A brief whine about grammar.

[echoofformless]

Look I don't want to sound like an old fussabout, nor do I want to be that guy who points out others' slight grammatical mistakes....but there are two specific things that lately have just been annoying the poo out of me when I read forum posts.

The single most annoying thing on this topic is this incessant use of apostrophes where they do not belong. "Is it safe to keep frog's with my gourami's?" "Should I go with two Penguin's or two Aquaclear's?" "There are now several Flourite's available." This crap is annoying me. Is it that difficult to understand the difference between the use of the letter S in making a word possessive, and the use of the letter S in making a word plural? When in doubt, leave the apostrophe out!

The other is: "this is a whole nother topic." No. No it is NOT a whole nother topic. It's a whole other topic. There is no such word as "nother." Never has been; never will be. The word "another" is a compound of "an" and "other." As in, "I will have an other beer." (Which obviously I need right now.) It isn't, "I will have a nother beer." "I just drank a whole other beer. Now give me yet another one!"

I have tolerated all sorts of errors in my day - from double negatives, to the neglect for the difference between less and fewer, to horrid misspellings and even to biting my tongue when someone can't figure out the difference between what it is they're doing over there with their there. But I'm sorry, I'm just getting plain annoyed with these other two things. Seems I view them as somehow different than the normal grammatical imperfections of the English speaking world. It's like every time I see them, I find it oddly annoying. :wall:

tell me why!

 

[Rbishop]

Echo, you are just being an old fussabout. :grinyes:

 

[Coler]

You are my hero ! You don't need reasons why - When the revolution comes, these people will be first up against the wall.

 

[Coler]

Echo, you are just being an old fussabout. :grinyes:

'Hello Mr. Pot'

Why, Mr. Kettle, I don't believe we've met'

'Very true - may I enquire as to whether you can tell what colour I am'

'I believe you are black'

'Many thanks - it seems that you too are black'

'That is indeed the case'

'Arn't we just the pair !'

 

[echoofformless]

hahaha nicely played by all.

 

[Lupin]

Echo, you are just being an old fussabout. :grinyes:

:laugh: :laugh:

I have to admit I tend to be fussy with errors but I just tolerate them a bit although deep inside me, I get irritated but hey, we're not perfect beings at all.

 

[echoofformless]

Yeah too true. But for some reason these particular errors just really grate at me. i wish I could understand why it is these over others.

 

[Catpicklesdog]

I know exactly where you're coming from, I get frustrated with the "their, there, they're" errors. What we do have to remember is that English is also not everyones first language on this site and unfortunately these days, the language of texting has arrived which isn't GR8 M8:grinyes:

 

[Reefscape]

I personaly dont have an issue with any of it on the whole, unless its that dang text message speak or the use of "z" instead of "s"...To me its a forum, if i can read a post that has errors in it, i'll read and respond, if i cant read it, i'll either just walk on by or simply ask the poster to reword the post...no biggy...

As already mentioned here, english is not the first language of everyone, and even different countrys who English IS their first language STILL have spelling differences...Such as Color and Colour ( US and British )....

Of course, this is just me....

 

[echoofformless]

omg like if we were irl id be rotflmao! idk peeps cant remember phrases no more got kfc, ihop, kru, pacsun. call newspeak g lookitup in da dic 1984 kinda sit.