FabSwingers.com forum: grammar snob!

By *aughty2foryou OP Couple
over a year ago

Devon/Cornwall

Anyone else like to get on their high horse about poor grammar and spellings? Or am I just a miserable git? (Tiny would say the latter!)

What are your pet hates? Mine are: "defiantly" instead of "definitely" and "could of" instead of "could have".

Let the snobbery commence

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nah,loadsa other's are the same as you. Its helpful for me cos I don't meet ole stick in the muds.

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By *hekaiserMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Lack of paragraphs really irritates me!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Well you'd have had a field day with me today but I have consumed at least three too many

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Misuse of apostrophes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Word Crimes

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

-Courtney

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If an initial message is full of incorrect grammar and punctuation I delete. I know it will annoy me further on down the line and I wouldn't be able to sit on my hands.

#teacherproblems

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't forget though that some are caused by predictive text, especially on a blimin iPhone!

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

"Misuse of apostrophes.

Don't watch the new Man from UNCLE film...

I admit I'm fairly particular about SPAG, although it's more OCD than snobbery.... and I try and overlook obvious typo's in immediate comms like forum posts - mainly due to the number I make while typing on my phone.

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By *ensualtouch15Man
over a year ago

ashby de la zouch

"Lack of paragraphs really irritates me!"

A lack of paragraphs really irritate me!

Or should it have been

A lack of paragraphs, really irritate me!

Or one must accept my horse is higher than yours except when one falls off xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There, their, they're, easy enough but so many get them wrong. The others include could of instead of could have or text speak.

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

"Word Crimes

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

-Courtney"

Weird Al preaching to the inconvertible...

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By *aughty2foryou OP Couple
over a year ago

Devon/Cornwall

There's a brilliant one called grammar nazi by David Mitchell! Oh and this is supposed to be a slightly tongue in cheek thing, please don't get offended

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Deal

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

With

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

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By *ensualtouch15Man
over a year ago

ashby de la zouch

"Lack of paragraphs really irritates me!

A lack of paragraphs really irritate me!

Or should it have been

A lack of paragraphs, really irritate me!

Or one must accept my horse is higher than yours except when one falls off xx"

It irritates me when those not as clever as wot I is don't use paragraphs as they wos learnt

Am you dyslexic. I were

I'm rather forgiving of spelling and grammar although it can sometimes can rise a wry smile xx

Much love though

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By *aughty2foryou OP Couple
over a year ago

Devon/Cornwall

Quickly checks own post for misuse of apostrophes etc.

It is ironic when, being such a stickler, you fall into autocorrect territory...even worse, having fabswingers.Co.UK in your phone dictionary! Can't tell you how many people have nearly received that in a text!

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By *mudg3rMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

[Removed by poster at 12/11/15 23:36:38]

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Pedants' Corner

Pedant's Corner

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By *aughty2foryou OP Couple
over a year ago

Devon/Cornwall

I can see myself on that programme Grumpy Old Men. Some say it gets worse with age too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lack of paragraphs really irritates me!"

You could say.

A shortage of correctly parsed phrases, in written communication.

Is one of the things that phases me.

Of course it is equally annoying to find forced paragraphs, when none are required.

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By *mudg3rMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"Anyone else like to get on their high horse about poor grammar and spellings? Or am I just a miserable git? (Tiny would say the latter!)

What are your pet hates? Mine are: "defiantly" instead of "definitely" and "could of" instead of "could have".

Let the snobbery commence

The exclamation mark should come after the bracket.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

"Anyone else like to get on their high horse about poor grammar and spellings? Or am I just a miserable git? (Tiny would say the latter!)

What are your pet hates? Mine are: "defiantly" instead of "definitely" and "could of" instead of "could have".

Let the snobbery commence

The exclamation mark should come after the bracket. "

I know, there's some shockingly poor grammar, spelling and syntax in this thread.

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By *mudg3rMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"If an initial message is full of incorrect grammar and punctuation I delete. I know it will annoy me further on down the line and I wouldn't be able to sit on my hands.

#teacherproblems"

Comma after the word punctuation.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If an initial message is full of incorrect grammar and punctuation I delete. I know it will annoy me further on down the line and I wouldn't be able to sit on my hands.

#teacherproblems

Comma after the word punctuation. "

Comma, after the word comma.

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By *aughty2foryou OP Couple
over a year ago

Devon/Cornwall

"Anyone else like to get on their high horse about poor grammar and spellings? Or am I just a miserable git? (Tiny would say the latter!)

What are your pet hates? Mine are: "defiantly" instead of "definitely" and "could of" instead of "could have".

Let the snobbery commence

The exclamation mark should come after the bracket. "

Only if the brackets had been embedded within a sentence

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By *mudg3rMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"If an initial message is full of incorrect grammar and punctuation I delete. I know it will annoy me further on down the line and I wouldn't be able to sit on my hands.

#teacherproblems

Comma after the word punctuation.

Comma, after the word comma.

Incorrect.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Anyone else like to get on their high horse about poor grammar and spellings? Or am I just a miserable git? (Tiny would say the latter!)

What are your pet hates? Mine are: "defiantly" instead of "definitely" and "could of" instead of "could have".

Let the snobbery commence

Nope , we are here to meet like minded people for NSA sexual encounters , and don't really give a fuck about whether they can spell correctly

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over a year ago

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By *aughty2foryou OP Couple
over a year ago

Devon/Cornwall

"Anyone else like to get on their high horse about poor grammar and spellings? Or am I just a miserable git? (Tiny would say the latter!)

What are your pet hates? Mine are: "defiantly" instead of "definitely" and "could of" instead of "could have".

Let the snobbery commence

Nope , we are here to meet like minded people for NSA sexual encounters , and don't really give a fuck about whether they can spell correctly

So I am just a miserable git! Damn!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Comma after the word punctuation.

Comma, after the word comma.

Incorrect. "

But funny

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

isumtymes fink stuff asswell. al fose fick twots myke me now how kleverr iam.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Pedants' Corner

Pedant's Corner

How many pedants are in that corner?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

6.3742961

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By *oderndaylivesCouple
over a year ago

Bristol

"carnt"

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I'm not a snob about it and if I struggle to make sense of something, I would eventually give up. My writing is often fairly low standard - especially when I'm tired and using my phone with autocorrect and predictions that I fail to manage.

There are lovely people out there who don't speak in the same way that they write. It's sad to write them off, purely out of our rigidity or intolerance.

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

"If an initial message is full of incorrect grammar and punctuation I delete. I know it will annoy me further on down the line and I wouldn't be able to sit on my hands.

#teacherproblems

Comma after the word punctuation.

Comma, after the word comma.

Incorrect. "

That's very poor sentence construction.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If an initial message is full of incorrect grammar and punctuation I delete. I know it will annoy me further on down the line and I wouldn't be able to sit on my hands.

#teacherproblems"

Totally agree

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

"If an initial message is full of incorrect grammar and punctuation I delete. I know it will annoy me further on down the line and I wouldn't be able to sit on my hands.

#teacherproblems"

How many people have offered to let you sit on their hands instead?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think we use far too much punctuation; I'm going to start rationing mine.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If an initial message is full of incorrect grammar and punctuation I delete. I know it will annoy me further on down the line and I wouldn't be able to sit on my hands.

#teacherproblems"
wish I had a teacher that hot

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

"I think we use far too much punctuation; I'm going to start rationing mine."

That's o.k., we're all happy to pick up the slack; wouldn't you be grateful?!

/:;';:/:;'::"";;!?!?!???!

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By *ohnaronMan
over a year ago

london

I loathe those who use methodology instead of method to try to sound more imposing.

Methodology is the STUDY of methods.

Never trust any writer who talks about the methodology he employed. He is just an ignorant, pretentious, bull shitter.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My grammar is terrible but do you know what? As long as I get my point across I'm not to fussed!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Loose instead of lose, because i'm not sure how to spell lose when i first think about it. I used to know but the internet has brain washed me into not being sure.

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By *mudg3rMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"Comma after the word punctuation.

Comma, after the word comma.

Incorrect.

But funny

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