Regardless, .....LOL

Due to an astute members attention to grammar, what are the words that irk you when you see them in type?

I allow nearly all of them to skate by unnoticed, due to quick typing, or would that be keying, oh, heck, it could even be a text from a Black-Berry now-a-days, but once in a while, the lack of any consistency of the proper usage of the English Language does get noted.

So, what are the most commonly misspelled or misused words you see on a regular basis and do they bother you?

Do you think that internet spelling and grammar says anything about the person behind the keyboard?

This most definitely is NOT any type of critique at any members verbal usage and skills, but just an afterthought due to a comment made in another thread topic.

Ed>>>

rotfl! Ok, me first then...I hate the word, 'sarking' even though I know it is a real word. And I don't like 'upstand' much either. lol.>>>

Seriously though (I'll stop picking on my Albion friends) when it comes to language it's like this: give me a plateful of mashed potatoes and gravy and I can sit up and take nourishment, scoop them up with a stick, or even bare fisted, and then go on talking to ya while I chew with my mouth open. It's all good. I can nail on shingles crooked. You can't see them from the ground. I can smear caulking all around the chimney. It'll never leak. Attention to detail and respect for the material is secondary to getting the job done. Words is words, meaningless really. Not sure why we even bother with em actually. I got about sixteen shelves filled with other peoples' delusions that language is an art form. My crooked shingles keepem dry. All is well with the world.>>>

Tanking is the word that really chaps my arse. LOL

Honestly, aside from then and than, not much.

I laugh at my own typing skills more than anything. I frequently leave off the "R" when typing "YOUR", and since I never proof anything before hitting "save", I just look like some dumb hick.>>>

Yeah, but for a first-rate stand-up guy with a ton of knowledge and a kind of unerring and sophisticated sense of what's up (except for some of your voting practices) I'm calling you out on your hick-ness. You are but you aint. I got my briar patch too. No big deal. If you want to just look like some dumb hick you better stop writing so well as soon as possible.>>>

It's funny how habit and dialect are so hard to overcome. If only I could speak like I can write, I might even fool the people that know me.>>>

Mike H Said: Its funny how habit and dialect are so hard to overcome. If only I could speak like I can write, I might even fool the people that know me.

That is so true.

Even when I am half asleep, I can type pretty decent content, but get me talking when I am exhausted and I sound like a punch drunk fighter.

Ed>>>

Even though I've watched upstand creep into my vocabulary, I still haven't fallen off the turn-up wagon. I think anymore around here it's just obscured as merely one aspect or component of what goes by the term 'base flashing.' Oh, boy... now I'm going to get twitchy if I give that too much thought. I vastly prefer 'upstand' to where my mind was getting suctioned off to.

Back to the subject at hand, I read pretty much everything with interest, but if the poster doesn't care enough to clean up the post, make sure all the words are actually there and everything sitting up straight, how seriously can I take it? I mean, if it's slapdash and careless, what likelihood is there that is has any real value? If someone tries to sell me a Rolls Royce that's all dinged up and covered with duct tape and patches of body primer, I might think it is actually a great car underneath it all, but it's not going to make me pump my fist in the air.>>>

Same goes for me regarding an OP.

If they are not prepared to ask a question in a well formatted manner to get their point across, how much will any advice actually do them?

Lots of DIY posts that are so short and meaningless, that they may have been better off saving their finger tips from typing in the question. Then, after 10 posters respond, they still have not gotten back to resolve the unknowns.

Such as:

Whats the best material for my roof?

Or

I just had a new roof put on and I can't find where it is leaking from.

DUH!!!

Some people deserve what they get, or reap what they sow.

Ed>>>

I doubly don't like irregardless because it's usually used in a condescending tone as if it was the contraction of "irrelevant" and "regardless". It is somewhat offset by the joy I get from seeing stupid people being condescending.

I'm noticing many cliches getting butchered. One that comes to mind is, "You have anotherthing coming", when it should be think. If someone said this to me in person, I would say, "What thing is that?"

In the end, I think it's important to separate the message from the way it's presented. That applies to both poorly said and well stated ones. Some of the most eloquent statements I've read or heard distilled down to, "We're gonna screw u good and hard."

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Some smarty pants over at Oggsferd put this together:

`It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's, not its, if you mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs.'' -- Oxford University Press, Edpress News

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I really hate's it when some oxford genious tries to make me feel stupid justs becuz he thinks its, or is it it's, his duty.

Nah, I was trying to make something good in reply, but its a waste of everyones time. LOL at myself.

That was pretty good Mis'.>>>

A lot of the posts here use "your" instead of You're: Misuse "There" and "Their": "One" and "won" and I have even seen some of the guys try and spell "Tater" using a "P" That has to cease.>>>

I forgot "There're" too; to; two; 2. We certainly do butcher the English language.>>>

There're ???? Now that's one I don't ever remember seeing.

Being a conversational environment, I don't tend to get too worried about use of words like "to-too" or there-their-they're. I have been amazed at my own use of the various forms of there, as if they are completely interchangeable. I type fairly fast, and in this environment, tend to type just like I am thinking/talking..................... ie: almost always droppin' the "g" on stuff, etc.

No biggie. But now that I know I gotsta iffin egg's gonna take me serious Im gonna make furshur that I use there everywhere their appropriate, for fear they're gonna be ignored. ;)>>>

Never have taken the time to learn the proper spelling for whorederve.>>>