I have decided to take a league of absence

[Mojoed]

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei
"on queue"
or
"on que"

haha

"I think it adds a little flare" Not hardly. "Flair" maybe.
"Peaked my curiosity" is another one that really aggravates me.

Actually you have to see those written out to know they're using the wrong word.

^ The CEO at the last company I worked for always spelled "queue" as "Q".

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: her209
From Cartalk.com

The Joys of Being a Teacher

Actual answers and spelling on a 6th grade history test:

1. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.

2. Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand." Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.

3. Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. They believe the assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.

4. Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German half Italian and half English. He was very large.

5. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.

6. The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx Brothers.

lmao, those are hilarious.

The only one I would add that hasn't already been mentioned is misuse of affect and effect. It isn't nearly as annoying as some of the others mentioned here, but I cringe every time I see someone use the wrong one.

 

[pyonir]

Saying medium when you mean median.

 

[DeadByDawn]

Had a guy in computer class that said "Jiggabytes" instead of Gigabytes.

I know a few people that say "Alltimers" instead of Alzheimers

 

[imported_LoKe]

Duck tape. =/

 

[Mojoed]

Originally posted by: LoKe
Duck tape. =/

I hear ya, but Duck Tape is an actual brand now.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: Mojoed

Originally posted by: LoKe
Duck tape. =/

I hear ya, but Duck Tape is an actual brand now.

Oh God.

 

[Mojoed]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: Mojoed

Originally posted by: LoKe
Duck tape. =/

I hear ya, but Duck Tape is an actual brand now.

Oh God.

Not sure if you misunderstood me or not.

To clarify, I agree with you. I can't stand when people say Duck tape either even though it is a real brand.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: Mojoed
Not sure if you misunderstood me or not.

Oh no, I got ya. I just think it's horrible that now people will continue saying it with products to back it up, even though they're actually wrong.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: LoKe
Duck tape. =/

Along the same lines, I can't stand it when people say give me a:

Coke/Pepsi when they mean soda, soda pop, pop, etc.
Band-Aid when they mean bandage, gauze, etc.
etc.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

"I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian."

 

[Hyperlite]

"that test was crucial"

god i want to blow my brains out when people use crucial like that...lots of high school kids used to, and i've heard it a few times in college.

 

[weeber]

Remember that scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where Indy's father said something along the lines of "...if you goose-stepping morons would read books instead of burn them..."

Well, I had two coworkers who were convinced he said "goose-sniffing" and thought it was extremely funny and weird. I had to have a five minute conversation with them that it was goose-stepping, and then I had to explain what goose-stepping was.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Mojoed
Could of
Should of
Would of

I can't stand any of the above. I don't understand how anyone can make it through high school and STILL make those errors.

I'm normally not a grammer natzee, but it makes me shake my head when I see people type stuff like that.

A lot of times it would be caught if the person was going back and proofing. In forums like this it's very easy to make mistakes like this either by reading as your are typing or simply thinking it.

The people that make these mistakes over and over again though need to be called out.

I have known several chicks using patients to refer to patience.

mute point is a common one like mentioned above.

I made one last week here and got jumped on for 'once and a while'. If I would have read it I would have caught that.

Some posters here have train wrecks of posts though...I blame chemical enhancement though.

The funniest people are the grammar nazis though, most of them (the ones that feed off it) use word to edit their posts or an inline spelling/grammar checker.

 

[Saga]

This isn't rocket surgery.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
The funniest people are the grammar nazis though, most of them (the ones that feed off it) use word to edit their posts or an inline spelling/grammar checker.

I have Firefox underline my spelling errors, but it obviously doesn't help with grammar. Sometimes I get ahead of myself and misspell words, not simply misuse them. An example: wokr instead of work.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Originally posted by: Hyperlite
"that test was crucial"

god i want to blow my brains out when people use crucial like that...lots of high school kids used to, and i've heard it a few times in college.

Crucial \Cru"cial\ (kr?"shal), a. [F. crucial, fr. L. crux, crucis, cross, torture. See Cross.]
1. Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross;
cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial
incision. [1913 Webster]
2. Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross;
decisive; as, a crucial test. [1913 Webster]

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser

Crucial \Cru"cial\ (kr?"shal), a. [F. crucial, fr. L. crux, crucis, cross, torture. See Cross.]
1. Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross;
cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial
incision. [1913 Webster]
2. Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross;
decisive; as, a crucial test. [1913 Webster]

I think he means to say that they're implying it was difficult, not that it was of significant importance.

 

[DangerAardvark]

Originally posted by: Izusaga
This isn't rocket surgery.

That's usually intentional. Like "bass ackwards" or "Alfred Einstein".

 

[Wag]

People pronounce the "t" in "often". I'd like to throttle them.

 

[PowerEngineer]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: Mojoed

Originally posted by: LoKe
Duck tape. =/

I hear ya, but Duck Tape is an actual brand now.

Oh God.

Actually, you'll find that what we now commonly call "duct" tape was orginally developed during WWII to help seal ammunition cases, and was dubbed "duck" tape for the way ot shed water.

Here's a Link and you can google others.

As to the purpose of this thread, the way that people often use "mute" when they mean "moot" always grates on me.

 

[aphex]

'Near Miss' always bothers me.... Shouldn't it be 'Near Hit"?

 

[DangerAardvark]

The League of Absence has issued a non-binding resolution condemnding this thread as a grammatical genocide.

 

[biggestmuff]

daffy at hell

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Originally posted by: Shawn
I have never heard anyone say league of absence.

Me either.