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I've seen too much of this on here lately, and for a bunch of neurotic pre-meds/med students, we should know better.

Your: used when talking about possessiveness

You're: contraction of you are

Correct
Who's your daddy.
Incorrect
Who's you're daddy.
Correct
You're stupid.
Incorrect
Your stupid.

Is this a pet peeve of anyone else?
 
their still not gonna figure out there mistake.
 
Ursa said:
I've seen too much of this on here lately, and for a bunch of neurotic pre-meds/med students, we should know better.

Your: used when talking about possessiveness

You're: contraction of you are

Correct
Who's your daddy.
Incorrect
Who's you're daddy.
Correct
You're stupid.
Incorrect
Your stupid.

Is this a pet peeve of anyone else?
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+1

Someone had something along these lines in their sig and I almost quoted it in mine. S/he had they're/there/their, to/too/two, etc.

But yeah, Catholic school grinds proper grammar and spelling into your bones, whether you like it or not.
 
Unfortunately I feel this is an unbeatable problem though it annoys me as well. This goes right along with not capitalizing "I" and people not knowing the difference between "its" and "it's".

With any luck they'll continue this right into their applications and personal statements and make my life perhaps a little easier.
 
courtnes said:
+1

Someone had something along these lines in their sig and I almost quoted it in mine. S/he had they're/there/their, to/too/two, etc.

But yeah, Catholic school grinds proper grammar and spelling into your bones, whether you like it or not.
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eablackwell said:
Also:

You advise someone. You give someone advice.

Drives me crazy.
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I like that I'm not the only one who has noticed these things.
 
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s1lver said:
Lettuce discuss other frequently misspelled words. Minus whale do it while on this topic. This should of been stickied, IMO.
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Haha, I have to admit... I'm guilty of a few of these grammar issues, especially "into" 😱
 
Ursa said:
I like that I'm not the only one who has noticed these things.
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I think this is just another side effect of anonymity on internet forums, just like the crazy MD vs. DO flame wars but much more insidious. You don't have to care about having proper spelling/grammar/etc. on the nets.

Though to be honest, it's only within the past hundred years or so that people have really begun to care about proper spelling.
 
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Question: What spelling or grammar atrocities do you personally commit?
 
Why does it matter on an online forum? Unless the post is completely incomprehensible, why crack down on "you're vs your" or "its vs it's"?

I type 'your' sometimes for convenience.
 
I don't think you necessarily have to be a grammar nazi for this type of thing to bug you. I'm definitely not following people around correcting their grammar mid-thread. If I did that I wouldn't have had time to fill out my AMCAS...or sleep. 😉 However, there are still some word issues that irk me. I'm not trying to be a jerk about it. 🙄
 
s1lver said:
Lettuce discuss other frequently misspelled words. Minus whale do it while on this topic. This should of been stickied, IMO.
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courtnes said:
I think this is just another side effect of anonymity on internet forums, just like the crazy MD vs. DO flame wars but much more insidious. You don't have to care about having proper spelling/grammar/etc. on the nets.

Though to be honest, it's only within the past hundred years or so that people have really begun to care about proper spelling.
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Agreed with the above. And I don't mind abbreviations like FWIW and IMO. But if someone used "you're" when it should have been "your", that wasn't to save time or letters, it was just [insert insult here].
 
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Forget spelling online.

Mispronunciations in speech really piss me off-- whether it's really common vernacular or "big vocabulary words." Isn't it funny to see someone say a word they've only read, and say it wrong or use it in the improper context?
 
When in doubt just use the unabbreviated form. Easier to write out "you are" than worry about looking like a fool by using the abbreviated form wrongly.
 
It's not about grammar Nazis and following a bunch of stupid, meaningless rules.

It's about how well you present yourself to others. The higher quality your posts are, the greater impact they'll have on others. IMO poor grammar makes you look lazy, and it's no different than using poor grammar in spoken conversation.
 
Salient said:
It's not about grammar Nazis and following a bunch of stupid, meaningless rules.

It's about how well you present yourself to others. The higher quality your posts are, the greater impact they'll have on others. IMO poor grammar makes you look lazy. It's no different than using poor grammar in spoken conversation.
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You don't use slang at all? Am I the only one that greets people by saying "What it is?" :laugh:
 
s1lver said:
Lettuce discuss other frequently misspelled words. Minus whale do it while on this topic. This should of been stickied, IMO.
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I think I caught everyone of those mistakes 😛
 
iniquus said:
You don't use slang at all? Am I the only one that greets people by saying "What it is?" :laugh:
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Sure, I say "What's up," but I PUT A ------- apostrophe in it!

Kidding. Sort of.

I'm not saying you have to go around speaking like you should be wearing a monocle, but how hard is it to use their/they're/your/you're/i.e./e.g./etc. properly?
 
Salient said:
Sure, I say "What's up," but I PUT A ------- apostrophe in it!

Kidding. Sort of.

I'm not saying you have to go around speaking like you should be wearing a monocle, but how hard is it to use their/they're/your/you're/i.e./e.g./etc. properly?
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Avoid the apostrophe altogether.

It's not "What's up?" It's "What up?" God. 😀
 
Or just avoid the "what" and the space to get 'sup 😀
 
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rafflecopter said:
Question: What spelling or grammar atrocities do you personally commit?
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Probably more than allowable to be the starter of this thread! lol

But my grandmother was a genius and stickler, and she always corrected my grammar. The woman translated the Greek Concordance into Spanish. 😱
 
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Besides the common ones already mentioned, my pet peeves are:

1. less/fewer
2. Adjective/adverb e.g. Jack runs slower than Jill.

Both of these really grate on my ears, but I tend not to correct people.
 
i could care less about this thread
 
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haha! u have those backwards. looks like you need to work on you're english or your gonna be in some trouble down the road.
 
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These are definately annoying but its not worth loosing your temper. Just sit back and breath.
 
bleargh said:
it annoys me mainly because it's a logic issue. to me it says the person doesn't think about what s/he is saying.
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ME TOO!! I hate this. And it's in books, songs, movies...everywhere.

Another one that bugs me is when people say, "case and point." No. Case in point.
 
bleargh said:
i could care less about this thread
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How much less?
Another one that bothers me is mixing up "affect" and "effect." One school even had the mixup in two straight years even though the question was changed from one year to the next.
 
Some of these gaffs come from being lazy or inattentive.

The ones I don't get are those who are foreign-born, who seemingly get 70 % of the way into learning English and then stop. No further improvement occurs in usage, grammar, or accent.

They write the way they talk, easy to pick them out.
 
Musclemass said:
Some of these gaffs come from being lazy or inattentive.

The ones I don't get are those who are foreign-born, who seemingly get 70 % of the way into learning English and then stop. No further improvement occurs in usage, grammar, or accent.

They write the way they talk, easy to pick them out.
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What is there not to get? Like English is super easy to learn, especially later in life? And accents can just go away?
 
Ridiculous being spelled rediculous is one of my pet peeves along with people saying that something happened "on accident" instead of "by accident."

Another big one is people using the word "that" instead of "who" when the antecedent is a person:

Right:
The man who robbed the bank was wearing green.
Wrong:
The man that robbed the bank was wearing green.
Very Wrong:
They need to do way instain mother>
 
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