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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 12:46 pm
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 6:42 pm
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 7:10 pm
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 7:20 pm
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 10:15 pm
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 12:06 pm
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 12:58 pm
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 4:18 pm
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Kohy Ikonik Angel Kohy It annoys me also, and sometimes I try and tell the person doing this that they've used it in the wrong context. Sometimes it works, other times, it doesn't. But the main thing that annoys me is the usage of 'than' and 'then'. I can't seem to understand this one as they are not only spelt differently, but sound different also. How can you mistake the two? I can honestly say I've never seen anyone mix up 'then' and 'than'. But wouldn't it be a typo? Or are people doing this repeatedly? Or worse...in handwriting?Repeatedly and in handwriting...You can tell when someone has just made a slight error, because the other times they've corrected it, but I've read fanfics where someone repeatedly uses 'then' for 'than'. That's pretty bad. I can't see how one could mistake the two, unless the typer/writer is still learning to read and spell, which I highly doubt if they are writing a fanfic.
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Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 8:18 am
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Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 5:54 am
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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:07 pm
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Aramethea Not to get off on a rant here, but this drives me spare. The improper usage of your and you're. My local paper, a rag not worth the paper it's printed on, repeatedly gets this wrong. I don't know what is up with the editing staff there, but my goodness, they're awful. Recently, they ran an ad that said this : If your going on a trip, and you need planning help, call Shane at Liberty Travel. He can help with all you're vacation planning needs. How can the editor not catch this? It's very simple. "Your" implies ownership. "That bag is yours." - ie it belongs to you. "You're getting on my nerves with your improper use of English." - ie it is something you are doing. Am I the only one with this problem?
I think the problem lies in the PART of the paper. I assume (or at least HOPE) that an editor would go over a news story, but the ads are being put in straight from the customer's scribbles by some minimum wage data entry kid. Pathetic. I see it all the time in ads, though. The world is full of idiots.
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:39 pm
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:42 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:55 am
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Yami no Hitokiri I've read some fanfics that were so poorly written, I had to stop before I went insane. I've seen "you're" and "your" get swapped so many times, it's not even funny. Well this is why I made that other thread anyway. If anyone knows any homophones that I haven't listed, feel free to add them to the list. flea - Aw, looks like Rover has fleas again. flee - Let's flee from that hungry T. rex! lamb - Aw, look at the cute little lamb. I'm hungry for lambchops. lam - I went on the lam so I wouldn't have to go to jail. i usually have to print out, edit, and retype fanfics before i can read them. after that, they're quite easy to read. the problem i come across most is a mixup of tenses-people tend to begin in either past or present, and repeatedly switch between the two at random, so i have to entirely rewrite sentences, which usually takes a couple minutes pondering what the author was trying to say.
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