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XD (exdee) wrote in otf_wank,
@ 2006-05-05 13:25:00

Yes. I need a hobby.
But it's exam time. I have nothing better to do that scurry around customers_suck collecting wank.

Like this pretty, where tortilla_factory admits that, when the english_majors and grammar_nazis collide, she'll side with the Nazis, since she's half-German, and veli wants to know what's so funny about genocide and how she's sick of being blamed for her grandfather's generation.

I was counting more on grammar_wank, since the OP was a rant on people saying "I'm doing good" when they mean "I'm doing well", and there is indeed a bit of angsting over that, but the paranoid German was way more interesting.

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mookie
2006-05-05 07:02 pm UTC (link)

I don't particularly like the whole "I'm doing good" turn of phrase, but it doesn't necessarily bother me.

What bugs the daylights out of me, however, is how many people insist on saying "between you and I" - and now that I know being half-German allows me to act Nazi-esque, I don't feel bad for all the times I've pointed out how much I hate that.

There's a deleted post in there, too - I wonder how wanky it was.

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puipui
2006-05-05 08:42 pm UTC (link)

My most recent favorite, due to one of my co-workers, is the use of "in lieu of" to mean "because of". She also uses "heptic" instead of "hectic" and writes "could of" instead of "could have".

I think I'd be able to forgive her for "heptic" if she were a famous rap star or something, but given that she is a fifty-year-old WASP with the mental prowess of half a brick, I'm veering toward no forgiveness in this case.

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	vomitymcpuke 2006-05-05 09:19 pm UTC (link)
	I work at a bookstore and people made signs and did your instead of you're. I wanted to beat them with the signs. Although, they were only cardboard, so it wouldn't have done much damage. I need to rethink my plan. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	coreopsis 2006-05-05 09:57 pm UTC (link)
	heh. I probably drive my husband crazy bitching about misspellings and bad grammar and hideous punctuation on signs wherever we go. So if' I'd been in your store, he'd have had to hear all about it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

(no subject) - coreopsis, 2006-05-05 09:59 pm UTC

mookie, 2006-05-05 11:50 pm UTC

seiberwing, 2006-05-06 12:37 am UTC

mookie, 2006-05-06 01:16 am UTC

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mookie, 2006-05-06 01:46 am UTC

seiberwing, 2006-05-06 01:51 am UTC

(no subject) - coreopsis, 2006-05-06 03:13 am UTC

paraphrased shamelessly from MacHall -

miss_arel, 2006-05-06 07:20 am UTC

	(Anonymous) 2006-05-06 03:58 am UTC (link)
	I bought a T-shirt specifically because it included the word "alway's" (Reply to this)(Parent)

wrongly_amused
2006-05-06 04:46 am UTC (link)

I work at a Payless Shoesource, and we recently had to put a hold on a freebie extra that was meant for kids because - get this - some of the (American) states were spelled correctly. Yes, that's right, a corporation as large as Payless actually manufactured millions of these things and sent them nationwide, only to recall them a week later because nobody proofread.

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dragonfangirl, 2006-05-06 09:14 am UTC

wrongly_amused, 2006-05-06 02:32 pm UTC

bolboreta
2006-05-05 09:26 pm UTC (link)

writes "could of" instead of "could have".

This drives me absolutely insane. I corrected an American friend (who manages fairly well with spelling, I won't bother with one who hasn't learned yet that "than" exists) when she used it in a poem, and she told me something like "I prefer it this way". Never mind that grammatically it makes no sense whatsoever.

PS: the "in lieu of" is just completely mind-boggling.

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mmanurere
2006-05-05 11:50 pm UTC (link)

I corrected an American friend (who manages fairly well with spelling, I won't bother with one who hasn't learned yet that "than" exists) when she used it in a poem, and she told me something like "I prefer it this way".

What really bugs me is the "I prefer it this way (therefore I have an inalienable right not to have it called bad grammar)" attitude. I tried going through a poem written by a friend for one of his classes -- and any time I made a suggestion the response was "that's just a matter of style, and this is my style." Within reason I can accept that kind of thing -- but this wasn't a matter of nuance, it was one of stilted, awkward, painfully inept choice of words and phrasing. I think it's a generational thing...it's only people who are at least a few years younger who seem to have quite that sense of grammatical and stylistic entitlement.

[/wank]

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exdee, 2006-05-06 12:22 am UTC

puipui
2006-05-06 03:30 am UTC (link)

PS: the "in lieu of" is just completely mind-boggling.

Sadly, ever since the first time I heard her do it, I've been noticing more and more people doing it elsewhere. It's like a virus!

I used to try to find ways to use it correctly in conversation with her, but at this point I think my time would be better spent attempting to teach proper grammar to my left shoe. At least my shoe has an excuse for being that stupid.

And you may think I'm being harsh, but just imagine the kind of mind it takes to make a mistake like that, and then multiply it by every sentence that comes out of its mouth and imagine it in a desk behind you making small talk all damn day. I try to be all zen about it, but it's hard!

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bolboreta, 2006-05-06 08:31 am UTC

(no subject) - vomitymcpuke, 2006-05-06 02:43 pm UTC

	dracothelizard 2006-05-05 11:24 pm UTC (link)
	"writes "could of" instead of "could have"." HOLY CRAP. She's a native speaker? NO EXCUSES. Hit her with something. If you don't do it, I'm afraid I shall be forced to. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

mmanurere, 2006-05-05 11:43 pm UTC

(no subject) - dracothelizard, 2006-05-05 11:44 pm UTC

mmanurere, 2006-05-05 11:52 pm UTC

platedlizard, 2006-05-07 04:33 am UTC

ladygoddess, 2006-05-07 03:51 pm UTC

platedlizard, 2006-05-07 04:04 pm UTC

funwithrage, 2006-05-09 04:45 pm UTC

	mookie 2006-05-05 11:51 pm UTC (link)
	Does she also use "comparative" for "imperative"? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

puipui, 2006-05-06 03:03 am UTC

	marylake 2006-05-06 02:34 am UTC (link)
	writes "could of" instead of "could have" OH JESUS, TERRY PRATCHETT DOES THAT. AND I KNOW HIS WORK HAS A LOT OF WEIRD ACCENTS AND HE LIKES TO WRITE THEM OUT, BUT DEAR GOD WHY?! pants (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-05-06 09:27 am UTC

marylake, 2006-05-06 01:46 pm UTC

ticca, 2006-05-06 07:05 pm UTC

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marylake, 2006-05-06 08:41 pm UTC

coreopsis
2006-05-05 10:03 pm UTC (link)

What bugs the daylights out of me, however, is how many people insist on saying "between you and I"
Me too. It's like some kind of overcompensation thing with all kind of phrases. "If I always write "I" instead of "me", I'll sound smart!" Except when it's the object of a phrase and should rightly be "me" and then you just make my head hurt.

"Try and" instead of "try to" also drives me nuts but I can't seem to get anyone else on that particular bandwagon o' hate.

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	antigone 2006-05-05 10:18 pm UTC (link)
	"on accident" is a big one of my pet peeves. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

mookie, 2006-05-05 11:25 pm UTC

mookie
2006-05-05 11:28 pm UTC (link)

When I was in college I tried to explain that whole object of the preposition thing to the girls in my college. One of them told me "You're a math major, how would you know?"

I had to pull out the example "would you say between we or between us?" before anyone would take me seriously - and you're right. It's that belief that saying "I" for "me" is automatically correct regardless of context.

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frenzy, 2006-05-05 11:46 pm UTC

mcity, 2006-05-07 02:26 am UTC

ellensmithee, 2006-05-06 07:59 am UTC

mookie, 2006-05-06 09:10 am UTC

renata_hpjc, 2006-05-07 01:19 am UTC

	exit_chrysalis 2006-05-06 01:08 am UTC (link)
	I NEVER use "try and" in written language. I'm fairly well-educated, but I do have a Southern (US) accent. Sometimes if I'm drawlin' along, so to speak, "I am going to try to go out" turns into "I'm'unna try'n go out." I'm sorry. It doesn't happen in formal conversation, I swear! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

(no subject) - coreopsis, 2006-05-06 03:10 am UTC

miss_padfoot, 2006-05-06 05:43 am UTC

	wrongly_amused 2006-05-06 04:50 am UTC (link)
	Eh, "try and" doesn't bother me too much. Maybe because I hear it so often I'll occasionally wind up doing it. The one that really gets me is the whole "good/well" thing, especially when it's really, obvious not the correct word. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ashenmote 2006-05-05 07:26 pm UTC (link)
	Damn. I'm tempted to yell "Stillgestanden, Nazikraut!" at Yeli, just too see her jump. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	yattara 2006-05-05 08:13 pm UTC (link)
	'Du Schweinehund!' So German was a long time ago for me, sue me. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ashenmote 2006-05-05 08:17 pm UTC (link)
	Nono, that was perfectly accurate. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

yattara, 2006-05-05 08:20 pm UTC

ashenmote, 2006-05-05 08:58 pm UTC

yattara, 2006-05-05 09:01 pm UTC

(no subject) - dracothelizard, 2006-05-05 11:27 pm UTC

yattara, 2006-05-05 11:29 pm UTC

(no subject) - dracothelizard, 2006-05-05 11:31 pm UTC

yattara, 2006-05-05 11:33 pm UTC

(no subject) - dracothelizard, 2006-05-05 11:34 pm UTC

	puipui 2006-05-05 08:46 pm UTC (link)
	Your restraint in these wanks is always so impressive. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ashenmote 2006-05-05 09:01 pm UTC (link)
	Restraint. It's a typical german thing. You know? nods gravely Thanks :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

(no subject) - dracothelizard, 2006-05-05 11:26 pm UTC

ashenmote, 2006-05-06 12:02 am UTC

(no subject) - dracothelizard, 2006-05-06 12:04 am UTC

ashenmote, 2006-05-06 12:10 am UTC

puipui, 2006-05-06 03:06 am UTC

ashenmote, 2006-05-06 10:50 pm UTC

pokecheck, 2006-05-06 12:04 am UTC

mookie, 2006-05-06 12:07 am UTC

hallidae, 2006-05-06 02:16 am UTC

puipui, 2006-05-06 03:13 am UTC

miss_padfoot, 2006-05-06 05:45 am UTC

beccastareyes, 2006-05-06 06:30 am UTC

	tekenduis 2006-05-06 01:44 am UTC (link)
	As an almost-entirely unrelated aside to the grammar wank, I'd love to see some of these self-confessed grammar nazis (even the wanka grammar nazis) come to Newfoundland. I think their heads might explode. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	vomitymcpuke 2006-05-06 02:46 pm UTC (link)
	Bahhaha That would be fun. Lord tunderin' jesus! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	phosfate 2006-05-08 03:23 pm UTC (link)
	veli wants to know what's so funny about genocide You mean, apart from that time the Clowns sent the Mimes to work in the pie camps? (Reply to this)

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