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Someone stop me!!
Gah! My SIL misspelled a word on her FB status today. She spelled "potato" with an e on the end. I hate typos on FB!!! I commented and said it doesn't have an e on the end. She was a Creative Writing major in college. She commented back and said that actually it can, it's like center and centre. Umm no!!! My other SIL commented and said that Dan Quayle would agree with her! So to be a snot/call her on her shiz, I found a bunch of websites and posted them to her page. Gah! Stop me! This is stupid! Then, later one of her BFF's comments and says that when she was in school it did have an e on the end. WTF!! I want to post another site that says something about that being the correct spelling in the 19th Century!
I think I'm just tired of my SIL! Did I mention I get to see her this weekend?
Re: Someone stop me!!
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In my experience, among people I know with baccalaureate degrees, English majors are the worst offenders when it comes to misspellings and misused punctuation. Us social science majors (psychology, sociology, political science, etc.) seem to do much better. I haven't quite figured out why this is, except that maybe precision and accuracy are vital to success in the social sciences, whereas creativity is valued more in English programs. (But that's a total guess.)
As someone who's been watching professional/technical writing and editing job postings, I want to laugh and cry at the fact that nearly every ad asks for English majors. English majors get all the grammatical glory.
1) grammar
2) for punctuation, my favorite example is "let's eat, grandma!!!!" versus "let's eat grandma!!!!"
i'm not the best at punctuation either (semi colon? colon? hyphen?). i also can't do apostrophe s. spelling bugs me though haha...we all have our battles. i also don't capitalize. whatevz. i will when i write an official report, but not for interwebz.
♥ bfp1 06/14/2011 ♥ edd 02/22/2012 ♥
♥ baby jennlin born on 02/15/2012 ♥
who says you can only wear your wedding dress once?
honeymoon bio ♥ married bio ♥ planning bio
jumped ship to the new and improved nest. back to TB for baby boards.
I think everyone has certain words that routinely give them fits. I hate the word potato, I don't understand why it has an e when it becomes plural.
When the whole Dan Quayle "fiasco" happened, my dad told me that he was taught an "e" on the end in school, as well.. <shrug> I have an impossible time with "maintenance" and "pineapple" (I always want to double the "n") and Caribbean (want to double the "r" instead). Of course, then I have issues that I often spell words the British way because I read too many Brit authors as a kid...and I went from champion speller to problem child as my French language skills increased..too many cognates with one letter difference between the two languages. Sigh.
My pet peeve though is "Congratulations." It has a T people!! And short is "Congrats" NOT "Congrads"!! Several people on this board get that wrong and I'm always biting my tongue..
There's a funny one about capitalization....although not a pet peeve of mine.
"I was helping my Uncle Jack off a horse." vs. "I was helping my Uncle jack off a horse"
Exactly!
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