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[Zeke]

Originally Posted by syncroid

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I have needed a good laugh today. One of my peeves is "Me & so and so are going to..." I was always taught "So & so and I are going to...
I am no english major, nor was I a stellar student in school but I try to get it right most of the time. I'm just a mechanic for crying out loud.

Easy to figure out. Leave out the other person and see how the sentence sounds. "Me gonna go" wouldn't be said by even the least educated person.

[mossguy]

Me disagree!

[Jim Richards]

It's reel cloudy hear tonite.

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by milt

"Me gonna go" wouldn't be said by even the least educated person.

Yes, the correct term is "Me gotta go" as in "Me gotta go now"

.. which has been used in two very popular song lyrics - from very different parts of the US

[Jim Richards]

Louie, Louie and ?

[porsche930dude]

this thread will inevitably end in endless links to hoorible craigslist ads

[speeder]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Easy to figure out. Leave out the other person and see how the sentence sounds. "Me gonna go" wouldn't be said by even the least educated person.

Yessir. "Who" and "whom" are just as easy; just substitute "he/him", (with whom/with him).

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Louie, Louie and ?

Jambalaya

crawfish pie

Goodbye Joe, me gotta go


then there is' Me gotta go... hard IIRC, it was written by lil Wayne -- another Louisiana connection

[speeder]

It's a little ironic. The internet resurrected the written word for a generations of people, (no one my age or younger ever wrote anyone a letter before the www, we simply picked up the phone), yet it certainly hasn't contributed to the literacy of the average person the way that letter writing did for previous generations.

This board is proof positive that there is a significant population that cannot write in the english language at even the junior HS level. People write and spell as though they only know the language phonetically, i.e. "for all intensive purposes/piece of mind" and other completely non-sensical combinations of words that sound almost exactly like some sensical one.

Same with "then/than", "there/their/they're", "your/you're", etc... All from people who are not morons...people with some type of education in many cases. One member is an author of technical books but is functionally illiterate, (more or less).

There needs to be a literacy campaign in this country. It's gotten to the point where there is no shame in being illiterate, (calling anyone who notices it, "the grammar police", etc.). It can make someone appear way less intelligent than they may actually be and now that everyone is typing away on the web, it can really affect one's income and job prospects.

[speeder]

And it's not a matter of spelling. That's an entirely different can of worms. Writing "piece of mind" suggests that someone does not understand the meaning of the words. They are simply writing what they heard, like a parrot repeats things.

[72doug2,2S]

Originally Posted by speeder

And it's not a matter of spelling. That's an entirely different can of worms. Writing "piece of mind" suggests that someone does not understand the meaning of the words. They are simply writing what they heard, like a parrot repeats things.

Unless it's "a piece of my mind."

A few off the top of my head. Some of these are confusing.

-Countdown: 3-2-1... not 3,2,1

-It's vs. Its

-Hanged vs. Hung

-Blonde vs. Blond

-Lie and Lay (Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan got them wrong)

-Lay and Laid

-Lain and Laid

-Who vs. whom

[RWebb]

effect and affect

[speeder]

Continuous and continual.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by speeder

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It can make someone appear way less intelligent than they may actually be and now that everyone is typing away on the web, it can really affect one's income and job prospects.

The sad thing is, it doesn't seem to have much of a effect.

[mikeesik]

How about the BOMB!!!!

PRETTY !

PRETTY COOL-PRETTY CRAZY- PRETTY NICE!-wtf-is with the word ....PRETTY...!

If your a real man , you should not be using that word in any context!
Unless your talking about your Wife or Daughter !

AND ........I THINK....SHOULD BE -I SAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND R. U -should be are you? What a dumbbutt that wrote that !

How about .............THEN and THAN.
-and the use of the word HAD !!!
-AND ACKS!!! wtf -is that !
-him did????
-tooken??
Oh yea-this own irked me to no end from my former boss-HEIGHTH!!!!!!!!!!!!
UGGGGHH!

[Evans, Marv]

I seen ....

[petrolhead611]

The situation is just as bad in England.
"Fish & Chip's" is seen all too frequently for example.
We received a printed invitation to a new restaurant with upscale pretensions that offered "free glass of champagne and canopies". I rang to enquire as to the size of the latter, ensuring my pronounciation was correct, as an interested party being in the canvas goods business, and was astonished by the manager's reply
assumption that I was so naive as to not know that these were bite sized snacks.

[BE911SC]

A buddy of mine says "the part being" instead of "the point being." I love the guy but that drives me crazy.

[billybek]

Error on the side of caution....
That works its way under your skin after a bit....

[dienstuhr]

Originally Posted by 74-911

Just my observation but it appears that over the next few years there is a distinct possibility that both "your" and "you're" will be replaced by "ur"

Only when discussing the first generation Audi Quattro :-)