Grammer Class is Open...

[OkeeDon]

Eschew obfuscation.

 

[v8dave]

How did all of you miss two of my favorties.

duel and dual
steel and steal

 

[daedong]

hobbyfarm,

Fair dinkum mate, would you like to head a new forum called inglish for drongos

 

[Hank]

<font color="purple"> Just one of my pet peeves...........
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Your loosing it /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

My all time favorite, seen in an online forum, was "very close veins".

 

[JDGREEN4ME]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Its not how you say it, its what you say that matters )</font>
AMEN! I worked for twenty years with a person who could tell you all of the errors on a memo but didn't have a clue what the memo said!

 

[mark777]

While I lived in the south for a short time, my daughter had a big problem with her third grade teacher......I finally went to meet with her and discuss the problem. After brief introductions she said "The onliest thing Nicole does is sits around and looks out the winder"

I felt like I just had a long conversation with Festus Haggans Wife (Gunsmoke).

We sold the house and moved six weeks later.
Mark

 

[PineRidge]

I think this whole thread is a mute point, or was that moot? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Dargo]

Tdog, ROFLMAO! See, doesn't that sound better. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Shall we start now about dangling participles? Gees, that one really gets me! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif The first time I had a report marked up for me having a dangling participle I wuz reddy to open a can of whoop a$$ on that prof! Uh, oh. Did I slip?

Before someone takes this wrong, a participle is a word that looks like a verb, but functions like an adjective. Anybody have some examples? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Here is a better one, has anybody ever ask you "what is your gender"? If so, you should reply that you do not have a gender, but you do have a ***; either male or female. There are three possible answers to a question of gender. The possible values of gender are masculine, feminine or neuter. Therefore, the proper use of the word "gender" is to classify nouns and pronouns as masculine, feminine, or neuter; he/she, him/her, or it. Clear? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Yeah, I'm quite aware that some people now accept the word "gender" to be interchangable with the word "***". However, to be correct, it isn't.

Therefore, the question of "gender" has nothing to do whatsoever with a dangling participle. Got it? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Man, do I love humor on proper English! You guys know I'm just a total ball when some stuffy "intellectual" or "academecian" is giving a public speech and butchers the English language. That is when they are fair game! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[EastTexFrank]

I'd hate to play Scrabble with some of you guys.

 

[MossRoad]

<font color="blue"> We didn’t put a man on the moon because of spelling….. </font>

Actually, with all the code that was in the programming for the lunar missions, we DID put a man on the moon because of spelling.