Top 10 grammatical errors that make you look stupid

**Lorax** · 14th April 2007, 23:09

I's a teacher too, but not as smart as you gijoe1313. Wow.

One of my other pet peeves [sp?!] is when people say "I'm going to try and do that." As opposed to "I'm going to try to do that"

**Big Dave** · 14th April 2007, 23:53

Originally Posted by gijoe1313

more surrealistic.

I'll take the fish for five.

Or Surreal.

**gijoe1313** · 15th April 2007, 11:01

Originally Posted by Lorax

I's a teacher too, but not as smart as you gijoe1313. Wow.

One of my other pet peeves [sp?!] is when people say "I'm going to try and do that." As opposed to "I'm going to try to do that"

The fact that we are teachers show we are both complete loony bins ... who'd want to be a teacher?

And I bet you are twice as smart as I am twice as dumb in things you are prepossessing in abundance! I am currently studying the finer rudimentary skills in animal husbandry, as it seems it is a more apt and directly applicable school to what passes for the fauna in classrooms these days!

**Big Dave** · 15th April 2007, 11:01

I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
David Ogilvy

**gijoe1313** · 15th April 2007, 11:07

Originally Posted by Big Dave

I'll take the fish for five.

Or Surreal.

I take it you like kipling? I would never know since I have never kippled! For the rish I reccommend the frying flish with a tich of tumultous somersault of spoonerism, this may make the parson piss the most.

For dessertations, a deserter of fine discernment for your delectable digustation for just desserts is a di rigeur dalliance into domitable deferments into deciding what to dine on!

I will happily post this to Timbuktu via way of Abu Dhabi so you can have your fish by five months!

(and don'cha hate verbosity in a voluminous way? Oi vey! I should be so lucky! I'll get the meshhuginah outta here before I turn into a goyim!)

**Flatcap** · 15th April 2007, 11:09

Originally Posted by Big Dave

I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
David Ogilvy

That is just laziness. People should aspire to something more than the everyday and mundane

**Big Dave** · 15th April 2007, 11:12

On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
and the monkeys all say BOO!
There's a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots jibber jabber joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang
And you just can't catch 'em when they do!
So its Ning Nang Nong
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning
Trees go ping
Nong Ning Nang
The mice go Clang
What a noisy place to belong
is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!

Spike.

**Big Dave** · 15th April 2007, 11:17

Originally Posted by Fairlie

That is just laziness. People should aspire to something more than the everyday and mundane

You could never accuse Mr Ogilvy of that.
Entirely the opposite.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/au...id_ogilvy.html

**Pixie** · 15th April 2007, 13:19

The emergent inability to pronounce "women" in NZ english pisses me off.
Even Howard Broad recently spoke of apologising to some individual "woman" that,apparantly,covered the whole of New Zealand.

It's pronounced "wimmin" you fat wally!

Of course it ceases to matter if ,like many, you refer to men and women as males and females.Male and female what? Dogs? cats?

**Pixie** · 15th April 2007, 13:27

No one seemed to mention the embarrassment caused by writing to your folks and telling them you "Helped your Uncle jack off a horse"and not "Helped your Uncle Jack, off a horse"

**Virago** · 15th April 2007, 13:35

Originally Posted by Pixie

No one seemed to mention the embarrassment caused by writing to your folks and telling them you "Helped your Uncle jack off a horse"and not "Helped your Uncle Jack, off a horse"

Okay, joke:

Reading class at school, all kids reading quietly at their desks.

Liitle Timmy puts his hand up. "Miss, what does it mean in this book when it says "Robin Hood tore his leather?"

"I don't know, Timmy." said the teacher. "Can you read the whole sentence?"

"Okay." said Timmy. "Robin Hood tore his leather jerkin off."

**Hitcher** · 15th April 2007, 18:27

The BDOTGNZA blesses you all!

**Beemer** · 16th April 2007, 09:45

Originally Posted by Black Bandit

Ah, the which/that debate. MS Word always insists on correcting such a sentence with "Top 10 grammatical errors which, make one look stupid" or change the sentence with "Top 10 grammatical errors that make one look stupid" and it drives me nutty! Why, oh why does it want to put a comma in there??? Also are there rules regarding the correct use of which and that?

Please enlighten me dear sirs.

According to my style guide: That is not an exact synonym for which and who. It is used when the antecedent subject is related to a class, group, or species.

He was the greatest sportsman that I had ever seen.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

The following sentences demonstrate the difference between which and that.

In two of the experiements, which I supervised, the results were positive. (The meaning is "I have supervised two experiments; in these two experiments the results were positive.")
In two of the experiments that I supervised the results were positive. (The meaning is "I have supervised experiments; in two of them the results were positve.")