What is Digg?317 Comments
- sronbheatha, on 10/11/2007, -16/+212Thank the Lord, Digg needs this badly.
- ncairns, on 10/11/2007, -6/+202How about "Top 10 Grammatical Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid"?
- Hepburn82, on 10/11/2007, -8/+162Who you calling bald?
- ChronicColonic, on 10/11/2007, -5/+111A freshman at Harvard was looking for the library when he spotted a distinguished-looking upper-class student. "Excuse me sir, could you tell me where the library is at?", the freshman asked. The snobby Harvard student replied, "My good fellow, at Harvard we do NOT end our sentences with a preposition!" The freshman said, "Okay, let me try that again. Could you tell me where the library is at, *****?"
- jspegele, on 10/11/2007, -1/+97We've had plenty of posts on grammatical errors; now can we get one on understanding sarcasm.
- BevansDesign, on 10/11/2007, -1/+79The only people who will look at this article are the ones that don't need to. ARGH.
- kcpwnsgman, on 10/11/2007, -4/+68this shouldn't effect any digg users because you're digg is everyone's digg, which is different than slashdot for a number of reasons:
1. Its easily to loose track of time on digg
2. thier on slashdot for news, we are on digg for news AND wasting time.
3. they have famous people (i.e. this Neil guy)
now after that typing, I am going to go lay down because I could of been sleeping already
Now, stop me because deliberately made all 10 mistakes in one post! MUHAHAHAH
edit: I guess this is a hit and miss comment... - MrRockabilly, on 10/11/2007, -17/+62"Me Fail English? That's Unpossible"
- willthom, on 10/11/2007, -2/+43Preach on, fellow grammar nazi!
- Chinzon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+36#8 'Lay' for 'Lie'
I can never remember which is which, but I know my ex was brilliant at one of them... - macaddct1984, on 10/11/2007, -1/+35What bugs me is how people throw the rules out of the window when it comes to e-mails, even professional ones.
People should really be writing e-mails the same way you would write a letter by hand. Between friends, do what you want, but when you're writing to a boss (or a boss writing to his underlings), at least capitalize the first letter after periods, etc... - thecompkid, on 10/11/2007, -8/+38"Me fail english? That's unpossible!"
- mikeyrock, on 10/11/2007, -4/+32Not enough apparently..
- macaddct1984, on 10/11/2007, -6/+31@f8pc
"Funny enough, that needs a comma after "overheating.""
No, it doesn't. - Sneezyx, on 10/11/2007, -3/+27Free digg for the first one to use all 10 in one sentence!
- Btrash, on 10/11/2007, -6/+25how many times has this been posted now?
- profOblivion, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19@Xarou
"noone" = 12:00pm Eastern ;)
/lame :P - BottleRocket, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19The "Common English Errors" site from Washington State University is a much more comprehensive reference for common grammatical errors. I mean, it's no top ten list, but...
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+22How sad is it that there is a Top 10 Grammar Mistakes list?
- Treshnell, on 10/11/2007, -4/+19That list needs 'could care less' for 'couldn't care less.'
- silverchrysalis, on 10/11/2007, -3/+17does this load all scrunchy and weird for any other firefox users?
- manifestdata, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14The "H" in honestly should be capitalized.
- Skitzzo, on 10/11/2007, -7/+18A lot. It's a dupe of a dupe I think...
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/10_flagrant_grammar_mistakes_that_make_you_look_stupid_6 - widoka, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11@Xarou
The first step should be knowing how to spell the word...grammAr, not grammer - BobTurtle, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13You are the coolest person on the internet.
- camknows, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13My pet-peeve is when people say things like "ATM machine" and "PIN number".
- ChronicColonic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9My Grandpa would agree, Grammar makes all the mistakes that makes him look stupid.
- theragu40, on 10/11/2007, -6/+15Also, it should be 'funnily enough', not 'funny enough'.
- TonksKC, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Nah, they just look stuck up.
Nothing makes me laugh more than someone who tries to correct someone else's mistake and fails.
Now THAT makes them look stupid. - SteelFrog, on 10/11/2007, -6/+14"Free digg for the first one to use all 10 in one sentence!"
The support team keeps losing their product keys (i.e., activation codes) and its problematic since it could potentially affect the whole network should we lose them so you're going to have to lay down some rules and documentation on proper archiving and retrieval, preferably different than the previous "don't lose it" policy you had previously, which I would have revised myself if I wasn't so busy writing useless posts on Digg.
(Good enough? I don't think the grammar is correct. They don't give us the grammatical rules, or proper usage rules. I'm also french, so I tried my best.) - samdu, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9It's a title. It's grammatically correct to capitalize the first letter of every word.
- iRoy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8I know everyone is double-checking their comments for errors. Lol.
- CKemendo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Yeah, I'm pretty sure if I heard someone say "I am hopeful that we will win the game," I'd be obligated to punch him in the face. It's a colloquialism. Go with it.
- masgrada, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9^ Internet*s* ... Gawd, get it right.
- BillOReilly08, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8And those who care already don't make those mistakes.
- sexybobo, on 10/11/2007, -8/+15http://duggmirror.com has it
sorry for comment abuse - thadman08, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7shoddy
/ducks - kineticarl, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6But he probably should have spelled "Ten" in the title.
- TonksKC, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Easily. It's actually the wrong spelling of a bad pronunciation.
Would've. Would have. Sounds like "would of."
It's stupid and happens entirely too often.
Of course, the idiots making that mistake are replacing a verb with a preposition. - tech42er, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Common Latin Abbreviations
i.e. == "that is"
e.g. == "for example"
etc. == "and so on"
et al. == "and others" - 5lectro, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6As opposed to grammar mistakes that make you look smart?
- thomble, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6@sronbheatha "Thank the Lord, Digg needs this badly."
Take your own medicine. That's a comma splice! - RustedGod, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Ah, good ol' ASR redundancy.
(Think 'acronym' and 'suffix'.) - profOblivion, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Dugg for showing me the phrase, "boolean-obsessive". I'll find a way to incorporate it into everyday speech :) .
- pauleric, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Ya! And "hit and miss" is perfectly correct. Sometimes you get one, sometimes the other, with multiple samples both will happen over time. And besides, it's an idiom. It doesn't need to make grammatical sense. And yes, I'm sure this post of mine is full of punctuation and spelling blunders.
- sm4k, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9The "Hit and Miss" bonus peeve is one of mine, as well.
I also get annoyed when people say that they "could care less" about something when they really mean "couldn't care less". It really floors me to hear this used in movies and television. - wendelgee2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Actually, no, you don't cap everything in a title. Title case should not capitalize articles, prepositions, or conjunctions.
This title is fine though. - bmartin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8"Free digg for the first one to use all 10 in one sentence!"
Microsoft will loose its' fight against Linux (e.g. you're favorite OS), as they're lays can only effect you're Linux usage different then what they would have liked.
Should read: Microsoft will lose its fight against Linux (i.e., your favorite OS), as their lies can only affect your Linux usage differently from how they would have liked.
It's not the most coherent sentence, and some of the context is wrong (e.g., lie being used as a noun instead of a verb), but there you have it. - sm4k, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5You're right about them actually meaning that they could care less; that is the literal meaning "I could care less". However, it seems to be an unfortunate trend that more often than not, the phrase is used incorrectly. This guy said it way better than I could ever hope to:
Clichés are especially prone to scrambling because they become meaningless through overuse. In this case an expression which originally meant “it would be impossible for me to care less than I do because I do not care at all” is rendered senseless by being transformed into the now-common “I could care less.” Think about it: if you could care less, that means you care some. The original already drips sarcasm, so it’s pointless to argue that the newer version is “ironic.” People who misuse this phrase are just being careless.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/care.html
This was the point of my comment, apparently it wasn't clear enough. - codmate, on 10/11/2007, -5/+10"They're"
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