He's here all week, try the veal...and don't forget to tip your servers.
I hate when I overlook typos. "Based on his lack of his lack of..." WTH was that? Grrr...
*Edited it for correction...
Grammar/spelling police
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I hate when I overlook typos. "Based on his lack of his lack of..." WTH was that? Grrr...
*Edited it for correction...
Spelling has always been challenging for me. Rules for the English language mostly has never made a lot of sense. Is that word with the "eh" sound spelled with an "e" or an "a"? It doesn't help growing up in an area where a lot of people pronounced "nuclear" as "new-que-lar". "Supposeably". Syllables? Hyperbole vs. hyperbolic? Epitome?
Punctuation mostly makes sense to me, but then there's shit like this:
"If you ever think English is not a shit language just remember that read and lead rhyme and read and lead rhyme, but read and lead don't rhyme and neither do read and lead."
And from the Merriam-Webster dictionary:
"lit·er·al·ly
ˈli-trə-lē,
ˈli-tər-lē
. . .
2
informal : in effect : virtually
—used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible
I literally died of embarrassment.
… will literally turn the world upside down to combat cruelty or injustice."
One of my favorite tee shirt sayings:
"You literally mean figuratively"
Punctuation mostly makes sense to me, but then there's shit like this:
"If you ever think English is not a shit language just remember that read and lead rhyme and read and lead rhyme, but read and lead don't rhyme and neither do read and lead."
And from the Merriam-Webster dictionary:
"lit·er·al·ly
ˈli-trə-lē,
ˈli-tər-lē
. . .
2
informal : in effect : virtually
—used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible
I literally died of embarrassment.
… will literally turn the world upside down to combat cruelty or injustice."
One of my favorite tee shirt sayings:
"You literally mean figuratively"
The commonly accepted punctuation rules have problems, although I know "most" of them. With that said, I sometimes ignore the usual rules and go by what's called "logical punctuation" instead - which just makes more sense to me as a computer geek.
Ex.
He sat down and told us, "I am a male Belly Dancer.".
The period inside the quotes terminates the quoted sentence, the period outside the quotes terminates the greater sentence that encapsulates the quote. The outside period is not accepted usage, but it makes a LOT more sense to me!
Let's NOT get into the Oxford comma!
Ex.
He sat down and told us, "I am a male Belly Dancer.".
The period inside the quotes terminates the quoted sentence, the period outside the quotes terminates the greater sentence that encapsulates the quote. The outside period is not accepted usage, but it makes a LOT more sense to me!
Let's NOT get into the Oxford comma!
Thank you for that! I look at it the same way you do, and it just all seems awkward AF! Glad I'm not alone in the struggle.
No need to get into that. It's mandatory. People who disagree are also the type who would welcome the opportunity to help my Uncle Jack off his horse.
Well yeah, except that my username is an artifact of an uncaught auto-correct prior to hitting submit. And rather than fix it and all the post trouble that would cause at this point, I opted to just wear it.
I have a poem that should win the Pullet Surprise.
Owed two the spelling chequer
I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when eye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checker's
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know fault's with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word's fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too pleas.
Owed two the spelling chequer
I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when eye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checker's
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know fault's with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word's fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too pleas.
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I think either could be correct, depending on the context and if you need to use a plural.
I always thought it was "For fuck's sake"...
That's the way I recently used it. In breaking it down, I'm not entirely sure if it's correct, or not. However, if it's for the sake of the "fuck", then it almost seems like a possessive, so you'd use the apostrophe, I believe. Without the apostrophe, wouldn't it then be a plural of "fuck"? How many "fucks" do you need to make the point? I never thought to ask my English teacher in school. But no matter, as she probably didn't give a fuck, anyways...
That's the way I recently used it. In breaking it down, I'm not entirely sure if it's correct, or not. However, if it's for the sake of the "fuck", then it almost seems like a possessive, so you'd use the apostrophe, I believe. Without the apostrophe, wouldn't it then be a plural of "fuck"? How many "fucks" do you need to make the point? I never thought to ask my English teacher in school. But no matter, as she probably didn't give a fuck, anyways...
That was always my interpretation, for the sake of "the fuck". Used the phrase just last nite as a matter of fact...
