VN most misspelled words/names

#127
#127
Well , I graduated from all schools 30 some years ago . I am on a message board . I am typing usually , as fast as i can . I feel the spelling and grammar NAZI 's , may kiss my behind .

I speak and spell , just enough , to run my own business.

It seems to be enough , to get by . You folks running a spelling bee , on a message board , will always, be FOOKED .
 
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#129
#129
I like this thread a lot more than some of the many discussions I've read about booze. You know what I'm talking about. Some of you think you can't live another second unless you let the whole world know how much alcohol you can consume during each football game.
 
#131
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vol1981 said:
I like this thread a lot more than some of the many discussions I've read about booze. You know what I'm talking about. Some of you think you can't live another second unless you let the whole world know how much alcohol you can consume during each football game.
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Well, in all fairness, the last decade of UT football has been pretty depressing. Depressed people drink.
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Boca Vol said:
Well, in all fairness, the last decade of UT football has been pretty depressing. Depressed people drink.
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Amen. If the university had a partial stake in anheuser busch their beer revenues and ticket revenues would work like a seesaw such that UT athletics never lost money lol
 
#133
#133
Volosaurus rex said:
Use of "of" as an auxiliary verb instead of "have" (example: "must of wanted that . . .")

Use of "i.e." instead of "e.g." when the intended message is "for example." Both are of Latin derivation: i.e. stands for id est and means "that is" or "that is to say." e.g. stands for exempli gratia and means "for example."

One of the most egregious shortcomings is a complete and total failure to comprehend when and where commas should be inserted. Commas serve both to indicate verbal pauses and to facilitate comprehension by appropriately compartmentalizing portions of a sentence from each other. A prime example of the latter role, one that frequently is neglected, pertains to the use of commas immediately prior to and after parenthetical elements. If your memory is fuzzy with respect to this term, consider the following example: "Peyton Manning, the most heralded quarterback in Tennessee football history, led the Vols to . . ."

In this example, "the most heralded quarterback in Tennessee football history" is a parenthetical element. It could be eliminated from the sentence and it would still make sense. Its insertion, however, breaks the verbal flow of the sentence and, thus, requires the use of commas immediately prior to and after it.

For those of you who get upset about "grammar/spelling Nazis," understand that your inability to communicate with clarity and precision quite simply undermines your credibility in our eyes. If you can't use your native language competently, why should we give your opinion serious credence?
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The title of this thread is "VN most misspelled words and names." Please stick to the subject matter. My two were onomatopoeia and reconnaissance. Yours?
 
#137
#137
Too many people overuse commas. They just throw them in unnecessarily. On the flip side, not enough people use the Oxford comma.
 
#139
#139
Loved this thread. ROFLMAO !!!!!!! Correct grammar, word comprehension, punctuation, is really a great thing. Does not take up too much time. Spell check is really simple, for those with sight !!!
 
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volger said:
That thread was awesome. I think it gave birth to the...

*thang.
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#143
#143
The written word is much more revealing than one may realize. Educationally speaking, it is a very valuable commodity, and reveals one's intelligence quickly , and emphatically.!
 
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#145
My personal favorites that make me chuckle are valid victorian, pre-madonna, pocket presents, and escape goat. Homonym misuse simply shouldn't be an issue in the 12-and-above crowd.

As for those who are so offended by corrections or even a discussion of the issue at hand, I leave you with a thought from one of my favorite professors at UT:

"To misuse one's native tongue is to be openly disrespectful of one's own upbringing, culture, and homeland. It speaks poorly of family, as good parents would have corrected it; it speaks poorly of education, as good teachers would have stamped it out; it speaks poorly of employers, as good employers would see it as a sign that shortcuts and inaccuracy are acceptable to the worker. A person's proficiency in their native tongue and the choices they make in how seriously they treat it may not be the true judge of their worth, but it's a good sign as to whether or not digging deeper is worth the time spent when time is an issue."

To use the argument that this is a message board and not life is a very interesting comment; as language is both one of a person's longest-held and least-thought-about skills, what you see written in posts is indicative of their base skills because it is often done solely for the dissemination of thought without care as to the quality of the delivery. Or, in layman's terms, what you see is what you get.
 
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AshG said:
My personal favorites that make me chuckle are valid victorian, pre-madonna, and escape goat. Homonym misuse simply shouldn't be an issue in the 12-and-above crowd.

As for those who are so offended by corrections or even a discussion of the issue at hand, I leave you with a thought from one of my favorite professors at UT:

"To misuse one's native tongue is to be openly disrespectful of one's own upbringing, culture, and homeland. It speaks poorly of family, as good parents would have corrected it; it speaks poorly of education, as good teachers would have stamped it out; it speaks poorly of employers, as good employers would see it as a sign that shortcuts and inaccuracy are acceptable to the worker. A person's proficiency in their native tongue and the choices they make in how seriously they treat it may not be the true judge of their worth, but it's a good sign as to whether or not digging deeper is worth the time spent when time is an issue."

To use the argument that this is a message board and not life is a very interesting comment; as language is both one of a person's longest-held and least-thought-about skills, what you see written in posts is indicative of their base skills because it is often done solely for the dissemination of thought without care as to the quality of the delivery. Or, in layman's terms, what you see is what you get.
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Good post, but you forgot "pocket presents."
 
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#148
thebjd said:
I found a couple this morning.
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I think YOUR is the most misused word I have ever seen on message boards. Your is a possessive pronoun. Whatever follows YOUR must be owned or possessed by the person designated as YOUR. Example: YOUR car. It can never be used to replace the words YOU ARE or YOU'RE.
 
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