The Grammar Police Thread

[Achozen]

I hate when the thread title has every word capitalized.

 

[Hostile]

I hate when the thread title has every word capitalized.

Yet that is the proper way to do it.

 

[peplaw06]

As a kid, I used to say mazagine.

My brother used to call spaghetti, bisketti.

 

[Achozen]

Yet that is the proper way to do it.

Proper according to who?

 

[cowboyfan4life_mark]

I have several relatives that say warsh when talking about doing laundy. "I'm going to warsh my clothes." Drives me nuts.

This one reminded me of a friend that lives in Iowa.

If it is singular, he uses the word wash. But if it is plural, he uses the word warsh.
He washes his car, but he warshes his clothes.

 

[Hostile]

Proper according to who?

You are more than welcome to check the New York Times Manual of Style or The Chicago Manual of Style if you wish.

The first word of a Title and all nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives in a title are to be capitalized. You can but are not required to capitalize all words. You can leave out definite and indefinite articles as well as conjunction words.

Ask any English Teacher and they will confirm this for you. I was an English Major and the Capitalization of the first letter in titles is known as majuscules and the other letters are miniscules and this forum or rule is known as Manuscript Form.

No, I did not look this up, but you are more than welcome to and see if I am full of crap or not.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I recently figured out that there is no apostrophe in "yours", I used to spell it "your's", like when I say "yours truly", I used to say "your's truly" and the like

I also hate the TV judges who don't use proper English, that chick on Divorce Court pisses me the hell off whenever she talks, you're freakin' educated, don't speak like you're with your home girls, speak properly!

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

How can you care when you dont capitalize or punctuate and what-not?



Its important to know as much of this mess as you can, I teach it to my kids, but adults correcting other adults is condescending and tacky.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

Proper according to who?

Proper according to whom?

 

[hairic]

Ellipsis abuse... it's like after every thought... they throw in an ellipsis...

It's... annoying...

 

[masomenos]

Ellipsis abuse... it's like after every thought... they throw in an ellipsis...

It's... annoying...

Oh, that's a good one!

 

[jackrussell]

Though I've never seen anyone spell it this way....and don't hear it as much as I used to, so let's hope it's a passing phase:

"Aks me a question."

 

[jackrussell]

Good tips Hos. Someday I hope to talk more better.

It's 'talk more gooder' stoopid.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Ellipsis abuse... it's like after every thought... they throw in an ellipsis...

It's... annoying...

.....anyways....... ........

 

[hairic]

.....anyways....... ........

That's another one.

There was no English word "anyways" a few years ago, it's "anyway".

Since it's been used so much recently, it's reached a colloquial level. Yet, it's not even an improvement on "anyway"; there's no change in definition, it's not a plural, and it takes extra tongue and finger energy to get it out. It's adoption has caused an all-around loss in human caloric wealth.

 

[Yeagermeister]

That's another one.

There was no English word "anyways" a few years ago, it's "anyway".

Since it's been used so much recently, it's reached a colloquial level. Yet, it's not even an improvement on "anyway"; there's no change in definition, it's not a plural, and it takes extra tongue and finger energy to get it out. It's adoption has caused an all-around loss in human caloric wealth.

I Guess You Didn't Realize It Was A Joke........

 

[hairic]

I Guess You Didn't Realize It Was A Joke........

I realized it was a joke (you already used it in the thread), I just wanted to have my turn to talk about it.

 

[DallasEast]

This is off-topic, but I dislike incorrect descriptions. One of my pet peeves is one involving someone's automobile. Here's an example of a conversation which gives me migraines:

Friend: "Hey! Let's jump in my car and go to the store!"

Me: "Dude! You drive a Chevy Silverado!"

 

[peplaw06]

Ellipsis abuse... it's like after every thought... they throw in an ellipsis...

It's... annoying...

........guilty as charged.......

 

[Kevinicus]

I did. Look at the very first post.

That you did, my bad. "My bad," is another phrase I'm not fond of. Ignore the fact that I just used it.