The Typo Police
Nov 1, 2023 15:51:46 #
SteveR wrote:
I don't know WHY it was all the nice, sweet girls that got the A plusses!!! 
Because they knew the answers? LOL!
Nov 1, 2023 16:03:25 #
terryMc wrote:
I'll be 81 in less than 4 months—you don't have that much on me...
That's a lot Terry. At 75 I could throw a 100 pound bag of horse feed up on my shoulder and take it 50 feet from the truck to the feed room. At 81, I could take the 50 pound bags...now a 25 pound bag would be OK. Give me another year and hand me 5 pounds of anything and it will probably be enough! You are getting close to finding out...don't be too surprised.
Nov 1, 2023 18:41:27 #
therwol wrote:
There is a gray area, of course. Consider the ..... (show quote)
Is it a gray area or a grey area? Who would have thought this topic would get to 5 pages and counting. Or is it who would of thought?
I had to edit this post twice for unintentional typos.
Nov 1, 2023 18:59:23 #
Nov 1, 2023 19:11:57 #
therwol
Loc: USA
JimmyTB wrote:
Is it a gray area or a grey area? Who would have thought this topic would get to 5 pages and counting. Or is it who would of thought?
I had to edit this post twice for unintentional typos.
I had to edit this post twice for unintentional typos.
If you're bringing it up, you must have looked it up, or perhaps not. Gray and grey are two spelling of the same word. Both are acceptable everywhere, but gray is more commonly used in the US and grey everywhere else. But if a word happens to be a name, you can't change the spelling. Earl Grey, for example.
I know I shouldn't have, but I'm trying to push this to page 6. More comments means more advertising money for UHH. That keeps it going.
Nov 1, 2023 20:16:22 #
JimmyTB wrote:
Is it a gray area or a grey area? Who would have thought this topic would get to 5 pages and counting. Or is it who would of thought?
I had to edit this post twice for unintentional typos.
I had to edit this post twice for unintentional typos.
The spelling of the word "should've" tells you that it should be "should have", not "should of".
Nov 1, 2023 20:35:03 #
Since this has drifted off to be something of a pet peeve thread, another is when someone says: "I handed my camera to a friend and asked him to take a picture of my wife and I."
I think it was 1st grade when I was taught to take "my wife" out of the sentence and then say "...take picture of I." Does that make sense? Of course not. "Take a picture of me," or "take a picture of my wife and me." When I corrected a daughter once for saying that, she said "It's just polite."
Again, I was taught that politeness requires that you put the other before yourself in the sentence, but does not require the use of incorrect pronouns.
I think it was 1st grade when I was taught to take "my wife" out of the sentence and then say "...take picture of I." Does that make sense? Of course not. "Take a picture of me," or "take a picture of my wife and me." When I corrected a daughter once for saying that, she said "It's just polite."
Again, I was taught that politeness requires that you put the other before yourself in the sentence, but does not require the use of incorrect pronouns.
Nov 1, 2023 20:44:10 #
Horseart wrote:
The spelling of the word "should've" tells you that it should be "should have", not "should of".
I was just kidding about "have" and "of". One of my pet peeves. Same with gray and grey. I guess my jokes fell flat but no big deal. It's all in fun. It's is another tricky one, you use the apostrophe when it's not possessive: "Its" is the possessive form. "It's" would be the contraction for "it is".
Nov 1, 2023 21:23:26 #
I saw somewhere, it might have been posted on UHH or Vince the Sign Guy, something similar to the following.
If I could be a Super Hero I would be “Typo-Man”, Writer of Wrongs! Who thinks up this stuff?
If I could be a Super Hero I would be “Typo-Man”, Writer of Wrongs! Who thinks up this stuff?
Nov 1, 2023 21:46:56 #
Nov 1, 2023 22:55:46 #
terryMc wrote:
Since this has drifted off to be something of a pe... (show quote)
That is a mistake I see used so often. I too, was taught to remove the other person from the sentence and see what you get.
Nov 1, 2023 22:58:43 #
JimmyTB wrote:
I was just kidding about "have" and "of". One of my pet peeves. Same with gray and grey. I guess my jokes fell flat but no big deal. It's all in fun. It's is another tricky one, you use the apostrophe when it's not possessive: "Its" is the possessive form. "It's" would be the contraction for "it is".
I figured that. Gray//Grey doesn't bother me but those other two make me clamp my hand over my mouth. Then I have to fight myself to keep from removing it.
Nov 2, 2023 00:51:23 #
Nov 2, 2023 03:35:35 #
Horseart wrote:
In school, I made A+s in English/language/grammar won all the spelling bees. That was then, this is now. I make a lot of mistakes and have come to the conclusion that if I can read someone else's mistakes and still know what they mean, they can do the same with mine .
I am not sure if I can do it now that I am 69. But in my mid 50s I could read up-side-down!
Nov 2, 2023 10:21:03 #
Mr. SONY wrote:
I wish people would learn why the 'shift-return' i... (show quote)
The second one because it's shorter.
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