I'm not the grammar police, but...

[Sideways&Smiling]

Originally Posted by roddy

break pads.

Yup, this is another one I see all the time. It's BRAKES, FFS!!!

[pushrod]

Originally Posted by Sideways&Smiling

Ugh, I just saw this. I really hope this was you just being ironic. lol

I'll never tell

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

You of all people should know better than to do blind copy and pastes.
Both spellings are correct depending on which part of the world you come from.
"Check" isn't mis-spelt unless you are meaning to write "cheque".
Most words ending in an unstressed -our in British English end in -or in American English.

It was a joke. A poke at our U.S. brethren.
Therefore the heading of "Proper / Improper".
Didn't really expect anybody to actually read the whole thing.

[Poodles]

Only one that seems to grind my gears is "your" and "you're."


Though I do get a kick out of people spelling "cologne" as "colon."

[stugray]

Originally Posted by pushrod

People that lack perfect grammar are loosers and will never get anywhere in life.

I agree with you 100%. I honestly think I have gotten where I am because I speak very well in front of others (large meetings filled with highly technical engineer types)
When you speak to someone for the very first time, the image the other person creates of you is biased by how you speak.
If you sound like an idiot that doesn't understand the meaning of the word grammar, then you will be labeled as an idiot forever, regardless of your technical skill.

It took me YEARS to get my wife to stop saying " I seen this lady today that was driving like an ass....."
No you didnt SEEN her!

[cdrazic93]

Good lord stu, good for you. That would drive me insane

[Tcoat]

In complete fairness to many on here (and the internet in general) English is not their first language. I speak, read and write French but I bet my grammar and spelling is an atrocity to those that speak it as their native tongue. Can I get my message across and be totally understood? Most certainly. Am I going to sound like an uneducated backwoods rube to those that speak it all the time? Also, most certainly.


I always get a chuckle out of the whole "everybody should speak English" thing coming out of somebody with a regional accent and dialect that is almost incomprehensible to me (looking at you southern USA and Canadian east coast).
There is textbook grammar and there is regional grammar and they do not always mesh perfectly.


The whole concept of classical grammar is getting turned on it's ear with the internet and texting anyway, so what us older guys were taught is already becoming old fashioned. We do not talk, spell or use the same exact same grammar as only 100 years ago so expecting it to stay exactly the same is out of the question.

[strat61caster]

I can't tell you how many engineering students bitched about a communications class that really really needed a more intensive course than a few hours lecture about technique and 2-3 graded speeches.
@stugray and @Tcoat know it doesn't matter if you've solved world hunger if you're the only person who knows.

As for internet trolling I usually let most spelling and sentence structure stuff go but I pipe up on incorrect idioms and words that are confused, seems to stem from hearing the phrases in conversation vs. me being an antisocial bookworm who read the phrase before I heard it.

wring/ring
wrack/rack

Those two come up a fair amount around here.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

I can't tell you how many engineering students bitched about a communications class that really really needed a more intensive course than a few hours lecture about technique and 2-3 graded speeches.
@stugray and @Tcoat know it doesn't matter if you've solved world hunger if you're the only person who knows.

As for internet trolling I usually let most spelling and sentence structure stuff go but I pipe up on incorrect idioms and words that are confused. This habit seems to stem from hearing the phrases in conversation vs. me being an antisocial bookworm who read the phrase before I heard it.

wring/ring
wrack/rack

Those two come up a fair amount around here.

FIFY


Oh don't get me wrong there are many things I read and hear that just make me shake my head. My point really was that even people that think their grammar is perfect for regional or contemporary reasons can seem/be wrong and there is really no point in making a big deal about it on the internet.

[daiheadjai]

Originally Posted by Sideways&Smiling

Yup, this is another one I see all the time. It's BRAKES, FFS!!!

That's a heartbraker

[Tcoat]

Then and than

[Captain Snooze]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

We do not talk, spell or use the same exact same grammar as only 10 years ago...

Fixed.

[Captain Snooze]

The error that probably gets to me the most is people using "oh" for "zero". "Oh" is a letter not a number though I think using oh instead of zero is so entrenched there is no hope. I think some people find it weird when I say Peugeot two zero six not two oh six.

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

FIFY


Oh don't get me wrong there are many things I read and hear that just make me shake my head. My point really was that even people that think their grammar is perfect for regional or contemporary reasons can seem/be wrong and there is really no point in making a big deal about it on the internet.

There's a difference between habitual idiosyncrasies "I seen him" and things that are just plain using the wrong words that don't make contextual sense "Intensive purposes" "You need to ring this motor out" "I've been racking my brain"