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| Writing that really pisses me off But I do have a couple of pet peeves. There are no such words as "irregardless" nor "orientate". (Ooo, those two piss me off! )The phrase is "toe the line", not "tow the line". One "makes contact", not "contacts" - it's not a verb, whether Merriam-Webster thinks so or not. And finally, the correct plural of "octopus" is NOT "octopi" - it's a greek word, not latin, and the correct plural of "pus" is equally "poda" or "puses". It's a shame, I think, that we are losing rigor in language. Besides the loss of appreciation of the wonderfully subtle humor available in poetry and the beauty of a well-stated concept or argument, it leads to a loss of precision in thinking itself - anathema not only to people who specialize in words and literature, but also to technical people like myself, who work in fields requiring the accurate communication of ideas. Anybody have any I haven't heard of? |
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| Re: Writing that really pisses me off While I'm certainly far, far, far away from saying that popular usage equates with correct lingustics, I would like to note that any real hard-line language prescriptivist ought to be using 'thou' a lot more often. |
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| Re: Writing that really pisses me off Speaking of, "thou", I think one should use, "one", alot more often instead of, "you". I think one could use this word, 'one', more often when one refers to instructing other people on what they could do. |
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| Re: Writing that really pisses me off I use thou all the time. I'm afraid 'one' sounds much to 'Royal Family' for me. Bring back 'verily' 'forsooth' and 'poontang' |
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| Re: Writing that really pisses me off Quote:
Ongoing evolution of language is to be encouraged. |
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Aren't you going to nail me for ending the sentence with a preposition? |
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| Re: Writing that really pisses me off Quote:
That doesn't mean that we can whittle down to only one version of every simple homonym (their are to many reasons not to), but not allowing words to expand to different parts of speech is decidedly old-school prescriptivist. |
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| Re: Writing that really pisses me off This thread can be quite useful to me being a teacher of English and all that... I like it. |
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| Re: Writing that really pisses me off My biggest, as you all know, is misuse of the word irony. Also, anytime you use the verb "where" in a question, following it with "at" is redundant. |
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| Re: Writing that really pisses me off BOAB should of posted in this thread by now. |
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| Re: Writing that really pisses me off I am rather surprised that no one has mentioned grocer's apostrophe's. |
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