i cant wait till saterday to go fishing,lol

 

ok there are some valid points here but what are you asking for a college degree to be able to chat online your not filling out an application

 

I don't think anyone mentioned having to need a college degree. I think it was more or less checking and taking a little more effort in order to clearly and concisely express your points instead of everyone having to try and guess what your saying.

 

Hmm, no, but a period (.) or comma (,) once in a while wouldn't kill ya.

Bill

 

This isn't a spelling peeve, but my friend does this ALL THE TIME and it drives me up the wall. If he's playing a game and he beats you, he'll tell everyone within ear shot, "hey, I just WON him at this game!"

If your english is so bad that you can't tell the difference between "beat" and "won", then pick up an english book and brush up on your skills!!

 

I'm guilty of this offense. I'm usually pretty good at spelling but my punctuation leaves something to be desired. i usually try to throw in commas and periods when needed. but i understand what you mean when trying to decipher some of the things people say. as jumbled as some of my post are and coming from an uneducated family, its still a mystery to me what some people are trying to say.

 

I have been told. Back to school for me.

 

I hate it when people say "Me and _____ did this or Me and ____ did that." I was taught that it's better to say the other persons name first.

 

We all have our pet peeves. About a lot of different aspects of our lives. But as far as posting on a forum like FTE, I try to ignore errors in spelling or grammar. As long as the poster has something of value to say, and can at least get the idea across, spelling and grammar will be forgiven.

I work in an office and much of my job requires written communication. I'm not an english authority, but I get by. Being an expert Ford mechanic does not require great writing skills. Hey, if a person knows what's wrong with my truck, and can get the idea across in a post, I don't really care about the writing style or errors in punctuation.

Have you read some of the OASIS entries by technicians? They are full of spelling errors. Who cares? Not me. They guy is probably a wizard at fixing Fords, and that's what he's paid for.

So while I am enjoying this topic, I hope no one takes it too seriously, and keep sharing your thoughts here at FTE regardless of your keyboard skills.

Bill

 

How about when someone spells "breaks" for "brakes"?

 

Amen to this one...

My wife and I give the correct change with a larger bill on purpose just to see what happens and I would guess that 70% of the time they look at me like I just landed.

 

Check out my sig...

Tim

 

Unfortunately, way too many people just call it Cummings. I still don't understand why. The trucks say "CUMMINS" right on the side!

LOLOLOLOLOL

I hate how people use that online more or less to directly replace "HAHAHAHAHA" even though it really doesn't have the same connotation...
"Laughing out loud out loud out loud out loud" eh, whatever.

 

Personal peeve - people driving while on cell phones, especially the ones that think they are being safer by driving slower...

Work peeve - people who use more energy trying to get out of doing a job than the amount of energy it would actually take to just do it...

 

I agree, but even if you were to say "_____ and me did this" or "_____ and me did that" it would still be wrong. To be correct, you'd say "_____ and I did this" or "_____ and I did that". You'd never say "Me did this." by itself) or "Me did that." (by itself), so why would you say it just because you include "(name here)" in the action?

I have several errors that make me shudder when I hear them. They include:

1. "Let my AXE you a question", instead of "let me ASK you a question".

2. Incorrect use of the words "their" (3rd person possessive), "they're" (contraction meaning 'they are'), and "there" (indicating a position). The same with "your", "you're", and "yore".

3. Incorrect use of the word "borrow" instead of "lend" or "loan", as "Will you BORROW me a dollar until tomorrow, instead of "Will you LEND (or LOAN) me a dollar until tomorrow". (This error may be unique to Wisconsin people only, however.)

4. And everybody's favorite- incorrect use of an apostrophe ('). It seems like nobody, including "professionals", know how to use it. An advertisement in our local Sunday newspaper this past week for a national chain store said, in large print across the top, "This weeks specail's", when it should be "This week's specials" (notice (A) the mis-spelled root word 'specail' instead of 'special'", (B) the missing ' in "week's" and (C) its incorrect use in "specail's".

5. When someone says or writes "If I WAS to do ..." instead of "If I WERE to do ...".

6. Written sentences with little or no punctuation, making them difficult to understand or leading to ambiguity as to the writer's true meaning.

7. Incorrect abbreviation of words in emails or hard-copy, as if the writer were doing text messages on their cellphone.

I'm in no way, shape, or form a grammar specialist. However, an experience I had many, many years ago drove home the importance of proper English when you're trying to communicate your ideas to others. In each of my four years of Engineering classes in college, one course a year was used to "weed out" kids that were considered "technically unacceptable". The first year that course was English, and it "thinned the herd" by over 50%.

In the last semester of our final year, we had to take what was called the "Senior English Exam" (in addition to the "weed-out course"). You went into a classroom with only a pencil, paper, and a dictionary. Depending on your Engineering major (mechanical, electrical, civil, industrial, etc.) you were given a choice of three topics to write about. In two hours, you were required to write a 1000-word essay on one of the topics provided, and it was graded on (1) grammar and spelling, (2) organization of thought, (3) technical correctness, and (4) word count. As for Item #1, if the final exam you turned in at the end of the two hours had six or more grammar and/or spelling errors (combined), your diploma and graduation was suspended for another semester and you had to take the exam over at that time. If you failed the exam the second time, you had to wait another semester and take it again. You had to keep taking the exam until you passed it, but it basically cost you another semester and tuition (presumably for taking more English spelling and writing courses).

It's what's known as "having skin in the game". Let a college or university try that today and see what would happen!

In a bacon and egg breakfast, the chicken in "involved" but the pig is "committed". I think we need more "commitment' in a significant portion of the younger population of today.