Public Service: Correct Word Usage

[Sam_Adams]

Hey guys. It drives me crazy to read through the posts from adults that don't know the correct forms of words when they are trying to express points.

It voids your argument when people read words like "there" over and over when you are trying to express someone's possession. Homonyms can confuse people but there is a point to where you should eventually learn the differences of the words.

Let's review: There, Their and They're

1. THERE: is a word mostly used as an adverb as an identifier of a location (Walk over there please).

2. THEIR: is a word used as an adjective expressing possession of an action, place, person or thing of an individual or a group in plural (That's their house)

3. THEY'RE: is a contraction that combines the two words "They" and "Are" (They're from out of town).


Let's review: Your and You're

1. YOUR: is a possessive adjective showing ownership of an item, being or action (Your dog is annoying).

2. YOU'RE: is a contraction that combines the two words "You" and "Are" (You're a wackbagger).


I hope this review helps a little bit. Maybe we can see the correct usage of these words in the near future :) Later folks

[fuckwit]

their'z no reason for this. your over reacting

[wes mantooth]

Your so right about this. :action-sm

[Sam_Adams]

cunts :P

[Sprite]

Great post.

I propose it be made legal to shoot anyone in the head who says "Labtop" instead of "Laptop". Die.

[Valk]

I is OUTRAGED!

[NortonsGravyLeg]

Probably should throw in.
To
Too
Two

[DrumCorpsAlum]

This thread was needed. Thank you.

[WOWmagnet]

Not one of the utter FAILURES who misuse these words will be helped by your post.

[Plunkies]

Lose = Opposite of win.
Loose = A goer.

Where = Location.
Were = Past tense of....fuck it....The one that ISN'T "WHERE!" If it isn't a location then use this one stupid. Speaking of which....

Then = Time.
Than = Comparison. Intern.

[BCH]

It'll never work sir.

[MetalSign]

I have to say I'm glad there's at least one sane person here who can use grammar and sentence structure properly. I hate reading these boards and getting angry at the spelling/incorrect grammar/etc. It's one of my pet peeves and it's hard to stifle my OCD when I see it. I have to correct it.

I literally cringe when I see "I like xxx to much" or "I'm going to go too the store"


ARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

And, I have to agree with WOWmagnet.

[ImAlrightSpider]

We need a grammar police force. We already have sig nazis, right?

On the other hand, there are those who use poor grammar, but are talented in other ways. If you do not write well, and you seek out a career where you do not need to write (say ... glass sculpting :icon_mrgr ), then good for you.

[wes mantooth]

We need a grammar police force. We already have sig nazis, right?

There aren't enough police or nazis for this.


I try to make sure my own grammar is correct but as long as I can understand the other posts I could care less.

[tysonpunchinguterus]

Should've: a contratction fromed by the words "should" and "have"

Should of: meaningless jibber jabber

[NortonsGravyLeg]

I love people in conversations when they say "Those ones" and "These ones' fucking drives me insane.

[BCH]

We need a grammar police force. We already have sig nazis, right?

On the other hand, there are those who use poor grammar, but are talented in other ways. If you do not write well, and you seek out a career where you do not need to write (say ... glass sculpting :icon_mrgr ), then good for you.

His grammar's OK, it's just his spelling that's atrocious.

Oh wait, were you not talking about anyone specific?

[Valk]

I hereby declare myself excluded from the spelling police. The COO (shouldn't that be CEO? If not, WTF is a COO?) of XM has seen me worthy of being called "articulate". COO of XM says Valk is teh most badass speller eva. (http://www.wackbag.com/showthread.php?t=68194) If anyone knows, its him. Ok so he spelled my name wrong...

[MJMANDALAY]

Stay out da Bushes

[THE FEZ MAN]

ha ha the grammer nazi is makin' fun o me

[shwoogielover]

i has a crayon.

[THE FEZ MAN]

i has a crayon.

ooooo, wat dae be taste good?

[Ant's_rapier]

i wood think that anybody should be ablte too post whatever thy want two becuz there going two do it anywayz,

[shwoogielover]

ooooo, wat dae be taste good?

sho' nuff, bu' my wips be bwoo now!

[DonTheTrucker]

Thank you.

[shwoogielover]

i wüd think that anybody should be ablte too post whatever thay want tú becuz their going two do it anywayz,

three.

[HummerTuesdays]

There aren't enough police or nazis for this.


I try to make sure my own grammar is correct but as long as I can understand the other posts I could care less.


I think you meant could NOT care less, because the above implies that you do indeed care.

[BCH]

I think you meant could NOT care less, because the above implies that you do indeed care.

Tee Hee.

[DeltaPin]

I hereby declare myself excluded from the spelling police. The COO (shouldn't that be CEO? If not, WTF is a COO?) of XM has seen me worthy of being called "articulate". COO of XM says Valk is teh most badass speller eva. (http://www.wackbag.com/showthread.php?t=68194) If anyone knows, its him. Ok so he spelled my name wrong...

COO = Chief Operating Officer
A Chief Operating Officer (COO) is a corporate officer responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of the corporation. The COO is one of the highest ranking members of an organization, monitoring the daily operations of the company and reporting to the Board of Directors. The COO is usually an executive or senior vice president.

The chief operating officer is responsible for operations management (OM). The focus of the COO is on strategic, tactical, and short-term OM, which means he or she is responsible for the design, operation, and improvement of the systems that create and deliver the firm's products/services. Managers need to understand the real work behind the company's core operations, and the buck stops with the COO, whose primary concern is operations improvement. The duties of the COO may reside in certain organizations with a Vice President of Operations.

[Valk]

COO = Chief Operating Officer

Ahhh ty :action-sm

[CM Mark]

COO = Chief Operating Officer

OOOOHHHHH!!!! I always thought it was a Cunt Oozing Orgasm

[Not You]

This one also gets to me: When something is a moot point and someone says it's a mute point. That shit drives me up a wall.

[BCH]

I actually saw someone use the term "Running Rapid" when what they meant was Rampant. I guess they thought it just meant really fast.

Here's another.

"cuz" possibly the most overused "abbreviation" on the internet. Anyone who uses this one looks like a 12 year old to me.

I see men in their 30's using cuz and it gives me unbearable douche chills.

Attention 30 somthing males who use 14 year old girl internet speak:

You made 30, stop trying to display your youth for everyone. If you haven't figured out by now that you can be cool in a way that transcends the words that you use, you need to seek professional help.

[SOS]

nikki would have loved you.

[HummerTuesdays]

This one also gets to me: When something is a moot point and someone says it's a mute point. That shit drives me up a wall.

I thought it was a moo point. Like what a cow says. :icon_mrgr

[VirusInNH]

"cuz" possibly the most overused "abbreviation" on the internet. Anyone who uses this one looks like a 12 year old to me.

I see men in their 30's using cuz and it gives me unbearable douche chills.

QFT. Drives me nuts. That and when people take a word that doesn't exist ("alot") and make it worse by fucking misspelling it ("allot").

And speaking of douche chills, wasn't there a 'Bagger arguing with other members a few months back that the term in question is "deuce chills"?

[ImAlrightSpider]

And speaking of douche chills, wasn't there a 'Bagger arguing with other members a few months back that the term in question is "deuce chills"?

No, no, no... I believe that you are thinking of Danny Bonadeuce. [crash]

[wes mantooth]

And speaking of douche chills, wasn't there a 'Bagger arguing with other members a few months back that the term in question is "deuce chills"?

Oh yeah, it was a good one too with yelling and everything. :action-sm

http://www.wackbag.com/showpost.php?p=1633457&postcount=85

[SatansCheerledr]

Yoo no knot all's us be havin da luxuree of one of them fancy edumacations. Ya fancy hi-fah-lootin dandies!

[Sam_Adams]

Yoo no knot all's us be havin da luxuree of one of them fancy edumacations. Ya fancy hi-fah-lootin dandies!

Bullshit. My grandparents grew up picking cotton and being dirt poor in the Arkansas Delta. They would wake up at 4am every day to iron clothes and make breakfast for everyone before walking to school.

They have the best handwriting I have ever seen from anyone and they are educated people even though they didn't graduate high school.

You don't have to have a Masters or PHD in order to speak and write correctly. Everyone gets a public education paid for them through taxes. That applies to Malibu, California and the boogie down Bronx.

[SatansCheerledr]

Bullshit. My grandparents grew up picking cotton and being dirt poor in the Arkansas Delta. They would wake up at 4am every day to iron clothes and make breakfast for everyone before walking to school.

They have the best handwriting I have ever seen from anyone and they are educated people even though they didn't graduate high school.

You don't have to have a Masters or PHD in order to speak and write correctly. Everyone gets a public education paid for them through taxes. That applies to Malibu, California and the boogie down Bronx.

Ouch, I guess I've been school'd. :icon_mrgr

[Jimmy's Dignity]

Not one of the utter FAILURES who misuse these words will be helped by your post.
It'll never work sir.
Word to dat shiz yo
Bullshit. My grandparents grew up picking cotton and being dirt poor in the Arkansas Delta.
You're a darkie?

[Sam_Adams]

Word to dat shiz yo

You're a darkie?

Do I look like a schwoogie?

[Fr. Dougal]

One that annoys me:

"For all intents and purposes" is correct.
Not "intense purposes" or "intended purposes."

Also, when you need an apostrophe after a word that ends in "s," you don't need another "s."
For example: "Hughes' mike sounds tinny" is correct.
Not "Hughes's."

Oh, and punctuation belongs INSIDE quotation marks.
"This is correct."
"This isn't".

[flyerfan116]

wow their are to many language nazis in this place....if you're OCD is too the point wear it drives you nuts just reeding misspelled posts on whackbag, you may be in knead of sum medikation

[tstlkevanilla]

wow their are to many language nazis in this place....if you're OCD is too the point wear it drives you nuts just reeding misspelled posts on whackbag, you may be in knead of sum medikation
:clap::clap::clap::clap:
for christ's sake of all the shit to bitch about...

[Joe Avezzano]

"For all intents and purposes" is correct.
Not "intense purposes" or "intended purposes."

I've seen "intensive purposes" too, whatever the fuck that means. Not on a message board, but on a newspaper website. The web is a bastion of awful grammar and usage, even among its professional "writers".

[HummerTuesdays]

:clap::clap::clap::clap:
for christ's sake of all the shit to bitch about...

So just by the thread title you couldn't tell that you would find this thread worthless? :icon_roll

[Sam_Adams]

Also, when you need an apostrophe after a word that ends in "s," you don't need another "s."

Generally that is correct. There are however a few words where people still get confused and incorrectly put in an apostrophe when they only need an ES.

Kind of like with certain last names when you use a plural sense. With the saying, "Keeping up with the Joneses," you don't use the s' because you're just talking about plural Jones family members. But you will find people still typing out "Jones' " or something like that.

[Fr. Dougal]

Generally that is correct. There are however a few words where people still get confused and incorrectly put in an apostrophe when they only need an ES.

Kind of like with certain last names when you use a plural sense. With the saying, "Keeping up with the Joneses," you don't use the s' because you're just talking about plural Jones family members. But you will find people still typing out "Jones' " or something like that.

True. I also see people adding apostrophes (apostrophi?) in other places where they're not needed, like with numbers.

80s is correct. Not 80's.
You could argue that the apostrophe is taking out the "IE" in EIGHTIES.
That would work if it was 8's.
But 80 is Eighty.
So 80s is Eighties.
80's would be Eightyies.

[Fr. Dougal]

And it's not unnecessary bitching. All we're trying to do is keep the populace educated.

If we become complacent with our language, we'll all end up as idiots in a generation or two.

[kid afrika]

I love threads like this. It's fun to point out the obvious in a bitchy way. Especially knowing that nothing will change.

Btw,

irregardless is NOT a word.

"I could care less" doesn't mean anything. It's "I couldN'T care less".

It'd definitely spelled d-e-f-i-n-I-t-e-l-y, NOT "definately".

Nobody's perfect but some things are just annoyingly and obviously wrong.

Oh, and finally, one for li'l jimmy...

You had your appendix removed. There was only one. Stop referring to IT as THEM. Thank you. Just because it ends with the "s" sound (kind of) doesn't necessarily make it plural.

[Joe Avezzano]

True. I also see people adding apostrophes (apostrophi?) in other places where they're not needed, like with numbers.

80s is correct. Not 80's.
You could argue that the apostrophe is taking out the "IE" in EIGHTIES.
That would work if it was 8's.
But 80 is Eighty.
So 80s is Eighties.
80's would be Eightyies.

Is this true? I always used to write "80s" but seen it so many times as "80's". Hated it, but I thought that's how everyone does it, so it must be right. Fuck these pricks who don't give a shit about our language.

[Sam_Adams]

True. I also see people adding apostrophes (apostrophi?) in other places where they're not needed, like with numbers.

80s is correct. Not 80's.
You could argue that the apostrophe is taking out the "IE" in EIGHTIES.
That would work if it was 8's.
But 80 is Eighty.
So 80s is Eighties.
80's would be Eightyies.


Yeah you're right man. Years/era like that will not use an apostrophe, much like letters don't either.

Lets say your kid comes home with a report card and says," Dad, I got three Bs and two Cs." You don't use an apostrophe even though a lot of people think you're supposed to. The only letter you use an apostrophe with is A. That's because if you typed As people wouldn't know you're talking about a letter. So, it is typed out as A's. That's the only one that you have to use an apostrophe with.

[kid afrika]

Apostrophes are used to show possession or contraction. That's it.

[Sam_Adams]

Apostrophes are used to show possession or contraction. That's it.

Generally you're correct, but for that one use there is an apostrophe so it won't be confused with AS.

If you use a series like As Bs Cs Ds then it wouldn't be needed. You can leave it the way you want but in articles you will see A's used if it's alone.

An example would be like, "Glenn Dandy got straight A's in all of the pussy tests." ;)

[Hog's Big Ben]

True. I also see people adding apostrophes (apostrophi?) in other places where they're not needed, like with numbers.

80s is correct. Not 80's.
You could argue that the apostrophe is taking out the "IE" in EIGHTIES.
That would work if it was 8's.
But 80 is Eighty.
So 80s is Eighties.
80's would be Eightyies.


'80s is OK.

Both Jimmy and Ant say "laxadaisical". That one never came up during the period when everyone was calling in bashing them for fing(e)r and p(b)ut. It sounds like Opie says "all the sudden" when he's caught up in a story, but he actually enunciates "all of a sudden" other times.

I just wish they'd hurry up and get back to saying cunt and fuck. :mad4:

[BaLZaC~308]

like 90% of my posts have then instead of than... does that mean I'm stupid....?


also I LOVE to over use ........... it makes me happy

[patbattlefield]

treadz lik theez makz mee happi

[BaLZaC~308]

treadz lik theez makz mee happi

pinwheels and puppy dogs make me happy

[Fr. Dougal]

The big one I'm guilty of is overuse of ellipses.

In proper grammar, "..." is used to indicate something omitted.

But most people have come to associate it with a pause. And being a newswriter for moron anchors, I always type out "..." to make the idiots pause.

I end up doing it in emails and here on teh intarwebs, too.

[patbattlefield]

...

[batgoat]

I actually had to look up the definitely thing. Thanks kid.

Living in the midwest, I get the pleasure of hearing people destroy our language on a daily basis.

"Them are nice"

"Aint seen hyde ner hair"

I also love it when people make up words. Heard a cop describe a ticket that was 'eluberant'. I'm guessing he was thinking exorbitant? The nice thing about that is now its a word. I was talking out my ass once(once?) and my buddy said "dude, you're being eluberant"

Yay publik skool edukation

[Sam_Adams]

The big one I'm guilty of is overuse of ellipses.

In proper grammar, "..." is used to indicate something omitted.

But most people have come to associate it with a pause. And being a newswriter for moron anchors, I always type out "..." to make the idiots pause.

I end up doing it in emails and here on teh intarwebs, too.

Yeah instead of using ellipses you'r supposed to use a long dash -- for a pause. Most people don't know that though.

[flyerfan116]

Yeah instead of using ellipses you'r supposed to use a long dash -- for a pause. Most people don't know that though.

i think the reel issue is that people reelly don't give a shit...exspecially when posting on a bored who's name is slang for masterbation






all capitalization, spelling and punctuation errors contained in this post were intentionally made for the purpose of pissing off the literacy nazis....have a nice day :action-sm

[BroGonzo]

I like it when people misspell words in their posts. It lets me know that they're stupid and lazy, and that I don't need to take what they say seriously.

[Joe Avezzano]

Add this to the list: The word another is not "a nother", thus enabling you to say ignorant sounding phrases like "Maroon 5 takes rock to a whole nother level." "Nother" is not to be split from the letter "a" and have other words put in there.

[Hog's Big Ben]

Add this to the list: The word another is not "a nother", thus enabling you to say ignorant sounding phrases like "Maroon 5 takes rock to a whole nother level." "Nother" is not to be split from the letter "a" and have other words put in there.


You are correct, sir. You absofuckinglutely can't just go sticking words willy nilly inside other words.

[YourAmishDaddy]

If you're looking for the grammatically concise I can assure you this ain't the board for you.

Which always is the best comedy to me. How a lot of people pass themselves off as superior to "those people" and can't even spell.

[Mort]

Can we throw in redundancy as a language irritant? Phrases such as:

- "Each and every." This makes my ears bleed. Each and every one of us needs to strive for excellence. Use either "each" or "every." Not both.

- "One and only." If you say "only," its implied that there are only one of your items.

Then phrases like "PIN number," "ATM machine," and other run-on initials. And a word about that, its not an acroynm unless the initials form a pronouncable word. SCUBA is an acronym for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. ATM is not an acronym because we don't pronounce it like attam.

That is all I have for right now. I was surprised how many I knew from the examples above. I guess being a language snob pays off.

And yes, I'm the only one I've ever known that punctuates in instant messaging.