Common Errors In English

[soonerbrat]

The other day I was proofreading something for someone and they had used the phrase "for all intensive purposes". I had always thought it was "For all intents and purposes" so I looked it up and I found this:

Common Errors In English (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors)

I thought some of you people might want to check some of them out.

oh, and I was right (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/intensive.html), by the way.

[Viking Kitten]

That's a long list. English people must be pretty stupid. Irregardless, thanks for the help, Brat.

[OUDoc]

More people should learn to speak American good.

[Jerk]

That's a long list. English people must be pretty stupid. Irregardless, thanks for the help, Brat.

LOL :D

[LoyalFan]

Good post!
The one that really gets to me is using "would/could of" when "would/could have" is called for. Why not use the contraction; "would've/could've" and avoid the error.
Frankly, I believe that Americans are far less facile in their own language than any other folks on the planet. We mangle, murder, misuse and abuse our language to a dreadful extent.
I is embarrassed, I are!

LF

[soonerbrat]

That's a long list. English people must be pretty stupid. Irregardless, thanks for the help, Brat.

Supposably that list should help everyone.

[Jerk]

Good post!
The one that really gets to me is using "would/could of" when "would/could have" is called for. Why not use the contraction; "would've/could've" and avoid the error.
Frankly, I believe that Americans are far less facile in their own language than any other folks on the planet. We mangle, murder, misuse and abuse our language to a dreadful extent.
I is embarrassed, I are!

LF

Yeah, but give us credit for one thing: we're the only nation where a person can travel 3,000 miles and not have a problem understanding the locals.

eta - 'cept for Loosiania.

[Chuck Bao]

Thanks for the link, brat.

The only one that drives me crazy is this the incorrect use of I and we after a preposition. It seems to be more of a spoken problem than a written problem. It seems some people think it is somehow more formal or proper, when it is just wrong. I always say that if you can put a verb after I or we, then you have used it correctly. If you can't, you didn't.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/myself.html

[soonerbrat]

Yeah, but give us credit for one thing: we're the only nation where a person can travel 3,000 miles and not have a problem understanding the locals.

eta - 'cept for Loosiania.

i had some trouble understanding people in St. Louis sometimes. Especially the old ladies..when I was there house hunting the real estate agent told me to get on "farty far"....and she meant "forty four"

i had to ask her to repeat that a few times.

[badger]

judgment!

Take out the "e" people!

[OU4LIFE]

I'm fixin to neg the bejesus out of this thread.

[1890MilesToNorman]

I brung a apple to me teacher Miss Brat, she purdy. It's impotent to get a good edumacation. :P

[Hot Rod]

Yes, illegitimate people CAN read!

[1890MilesToNorman]

i had some trouble understanding people in St. Louis sometimes. Especially the old ladies..when I was there house hunting the real estate agent told me to get on "farty far"....and she meant "forty four"

i had to ask her to repeat that a few times.

When I first moved to Maine a lady invited us to dinner and she was explaining what we would be having, she rattled off a few items and then said "whupadadas". I said is that like a rutabaga and she said no, whupped potatoes, and I said oh, Mashed Potatoes. I've been here 21 years and I still run across words that mean nothing to me.

[Czar Soonerov]

Supposably that list should help everyone.

I seen what your did there.

[Tulsa_Fireman]

When I first moved to Maine a lady invited us to dinner and she was explaining what we would be having, she rattled off a few items and then said "whupadadas". I said is that like a rutabaga and she said no, whupped potatoes, and I said oh, Mashed Potatoes. I've been here 21 years and I still run across words that mean nothing to me.

You know, they're IS a difference in mashed and whipped potatoes. Not much, but their is. :P

[1890MilesToNorman]

You know, they're IS a difference in mashed and whipped potatoes. Not much, but their is. :P

I know, it's called the Mason-Dixon line. :P

[OU4LIFE]

Yes, illegitimate people CAN read!

it's 'illegible' you moran.

[IB4OU2]

I'm fixin to neg the bejesus out of this thread.

Bigfoot instead of Sasqauch?

[Tulsa_Fireman]

Seriously.

Whipped potatoes are smooth, almost fluffy, and need more milk, usually done with a blender. Creamy and delicious. Whereas mashed 'taters are just smashed all to hell, less milk, with little chunks of whole potato left in the mix. They both have their place and they both kick ***.

But there IS a difference.

[olevetonahill]

You know, they're IS a difference in mashed and whipped potatoes. Not much, but their is. :P

Ya ignoarnt ****ing hillbilly its SMASHED TATTERS .Get it right .

[1890MilesToNorman]

Leave it to the potato to cause a rift in the universe!

[Tulsa_Fireman]

POTATOE

[OUDoc]

Potatoes in a blender? I'll use a mixer, but never been so wacky as to try a blender. Maybe on my birthday.

[1890MilesToNorman]

I'm using shorthand in my posts! sheesh.

[olevetonahill]

Is laks My taters fried up wit Onjuns :P

[soonerbrat]

the best mashers are made with red potatoes & real butter..they are very creamy & smoothe

[Viking Kitten]

Like Baileys? Creamy.

[BlondeSoonerGirl]

You ever drink it from a shoe?

[Viking Kitten]

You ever go to a club where people wee on each other?

[Frozen Sooner]

You ever go to a club where people wee on each other?

How YOU doin'?

[OU4LIFE]

hello

[BlondeSoonerGirl]

You know what your problem is? You ain't got the funk...

[1890MilesToNorman]

The rift is widening!

[OU4LIFE]

not the first time i've heard that.

[Frozen Sooner]

You know what your problem is? You ain't got the funk...

There ain't no funk like the p-funk.

[BlondeSoonerGirl]

I've got the funk right here. It's in this box.

[Viking Kitten]

Back then Booty was just a simple farmer, but she took one look at all those mauve titties and lost her mind. She began to milk the funk. Made herself a funk shake.

[BlondeSoonerGirl]

Began to feel fizzy inside found he could see 'round corners...

[OhU1]

I hope we don't loose the game against Florida. I hate loosing. But I here Florida is pretty good. Tim Tebow literally is Bronco Nagurski. Irregardless it has been a good year.

[Viking Kitten]

One day, Parliament were traveling on the mothership, foolin' around with the funk, when George Clinton kicked the funk clean overboard. And that was July the 2nd, 1979, the day the funk died.

[BlondeSoonerGirl]

He was slappin' a bass guitar like some kinda funky priest...

[BlondeSoonerGirl]

This totally needs it's own thread...

[olevetonahill]

This totally needs it's own thread...

What the FUNK you thunk ?

[Viking Kitten]

It's a funky ball of tits from outer space.

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/143/funkzc6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[^*\~><~/*^]

South Oval appears to be a "good fit" for me.

[1890MilesToNorman]

It's a funky ball of tits from outer space.

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/143/funkzc6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

AKA nipple head!

[mdklatt]

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/pole.html

That's just inakerit. :mad:

[mdklatt]

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/apostrophes1.html

Learn it. Live it. Love it.

[Sooner Born Sooner Bred]

Where did you find that link at?

[Viking Kitten]

South Oval appears to be a "good fit" for me.

You make a lot of grammatical, spelling and punctuation errors?

[^*\~><~/*^]

You make a lot of grammatical, spelling and punctuation errors?

I am one big error!

[KC//CRIMSON]

go tit!

[KC//CRIMSON]

doe!

[tbl]

Mashed potatoes are done with a mixer, and there are no chunks. Whipped potatoes do not exist, even though in reality they are actually whipped. Just deal with it.



I could start a whole thread on my wife's butchering of figures of speech. She is absolutely horrible at it and is always messing them up. Just today, I got this in regards to her newborn niece, and I am not lying:

"She's 6 pounds 4 ounces with cold black hair".

I called her and asked if she sent that to anybody else, and fortunately she didn't, but I was in awe that she has gone 30 years of her life not realizing the reference was to the blackness of coal and instead thought the color black was best described as "cold". Wow...

[OU4LIFE]

no kidding, it's 'cole black' sheeez.

[Penguin]

Wow. The saying is "palm off." I am guilty of saying "pawn off" a whole lot.

[jkjsooner]

Thanks for the link, brat.

The only one that drives me crazy is this the incorrect use of I and we after a preposition. It seems to be more of a spoken problem than a written problem. It seems some people think it is somehow more formal or proper, when it is just wrong. I always say that if you can put a verb after I or we, then you have used it correctly. If you can't, you didn't.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/myself.html

I've notice a sharp increase over the last few years with people using "I" when "me" is appropriate. I think they're trying way too hard to be correct and end up getting it wrong.

But, honestly, I would say 99% of the people mess up at least one of the things on the list. I think it's a glass houses thing.

Edit: I need to stop commenting on posts that are over a month old. Ugh.

[BigRedJed]

judgment!

Take out the "e" people!
Although I don't like the "e," and "judgment" is more in line with modern American usage, either spelling is acceptable. Look it up.

[Frozen Sooner]

I've notice a sharp increase over the last few years with people using "I" when "me" is appropriate. I think they're trying way too hard to be correct and end up getting it wrong.

But, honestly, I would say 99% of the people mess up at least one of the things on the list. I think it's a glass houses thing.

Edit: I need to stop commenting on posts that are over a month old. Ugh.

Using "myself" where "me" is appropriate drives myself nuts.

[OU4LIFE]

Where did you find that link at?

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess he found it on the Washington State website.

[BigRedJed]

What the hell with this thread? I keep seeing posts appear in it, but I can't get past page 3. Weird.

[BigRedJed]

Nevermind.

[OU4LIFE]

*pointing and laughing*

[tommieharris91]

oh, and I was right (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/intensive.html), by the way.

No, you we're write. ;)

[Boomer Mooner]

Using "myself" where "me" is appropriate drives myself nuts.

My own self.

[Crucifax Autumn]

Don't even get me started...

I'm an English major, but I also have fun with language,

I far more apostrophes than I should and have fun with language.

I kinda think of it like Stephen King's Maine talk...there are times that it is appropriate to say it the way they say it.

As for made up words like irregardless and double negatives in a non hick speak environment, it drives me testicles!

[Viking Kitten]

I doubt even Stephen King ever used "far" as a verb.

[OU4LIFE]

She's right, I didn't.

[soonerbrat]

i looked this up originally because I heard someone say "for all intensive purposes" it should be "for all intents and purposes" ...but I wanted to make sure I was right before I corrected someone.

[OU4LIFE]

thanks for clearing that up.