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UGetPaid

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Re: Calling all grammar Nazis
« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2019, 01:20:20 pm »

Journalists for a newspaper, especially a local paper, are not professionals. 


LOL, you have a point there. But they still get paid money to write articles for the general public to read - which should be enough reason for them to spell and conjugate things correctly!  We can definitely make an argument against their "professionalism"...

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Re: Calling all grammar Nazis
« Reply #16 on: November 26, 2019, 03:51:23 pm »
what really gets me is when people are like "we played good" or "i did this so good". i cringe everytime and want to correct them because they should be saying well not good and they would sound so much more intelligent getting it right.

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Re: Calling all grammar Nazis
« Reply #17 on: November 26, 2019, 05:37:22 pm »
We're not getting stars for correct grammar anyway. I don't mean to be grammatically incorrect, it happens sometimes. Unless and until the grammar police can arrest me, it doesn't matter ;D
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Re: Calling all grammar Nazis
« Reply #18 on: November 27, 2019, 01:38:28 pm »
We're not getting stars for correct grammar anyway. I don't mean to be grammatically incorrect, it happens sometimes. Unless and until the grammar police can arrest me, it doesn't matter ;D

You get 1 post subtracted from your goal of 30 every time you post something with bad grammar in it or misuse of the their, there, or they're LOL

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Re: Calling all grammar Nazis
« Reply #19 on: November 27, 2019, 02:21:29 pm »
One of my pet peeves is the incorrect use of "I" and "me."  "Me" is always the object of a preposition, not "I!"  I don't know why that bothers me so much, but I hear it used wrong all the time.  I was intimidated by my English teacher in high school, and I made sure that I learned what I was supposed to learn.

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Re: Calling all grammar Nazis
« Reply #20 on: November 27, 2019, 08:59:31 pm »
I catch them sometimes but never say anything.if they have written a long post and it's all correct then I look past the mistake.

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Re: Calling all grammar Nazis
« Reply #21 on: November 27, 2019, 11:58:50 pm »
I am not the best speller so if someone doesn't like that, I am not really concerned.

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Re: Calling all grammar Nazis
« Reply #22 on: November 28, 2019, 04:44:43 am »
Not a great deal of the time but sometimes and it's not like my grammar is always perfect anyway.
"Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"

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Re: Calling all grammar Nazis
« Reply #23 on: November 28, 2019, 05:35:35 am »
I catch them sometimes but never say anything.if they have written a long post and it's all correct then I look past the mistake.
Jesus said it best."Before you remove the straw from your fellow mans eye,remove it from your eye first,this way you can see more clearly."

Luke 6:42
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Re: Calling all grammar Nazis
« Reply #24 on: November 28, 2019, 06:19:56 am »
Only on one specific girl. She always skips words and puts "are" instead of "our".

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Re: Calling all grammar Nazis
« Reply #25 on: November 28, 2019, 06:26:07 am »
I sometimes will double check to see if the spelling is right, I may not be a perfect speller, but I can see fault on some things.

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Re: Calling all grammar Nazis
« Reply #26 on: November 29, 2019, 11:27:25 am »
I am thinking you think too much on that. Move along.

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Re: Calling all grammar Nazis
« Reply #27 on: November 29, 2019, 12:14:29 pm »
Sometimes I'll think to myself, "Oh, that's incorrect grammar."  But I would never in a million years correct somebody online about it. In most cases it's just not that important. Now, if one of my kids is writing a school paper, then I'll point it out, LOL!  :peace:

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Re: Calling all grammar Nazis
« Reply #28 on: November 30, 2019, 07:09:54 am »
My grammar was Italian,NOT a *bleep*!!

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Re: Calling all grammar Nazis
« Reply #29 on: November 30, 2019, 04:28:48 pm »
I just laugh at grammar nazis because they're just bored people with no lives. Their life goal feeling the need to correct someone all the time is kinda redundant. Good for them getting that brownie points of self-accomplishment

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