I think that those of us who know how to use a semicolon properly feel a bit smug about it. It's a fairly rare punctuation mark, so using it gives you a slight air of superiority, making you want to use it again and again. The only other person I know who ever uses a semicolon uses it way too much as well. (As do I.) I know this not because I see his writing often, but because we have discussed it more than once. It's like we're all members of a little club
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I seriously want to smack people for their use of definately. Also, I got a pile of credit claims through to process yesterday at work, all of them with "$X should of been $X, pls credit" and I wanted to reject them all purely on their use of "should of". I seriously contemplated doing it.
I have not seen psych-things spelled incorrectly much! I'm sure I would be aggravated by them if I did, though. Rediculous :| how frustrating. We Australians get into a lot of debates over how things are said because we have so much American and British media floating around. I can't type much else here before I say this because it's echoing in my head: I hate it when people drop the first R from "frustrating". Fustrating. "That's so fustrating!" THERE IS MORE THAN ONE R IN THERE, DAMNIT.
Colin Firth is in Love Actually! I have trouble with spelling the word definitely :| But I always use spellcheck! or if I'm in chat I work around it by saying "certainly" or something instead.
Congratulations on 10kg! I always spell wierd wrong. I just did it right now but according to the rule "i before e except after c and words that rhyme with neighbor", I'm totally correct. English is such an annoying language. Also, those sunglasses are pretty happening.
;;;;; i like to think of the semicolon as the bastard child of the period and commanegativedustMarch 31 2007, 04:42:26 UTC
linking two potentially independent (.) but related (,) clauses. how do you feel about the comma in making lists (is this called the trailing comma?). like "there will be cats, dogs, and birds at the pet store" vs. "there will be cats, dogs and birds." questions like this plague me and so i am reduced to reading the elements of style in bed at night.
words i often spell wrong: hygiene (hygeine) commitment (committment) judgment (judgement... oh wait i guess they're both right, just the second spelling is the british one)
my roommate writes "rediculous" and every time it makes me want to punch him in the face.
Re: ;;;;; i like to think of the semicolon as the bastard child of the period and commafrockMarch 31 2007, 05:08:18 UTC
how do you feel about the comma in making lists (is this called the trailing comma?). like "there will be cats, dogs, and birds at the pet store" vs. "there will be cats, dogs and birds." questions like this plague me and so i am reduced to reading the elements of style in bed at night.
I call it the Oxford comma, and I totally abuse it. I was taught in primary school that it's wrong to use it, but it just looks bizarre to me without it. :-?
(My style guide lives beside my bed, haha. When I'm trying to get to sleep I play little grammar games like CLASSIFY THE WORDS IN THIS SENTENCE and COMMA, SEMICOLON, OR FULL STOP? Riveting stuff. :D )
FULL STOP. In middle school we had a substitute teacher who dictated a paragraph, and we all wrote down the words full stop so many times. We kept glancing at each other wondering why that phrase kept showing up.
I feel uncomfortable using the word "period" to describe a grammatical tool. Actually I really just feel uncomfortable using the word "period", full stop.
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I have not seen psych-things spelled incorrectly much! I'm sure I would be aggravated by them if I did, though. Rediculous :| how frustrating. We Australians get into a lot of debates over how things are said because we have so much American and British media floating around. I can't type much else here before I say this because it's echoing in my head: I hate it when people drop the first R from "frustrating". Fustrating. "That's so fustrating!" THERE IS MORE THAN ONE R IN THERE, DAMNIT.
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words i often spell wrong:
hygiene (hygeine)
commitment (committment)
judgment (judgement... oh wait i guess they're both right, just the second spelling is the british one)
my roommate writes "rediculous" and every time it makes me want to punch him in the face.
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I call it the Oxford comma, and I totally abuse it. I was taught in primary school that it's wrong to use it, but it just looks bizarre to me without it. :-?
(My style guide lives beside my bed, haha. When I'm trying to get to sleep I play little grammar games like CLASSIFY THE WORDS IN THIS SENTENCE and COMMA, SEMICOLON, OR FULL STOP? Riveting stuff. :D )
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