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'Then' & 'Than'
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If then is used where than is meant, than we will be annoyed.
Wouldn't you rather people use than for then, when than is meant, than use then?
For those who don't know you, I'll say you're being facetious.
GFLPraxis
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Melrose
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Oh, you know me so well. 🙂
Yeah I can see where people get the idea to start doing it, and I even don't talk so perfectly enunciated as to discern the difference, but it still bugs me a bit. 🙂
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MultiM
macrumors 6502
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I've never heard that one ever. This topic was brought up years ago and someone pointed that out too, between that original post and this I've really never heard someone say "brought" instead of "bought".
Is it maybe a local dialect thingymajig?
renewed
macrumors 68040
This is what bugs me the most, I think. It's not "your silly;" it's "you're silly."
Almost everyone I know uses "your." I don't get it.
Melrose
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abijnk
macrumors 68040
Your OP hasn't come off nearly as snooty as your followups. Grow up, dude, it's just a forum. 🙄
Thomas Veil
macrumors 68030
Don't worry about it. It's a perfectly legitimate question. The other misspellings people mentioned are also annoying, although I think the grand prize winner has to be "loose" vs. "lose". I believe I see those two words used incorrectly more often than they are used correctly.
I've heard it. They actually meant to say "brung." 😉
colourfastt
macrumors 65816
TheSVD
macrumors 6502a
i've noticed that too! I think its simply a phonetic derivative, however...
Should have is shortened to should've, which in turn somewhat sounds like should of! Which then, when people type, causes them to write it as should of, rather than should've or should have. Personally i write it as should've but i still don't think its great grammar 😀
skunk
macrumors G4
Nothing--and I mean NOTHING--makes someone look dimmer than putting the dollar symbol AFTER the number.
150$ HUR HUR HURRRRR UNNNGGGGFFFFFFF!!
150$ HUR HUR HURRRRR UNNNGGGGFFFFFFF!!
Synchromesh
macrumors 6502a
As somebody who has done a significant amount of schooling both here and abroad, let me tell you that your average public school in US is crap. As an example, in math what I was doing here in 10th grade we did in another country in 7th and in much more detail. And the high school I want to was considered a very good one at the same time. College was a different story but it was a private one in my case after all.
Grammarwise, the worst offense to me is when people use ' for plural. Example Honda's and Toyota's instead of Hondas and Toyotas. Just pisses me off. Oh, and another thing. How come many people I know who were not born here can actually write better than many Americans born and raised? That is just wrong.
TheSVD
macrumors 6502a
Peterkro
macrumors 68020
Peterkro
macrumors 68020
Could care less... when what they mean is COULDN'T care less.
Plus. 'I aksed him' or some pronunciation like that, when it's ASKED.
Those really annoy me.
Oh - and the way Gordon Brown says " One point three billions " When the plural is on the POUNDS not the BILLIONS Gordon.
Plus. 'I aksed him' or some pronunciation like that, when it's ASKED.
Those really annoy me.
Oh - and the way Gordon Brown says " One point three billions " When the plural is on the POUNDS not the BILLIONS Gordon.
Gregg2
macrumors 604
I seen a schul building for sail on the TV. It had a sine in the lunchroom, painted on the wall: "Kid's Cafe". Ok, so maybe they was some fella called "Kid" and they named the place after him?
...and yore? 😉
