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Old 02-29-2012, 11:27 PM   #16
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On the other hand, if you are a published author and use poor grammer it's called 'style'!!
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Old 03-01-2012, 05:27 AM   #17
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On the other hand, if you are a published author and use poor grammer it's called 'style'!!
I dont got no undurstand here.
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Old 03-01-2012, 07:27 AM   #18
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Old 03-01-2012, 08:51 AM   #19
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Old 03-01-2012, 09:10 AM   #20
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Old 03-01-2012, 09:30 AM   #21
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This thread is giving me a headache. I was once the admin of a forum and populated the word replacement filter (generally used to sanitise curse words) with things like:

"would of" = "would've"
"alot" = "a lot"
"suppose to" = "supposed to"

It didn't win me any popularity contests, but it was worth it.

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Old 03-01-2012, 09:33 AM   #22
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Old 03-01-2012, 09:39 AM   #23
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This would be a good time to lobby against the verbing of nouns.

Also if you want to stop using adjectives as adverbs, I can do it real good.
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Old 03-01-2012, 09:49 AM   #24
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Me fail English?
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Old 03-01-2012, 09:59 AM   #25
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This would be a good time to lobby against the verbing of nouns.
You've Been Verbed

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Mothers and fathers used to bring up children: now they parent. Critics used to review plays: now they critique them. Athletes podium, executives flipchart, and almost everybody Googles. Watch out—you’ve been verbed.

The English language is in a constant state of flux. New words are formed and old ones fall into disuse. But no trend has been more obtrusive in recent years than the changing of nouns into verbs. “Trend” itself (now used as a verb meaning “change or develop in a general direction”, as in “unemployment has been trending upwards”) is further evidence of—sorry, evidences—this phenomenon.
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Old 03-01-2012, 12:38 PM   #26
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:-)

I was being silly, of course, but there are so many nouns which I am having a hard time seeing as verbs.

Now, instead of giving someone a birthday gift, I gifted them with a trip to the movies.
Some things are just progression of language and are difficult for my grammar "groove" to adjust to, other things are just plain ole bad grammar.
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Old 03-01-2012, 12:54 PM   #27
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Old 03-01-2012, 04:50 PM   #28
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Old 03-02-2012, 08:43 PM   #29
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I tought it was the difference between helping your uncle Jack of a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse .
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Old 03-02-2012, 10:31 PM   #30
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This thread is giving me a headache. I was once the admin of a forum and populated the word replacement filter (generally used to sanitise curse words) with things like:

"would of" = "would've"
"alot" = "a lot"
"suppose to" = "supposed to"

It didn't win me any popularity contests, but it was worth it.
That's not grammar, it's spelling! (I can still be a pedant this month, right?)
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