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Pet peeves with respect to spelling/grammar.

I have several pet peeves regarding word choice. There are the very common homophone mixups: your, you're, and the less frequently involved yore; there, their, and they're; peak, peek, and pique; etc. One of the mixups that really bothers me however is when people mis…
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Metis Metis 15 hours ago
Graduate is not a transitive verb - it is grammatically wrong to give it a direct object, as in "graduate high school." It's "graduate from high school." But oh well that's really a…
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Utedude Utedude 2 hours ago

Their is nothing that bothers me with grammars that folk use. What speak people use is there business. I could care less bout it.

How was that?

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ReasonForAll ReasonForAll 3 hours ago

What's up with people switching "definitely" with "defiantly"? Really? Do these people hear what they type in their heads? I'm praying that it is an auto-correct mishap that people are just too lazy to go back and correct, but...

I'm DEFIANTLY going to bed?? I'm defiantly going to eat my cereal.

Come on... really???

On another note, if people didn't misuse, abuse or confuse words, we'd probably be speaking something unrecognizable by today's standard. Much of the English language was very different back when it was first considered "English". It only evolved into what it is today because of misuse, disuse, abuse and confusion! (And the rogue Shakespeare who has notoriously invented an omnium gatherum of words.)

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ScottCA ScottCA an hour ago

Careful 9 times out of 10 when someone turns Language Maven or Pedant the only thing being exposed is the Pedant's own lack of understanding of the deeper rules of our innate langauge and grammar.

Harvard Professor, Linguist, and Cognative Scientist, Steven Pinker points this out well in many of his best selling books. I suggest reading "Pinker's Books "The Sense of Style" and "Words and Rules".

If a great many people are using the word in the manner you find irritating, this should be a sign for you to pause and consider the possibility that it's not wrong at all. If furthermore an editor is stating that its acceptable, then this should definitely give you pause to reflect and consider the possibility that it is not in error at all.

The 9th sense of "of" given in the American Heritage Dictionary is Possessing. Now possession is intimately connected to the sense of meaning of a genetive such as have.

I would exercise great caution in claiming that there is an error here and do more research into the matter. It is likely it's no error at all.

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