Grammar lesson 101

james.miller · 30 Aug 2006 at 20:10

Ice On Fire said:
If you mean, is spelling a lot with two words, rather then one word. Then yes. it is spelt 'a lot'. Not 'a lot'.

carvegio said:
People that use a lot instead of a lot bugs me 'a lot'. It is two words. A lot of people don't even know their wrong, sigh.

Priapus · 30 Aug 2006 at 20:14

Sorry buddy, half a sleep here, didn't read the whole post and missed the spelling mistake. I thought it was odd for you to be asking a question like that. Quite ironic really in his post, really made me LOL!

carvegio · 30 Aug 2006 at 20:49

did it by accident, noticed before anyone replied also then thought no point in correcting it

the_running_man · 30 Aug 2006 at 20:58

My pet hate is the use of loose instead of lose.

"I need to loose weight."

Priapus · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:00

carvegio said:
did it by accident, noticed before anyone replied also then thought no point in correcting it

Sure you did.

Doesn't matter anyway, it's just the English language. Not an exam or a life or death matter.

UKTopGun · 30 Aug 2006 at 22:04

Aww your all mean to me, I meant to type properly as well! Lol

singist · 30 Aug 2006 at 22:09

kitten_caboodle said:
good lord man it was a joke, a throwaway comment. I thought you were being sarcastic saying you got bored scrolling through the post and thought it quite a witty, yet 'catty' comment.

That's all. Show's over folks.

Miserble Biatc ......... erm ....I mean, erm, yeah! ........... ah well.

sunama · 30 Aug 2006 at 22:48

UKTopGun said:
Aww your all mean to me, I meant to type properly as well! Lol

"your" = "you're"

laiman · 30 Aug 2006 at 23:02

Honestly, I don't think I was taught any grammar after primary school, it was all interpretation and creative stuff. Sure spelling etc was corrected when wrong but other than that nothing "proper". I spent a few years in an American school which messed with my spelling but at that time I read a lot of books so my vocabulary was decent, led to some major probs! lol I knew loads of words but couldn't spell them!

I'm sure this post is riddled with mistakes and I can't remember the my point!

Raikiri · 30 Aug 2006 at 23:08

When people (namely Americans) say: "I could care less". It is couldn't you ****ing *****.

If we are talking about typing, rather than speaking then there is not really much that annoys me.

JollyGreen · 30 Aug 2006 at 23:11

Fewer = Numerables
Less = Innumerables

"Earn points by using less bags at Tescos!"
Is NOT acceptable English!

sunama · 30 Aug 2006 at 23:19

Raikiri said:
When people (namely Americans) say: "I could care less"...

I've always wondered about that saying. Should it actually read, "I couldn't care less"?

On a side note, this thread is certainly teaching me a few things which is a good thing. I hope everyone reading this thread is also learning a thing or two.

Nikias · 31 Aug 2006 at 00:33

JollyGreen said:
Fewer = Numerables
Less = Innumerables

"Earn points by using less bags at Tescos!"
Is NOT acceptable English!

Another thing! Tesco's "10 items or less" sign should read "10 items or fewer". That's a bit annoying and pretty bad for the nation's grammar. Someone at Tesco needs to brush up on it.

Raikiri said:
When people (namely Americans) say: "I could care less". It is couldn't you ****ing *****.

Isn't it just meant to be ironical?

FunkyT · 31 Aug 2006 at 00:37

carvegio said:
People that use a lot instead of a lot bugs me 'a lot'. It is two words. A lot of people don't even know their wrong, sigh.

It's they're

Raikiri · 31 Aug 2006 at 01:18

Crispy Pigeon said:
Isn't it just meant to be ironical?

No, they are just stupid.

Amleto · 31 Aug 2006 at 01:58

Americanism:

You can do most anything you want.

It's *** ALMOST ***. :mad:

Tru · 31 Aug 2006 at 08:28

This is one of my favourite pages on the web, it used to be pimped round GD all the time, usually by nim iirc. Ctrl-D it in the face.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

dirtydog · 31 Aug 2006 at 08:32

This is my pet hate and something 99% of people seem ignorant about. (Most people think they know this - but they don't.)

http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/difficulties/its.html

FunkyT · 31 Aug 2006 at 08:34

dirtydog said:
This is my pet hate and something 99% of people seem ignorant about. (Most people think they know this - but they don't.)

http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/difficulties/its.html

Beren · 31 Aug 2006 at 08:58

dirtydog said:
This is my pet hate and something 99% of people seem ignorant about. (Most people think they know this - but they don't.)

http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/difficulties/its.html

No I am pretty sure I knew that it was a pet hate of yours!