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- theshizzler, on 10/23/2007, -1/+25me fail english? thats unpossible!
- inactive, on 10/23/2007, -0/+14The apostrophe one drives me nuts, because I can't even begin to understand what could possibly drive someone to throw in an unnecessary apostrophe. How the hell could someone not know how to pluralize? It's as basic as English gets - you add a freakin' "s" to the end of a word. Is there anyone out there who does this and can in some way rationalize this bizarre behavior?
- inactive, on 10/23/2007, -0/+11Oh, the irony.
- badjoke, on 10/23/2007, -1/+12The worst thing is that the culprits doing these things don't care at all, or blow it off as geeky and unimportant.
- natedouglas, on 10/23/2007, -1/+10Modern usage by people who don't understand the distinction, maybe.
At any rate, it's certainly not incorrect. - izzybr, on 10/23/2007, -0/+8I have to imagine whoever wrote this would have a massive aneurysm if he/she started looking at comments on digg
- Klarth, on 10/23/2007, -0/+8This person is so picky THAT you want to kill him/her right now.
- Depthfunction, on 10/23/2007, -0/+7The "defiantly/definitely" confusion really bugs me.
- Depthfunction, on 10/23/2007, -0/+7Watt?
- aflusche, on 10/23/2007, -0/+6Great article that lots of people can learn from.
- Shawn4168, on 10/23/2007, -0/+6I love articles like this. There's a really funny collection of misused quotation marks that I found a few years back (and no, this isn't blogspam): http://www.juvalamu.com/qmarks/
- nstern2, on 10/23/2007, -1/+7Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse" and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse"
- Gabberwok, on 10/23/2007, -0/+6BREAKING NEWS: Spelling and grammar suffer on the internet. <---- Edit: Sorry, forgot the silent "z" in internetz.
- Steveaux, on 10/23/2007, -0/+5The less/fewer distinction is entirely correct.
- davidrools, on 10/23/2007, -0/+5that's one way to avoid ending your sentence with a preposition
- mr1337, on 10/23/2007, -0/+4What pisses me off more than using an apostrophe to make a noun plural is using an apostrophe to make a verb singular. (Singular verbs usually have an S on the end, plural verbs do not.) For instance: He want's some pie.
- Desolite, on 10/23/2007, -0/+4a homophone says what?
- mlostracco, on 10/23/2007, -0/+4How do people graduate ELEMENTARY school without knowing the difference between "your" and "you're," or that an apostrophe doesn't designate a plural? I don't get it. The schools are failing our children.
- davidrools, on 10/23/2007, -0/+4On a similar note, the proper way to signify a different degree is with "lesser" and "greater"...as in, "to a lesser degree." But we wouldn't use that word to specify an amount. Saying there were "lesser people" at an event would suggest something about the character of the people, not the number of them.
While I'm on the subject: Farther = greater distance (I ran farther), further = greater degree (I want to further my education). - ballswithballs, on 10/23/2007, -0/+4"Than" and "then" are very different words and you should know the difference. What's the ridiculous issue with "there" and "they're"?
- stormgren, on 10/23/2007, -0/+4It's that sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.
(The not-ending-a-sentence-with-a-preposition rule is not really a rule.) - SlickWuff, on 10/23/2007, -0/+4Well thanks to the most recent versions of Firefox, hopefully we might see people correcting their misspells(integrated spell check ftw). Although grammar is a whole other ballgame.
- Klarth, on 10/23/2007, -0/+3http://www.google.com/search?q=%22could+of+cared+l ...
I like to look at this when I want to feel complete and utter disdain for the world. - djqxero, on 10/23/2007, -0/+3From Dictionary.com:
Even though less has been used before plural nouns (less words; less men) since the time of King Alfred, many modern usage guides say that only fewer can be used in such contexts. Less, they say, should modify singular mass nouns (less sugar; less money) and singular abstract nouns (less honesty; less love). It should modify plural nouns only when they suggest combination into a unit, group, or aggregation: less than $50 (a sum of money); less than three miles (a unit of distance). With plural nouns specifying individuals or readily distinguishable units, the guides say that fewer is the only proper choice: fewer words; fewer men; no fewer than 31 of the 50 states.
Modern standard English practice does not reflect this distinction. When followed by than, less occurs at least as often as fewer in modifying plural nouns that are not units or groups, and the use of less in this construction is increasing in all varieties of English: less than eight million people; no less than 31 of the 50 states. When not followed by than, fewer is more frequent only in formal written English, and in this construction also the use of less is increasing: This year we have had less crimes, less accidents, and less fires than in any of the last five years - soomprimal, on 11/12/2007, -1/+4Oh thank you, Digg, this is the article I've been waiting for! The Internet is really changing how we communicate, but there are basic grammatical and spelling conventions that just don't deserve the treatment they receive from the typical user. Non-English speakers, you are forgiven, English-speakers, you can screw up here and there, we all do, but there is a line, you should know better!
- Goaliemom, on 10/23/2007, -0/+3Irony, indeed! It's *cough* too bad that many people still won't have a clue.
- MouseworksPC, on 10/23/2007, -0/+3Not to beat a dead horse, but it's "per se", not "per say".
- spanglegluppet, on 10/23/2007, -0/+2Wow, the internet is revolutionising the way we communicate?
- bitspace, on 10/23/2007, -0/+2I can't figure out whether or not that was intentional.
- Goaliemom, on 10/23/2007, -0/+2Don't forget definatly (also known as definately and definatley).
- mithrasinvictus, on 10/23/2007, -0/+2then leave the apostrophe out, but at least write the e
- stanleyford, on 10/23/2007, -0/+2"Nobody has perfect grammar, and if you are able to correct something than you already understand the statement." -- Poor spellers and people with poor grammar always dismiss their errors by saying, "You know what I mean," or, "Grammar Nazis are obnoxious." You know what? We don't know what you mean, or if we do, it's only because we read and reread your mangled English several times before we understood it. And as for being obnoxious, I think it's obnoxious when people know that their words will be read by hundreds or even thousands of other people on the Internet yet can't be bothered to show enough respect to write correctly.
- logosx1, on 10/23/2007, -0/+1Language also devolves and degenerates, mirroring the poverty of thought.
- ballswithballs, on 10/23/2007, -0/+1The funniest thing about this I find is how the title makes it sound as though writing errors on the web have to be "found" and aren't staring us in the face everywhere we look. The article's author should read the stuff people are writing in forums and comment sections like this one. Most of these errors are just spelling errors anyway.
- lucidguru, on 10/23/2007, -1/+2Dugg for reference to Ralf Wiggum.
- TreDubZedd, on 10/23/2007, -0/+1If you enjoyed this article, check out "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Lynne Truss. It is highly entertaining and even somewhat informative.
- CrushThemTorg, on 10/23/2007, -0/+1Ironically, he used a comma properly in "Nobody has perfect grammar, and if ..." and didn't fall into the common trap of putting a comma before the final "and" when he provided that list of how grammar nazis behave.
My pet-peeve is passive voice and dangling modifiers. I also detest words split across columns - but that's not terribly relevant to the internets. Also, as long as I'm getting all newspaper-nerd in here, I decry this story for a poorly written headline. - natedouglas, on 10/23/2007, -1/+2Meep g'boo gnarfl fnarb.
- jhshukla, on 10/23/2007, -1/+2"Less is used for single things, like less sugar or less money."
single things? less? try countable and uncountable. perhaps that's too hard for the writer. - Ricochet1269, on 10/23/2007, -0/+1I think you meant "and then pretend"
- Segphault1, on 10/23/2007, -0/+1A lot? That's not correct in formal English writing. In speech, maybe. A lot is a big thing of land, and it is informal slang. How about "a good deal of' or 'a great number of' in the future.
- Acidictadpole, on 10/23/2007, -1/+2The article gets boring after a while, the writer just picks at silly spelling mistakes.. Quiet and Quite, well.. they sound different, so obviously it's a typo, or the person doesn't know how to spell.. but one spelling error is enough to demonstrate that spelling errors happen.. we already know the average IQ of the internet users is less than pi.
- DarkPhoen1x, on 10/23/2007, -2/+2Okay people, I sympathize to some extent with the grammar police, but here's the thing. The beautiful thing about language is that it evolves. Those who say it will degenerate into some retarded version of l33tspeak are overly pessimistic to say the least. But as time goes on, we will hopefully make the language simpler and less confusing. The fusing of such things as less and fewer only help the language in my opinion.
/Rant. - WaterDragon, on 10/23/2007, -1/+1"“A friend will do what ever they can to lift you up when your down because they don’t like to see there friend hurt” - This is a record! Friends (not “A friend”) will do what ever they can. The pronoun must agree with its antecedent. When you’re (not your) down. To see their (not there) friend."
WHATEVER! And a literate person would never say 'what ever', expecially while attempting to correcting others'
mis- takes. - georgyo, on 10/24/2007, -0/+0I am one of the worstest offenderest everest.
- Klarth, on 10/23/2007, -2/+2yo dont be such a fuken looser about gramer u fuken looser idiot
/me bashes head against desk. - natenovs, on 10/23/2007, -1/+1and most of us dont care.
- inactive, on 08/11/2008, -2/+1Agreed. Nobody cares about this crap.
- sirbeta, on 10/23/2007, -4/+3Some serious grammar nazi material in there. Not that I disagree with it per say, but when it comes to causing a stink over someone spelling the word 'persistant' instead of 'persistent', we really will complain about anything. Nothing 'curious' about that particular mistake, it's a very very common one. It might not be correct, but since when are human beings in general walking dictionaries? Cue being buried for 'sympathizing' with people who misspell words!
- harry8227, on 10/23/2007, -1/+0You have way to much time on your hands but if sitting around grading internet blog comments is you way of having fun then fine. Its easy to make mistakes on the computer and most of the time not worth worrying about, If you were doing some sort of professional paper or something then yes you might want to take it to the next level but in blogging its get your point across and move on. So in most bloggin cases, it aint no big deal if youall is makin some kind of misstake as long as u gonna get ur point across, although I must admit, sometimes things are carried to far.
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