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Old 14-08-2011, 03:42 AM   #1
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A pet peeve....

It's ETC for et cetera.

ECT is for electro-convulsive therapy!

That is all.

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Old 14-08-2011, 04:09 AM   #2
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I totally agree.






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Old 14-08-2011, 04:20 AM   #3
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shocking!

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Old 14-08-2011, 06:19 AM   #4
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AHEM!

Use there when referring to a place.
Use their to indicate possession.
They're is a contraction of the words "they" and "are".

Your is a possessive form of you.
You're is a contraction of the words "you" and "are"

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Old 14-08-2011, 06:43 AM   #5
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People who say "would of" instead of "would've" go to the ninth circle of grammar hell.



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Old 14-08-2011, 07:32 AM   #6
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^^ that



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Old 14-08-2011, 07:36 AM   #7
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shocking!
Ha ha.



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Old 14-08-2011, 07:37 AM   #8
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No. But you can borrow my book.



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Old 14-08-2011, 09:59 AM   #9
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Alot = wrong
A lot = right

It's such a simple thing but people get it so wrong!

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Old 14-08-2011, 11:26 AM   #10
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People have been writing ect?
Haha, oh dear.




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Old 14-08-2011, 11:49 AM   #11
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A little part of me shrivels up when I see 'ect', I'll be a huge prune soon!

As for the 'would of/would have', I can stand 'would of' more in speech, because they practically sound the same, and we are becoming lazy with language, but in written form, please for the love of chocolate, get it right.

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Old 14-08-2011, 12:34 PM   #12
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I would of learnt grammar better at school but their was no incentive for me to botther attending classes



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Old 14-08-2011, 12:41 PM   #13
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"Give it me."

THAT IS NOT A SENTENCE.




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Old 14-08-2011, 12:42 PM   #14
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I would of learnt grammar better at school but their was no incentive for me to botther attending classes
I take it that having good facility of the English language, which would benefit you in numerous areas throughout the rest of your life wasn't an incentive!




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Old 14-08-2011, 12:46 PM   #15
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Lack. Of. Apostrophes.

Oh and when someone types like this without commas or full stops or anything in the sentence to slow your reading down which causes you to read the entire sentence really fast and forget a lot of information and therefore have to read the sentence again but mentally put in commas and full stops so it makes more sense I hate people who do that so badly they deserve to be punched in the face really hard
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Old 14-08-2011, 12:47 PM   #16
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I take it that having good facility of the English language, which would benefit you in numerous areas throughout the rest of your life, wasn't an incentive!




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Old 14-08-2011, 12:48 PM   #17
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I take it that having good facility of the English language, which would benefit you in numerous areas throughout the rest of your life wasn't an incentive!

My post was a joke; I deliberately put in a couple of grammar mistakes because people mentioned them as pet peeves in this thread.



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It depends whether I'd have wanted a pause there or not, which I didn't lol.
Pedantic or what..




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My post was a joke; I deliberately put in a couple of grammar mistakes because people mentioned them as pet peeves in this thread.
Ahh.




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Old 14-08-2011, 12:52 PM   #20
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Excessive use of full stops, and having them after each word for emphasis.

This annoys me greatly.



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