Actually, I always thought I wrote pretty simply. Weird, huh?
Laura said:Actually, I always thought I wrote pretty simply. Weird, huh?
Laura said:Actually, I always thought I wrote pretty simply. Weird, huh?
Peam said:Another mistake which I think mostly Americans seem to make is the swapping of the words 'then' and 'than' sometimes when writing.
I can understand a phrase like “He liked it more then that”, because it fits with the usual American accent, a sort of drawl, ( I'll rephrase that to yankees after reading Laura's post above) but the same people who make that mistake also seem to usually do the opposite and put 'than' where 'then' should be.
For instance: “He said goodbye than walked out of the room.”
I can't figure that out. Didn't they ever get pulled up for it at school? Any ideas?
lord jim said:Peam said:I can understand a phrase like “He liked it more then that”, because it fits with the usual American accent, a sort of drawl,
yep, that happens a lot too, Peam. i think it might just be out of laziness, the then/than thing. but, yeah, the "he liked it more then that" jibes well with the accent.
lord jim said:i definitely like it better then* "septic"...my brit boss called me that when i was over in england. i just ignored the word, wondering if he was telling me i stank or something. than* i found out that "septic" meant "septic tank", meaning "septic tank", meaning "yank" as in "yankee", as in american. of course, being from the south, i'd never been called a "yankee" before, so i was little confused.
*joke :D
tom32071 said:Actually I shouldn't pick on my sister for her use of high dollar words. She really is a word person, she enjoys words and she probably uses some words just because they need to be taken out and used from time to time. As far as slowing down my reading that is probably a good thing as sometimes I go fairly quickly and could miss the whole point sometimes.
Nienna Eluch said:One of my pet peeves is that nowadays, people just don't use apostrophes anymore. I was told it was because of how many people are now texting. But I am always seeing words such as cant, dont, didnt, ive, im, etc. For some reason, that just sticks in my craw.
Odyssey said:Nienna Eluch said:One of my pet peeves is that nowadays, people just don't use apostrophes anymore. I was told it was because of how many people are now texting. But I am always seeing words such as cant, dont, didnt, ive, im, etc. For some reason, that just sticks in my craw.
Even worse are people who don't use apostrophes in their speech...as in "I'm going to my sister house."
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Nienna Eluch Reply #24 on: Yesterday at 03:16:28 PM said:It seems to me that you are getting twice the education for the price of one. Smiley New ideas, new words. Learning is fun! Cheesy
Laura Reply #15 on: Yesterday at 11:01:52 AM said:Actually, I always thought I wrote pretty simply. Weird, huh?