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Originally posted by Geezer:
Noone was the leader of Herman's Hermits. If the room is empty there is no one there.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Originally posted by Freebrowncoat:
Using a preposition to end a sentence with.

Churchill reportedly said, "That is something up with I will not put."

Not quite true but anusing. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/churchill.html

No idea where this started but it is fun.

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Originally posted by cljohnston108:
And I wish folks would remember the extra 'o' in 'too'!

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Originally posted by Freebrowncoat:
Using a preposition to end a sentence with.

Churchill reportedly said, "That is something up with I will not put."

Not quite true but anusing. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/churchill.html

No idea where this started but it is fun.

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Originally posted by pizmobeach:

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Originally posted by cljohnston108:
And I wish folks would remember the extra 'o' in 'too'!

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And don't forget the same goes for "so" when used as an adverb:

"I'm soo tired." People always forget that one.

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Originally posted by Kwicko: "Then" is a sequential measure of time. First this, THEN that.

"Than" is a comparative. It's better to be pissed OFF, than pissed ON.

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Originally posted by boris:
Who gets to decide what is regarded as proper usage anyway.

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Originally posted by freelancertex:

My personal favorite is "a lot." Every time I see someone spell it "allot" or "alot" I die a little inside.

a lot: a quantity, as in "a lot of cookies."

allot: to assign as a share or portion -- completely different meaning from 'a lot'

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Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
"Peeps", eh?

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Originally posted by boris:
have been told that they would sound like "wankers" if they spoke like me as I speak English like a "toff"

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Originally posted by 11thHour:
Awesome website:

Common Errors in English Usage

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors

Wonderful resource and reference. I've spent time just looking through and finding errors that I've made, without even realizing.

The Interwebs can actually help us with the English language too...

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Originally posted by boris:
have been told that they would sound like "wankers" if they spoke like me as I speak English like a "toff"

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And this completely illogical opinion on their part justifies their butchering of the English language, does it? Sounding as though you belong in the gutter should certainly not be a matter of pride.
Even if I were to agree with you on dialect rules, we're not talking about dialect here, because this is a written medium. Netspeek has its own rules, much of the time, but netspeek is mostly limited to abbreviations and shortcuts. Using the completely wrong form of a word is not netspeek and it's certainly not dialect, it's just incorrect. Your instead of you're as is so common, and the original problem this thread brought up, is never correct. The 'correct' netspeek would be ur, likely for both forms of the word. I find that sort of thing both lazy and annoying, much as I do with certain dialects, but at least it follows some previously established rules, which relate solely to the internet. Even on the internet, though, if one is attempting to have a lengthy, intelligent, or meaningful conversation, there's no good reason to use netspeek. Prolonged or pervasive use of such shortcuts can make anything more than a sentence or two long into a jumbled mess. Even more so, improper usage of words or improper grammar are a roadblock to understanding. Trolls often use such roadblocks deliberately, calling non-existent 'internet rules' to justify their asshattery when anyone calls them on it.
Imagine if this whole post was a mass of netspeek, improper forms of words, little to no punctuation, et cetera. In the unlikely event that it could be understood, no one would be likely to take me very seriously at all. Speaking on any subject beyond the casual necessitates a certain level of communication and demonstrable intelligence, if anyone is going to understand or take you seriously. You may well say, "hay guyz, wat r u doin?" in a chatroom or a text or what have you, and that's short and casual enough that it won't be terribly confusing; you're not debating or professing knowledge or anything else that would require depth of understanding and/or respect for said knowledge. On the other hand, someone who says, "im so better than you i has smart and your wrong cuz i no wat im sayin" is just setting themselves up for ridicule. Especially here, on a forum of some intelligent people who have been known to sharpen language into a pretty devastating weapon, who won't take you at all seriously if you can't figure such simple things out.

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as long as people are respectful

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they are not all from the gutter, those that are did not choose to come from there

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