Pet Peeve\'s

I know those pets can sure be pesky. Go Vols Beat LSU at sumpin. :laugh: :laugh: Ronnie.

And apparently grill and grate are not interchangeable as some would have you believe....

It's great that my Grill's grid has a nice grate under it.

And my grid's length and breadth is only a short breath away from the sides of the Egg where I go to cook my breasts with a grid pattern on each piece.

Spring "Nowhere Under The Rainbow" Chicken
Spring Texas USA

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Bad grammer doesn't bother me as long as I know what they meant.
On the other hand I get a little PO'd at groups of very slow walking people walking side by side by side by side blocking anybody else from getting by. I also would include people that stop at the bottom of the escalator to think about which way to go while people pile up behind them.
And I also think there should be a different colored license plate or tag for drivers whose handicap, evident by the way they're driving is obviously mental.

I'm always amazed at how many tv shows and movies use "I" improperly. One would think writers would be more aware.

hahaha! Used to know a security guard at work (now retired). Name was Jack. They had a large white board in their office that noted where everyone was on any given day. When Jack took a day off, the board read... "Jack off today."

i use esses and zees interchangeably, never knowing which is which. i blame it on all the joyce and beckett. :laugh:

ah... but they are.

if you use it correctly, you are often seen as a snob, frankly. and truthfully, there are many forms of english. the one we use among friends and the one we use formally. TV is a no-man's land. get too proper, and you alienate the viewer.and i think language is flexible enough to permit this grey area. perfectly proper english would be boring, on tv, or in a book.

There's some interesting thought about this w/r/t writing. Do you use the phrase correctly even if it 'sounds' funny, and risk calling attention to it (which takes the reader out of the text for a minute and interrupts the story), or do you let it slide, in order to keep the train of thought?

Most times, editors will advocate not merely correcting the English, but actually reworking the sentence so as to not call attention to the thing in the first place. Prepositions at the end of a sentence are a classic example. Even though there's no rule about it, there are STYLE implications.

Even if it is 'proper' stilted language is not preferred. Better to rewrite the whole thing to avoid the issue. Because sometimes 'proper' English is itself improper.

stike wrote:

Prepositions at the end of a sentence are a classic example. Even though there's no rule about it, there are STYLE implications.

Winston Churchill is credited for saying:

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. :laugh: :laugh:

Because they can't spell?
Hahaha

I heard someone say yesterday that it was a 'doggie dog world'.
I have no idea what a doggie dog would be, but it's probably a world without a library in it. :laugh:

exactly. :laugh:

funny how the people who chastise you for using a preposition at the end of the sentence generally aren't aware that there's no such rule about it.

there's a member here who lays down a 'gotcha' on me every time i make a typo or spelling error. but he/she couldn't spell his/her way out of a paper/plastic bag.

sometimes they stick to the rule without understanding the rules in the first place, or whether there even IS a rule

(Winnie was great for a quote, man. one of the all time great phrase-makers.)