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Originally Posted by Knipps
My biggest beef is when people don't know there/their/they're. weather/whether too. how obvious is that one?
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would of
could of
should of
that's actually a question on the SATs. the only question i can remember, because i laughed myself silly after reading it. i thought, is it possible that people actually use those phrases instead of the correct contraction could've, would've, should've? it boggled my mind for several days and embedded itself in my long-term memory. i'm still laughing to this day, even though i don't ask that question anymore. i see examples of it all of the time.
it's not that it bugs me, but what it does do is distract me from what the person is trying to say and i focus on the mistake made instead. silly, but it's the way my mind works when i read. i've blasted magazines for the lack of a text editor - something they should have but seldom does he/she/it catch those
stupid, grade-school mistakes.
how anyone can mix up to, two and too is beyond me. they just don't care that they learned it wrong and are unwilling to try to fix it. they have that attitude that it's an online forum and spelling doesn't count. i used to love when people used to ask that question in english class, "Hey, teach, are youse subtracting for misstakes in spelling, two?" - or the classic, "Does spelling count?" well, it is english, after all...
even better, and something i never thought i would see: hey, this is are club, you know.
and people put apostrophes where they don't belong, like in weird place's in sentence's. and then they dont use them when theyre necessary.