uncle dick’s grammar lesson

[electrycmonk]

My peeve is mixing up "your" and "you're".

I don’t know if this is *wise* but, it seems to keep me safe: when you’re ready it’s your turn.

… or some such variable….

 

[sourland]

What a burden to be perfect in an imperfect world. 'They' just don't understand.

 

[Shadrach]

Wouldn't it be lovely if the people who worried so much about grammer, spelling and punctuation worried more about the content rather than the delivery.
Most of what gets written doesn't get any better just because the spelling and grammer is correct.

 

[DickMidnight]

Wouldn't it be lovely if the people who worried so much about grammer, spelling and punctuation worried more about the content rather than the delivery.
Most of what gets written doesn't get any better just because the spelling and grammer is correct.

anyone writing anything thinks that it’s worth writing. and surely if it’s worth writing, it’s worth writing correctly.

the value of content is subjective and relative.

 

[sourland]

Depends.

 

[DickMidnight]

I don’t know if this is *wise* but, it seems to keep me safe: when you’re ready it’s your turn.

… or some such variable….

removing the contraction in your head helps a lot.

keeping “you’re” as “you are” in your head helps to keep you from mixing them up when you write them

 

[DickMidnight]

Depends.

depending is integral to the definition of subjectivity and relativity.

 

[topochico225]

It’s like when kids used to ask “can I go to the bathroom?” in school and some of the teachers would go “I don’t know, can you?”

The pure indignation that phrase spawned in me when I was in school

 

[topochico225]

My mom has been a grammar teacher for going on 30 years, so I’ve had proper grammar drilled into me my whole life. Doesn’t mean I still use it, though

 

[DickMidnight]

My mom has been a grammar teacher for going on 30 years, so I’ve had proper grammar drilled into me my whole life. Doesn’t mean I still use it, though

my hat’s off to your mom. she’s fighting a losing battle.