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cragesmure
Joined: 23 Oct 2010
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 Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:36 am Post subject: English teachers' English mistakes |
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I'm guessing this has been posted before, but here goes...
Are there any common mistakes by English speakers that really infuriate you? I realise we are all human and that everyone makes them (I always confuse "stationary" and "stationery", for example), but some seem way too easy to get wrong and they rub me up the wrong way. The whole "their, they're, there" thing, or "alot" (duh - "alittle" isn't a word), "definately", "every day(adverb)" vs "everyday(adjective)", and don't get me started on the under-use of past perfect tense, or had you already done that?
Any others peeves out there? |
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Madigan
Joined: 15 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:41 am Post subject: |
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| effect & affect |
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cragesmure
Joined: 23 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:53 am Post subject: |
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| Madigan wrote: |
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Yeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssss. Forgot about that one. Nice save. |
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:01 am Post subject: |
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| Madigan wrote: |
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Guilty 
However, I would like to add "your" and "you're" |
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RobertGR
Joined: 03 Jun 2009
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:16 am Post subject: Disinterested vs Uninterested |
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Disinterested vs Uninterested
Disinterested = impartial
Uninterested = doesn't care |
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Robbo
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:17 am Post subject: |
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| "intents and purposes" |
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jinks
Joined: 27 Oct 2004
Location: Formerly: Lower North Island
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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stationary vs. stationery
I used to confuse them until I realised that stationery rhymes with papery
I've had to give up fretting over the misuse of disinterested as a synonym of 'uninterested' rather than 'impartial' it was stressing me out too much as you hear/read it everywhere these days. |
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machoman
Joined: 11 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| i saw this one recently: "mine as well" instead of "might as well." i've actually seen this a few times in my life. mine as well doesn't even make grammatical sense. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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its = possessive
it's = it is
Also "I seen it." Whatever happened to the word have? |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: In my Kingdom
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:27 pm Post subject: Re: English teachers' English mistakes |
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| cragesmure wrote: |
Are there any common mistakes by English speakers that really infuriate you?
... and don't get me started on the under-use of past perfect tense, or had you already done that? |
It irks me when a teacher overuses hyphens in cases where they do not apply and then has the gall to call out other teachers' mistakes with a holier-than-thou attitude about it.  What hypocrisy! Humility is underused these days. We all make mistakes. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| It's called an em dash. If you can't figure out how to get one (I can't seem to figure it out on my work computer, but can from home), use 2 hyphens. |
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kimdeal54
Joined: 28 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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| People who say (type) 'I could care less' drive me nuts. Also this misspelling - rediculous. |
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morrisonhotel
Joined: 18 Jul 2009
Location: Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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| My biggest pet peeve is that there is a significant number of people who are unable to use capital letters correctly. I really can't fathom why one of the first things you are taught in school is beyond people with university degrees. You can see examples of my pet peeve in this thread. |
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notinKS
Joined: 11 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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Should HAVE not should of
You're and your really really irks me...it literally takes a second to think about, if even that.
Also choose/chose/chosen/chooses etc |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Discrete and discreet |
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