake up in the middle of the night. |
| jaderedux wrote: |
| I try to work out everyday for at least an hour before school and since the weather is starting to get better I walk for 45 minutes to and hour after the sun is lower in the sky. |
| cbclark4 wrote: |
| I think we all have our own prejudices to deal with everyday, some more than others. |
| simpleminds wrote: |
| I brush my teeth everyday, floss every other day, and it doesn't make much of a difference after I get them cleaned, either. |
| sojourner1 wrote: |
| The adults are in a big hurry which causes workplace disorganization, mistakes, and misunderstandings everyday. |
| Tiger Beer wrote: |
| Ultimately 3 days later.. made it to Caracas by bus.. spent the next 10 days at the U.S. Embassy everyday trying to get the right forms and everything else to get my passport again to get out of there. |
| sportsguy35 wrote: |
| The cash games there are $2-$5 blinds and games start everyday at 6 and run until the game runs out. |
| mrsquirrel wrote: |
| I listen to my Pimsuelers Learn Korean Mp3's everyday going to school. |
| excitinghead wrote: |
| I do go to restaurants and Family-Mart everyday, but I don't say much more than 2 or 3 sentances to the people that work there. |
| billybrobby wrote: |
| Yeah, the country that you live in is like a person you're forced to hang out with everyday. |
| Kilgore Trout wrote: |
| I can't say I really fault the students for their occasional apathy; high school kids are always exhausted after 14 hours at school everyday. |
| Pak Yu Man wrote: |
| This is a bad idea if you need to talk to 20 foreigners everyday. |
| TOMODACHI-KID wrote: |
| People go through the gaunlet everyday. |
| cbeck13 wrote: |
| that embassy is a freakin mess....closed everyday for lunch which results in huge lines every morning and afternoon |
The double whammy from Dev:
| Dev wrote: |
Tims has been successful in Canada because many of us buy coffee everyday. At $1,40 for a large coffee, Tims is affordable. If I bought Starbucks or Timothy's everyday, I wouldn't be able to pay my rent.  |
| princess wrote: |
| Everyday I take a multivitamin. |
| regicide wrote: |
| ( sorry, I get paid in the local currency and buy things with it everyday) |
| kimchi story wrote: |
| everyday it's a struggle to stay on the wagon. |
| Yesterday wrote: |
| anyway - the female Korean teacher in the classroom next to mine - has now started locking her door - whilst teaching and leaving early everyday - because she is afraid of this psycho... |
| princess wrote: |
He gets dropped off at the hagwon over an hour before the teachers and other kids get there, because his Mom has to go to work  and he says he is sleepy almost everyday. |
| chickenrun wrote: |
| He also explains to us that the koreans do as he asks interms of the work load so we should to, as in coming in a couple of hours early everyday unpaid. |
Further proof that MissSeoul is actually a native English speaker:
| MissSeoul wrote: |
| Our personalities were totally opposite and she never accepted who I was and constantly tried to change me, nagging day and night that why I was not cleaning bathtub everyday, why I didn't put my coffee cup into dish washer immediately after using...etc... |
| Travelous Maximus wrote: |
| Koreans make me laugh everyday. |
| sojourner1 wrote: |
| I noticed more and more everyday, I'm thinking about that 1 week of summer vacation and end of contract. |
| Horangi Munshin wrote: |
| The problem is I'm at that school two days a week, she's there everyday. |
| Milwaukiedave wrote: |
| Some places make you dress up everyday. |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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My name wasn't there as far as I can see. you can use this sentence as my entry.
Everyday Qinella shows his anal retentive grammar nazism in posts such as these. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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Good call, especially about Miss Seoul.
The other ones that are commonplace:
-definately
-restaurant in all its variations
-ya'll instead of the southern y'all (ya'll = ya will)
I think there's another one I notice all the time on here. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| grammar nazi |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
Good call, especially about Miss Seoul.
The other ones that are commonplace:
-definately
-restaurant in all its variations
-ya'll instead of the southern y'all (ya'll = ya will)
I think there's another one I notice all the time on here. |
Yeah man those are pretty common but the last two are understandable since restaurant is a weird Frenchie word and y'all is really substandard anyway. 'Definately' is annoying, yes, I totally agree. Godamn people.. have some fucking pride. |
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kimchi story
Joined: 23 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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deleted - pissy.
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh yeah, I just remembered. Tomarrow. |
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mateomiguel
Joined: 16 May 2005
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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*whew*
I'm not on that list. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Another one: rascist. Does it really sound the same as fascist? |
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SeoulShakin
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Woohoo! I don't see my name on the list, though I'm pretty sure on a bad day when I'm typing quickly, I'm sure to have screwed it up at some point. |
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Bondrock
Joined: 08 Oct 2006
Location: ^_^
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:12 am Post subject: |
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i'm bored too, Q. but never that bored!
well, mayhaps somedays... |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:29 am Post subject: |
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| good thing I'm a biology teacher. |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:31 am Post subject: |
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| Well, for the most part I understood what each poster was trying to say, irregardless of grammar. Some people are more interested in a post's substance than its style. |
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Kyrei
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:35 am Post subject: |
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| Smee wrote: |
| Well, for the most part I understood what each poster was trying to say, irregardless of grammar. Some people are more interested in a post's substance than its style. |
tee hee...
**edited to prove that I saw it first ** heh
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philogirl81
Joined: 06 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:43 am Post subject: |
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I'm disappointed in myself for not being on the list.
It is a source of pride for Continental philosophers' to completly suck at grammer and punctuation and other such nonsense.
too busy thinking about the meaning of life and what Derrida was saying, I suppose.... |
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