30 Oct 04
Originally posted by jimmyb270Having said that, I did just check that post for about 5 minutes, looking for errors. You don't want a mistake in a thread like this.
I live in England, and English is a second language here. First language is slang, although we are rapidly adopting American.
Personally, I somehow always seem to instinctively know what is good grammar, without having to think too much about it. Perhaps I just had a good upbringing.
Erm...
...sorry...
...One doesn't want a mistake in a thread like this.
31 Oct 04
i stopped getting taught grammer etc when i was abiout 10. i have very little idea about nous, verbs, adverbs etc...although i do know what a hyperbole is, a simile, a metaphor etc...
something that does bug me, althoug not about grammer, is when people say "the" in from of a vowel. it's "the", but it's pronounced "thee". thee apple. thee orange. it dounds less harsh, and tis the proper way...
31 Oct 04
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Originally posted by jimmyb270Most likely you were a good reader. reading is the key to proper languauge usage.
I live in England, and English is a second language here. First language is slang, although we are rapidly adopting American.
Personally, I somehow always seem to instinctively know what is good grammar, without having to think too much about it. Perhaps I just had a good upbringing.
Some of my pet peeves:
I have went to the store.
where's he at?
oh, and "My cousin, THAT lives in the USA."
Your cousin isn't a THAT!!!!!!!! Your cousin is a WHO!!!!!!
PLease excuse my typing. Anytime I appear to be making grammar, spelling, or punctuation errors, it is most likely typing errors.
01 Nov 04
Originally posted by jewlzNo.
Hey, just wondering if any one else is watching the Simpsons halloween episodes 1-12?
Grammar...one of my pet peeves. Which is why I hate people with the
"Hey dwag, whassup in the mof***in' hood?". I hate rap, if they can't talk properly, then shut your freaking mouth.
01 Nov 04
Originally posted by hopscotchYeah, and got confuses non-native English speakers because usually they don't have an equivalent. Certainly they don't in French, which is the language I speak best (apart from English).
I hate the word "got".
Firstly, it's not even a word. Secondly, it's completely redundant.
I've got a nice car = I have got a nice car = I have a nice car.
What a waste of breath.
I don't got a nice car btw, lol.
Another gripe, grammar checkers in MS Word. It always want's to change something that sounds fine to me to something which sounds bizarre.
01 Nov 04
Originally posted by VargIt always confuses its use of pluralised words. Sometimes it even assumes a word is pluralised simply because it ends with the letter 's'.
Yeah, and got confuses non-native English speakers because usually they don't have an equivalent. Certainly they don't in French, which is the language I speak best (apart from English).
Another gripe, grammar checkers in MS Word. It always want's to change something that sounds fine to me to something which sounds bizarre.
Some words that used to really get to me are brang and brung. "I brang it yesterday.", "I brung it to school that day." A teacher of mine said it is fine for little kids to use these words because it shows they are finding patterns in English grammar, which is not easy to do apparently, so I don't mind so much when little kids use the words, but when somebody else who should know better use them, it's like pulling barbed wire through my ears.
01 Nov 04
Originally posted by DreamlaXThat would be an irritation with dialect, not grammar: "Brung" is as legitimate a word as "brought".
...Some words that used to really get to me are brang and brung. "I brang it yesterday.", "I brung it to school that day." A teacher of mine said it is fine for little kids to use these words because it shows they are finding patterns in English grammar, which is not easy to do apparently, so I don't mind so much when little kids use the words, but when somebody else who should know better use them, it's like pulling barbed wire through my ears.
Another pet grieve: commas before conjunctives (when not used to seperate an inserted clause). Do we always have to write in conversational grammar?
