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[dnt107]

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Let me just put this out there because it is a huge pet peeve of mine when people screw this up. I'm not doing it to be malicious, just trying to education my future colleagues...

Two definitions:

-Subjective: adj. 1. of, existing within, or resulting from an individual's own thoughts, emotions, interests, etc.; personal.

-Objective: adj. 1. free from personal feelings, prejudice, etc.; unbiased. 2. pertaining to what is independent of the mind; real.

I noticed on a few threads people have been switching the two.

Cheers,
DNT

 

[EpiII]

Maybe people mix the two up because they are using subjective definitions of these words and not the objective definitions that you retrieved for us from the dictionary. 🙂

 

[imtiaz]

hehehe! 🙂

 

[Cerberus]

LOL, I almost posted something on this earlier.

 

[Doctora Foxy]

haha... I was thinking the same thing...thank you for posting 😀

 

[quake]

Yep, I wanted to explain the proper use of objective/subjective to some SDNers too 🙂

 

[Bevo]

lol! I remember getting lost in the car with a friend of mine and discussing this.

 

[Jedi In Training]

Who cares about objective/subjective. We are going to learn that in medical school when we are taught about the S.O.A.P. acronym. The REAL life-changing issue is the proper use of affect vs effect.

 

[Street Philosopher]

this thread didn't make me a better person. you lied.

 

[megkudos]

This is kinda along the same lines and is a pet peeve of mine....

When people don't write TWO words for "a lot".

alot or allot are slang, and though I guess of course it doesn't matter if we use slang on SDN I see this all the time (not only here) and it bugs me 🙂 It's two words people! Whew, I feel better now that I got that out.

 

[LizardKing]

yes, a_lot of people don't know that you can say, "the person effected change," without breaking any rules of grammar.

•••quote:•••Originally posted by Jedi In Training:
•Who cares about objective/subjective. We are going to learn that in medical school when we are taught about the S.O.A.P. acronym. The REAL life-changing issue is the proper use of affect vs effect.•••••

 

[dnt107]

fine this post didn't make anyone a better person, but if even one person has been effected 🙂 by this post, then I can sleep well tonight.