Comments | tsuki_no_bara: someone change the locks before we trash this place...

tsuki_no_bara

someone change the locks before we trash this place...

Jul 17, 2006 15:54

i love this song. 'scuse me while i chair dance.

i'm not worried, it's a million miles away
yeah i saw the news, it happens every day
some kronkite lookalike numb from what he read
wake me up wake me up
it's one of us that's deadheh ( Read more... )

help needed, grammar nazi, what did i forget to do, songs

Comments 17

liminalia July 17 2006, 20:05:21 UTC

I feel ya. I think I need that icon that goes through all the common grammar mistakes. My current top annoyances are hoard/horde and rein/reign. If it's a lot of Mongol warriors or cattle or whatever, it's a horde. If it's a treasure trove, or the verb for stashing something away obsessively, it's hoard. Giving someone "free rein" comes from horseback riding, when you allow your mount to pick its own path. It has nothing to do with reigning over a kingdom.

I also feel ya about the haircut. I need one badly and my salon is also closed today.

tsuki_no_bara July 17 2006, 20:41:00 UTC

i haven't seen those so much. horde/hoard would bug the crap out of me too, tho.

i wanna shave my head. >.< or at least get it cut really short.

klgaffney July 18 2006, 01:42:26 UTC

yeeah, i've seen both horde/hoard and the worst yet, hoarde. now that one rankles. "free reign," while not correct, i'm seeing much more frequently and it doesn't bother me nearly so much because it still makes sense. i could see it becoming common usage fairly soon. it's almost a pun.

tsuki_no_bara July 18 2006, 02:31:24 UTC

"hoarde" isn't even a word, which people would know if they SPELLCHECKED. that's just lazy.

cicirossi July 17 2006, 20:40:56 UTC

fluffs you

tsuki_no_bara July 17 2006, 20:41:42 UTC

IT DOESN'T NEED FLUFFING, THAT'S THE PROBLEM. *annoyedface* i am one big ball of floof.

crotalus_atrox July 17 2006, 21:45:33 UTC

Sometimes I confuse them when I'm writing too fast. Then I find the mistake and want to die a thousand deaths.

*cuddles up*

tsuki_no_bara July 18 2006, 00:37:56 UTC

yes, but you know the difference. do you go back and fix it? (and it's a good thing you don't die a thousand deaths, because that would suck.)

crotalus_atrox July 18 2006, 02:43:33 UTC

Yes, yes I do. ♥

klgaffney July 18 2006, 01:43:50 UTC

...i find myself in constant admiration of your radio station. =p

tsuki_no_bara July 18 2006, 02:32:46 UTC

...actually it's my itunes. i'd be surprised if any of the major boston radio stations knew who spirit of the west ARE.

shenya July 18 2006, 06:46:41 UTC

To be honest I only figured it out in the last year or so... when someone finally pointed out that 'its' is different from the other possessives I was associating it with :).

tsuki_no_bara July 18 2006, 13:20:11 UTC

that kinda sounds like a failure of the education system to me. but props to whoever pointed it out to you.

shenya July 18 2006, 19:43:32 UTC

To a large extent, yes. I went through school at a point when they had cut back on the grammer teaching and what they did do wasn't enough to penetrate my oddly wired head *sigh*. So while I have a pretty good instinctive grasp of language...
I didn't finally sort out (and remember) the basic definitions of things like verb, noun etc. until I started learning German when I was 13 :P