For those of you who enjoy arguing about whether it is "its" or "it's".
For those of you who feeling like throwing their laptop out the window when somebody says something about using poor grammar but spell it "grammer".
For those of you who like to ponder the various uses of "whose" and "who's".
And for somebody to be able to explain to me the necessity for the word "whom".
^^^ For those of you that like to complain when somebody starts a sentence with the word "and".
For the people who like to say loose instead of lose.

Please voice your complaints and questions here...

I won't answer them but somebody probably will.

The thing that shits me the most is apostrophe misplacement. Surely it's not too difficult to figure out where to put them.

"Your" and You're". It's really not that hard to figure out:

"Your"-is an indication of possession.
"You're" equals you are.

Comments such as "your an idiot" really annoy me.

My biggest nit pick would have to be new and knew.

I bought a new car from Barry. I knew him well.

New-Denotes something that is strange or uncommon to you.

knew- is actually the past tense of Know.

Grammar edit. I lol'd as well.

Edited by Rocknerd: 27/7/2010 04:45:28 PM

anth, your second point has a grammatical error. But of course, you designed it that way; using irony to highlight another irony. ;)


Who is less specific than whom. As far as I can remember, it has something to do with subjects and direct objects:
Convo 1: "He choked the man with the vuvuzela." > "Who choked the man with the vuvuzela?" ("I" being a subject)

Convo 2: "Scouse Roar choked the man with the vuvuzela" > "It was whom that choked the man with the vuvuzela?" (S_R being the direct object)

I think that's how it works; I'm no grammarian. Just think, "For Whom The Bell Tolls" - that's what I do. :P

What about using a comma before the word "and"?

Eg. I met up with Tony, Paul, James[,] and Greg.

I have been told by people not to use it and by others that it should be there.

No comma before the and I reckon

It varies depending who you are writing for and what you are writing. IIRC it has something to do with American vs British English. Unless you're writing an academic paper, I don't think it really matter these days. Personally, if I'm listing things like that I use an ampersand [&] - I haven't been pulled up for it yet. :P

Edited by martyB: 27/7/2010 04:49:21 PM

Thanks martyB. I just bought a second hand copy of "For Whom The Bell Tolls" for $8 at a bookshop in Cronulla... So weird that you bring that up.

I always think of it as "To whom it may concern". But I don't think I have ever used the word 'whom' in normal speak.

One thing that kind of pisses me off slash I find completely hilarious is when people pronounce an h before the w in words like whom, whisk, where etc.

One more thing I don't understand is the difference between whisky and whiskey.

I am incredibly susprized that the "Grammar Time.gif" hasn't popped up yet

The problem is not always grammar, it is people who cannot spell.

It's only funny when Funky does it TBH.

Using the Comma Splice

The comma splice joins two independent clauses with a comma. Below is an example.

I saw the itinerary, I want to join.

In this sentence, a comma connects two independent clauses. To correct this, you can either put a period after the first independent clause or add a conjunction after the comma.

I saw the itinerary. I want to join.
I saw the itinerary, and I want to join.

Firstly, it's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' as it's not a direct quote. ;)

When people say 'when' from the lungs [h-when] it sounds badass. Listen to Malcolm X and other well spoken Americans from a while ago.

The most unforgivable orthographic failure is when people accuse you [in written/text] of being a retart, instead of a retard.

Language evolves; most linguists would, today, accept the usage of "who" instead of "whom" in most cases. I don't think I ever say "whom"; the phrase you mentioned would certainly be the only time I ever write it.

It shouldn't be written as two sentences, it should use a semicolon:

"I saw the itinerary; I want to join."

No, there is no rule - it's a stylistic thing. But I do tend to use "" for quotes and '' for titles. Freudian slip.

The worst one I've been noticing of late is people using his and he's in the wrong context, absolutely does my head in.
e.g "His not home"

People who don't know the difference between "lose" and "loose".

It's frustrating when somebody says...

"You loose!"

God damn it!!!!!!

Ahhhh, I new ( ;) ) their ( ;) ) were people who get a little worked up about these! The simple one's annoy me more...
I.e. There, their and they're. Too and to. Also, you're and your... They probably top my list.

Comma and apostrophe placement don't bother me too much...

This whole thread reminds me of Scary Movie 4. The rip-off of The Village in that court battle, "I am for it, I'm against it"

'Then' & 'than'. Generally, in any forum frequented by a high proportion of under 25's, most use both incorrectly. In a forum such as this with the average age closer to 7years, (ok, an exaggeration, but it seems that way at times) the majority use both words incorrectly &/or aren't aware the word 'than' exists and haven't clue of the meaning of 'then'.

ehoneedspellingandgrammaitsaninternetforumyousearntallenglishteacherssonahnahmnahsahnhjk

There's one thing that REALLY irks me, but I can't remember what it is right now :lol:

Something makes me think it starts with D. 'de'-something as opposed to 'di'-something.

It will come back to me. :lol:

:lol: Den't worry about it, there is no need to be diluded. :lol:

Just quietly Heine loves to say expirience. :P I have picked up on it a couple of times.

Very quietly!

Thats another - quiet and quite...

I want to remember what this 'de' thing is! It's a pretty common error around these parts. If all else fails I'll just troll through AF until I find someone making the error. :lol:

It probably doesn't start with a 'de/di' and I'm just throwing myself off.

Edited by imnofreak: 27/7/2010 09:08:05 PM

This.

I just can't take people seriously if they don't know how to spell or construct a sentence. I don't care if we are on an internet forum. It's still communication. If you spoke like that to me in person I wouldn't know wtf you were on about.

Its because most of my generation and below fail at reading. A lot of people just aren't interested in reading books any more, whereas I've been reading them since I was a kid.

The most important hing to remember about whom is that it is only used during a querie, it replaces who in a question when the who is the object of the question.

Marty did a good job of using it in a sentance.

My pet peeve is resigned as opposed to re-signed. They mean completely different things!