"versus"

[gryeyes]

it's coop not coup. And coupe is for cars.

It's wattles, not waddles. Ducks waddle. Roosters have wattles.

And while I'm at it, it's "its" without an apostrophe for singular thing possessive, and "it's" with an apostrophe to show the contraction of "it" and "is."

A ladder can be used to climb buildings or into trees, but latter means "the one after" something already mentioned.

I could go on and on. And probably will, later.

 

[Kaitie09]

wht i rly cant stnd r the ppl who type like this...

I'm always reading a Craigslist post where someone is trying to sell something while typing like that. Can't you just add the extra letters? I don't think it's that hard to type out a whole word.

 

[thaiturkey]

I understand your frustration but none of us is perfect.

Oh, do avoid beginning a sentence with 'And' when commenting on grammatical accuracy.

I try to overlook irritating grammatical and spelling errors because I'm not perfect myself, even though I was taught original English. What does bug me on any community forum is obvious failure to check what has been written before posting. It's discourteous to the readers to leave frequent errors that could be removed during a quick scan of the draft.

Anyway, tolerance and understanding should be the watchword.

 

[Criskin]

Not to mention, there is a big difference between a "good point" and a "good pint". I'd much rather have the latter. However, an education in English Literature is impossible without an academic grounding in English Grammar. The two can't be separated on an academic level. Thank you for correcting my spelling on a post where my point was that I don't always bother with correct spelling when posting on BYC, though.

 

[gryeyes]

This was my ugly side. It comes out now and then. Eh. I debated returning to delete the post but I was tired, grumpy, feeling snotty about stuff. I felt Random Ramblings where more than chickeny stuff is grist for members' mills was a fair enough spot to post what bugged me without thunking any good person on the side of the head for what was bugging me. I wouldn't dream of pointing out errors in specific posts to embarrass someone who was communicating his or her experiences or thoughts.

I'm well aware of the huge number of non-English members. I am also aware of reading handicaps, visually impaired readers and writers, and even the frequent "auto-correct" features which imperfectly select incorrect words as one types.

I know full well smarts and writing ability aren't always linked.

AND I have my own linguistic oddities in my writings, frequently switching to deliberately anachronistic forms of words, colloquialisms, etc. Wait, I bet I used "etc." wrong! Long, run on, compound sentences, inconsistent use of punctuation, all kinds of poor sentence structure and the like.

All of y'all are are quite correct in what you've said TO ME. I am chastened. I don't think I'll delete this thread, after all. Staff may consider it inappropriate and remove it - I'd understand if that's the case.

Anybody else wanna lob stones?

 

[canesisters]

I thought it was funny.

 

[donrae]

This was my ugly side. It comes out now and then. Eh. I debated returning to delete the post but I was tired, grumpy, feeling snotty about stuff. I felt Random Ramblings where more than chickeny stuff is grist for members' mills was a fair enough spot to post what bugged me without thunking any good person on the side of the head for what was bugging me. I wouldn't dream of pointing out errors in specific posts to embarrass someone who was communicating his or her experiences or thoughts.

I'm well aware of the huge number of non-English members. I am also aware of reading handicaps, visually impaired readers and writers, and even the frequent "auto-correct" features which imperfectly select incorrect words as one types.

I know full well smarts and writing ability aren't always linked.

AND I have my own linguistic oddities in my writings, frequently switching to deliberately anachronistic forms of words, colloquialisms, etc. Wait, I bet I used "etc." wrong! Long, run on, compound sentences, inconsistent use of punctuation, all kinds of poor sentence structure and the like.

All of y'all are are quite correct in what you've said TO ME. I am chastened. I don't think I'll delete this thread, after all. Staff may consider it inappropriate and remove it - I'd understand if that's the case.

Anybody else wanna lob stones?

I'll bite, why not..........

Sale used inappropriately as a verb. "I need to sale my mare cause I don't have time to ride her". I don't know if this is limited to horse folks on craigslist, but man that's where I see it a lot! Or, when they use "sail" , that's even funnier!

Another pet peeve is folks who don't use periods. Seriously, I keep reading and reading and my eyes move faster and faster trying to get to a place to take a break and it just keeps going and going and I get kind of anxious cause there's no break and on here the poor poster is usually very upset cause of a sick or injured bird and I'd like to help but I literally can't read the post cause it just goes on and on and my mind's just screaming for a break but there isn't one and they're so upset and I keep thinking they should just go back and toss some peroids in anywhere doesn't matter if they make sense or not my mind just can't cope with that on and on and no break or end to one thought.
Okay, that was very hard to do!!!

 

[gryeyes]

Hehehehe.

Even when driving I will roll my eyes at signs with apostrophes changing plurals to possessive words. "Orange's $2 a bag."

 

[conny63malies]

I am pretty sure you are not supposed to start a sentence with AND, which you did twice. You also forgot to start your very first sentence with an uppercase letter. Also [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]you wrote " And coupe is for cars" This sentence is wrong. You should have written :
It's coop not coup and coupe is a car body style. Before complaining about other peoples grammar double check your own.[/FONT]

 

[Roxannemc]

OMG this really hit me wrong...
This isnt school its about Chickens go outside and enjoy nature or monitor an english class./stop worriying about other ppl and look at what you dont do right....... EVERYONE has something!

I often am wrong in spelling used to be a great speller Best subject english 60 years ago Even today I read constantly always have IQ if they have those any more is 135 .but.... When you get older somehow it goes
. I have had 2 torn retinas and often i cant tell a i from an l so misspell
I transpose letters and type terribly . arthritis and ..again old age setting in... i try to correct but miss a lot ..Sometimes you have to consider other reasons ppl arent gramatically correct.. and the world wont end if someone uses waddle not wattle on a chicken website while makinf a comment anyway

I too notice bad grammer even if i use it and incorrect spelling but ...doesnt make me wonderful and someone else terrible. SO WHAT?
Think .....at the end of your life will this mean that much..others grammar /spelling?
It wont even come into your mind as placing in ther worst/ best catagory!

Now have a nice day and lets play NICE on the chicken website and not judge others

AND yes i know i made mistakes on this post .. bad on me.. ..