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minoru_tanaka 06-02-2011 05:19 AM

Nobody hates the hypercorrections?

I
"He will sell the tickets to Mike and I"
It's "Mike and me". Simple way to figure it out is to try the sentence without the other person. You wouldn't say, " He will sell the tickets to I"

Myself
"If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask Dave or myself"
You ask yourself. I ask myself. You ask me. I ask you.
Don't just choose longer words cause you think it makes you seem smarterer.

Unique
"That coin is very unique"
Nothing is very unique or so unique etc. There are no degrees of uniqueness. Something is unique or it's not. Substitute "one of a kind" into your sentence to check.
"That coin is very one of a kind"

fliptuner 06-02-2011 08:20 AM

^^^Let's get past spelling first, then work on grammAr. Baby steps, man, baby steps.

Soundy 06-02-2011 06:34 PM

Another pet peeve: "could care less" when you really mean "COULDN'T care less".

RFlush 06-02-2011 06:41 PM

hanged out and hung out

Ronin 06-02-2011 07:01 PM

...people say hanged out? That just sounds so awkward.

OTG-ZR2 06-02-2011 10:32 PM

When people say: "Got my hair did"

k3mps 06-02-2011 10:51 PM

when did you useD it?

did you useD it?

twitchyzero 06-03-2011 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by T.T (Post 7455775)
lol I know some people who spell "Filipino" as "Phillippino" or something like that.

I did that once...it makes sense though. Where did the F come from if their home country is Philippines.

minoru_tanaka 06-03-2011 09:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by twitchyzero (Post 7458298)
I did that once...it makes sense though. Where did the F come from if their home country is Philippines.

Neither makes sense cause tagalog doesn't have the F sound.

fliptuner 06-03-2011 09:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by minoru_tanaka (Post 7458305)
Neither makes sense cause tagalog doesn't have the F sound.

That's because it's not Tagalog. Filipino is Spanish, in reference to people from the Philippines. Filipino's refer to themselves as Pinoy in their native tongue, just as Japanese call themselves Nihon ji desu (or something close, iirc).

minoru_tanaka 06-03-2011 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fliptuner (Post 7458336)
That's because it's not Tagalog. Filipino is Spanish, in reference to people from the Philippines. Filipino's refer to themselves as Pinoy in their native tongue, just as Japanese call themselves Nihon ji desu (or something close, iirc).

"yea let's give these guys a name they can't pronounce so when people ask them where they are from, they won't be able to say it. It will be hilarious."

fliptuner 06-03-2011 11:08 AM

The country is named for King Philip II of Spain, discovered by Ferdinand Magellan.

Oleophobic 06-03-2011 11:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fliptuner (Post 7458336)
That's because it's not Tagalog. Filipino is Spanish, in reference to people from the Philippines. Filipino's refer to themselves as Pinoy in their native tongue, just as Japanese call themselves Nihon ji desu (or something close, iirc).

I know I used to pronounce 'tagalog' with the stress on 'tag' instead of 'ga' many years back. Good thing a filipino coworker corrected me. That was pretty fail.

Phil@rise 06-03-2011 11:44 AM

Peoples and Persons
When I was taught English these were not words
People is already plural or multiple individuals. So why the hell pluralize a plural? Persons WTF we have people to cover that!
I blame the Americans.

Senna4ever 06-06-2011 01:17 AM

Spotted at 16th & Quebec.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...s/PICT7936.jpg

snowball 06-06-2011 01:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phil@rise (Post 7458461)
Peoples and Persons
When I was taught English these were not words
People is already plural or multiple individuals. So why the hell pluralize a plural? Persons WTF we have people to cover that!
I blame the Americans.

Peoples and persons were always words. Your teachers just told you that they weren't so you wouldn't get into the habit of using them incorrectly at a young age.

Gumby 06-06-2011 09:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Senna4ever (Post 7461287)
Spotted at 16th & Quebec.

Oh man I'm gonna wrip out my hare.

Phil@rise 06-06-2011 09:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gatorade (Post 7461292)
Peoples and persons were always words. Your teachers just told you that they weren't so you wouldn't get into the habit of using them incorrectly at a young age.

Perhaps I'm much older then you.
But in Canada we spell with British English (or did) as such Peoples and Persons are not words instead they are part of American English.
Color is American, Colour is Canadian but when you type Colour into your computer, spell check attempts to correct it.

:fuckyea: I'm too old

darkfroggy 06-06-2011 12:09 PM

The Metis and the French peoples need to unite in order to preserve their respective cultures.

^ Peoples sounds "correct" in this context, please correct me if mistaken.

urrh 06-06-2011 12:15 PM

^ no

snowball 06-06-2011 12:50 PM

^

It's right, people derives from the latin word populum (group of people) Peoples = two+ distinct groups of people mentioned in one sentence.

Person derives from latin persona, an individual, persons is multiple individuals.

Nowadays people just accept that person = singular, and people = plural of person but the origins of person/persons and people/peoples are distinct and if you look at old legal text you will see that more than one person = persons

minoru_tanaka 06-12-2011 06:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gatorade (Post 7461677)
^

It's right, people derives from the latin word populum (group of people) Peoples = two+ distinct groups of people mentioned in one sentence.

Person derives from latin persona, an individual, persons is multiple individuals.

Nowadays people just accept that person = singular, and people = plural of person but the origins of person/persons and people/peoples are distinct and if you look at old legal text you will see that more than one person = persons

eg APTN = Aboriginal Peoples Television Network

PDA_86 06-13-2011 01:00 AM

I notice usually in some DIY threads whenever the OP warn members that he is not responsible if you "brick" this thing instead of "break" this thing.

RevYouUp 06-13-2011 01:04 AM

when people spell to instead of too

flagella 06-13-2011 01:06 AM

I've seen a lot of ppl spelling congratulations congradulations.


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