[Closed] People using 'loose' when they mean 'lose' . Please stop, please

iz u sayin I iz gay ?

Seriously though guys, you should of known better. Time to put the breaks on this and go peddle our bikes.

Just remind me.....Which Tyler lead the pedant's revolt?

wiggles - Member
I genuinely don't know how to use affect/effect correctly...
Teach me
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This might help!

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

I've not seen

[i]ur bik is Saracin[/i]

or

[i]u r xc jey boy[/i]

on here for years.

It's all lawn criticism these days.

How to comfort a grammar Nazi?

Their, there, they're.

This is why I have never successfuly managed learn how to use them correctly.

In terms of verbs,

Affect = change.
Effect = cause.

You could, if you were to cause a change, effect an affect.

That said, because "effect" is more commonly a noun meaning a result, if you were a magician's assistant and you cocked up his trick then you might affect his effect. I'm not helping much, am I dad?

As a rule of thumb, if you (x)ffect something, the chances are you've affected it. Effect as a verb is comparatively rare.
I'm

people who say writ instead of wrote, so they might say 'so I writ that down' ughh uggh ughhh

Those that express dislike for others' failings, when they should get their own house in order first. 😉

'Should of'

AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 😥

'Bare with me'.... well, are you a single attractive woman?

The use of capital letters at the start of sentences seems to be a dying art on this forum.

Effect is a noun meaning outcome, consequence, or appearance. (Her behaviour is having an effect on the class)
To affect is a verb meaning to transform or to change. (Her behaviour is affecting the class)

But what about Hung and Hanged? I hate it when people think Hanged is wrong!

The moving finger writes and, having writ,
moves on; nor all thy piety nor wit....

- have at thee, sirrah !

Things are hung, men are hanged.

Or well hung 😉

[i]Effect[/i]

So it's not how a Yorkshireman might respond when asked about the state of their broken down Land Rover?

"Ee, fect!"

beefheart - Member
People who say brought instead of bought should have been aborted.

Posted 9 hours ago #

should of, would of etc.
seriously boil my pish those do.
but probably mostly because my ex wife uses them.

Some people are dyslexic and can have a pretty frustrating time dealing with pedants. I'm not, but I recall the difficulty some of my friends had while studying and [s]discussions[/s] rants like this don't help.

There are bigger deals to wince about, such as the lack of punctuation in the original post 😉

It's important that proper grammar is perservered for future generations.

Incidentally, dd, that's a naked mole rat, not a shawn builder of dams.

They should arm bears, that would give those arms bearing hunters something to think about.

lens and lense is worse than loose and lose.

Imagine if someone's camera had a lose lense.

perservered, MMF?

its impordant dat proper grammer dis preserved 4 footure jennywations

MMF?

Yes please. #strangest

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perservered, MMF?

I went and done a misspelling on the long word.

right to bear arms?

Paws for thought.

Aslong as the message is clear not too fussed about 100% correct grammar and spelling, but yeah the fact that my own isn't very good probably [s]a[/s] [s]e[/s] [s]a[/s] [s]e[/s] affects my opinion.
did I get it right?

auto correct on mobile devices doesn't really help either, badly spelt* you can guess at what the word should have been, fat fingers + auto correct = completely unreadable
*nearly went with spelled

*peirs in*

I wish I hadnt' of started it now.

I've been teaching this stuff for years to kids who are learning English as a 2nd or 3rd language, and they almost never have a problem*. Why do so many native speakers struggle with it?

*not bigging my own teaching up here - a lot of them already know its/it's, their/there/they're etc when they come to me aged 9.

From the shop next door.
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a lot of them already know its/it's

Blimming iPhone auto-corrects [i]"its"[/i] to [i]"it's"[/i] - really irritates me.

I idly mentioned this to a friend, an educated lady who is a medical consultant, and she had no idea what I was on about or why I'd ever want to use "its" in a sentence. 😯

These misuses of the language are enough to make me go nucular 🙁

I'm not the best at spelling and my grammar is far from perfect but using an iPad, iPhone has made it much much worse. Auto correct is a pain but my fat fingers often miss the caps button or the full stop button or apostrophe button. I also assume that the auto correct will automatically put apostrophes in correctly etc but by the time I've finished typing a sentence I see what's been missed or incorrectly added and then have to navigate my fat finger into the correct spot to correct the error. So what would take 30 seconds to type now takes 5 minutes.

Basically I'm blaming technology.

my fat fingers often miss the caps button or the full stop button

It will generally do caps for you at the obvious places (e.g. start of sentences).

Full stops: just press space twice.

But apostrophes can be a pain.

People who don't drop their aitches on the letter aitch. Grammatical irony?

Some people are dyslexic and can have a pretty frustrating time dealing with pedants.

Sure, but there's a difference between dyslexic and bone idle.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/british-english-dictionary/

I have bogey spelling words that often take me a couple of goes to get right (I muddle vowels in words like "relevant" and "separate"), but someone using entirely the wrong word is jarring; it pulls me out of the conversation. Imagine watching Downton Abbey and spotting someone wearing a digital watch.

my fat fingers often miss the caps button or the full stop button
It will generally do caps for you at the obvious places (e.g. start of sentences).

Full stops: just press space twice.

But apostrophes can be a pain.

I didn't know that about the double tap on space. Oh yeah, it works!

For some reason my iPad often doesn't put a capital at the start of a sentence. It seems to pick and choose as it likes?

It's people who drink 'expresso' that need to be removed from the gene pool

It's people who drink 'expresso' that need to be removed from the gene pool

I blame Scalextric.

Imagine watching Downton Abbey

and spotting someone wearing a digital watch.

For some reason my iPad often doesn't put a capital at the start of a sentence. It seems to pick and choose as it likes?

Check Settings->General->Keyboard->Auto-Capitalisation

(and if you haven't already then this is also where you go to add the Emoji "smiley" keyboard)

There's a woman here at work with a verbal tick, (tic?? hmm, not sure.) "what it is is...." which was mildly annoying, and good to drop into converstion as a mild piss take.
Problem is, many here have done it so often they've developed the same habit! 😀

Pendants such as you lot defiantly need you're heads looking at!

Check Settings->General->Keyboard->Auto-Capitalisation

(and if you haven't already then this is also where you go to add the Emoji "smiley" keyboard)

I've basically been using my iPad as a doorstop and frisbee.

Pendants such as you lot defiantly need you're heads looking at!

.....must

........resist.....