And yes, I know I'm far from perfect! I'm just hoping I
didnt' spell something wrong!

Lol! I know, I'm the same way... I like writings to be grammatically correct. And when I read my posts back sometimes, I wish I'd worded things differently myself. I can totally relate.

Some people need to loose some weight......or their pocket change is lose......
and no matter how many times we cringe when we see it written, it is not going to change.
Drives me nuts, too!
And.....some people tell me "Your cute." Instead of "You're cute." I guess I should be glad for the compliment. LOL
I had a journalism teacher who was very strict.....thank you Mrs. Turnbull!!

Yes, that makes me mad also. But the use of 'seen' when what the person did was 'saw' makes me even madder. I saw a pretty bird, NOT, I seen a pretty bird!!

oh, that one gets me too, Gaz! I seen that movie! ack! lol gd

this topic comes around every couple of months or so,
so it's probably "talked out".

oh, did I forget the ' in I'm in the thread subject line? See? bad kathy hahahaha

You gals are crackin' me up here!

It saddens me more than makes me mad. It seems that command of the English language is extremely sporadic and nos is the art of spelling. . . without spellcheck! The computer doesn't understand whose v. who's or its v it's. It used to upset me then I remembered...."Don't sweat the small stuff, and is ALL small stuff".

I would rather read it with less than perfect grammar than have a person not post because they fear making an error.

This was an actual professional article! I was shocked!
lol

Ilovemymimi! you got a gif posted! yea!

Lose and loose, and chose and choose... I always have to think about them before writing/typing. :)

But my biggest problem I've posted about before. I tend to use strange made-up words like "duh'nt" for doesn't, and it'nt for isn't. I've gained a lot of weight over the last few years and think that maybe my tongue has gotten fat, too, and it makes some words hard to pronounce. LOL

LOL moonie! tongue is fat! ahahhaha...

At least chose and choose relate to each other.

loose and lose don't!

How many time have you read "dinning room" instead of dining room? It's quite common on Craig's List and often seen elsewhere.

Don't get me started . Kids can't spell, they can barely write cursive now.
I don't know what the heck they are being taught, but it isn't English grammar.
How many times have you seen this..I should OF gone to the ----. Drives me nuts.
I have even corrected folks on FB where I see it on a daily basis .
OK thanks for letting me vent.
Have a wonderful day.

June

I must admit it drives me nuts too; my mother is a grammar fanatic, thank you mother! :) The one that gets me the most is "you're vs your"....come on people! Weren't you listening back in 3rd grade??

People keep asking me how t spell something..

HELLOOOOO, I am the one that learned English as a second language.... it doesn't come easy to me... I really have to think about it... and write it out at times....

Moni

Love it Jas...and Moni and you can be the poster girl for a "grammatically correct America".
Off to work I go...hi ho..

June

I've had a problem myself with lose and loose until I finally got them straightened out in my head. I stop and think of a 'loose' wheel, and even envision it as a wobbly wheel.

Often too, if I am in doubt about grammar in a sentence, I will just reword it to avoid possibly making an error.

Jasdip, love your 'funny'.

The one that drives me nuts is "ain't got none." I used to have a boy come here after school that said this. Didn't surprise me one bit when I heard his mom say the same thing..

Jasdip - LOL good one! I'm forarding that on to my mother; she will get a kick out of it! Thanks!

I hear ya, Kat! I get aggravated by poor grammar and spelling all the time, too.

For instance- grown people who write "fourty" instead of "forty". Sheesh. I used to see that on checks all the time when I worked in a shop.

I wish everyone had the little spell-check thing that I have - it underlines words with a red squiggle and if you right-click on that word, it gives you the correct spelling or different words that are similar.

These two drive me crazy.

"Where's it at?" Instead of "Where is it?" I was always told "It's at the corner of A and T on preposition street."

"He gave it to Billy and I." NO. "He gave it to Billy and me."

Remember the episode of Everybody Loves Raymond about homework and grammar?

Ray: Reading all those sports books and watching those sports on TV, that's how I got to be where I'm at.
Marie: (long pause) "That's how I got to be where I'm at?" Ray: Yeah.
Marie: You're a writer, and that's how you use the English language?
Ray: Yeah, what? What did I do?
Marie: You never end a sentence with the word "at!"
Ray: Okay, okay. Big deal, so I ended a sentence with a proposition.
Marie: Preposition! It's a preposition--oh my God!

I found that particular show exceptionally funny.

Thanks for starting this. It also drives me nuts when people write loose for lose, or the other way around.

Also the misuse of I and me. My former boss did that all the time. In fact, she even "corrected" me when I wrote it correctly. Maybe I should say she corrected I. Hah.

How about "I could care less" when the correct phrase is "I couldn't care less". If you say I could care less, you are saying that you DO care, since it is possible for you to care less than you do. If you say I couldn't care less, you are saying it is not possible for you to care less than you do now. In other words, you don't care.

Is that as clear as mud?

I am guilty of using the wrong spelling and probably should look up a couple of words and tape them near my computer to remind me. But then grammer was never my favorite in school. Thanks for reminding me how to drive others nuts--LOL--but I try not to do that --much--
Marie

While I'm not a 'text' person.. I understand that there are some 'aut-corret' programs that drive people crazy... the ones that can spell...
irregardless is not a word.. the correct word is regardless. thank you for allowing my to share a pet peeve.

I'm with Gazania. I really hate when people say seen for saw. A coworker does this, and I feel I should correct him but don't want to be rude. But it bugs me!!

Pet peeve. Just posted this on my FB page this morning

Good one!

i'm also one who just restructures a sentence if i'm not sure of the correct spelling or usage of a word...

i'm also ashamed to admit that even though i know it drives many people crazy when i don't capitalize, i do it anyway (grin)

I complained on another site about bad spelling/grammar,
then realized I had made a mistake in my own post, so now I
laugh it off when I see something not right.
(It was kind that no one pointed it out to me, I reread it
later and caught/corrected it myself)

Yes, seen, saw, your, you're,

but LOOSE and LOSE aren't spelled wrong, they obviously
have NO CLUE to the MEANING of these words. That is
really crazy to me! lol It's not like they are a strange
scientific word, one that most people wouldn't know.