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10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback youre right. They're are so many stupid poeple wheir i Work than they dont' no how to spell nothing
[June 9, 2006, 18:38]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback How about people using 'less' when they mean 'fewer', as in, for example: There were ten less people here today than yesterday" or Ten items or less" supermarket express checkouts Grr.
[August 15, 2006, 16:34]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback It is interesting, but not unexpected, that the people who keep posting questions like 'Why is it WRONG? to be stupid, also seem unable to read the answers already given.
[August 8, 2006, 17:44]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback If a person's content is good I overlook grammer mistakes. I read for ideas after all. If a person's ideas are bad, however, I make fun of their grammer (e.g.then I make fun have they're grammer).
[August 7, 2006, 21:03]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback I can make up bad sentences and then put them though a grammar checker. Why not explain why they are WRONG.
[August 4, 2006, 20:01]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback Nina - you would only say "I brought a friend to the party" if you were actually AT the party. In the example you used, you would say "I took a friend to the party. I know it's not on point with brought vs.bought, but it's part of the bring/take...
[July 26, 2006, 20:19]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback Thank you thank you THANK YOU for your entry "Impact is not a verb. Thank you. That's all I can muster. I've thought about egging the offices of the American Heritage Dictionary on a daily basis for their acceptance of impact as verb, but I can't...
[June 16, 2006, 21:37]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback Attempting to use "leverage" as a verb. Shows you up to be a Sales/Marketing geek who is unsure of what else to say.
[June 16, 2006, 20:46]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback I cannot believe that there has been no mention of "brought" being used in place of "bought". It annoys me so much I ask whoever says it to clarify why they felt the need to "bry" whatever it was they "brought".
[June 16, 2006, 15:15]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback Ironic that you make such a blatant grammar error. You wrote: These days, we tend to communicate via the keyboard as much as we do verbally. The word verbal does NOT mean spoken out loud. It means to use words, written words are verbal.
[June 15, 2006, 23:41]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback You should add the incorrect use of "As per". It makes no grammatical sense and is used all the time.
[June 14, 2006, 20:22]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback How about 'verbal' rather than 'oral' - this is now commonly used in Personnel management when talking ( sorry about the pun) about spoken warnings as opposed to written ones . I would love to know what the a non-verbal warning was - A fire alarm?
[June 13, 2006, 13:55]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback (Note: Outlook picks up on each of these errors and suggests the correct replacement. With the excepting of the example highlighted. HOW CARELESS OF YOU ! With the excepting of the example highlighted.is not a sentence.
[June 10, 2006, 9:54]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback Both words find little usage in the United States, but the latter might be said of someone who makes grammatical mistakes when writing about someone else's grammatical mistakes. David Wildgoose wrote:
[June 9, 2006, 21:39]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback I'm going to bring it where I'm going at. That's what a kid I used to know said and he didn't know the difference, but then his dad chewed his sandwiches with his mouth open because, he said, the kid's mother wasn't around.
[June 9, 2006, 19:48]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback It is rebellion that causes each generation to depart from the established language, incited by the Devil, for the purpose of causing the Bible to become difficult or impossible to understand (at least for the common folks).
[June 9, 2006, 19:45]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback 'You've got mail' should be 'You have mail'.
[June 9, 2006, 19:30]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback I hate that leet speak crap.lol
[June 9, 2006, 18:55]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback I like you Brits humor. Funny reading your remarks.
[June 9, 2006, 18:53]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback I once wrote 'admired by his piers' on a guy's evaluation, and my supervisor said, "You mean the short kind that you take a long walk on? It is peers.
[June 9, 2006, 18:49]
