"Are you prejudiced?" asks StapMyVitals. Have you been a victim of prejudice? Are you a columnist for a popular daily newspaper? Don't bang on about how you never judge people on first impressions - no-one will believe you.
(, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 12:53)
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I'm no genius in the world of grammar,but am i the only one who gets pissed off at the constant use of the wrong version of "there" being used on forums, blogs etc.
There are three different versions for a reason.
I just wish the lazy fuckwits would learn how to use them. cunts.
(, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 18:42, 24 replies)
I also wish fewer people would use the word 'less' when they mean 'fewer'.
Wankers.
(, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 18:53, closed)
Consider, if you will, the difference between these two lines:
I helped my Uncle Jack off a horse
I helped my uncle jack off a horse
(, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 19:26, closed)
But to quote a certain bloke who was quite light-of-foot on the old water- "Don't try and help a person with a speck of dust in your eye until you can see past the plank of wood in yours".
(, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 22:11, closed)
...but there are also three words - 'peek', 'peak' and 'pique' - none of which remotely overlap. And this board's not the only place I see people fucking that up.
(, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 22:14, closed)
I keep seeing 'should of' instead of 'should have' - sometimes in the more august broadsheets. If they won't defend proper grammar, who will?
(Goes back to growling into the Telegraph)
(, Sat 3 Apr 2010, 8:08, closed)
have with of after a modal should have all genitals severed/mutilated by a rusty-chainsaw-wielding spacker.
I used to teach this to children - anybody who used of instead of have was sent into the babies classroom, and made to sing and dance (for everyone's amusement - an english academy where the walls were all made of glass)
(, Sat 3 Apr 2010, 11:24, closed)
Once he has this sorted, then he can lob bricks covered in the flaming pages of the OED.
(, Sat 3 Apr 2010, 14:20, closed)
but there's one common misspelling of a particular word that makes me loose my mind.
(, Sun 4 Apr 2010, 14:56, closed)
Are you gonna let lose with the word then?
Oh this is fun...
(, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 13:09, closed)
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