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In the discussion thread: To, two, too, their, there, they're, wear, where. here, hear, who's, whose, etc. [View all]

Fri Jun 8, 2012, 09:24 PM

RC (21,599 posts)

116. Too many people have English as their only language and still can't get it right.

That is the problem.
Just look at all of the people on this thread making excuses for improper grammar and usage and how many of them have English as their only language?
And high school Spanish for some middle ager doesn't count for much either.

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To, two, too, their, there, they're, wear, where. here, hear, who's, whose, etc. [View all]	Egalitarian Thug	Jun 2012	OP
here, here :) - n/t	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#1
You mean Hear Here? short for Hear it Here	ErikJ	Jun 2012	#62
No, I believe it should be He're, He're	Prometheus Bound	Jun 2012	#65
Har har, hear's the real spelling - "Hear, Hear"	ErikJ	Jun 2012	#78
No you're wrong. It's Ear Ear.	Prometheus Bound	Jun 2012	#80
Repeat after me:	dixiegrrrrl	Jun 2012	#81
You're wrong-its Arf Arf.	ErikJ	Jun 2012	#83
I was actually punning on the British-ism "Hear, hear" which, roughly translated,	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#88
Almost always mispelled here here.	ErikJ	Jun 2012	#99
Not at all.	Egalitarian Thug	Jun 2012	#168
Have you been reading the tea party rally signs??	Siwsan	Jun 2012	#2
your absolutely right	deminwi	Jun 2012	#3
gosh...and here I thought you were going to correct rite to write. n/t	Sheepshank	Jun 2012	#39
Next up: apostrophe's!	cloudbase	Jun 2012	#4
That is one of my pet peeves,	RebelOne	Jun 2012	#17
OMG, me, too. I want to knock down idiots who do that.	Nay	Jun 2012	#25
me too. I'm seeing it EVERYWHERE lately.	BlancheSplanchnik	Jun 2012	#140
but but but kids can type with their thumbs!!	ThomThom	Jun 2012	#74
r u ok? nt.	JoePhilly	Jun 2012	#5
To be honest with you, long story short, like, know what I'm sayin, OMG, ect.	L0oniX	Jun 2012	#6
I mean, it's, like, fersure, yaknow?? You betcha!	lastlib	Jun 2012	#63
.	racaulk	Jun 2012	#7
well, you've restored my faith in the old flame war...	CTyankee	Jun 2012	#10
ty racaulk...	dixiegrrrrl	Jun 2012	#84
OMG, coffee through the nose and meeting keyboard time.	Amimnoch	Jun 2012	#167
Can you do the care and feeding of the shift key next?	LeftyMom	Jun 2012	#8
Hey I will be the first to say I am terrible at Grammar. I believe I have great reading and	lookingfortruth	Jun 2012	#9
See, here's the thing: if you don't use proper grammar, you damage	CTyankee	Jun 2012	#13
Yes, well... I have taught Chinese American students	Quantess	Jun 2012	#18
Chinese only has one verb tense; English has many	REP	Jun 2012	#27
Of course! But it isn't correct in english.	Quantess	Jun 2012	#41
I believe it; ESL students are taught grammar more rigorously than native speakers are	REP	Jun 2012	#42
Sigh... I wish.	Quantess	Jun 2012	#46
The Chinese population is huge in Kansas City, Missouri	REP	Jun 2012	#109
I have never been to Kansas City MO (nor Kansas City KS either)	Quantess	Jun 2012	#119
You would love to meet my friend Tarkana chan.	AsahinaKimi	Jun 2012	#162
happy to answer you here, Quantess! These women were very	CTyankee	Jun 2012	#43
Sounds like a great experience!	Quantess	Jun 2012	#48
oh, god, no! I was not a great teacher. They were really on the ball!	CTyankee	Jun 2012	#49
I bet you are a good teacher!	Quantess	Jun 2012	#53
thanks, I like doing it. But really I get a lot from THEM! I now have	CTyankee	Jun 2012	#101
You study ESL so you can get a visa to the US and maybe an under the table	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#79
My Chinese students wanted to pass the verbal SATs. They aced the	CTyankee	Jun 2012	#103
I must admit my students were pretty highly educated...	CTyankee	Jun 2012	#30
This is so simple I can't understand why people whining about "grammar police" don't get it.	SoutherDem	Jun 2012	#20
I'm not unfriendly by using correct English grammar. I don't understand	CTyankee	Jun 2012	#31
Using correct English of course isn't unfriendly	SoutherDem	Jun 2012	#51
I also believe in correct English.	RebelOne	Jun 2012	#59
If you were living in France or Italy and wrote something to post on the internet	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#82
+1000!	SammyWinstonJack	Jun 2012	#110
+100.000!!	Hatchling	Jun 2012	#123
Communication is the issue. Communicating through writing is difficult at best and these	Egalitarian Thug	Jun 2012	#33
To, too, two -- those errors only rarely cause miscommunication.	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#85
If you are used to lousy American grammar, yes, easy to understand.	CTyankee	Jun 2012	#108
I do know Language/grammar teaching in the school has degraded over the years. I know when	lookingfortruth	Jun 2012	#23
Believe me, I have made those typos myself! I feel embarrassed when I do	CTyankee	Jun 2012	#38
Yes	SoutherDem	Jun 2012	#57
You're exactly right on this.	MANative	Jun 2012	#56
Learning other languages improves the grammar you use in your own.	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#87
Having competency in a second language certainly can't hurt...	MANative	Jun 2012	#153
Ouch, the Oxford comma? I wish I had a dollar for every one of those I	CTyankee	Jun 2012	#107
Deleting or inserting?	Igel	Jun 2012	#117
deleting. I grew up with the insertion. deleting took some getting used to.	CTyankee	Jun 2012	#152
I wrote an article on this topic just two weeks ago...	MANative	Jun 2012	#154
Word!	BlancheSplanchnik	Jun 2012	#141
Thank you!	MANative	Jun 2012	#155
Your response forced me to....	chknltl	Jun 2012	#67
I agree	SoutherDem	Jun 2012	#54
Yes.	Igel	Jun 2012	#114
The language police always want to be taken seriously but	lunatica	Jun 2012	#11
And look at the results.	Egalitarian Thug	Jun 2012	#28
See, here's the thing though. While I find a little humor in each example, I still get the point.	bluesbassman	Jun 2012	#45
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one thinking this way :)	kentauros	Jun 2012	#52
Not really. If their posts are full of errors, lack reasonably proper punctuation and	RC	Jun 2012	#112
I respectfully disagree.	kentauros	Jun 2012	#129
Actually, I understood every bit of it.	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#89
Well, I understood what every sentence meant! Sorry you have trouble!	Logical	Jun 2012	#166
One morning, I shot an elephant in my pajamas.	Electric Monk	Jun 2012	#50
That is sheer poetry to me.	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#90
Your right	Cheviteau	Jun 2012	#66
Yes and remember	Shankapotomus	Jun 2012	#12
I really do think it is confusing for many people.	Quantess	Jun 2012	#14
But why does it damage credibility?	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#91
It's a social thing.	Igel	Jun 2012	#120
Because people are snobs?	wildeyed	Jun 2012	#146
Most of those I don't' have an issue with but	SoutherDem	Jun 2012	#15
How could you leave out lose and loose? nt	sufrommich	Jun 2012	#16
"Loose" and "lose" aren't homophones.	Igel	Jun 2012	#121
LOL! You bastards!	Egalitarian Thug	Jun 2012	#19
Replying to yourself	pintobean	Jun 2012	#32
Personally, I almost loose my mind when someone misuses the word "lose."	Buns_of_Fire	Jun 2012	#21
Most human minds can unjumble letters, but slow readers lack that skill.	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#93
The problem is that not everyone had the opportunities that some of us had. Also, there are people	sabrina 1	Jun 2012	#22
Also different talents	SoutherDem	Jun 2012	#29
Grammar doesn't make non-grammar based arguments any more or less valid.	ZombieHorde	Jun 2012	#24
I know the solution	SoutherDem	Jun 2012	#26
Maybe the person who started this thread would make that a priority and lead the group.	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#94
I started to suggest that but	SoutherDem	Jun 2012	#106
It is perhaps a bit sarcastic, but then pointing out other people's grammar mistakes????	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#144
perhaps you could take your own advice?	ProdigalJunkMail	Jun 2012	#34
Do we submit our writings to you for ,Editing?	bahrbearian	Jun 2012	#35
given the initial state of this now mostly corrected post	ProdigalJunkMail	Jun 2012	#61
You could stand to learn about capitalization and comma usage yourself. n/t	tuvor	Jun 2012	#36
3.243F6A8885A308D31319	Egalitarian Thug	Jun 2012	#47
4265207375726520746f206472696e6b20796f7572204f76616c74696e652e n/t	ProdigalJunkMail	Jun 2012	#60
Your sentence begins with a small letter and there should be an end mark at the end of a sentence.	mfcorey1	Jun 2012	#37
And capitolization?	Cobalt Violet	Jun 2012	#40
Wherein. n/t	Egalitarian Thug	Jun 2012	#128
You LOLd	dont hassle the hoff	Jun 2012	#157
See how insideous it is?	Egalitarian Thug	Jun 2012	#158
CAPITALIZATION.	dont hassle the hoff	Jun 2012	#156
Huked on fonix werked four mee! (nt)	jeff47	Jun 2012	#44
Now you are my kind of writer. Love it, Jeff47.	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#95
Really, we don't want to look like freepers!!!	diane in sf	Jun 2012	#55
Those examples are mostly homophones. Homonyms are spelled and pronounced the same but have...	slackmaster	Jun 2012	#58
hmmmm	RedRocco	Jun 2012	#64
nice	handmade34	Jun 2012	#69
Well done.	dixiegrrrrl	Jun 2012	#86
I love grits and homonyms!	Baitball Blogger	Jun 2012	#68
this thread is a good example	Mosby	Jun 2012	#70
The little box with an 'x' to the right of the thread title can help you with that	slackmaster	Jun 2012	#72
stuff like this doesn't bother me	Mosby	Jun 2012	#75
No. No. No. Please. As a huge grammar sinner, I am having fun!	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#97
maybe the grammarians could sponsor us grammer challenged folks	Mosby	Jun 2012	#111
"Hay! My name is Kentauros, and I am a Grammar Abuser.	kentauros	Jun 2012	#134
Here's a handy guide for your convenience	bluevoter4life	Jun 2012	#71
Alert California Peggy!	Arugula Latte	Jun 2012	#73
hahahahaha that was my first thought, too!	Pool Hall Ace	Jun 2012	#131
Thank you! nt	snappyturtle	Jun 2012	#76
Typing quickly results in mistakes. That's the nature of the internet.	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#77
Yes, I've never seen typos like that interfere with meaning on discussion boards.	Prometheus Bound	Jun 2012	#115
Or we could accept that some people might not have learned English as their first language.	jp11	Jun 2012	#92
Too many people have English as their only language and still can't get it right.	RC	Jun 2012	#116
Native English speakers are making up more and more	Nevernose	Jun 2012	#148
Continuing in the vane of the other posts: I here ya.	Honeycombe8	Jun 2012	#96
Its true	loyalsister	Jun 2012	#98
Shouldn't that be "lass affective"? n/t	Igel	Jun 2012	#122
Rein, reign, rain...	lastlib	Jun 2012	#100
Eye all ways yews spell Czech	Poiuyt	Jun 2012	#102
They're, their, there fun worksheet	ErikJ	Jun 2012	#104
Thanks Mom... What's For Dinner ???	WillyT	Jun 2012	#105
Really????	Hotler	Jun 2012	#113
Really. And it started out as a fun thread, reminisce of DU2	RC	Jun 2012	#118
I don't often make mistakes in grammar.	Hatchling	Jun 2012	#124
Sew... eye do naught knead yore approval too bee credible.	OneTenthofOnePercent	Jun 2012	#125
Do not eat shit.	Zanzoobar	Jun 2012	#126
I really don't think this is a serious problem	loyalsister	Jun 2012	#127
And do not forget its and it's.	CBHagman	Jun 2012	#130
I never had an issue with homonyms	Pool Hall Ace	Jun 2012	#132
OK, I'm hooked. Please elaborate.	Egalitarian Thug	Jun 2012	#133
In all of my years of schooling, followed by many more years of writing in the workaday world,	Pool Hall Ace	Jun 2012	#137
TYVM, and wow. Sounds like you're doing well now. n/t	Egalitarian Thug	Jun 2012	#142
I am, thanks! :)	Pool Hall Ace	Jun 2012	#164
not everyone has the education you do. that doesn't make their opinion less important	Liberal_in_LA	Jun 2012	#135
I can offer only limited support.	SOteric	Jun 2012	#136
Too there defense, Aye here throes who's grammar sucks...	alittlelark	Jun 2012	#138
Loosing is not losing.	MrTwister	Jun 2012	#139
Another totally lame ad homonym attack on DU.	Zorra	Jun 2012	#143
BTW,	Zorra	Jun 2012	#169
Thank you - I suggest learning when to use apostrophes as well . . .	ProfessionalLeftist	Jun 2012	#145
The rule for people who just can't remember the rule:	Nevernose	Jun 2012	#149
"No new taxes."	The Doctor.	Jun 2012	#160
Lose, Loose	Martin Eden	Jun 2012	#147
There's a website to see called	Nedsdag	Jun 2012	#151
Just did, thanks.	Martin Eden	Jun 2012	#161
always cracks me up	2pooped2pop	Jun 2012	#150
It is horrible.	raouldukelives	Jun 2012	#159
Oh who cares	Anser	Jun 2012	#163
LOL, and I bet people think you are a very annoying person! I'll take 1000...	Logical	Jun 2012	#165

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