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09-13-2014, 06:29 AM
One mark of an educated person is knowing your homonyms and using the right word.
I can't help it, when I see mistakes in these words, I discount the writer's intelligence.
Using the right word in a phrase is an indication of education.
First, you start with knowing how to use its/it's, your/you're, who's/whose - the common ones.
There are a lot of other traps, for example:
discrete/discreet
peak/peek/pique
rain/rein/reign
tow/toe
principal / principle
roll / role
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09-13-2014, 06:40 AM
quiet / quite
creak / creek
"Imagine" by HCE | Hitler reacts to Battle of Montreal | An alternative use for
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09-13-2014, 07:05 AM
council/counsel
Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.
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09-13-2014, 07:08 AM
Who / Whom
Even smart people gave up on that one.
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09-13-2014, 07:22 AM
It's a pet peeve of mind to see people write t "loose". As in, I am going to loose the bet.
loose/lose
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09-13-2014, 07:34 AM
Affect/effect
Than/then
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09-13-2014, 09:14 AM
Faze / phase
Revel in / relish in (first is correct)
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09-13-2014, 01:20 PM
Quote: (09-13-2014 07:08 AM)frenchie Wrote:
Who / Whom
Even smart people gave up on that one.
I know one dude on the RVF (one of my all time favorite posters) who will revel in
WHOM like nobody's business and will never let a
WHOM faze him.
same old shit, sixes and sevens Shaft...
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09-13-2014, 03:21 PM
I'm assuming this is mostly for people who speak english as a second language? I rarely see these errors.
I will be checking my PMs weekly, so you can catch me there. I will not be posting.
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09-13-2014, 03:31 PM
further and farther, are they interchangeable?
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09-13-2014, 03:34 PM
See this in the manosphere all the fucking time.
Dominant / Dominate
"Be more dominate"
"Spurs were dominate in 2013-2014"
"The whole point of being alpha, is doing what the fuck you want.
That's why you see real life alphas without chicks. He's doing him.
Real alphas don't tend to have game. They don't tend to care about the emotional lives of the people around them."
-WIA
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09-13-2014, 03:51 PM
Quote: (09-13-2014 03:31 PM)Cunnilinguist Wrote:
further and farther, are they interchangeable?
No.
"Farther" is the comparative form of "far", so "farther" just means "more far than" just as "smaller" means "more small than".
Does this go far enough for you?
No, it needs go much farther than that.
"Further" is an adjective meaning "another" or "additional", or occasionally an expression meaning "also" or "additionally".
This adds a further complication, as if things weren't bad enough already.
Or,
Further. Another point that must be made is...
same old shit, sixes and sevens Shaft...
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09-13-2014, 03:51 PM
To/too
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09-13-2014, 04:00 PM
Lizard, thanks for the clarification. I've heard both being used when talking about distance as in, "Main st. is further/farther up that way".
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09-13-2014, 04:43 PM
Yeah, I was raised in the 80s and never taught proper grammar despite receiving what would otherwise be considered a stellar education. I learned it along the way but I still make a lot of mistakes when I'm writing quickly. That said there are some 'rules' in classically taught grammar that don't really hold up anymore (e.g. the split infinitive, never ending a sentence with a preposition, etc.). Garner's Modern American Usage is a great resource for learning how to properly use language for effective communication.
I will say that I will judge anybody who uses 'begs the question' when they really mean 'raises the question'. Begging the question is a form of logical fallacy.
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09-14-2014, 11:05 AM
bridal / bridle
capital / capitol
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09-14-2014, 12:35 PM
sight / site / cite
right / rite