Grammar Nazis Unite! Share your misspelling horror stories!

[NightIntent]

Speaking of being a grammar nazi... I think my brain just died. D:  

[kel aka gandy]

I'm a Grammar Nazi most of the time; however, I have a friend who happens to be worse that I am. One time she fixed some writing on a bathroom stall because it was grammatically incorrect. :]

 

[IncompleteConspiracy]

Recently, I went through a ton of old stories that I'd written. Then, I corrected every single misspelled word. *shudders* I'm a horrid speller. Though, my grammar is pretty good.  

[Rabid Nozomi]

DAW has really been bad at catching errors. D:  

[Foolish Catalyst]

I hate poor spelling!
It annoys me more than anything in the world.

My friends all laugh, because a couple of years ago I developed a habit of correcting everything they write. They all try to be really, really careful of their spelling around me and attempt to keep their work away from me but - and this is just blunt honesty, not boastfulness - I am undeniably the best writer of the six of us and so it doesn't work all that well. Our teachers seem to find it amusing that they often get up essays that have already been attacked by the red biro though. Well, green biro actually.

I do it in books too. If I find a mistake, the first thing I always do is run for a pencil to fix it. My friends don't let me borrow their books much anymore... Not after the incident with one friend's Granddad's copy of Silence of the Lambs...

As for grammar, I'm ashamed to say my use of commas is rather... abundant. Also, I tend to write exactly as I talk, so naturally my best friend in English is the humble apostrophe. I like poetry, where proper grammar doesn't apply much, and that has had some influence on me. I either go for really casual, simple language with not much care for conventional grammar, or else really formal language. As a result, I don't judge people too much on their use of grammar, although I will still correct my friends' grammar when they let me near their essays.

I'm destined to be a teacher, aren't I?  

[NightIntent]

Foolish Catalyst

I'm destined to be a teacher, aren't I?

XD What's wrong with that? Teachers are important. Without teachers, there would be no one to keep the flood of chatspeak/netspeak at bay! :0 And then the human world would die from laziness.  

[Foolish Catalyst]

My English teacher can't spell.

She has this whole "word of the day" thing going on, with words like "Salubrious, lethargic, and preempt" popping up, and she can't spell them at all! We always end up telling her how to spell it.

Its kinda pathetic.

But no, really, I wouldn't want to be a teacher. I don't think I could stand it, but for the holidays!  

[NightIntent]

Yeah, some English teachers are like that. My sister's English teacher last summer--this is a college English teacher, too, so I'm assuming he has a PhD or at least a master's in English--spelled weird wrong (wierd) and didn't know the actual definition of narcissism (he said it was how you see yourself in the world). Pretty sad.  

[Celestiara]

Remember:

I before E except after C...unless it's an ancient weird concierge!

My dad told me that one. He also forwarded me this article, based on a contest to write the longest sensible sentece(s) using only words that were exceptions to the common rule of "I before E"

You really have to pay attention to understand it...

That is IE - Or, Is That EI?

by Paul Leopold
Stockholm, Sweden

"Seeing wherein neither weirdly-veiled sovereign deigned
agreeing, their feisty heirs, leisurely eyeing eight heinous
deity-freightened reindeer sleighs, counterfeited spontaneity,
freeing rein (reveille, neighing!); forfeited obeisance,
fleeing neighborhood. Kaleidoscopically-veined foreign
heights being seized, either reigned, sleight surfeited,
therein; reinvented skein-dyeing; reiteratedly inveighed,
feigning weighty seismological reinforcement."

The above passage appears in a book on the ecological conservation
measures of the enlightened plutocracies of antiquity, Ancient
Financier Aristocracies' Conscientious Scientific Species Policies,
by Creighton Leigh Peirce and Keith Leiceister Reid. . . .

Any beings decreeing such ogreish, albeit nonpareil,
homogeneity must be nucleic protein-deficient from sauteing
pharmacopoeial caffeine and codeine!

From an 'fgrep cie /usr/dict/words', with similiar words removed.
ancient coefficient concierge conscience conscientious deficient efficient
financier glacier hacienda Muncie omniscient proficient science
Societe(?) society species sufficient

A search through Webster's on-line dictionary produced the following exceptions:

Word: *cie*
Possible matches are:


1. -facient 2. abortifacient 3. ancien regime
4. ancient 5. ancientry 6. boccie
7. cenospecies 8. christian science 9. coefficient
10. concierge 11. conscience 12. conscience money
13. conscientious 14. conscientious objector15. deficiency
16. deficiency disease 17. deficient 18. domestic science
19. earth science 20. ecospecies 21. efficiency
22. efficiency engineer 23. efficient 24. facies
25. fancier 26. financier 27. genospecies
28. geoscience 29. glacier 30. glacier theory
31. habeas corpus ad subjiciendum32. hacienda 33. inconscient
34. inefficiency 35. inefficient 36. insufficience
37. insufficiency 38. insufficient 39. international scientific vocabulary
40. library science 41. liquefacient 42. mental deficiency
43. mutafacient 44. natural science 45. nescience
46. omniscience 47. omniscient 48. physical science
49. political science 50. precieux 51. prescience
52. prescientific 53. prima facie 54. proficiency
55. proficient 56. pseudoscience 57. rubefacient
58. science 59. science fiction 60. scient
61. sciential 62. scientific 63. scientific method
64. scientism 65. scientist 66. scientistic
67. secret society 68. self-sufficiency 69. self-sufficient
70. social science 71. social scientist 72. societal
73. society 74. society verse 75. somnifacient
76. specie 77. species 78. stupefacient
79. sub specie aeternitatis80. subspecies 81. sufficiency
82. sufficient 83. sufficient condition 84. superficies
85. type species 86. unscientific 87. valenciennes
88. vers de societe  

[Fowls-Girl]

In one of the Harry Potter books, JK Rowling made the ultimate typo. Jk wrote Rubert Grints' name instead of Ron weaslys'. Is she forgetting the difference between her book and the movie?
Also, I must say that I may not have perfect spelling, but at least I cant get a actor and a character mixed up.
eek  

[PtolemaeusZero]

NightIntent

Kahahana

This is a very predominantly female guild. And I love it.

There used to be a few more guys. Maybe all the girls scared them away? XD

Hey Guy right here! I have a horrid grammar story too! It is funny though.....  

[PtolemaeusZero]

Celestiara

Remember:

I before E except after C...unless it's an ancient weird concierge!

My dad told me that one. He also forwarded me this article, based on a contest to write the longest sensible sentece(s) using only words that were exceptions to the common rule of "I before E"

You really have to pay attention to understand it...

That is IE - Or, Is That EI?

by Paul Leopold
Stockholm, Sweden

"Seeing wherein neither weirdly-veiled sovereign deigned
agreeing, their feisty heirs, leisurely eyeing eight heinous
deity-freightened reindeer sleighs, counterfeited spontaneity,
freeing rein (reveille, neighing!); forfeited obeisance,
fleeing neighborhood. Kaleidoscopically-veined foreign
heights being seized, either reigned, sleight surfeited,
therein; reinvented skein-dyeing; reiteratedly inveighed,
feigning weighty seismological reinforcement."

The above passage appears in a book on the ecological conservation
measures of the enlightened plutocracies of antiquity, Ancient
Financier Aristocracies' Conscientious Scientific Species Policies,
by Creighton Leigh Peirce and Keith Leiceister Reid. . . .

Any beings decreeing such ogreish, albeit nonpareil,
homogeneity must be nucleic protein-deficient from sauteing
pharmacopoeial caffeine and codeine!

From an 'fgrep cie /usr/dict/words', with similiar words removed.
ancient coefficient concierge conscience conscientious deficient efficient
financier glacier hacienda Muncie omniscient proficient science
Societe(?) society species sufficient

A search through Webster's on-line dictionary produced the following exceptions:

Word: *cie*
Possible matches are:


1. -facient 2. abortifacient 3. ancien regime
4. ancient 5. ancientry 6. boccie
7. cenospecies 8. christian science 9. coefficient
10. concierge 11. conscience 12. conscience money
13. conscientious 14. conscientious objector15. deficiency
16. deficiency disease 17. deficient 18. domestic science
19. earth science 20. ecospecies 21. efficiency
22. efficiency engineer 23. efficient 24. facies
25. fancier 26. financier 27. genospecies
28. geoscience 29. glacier 30. glacier theory
31. habeas corpus ad subjiciendum32. hacienda 33. inconscient
34. inefficiency 35. inefficient 36. insufficience
37. insufficiency 38. insufficient 39. international scientific vocabulary
40. library science 41. liquefacient 42. mental deficiency
43. mutafacient 44. natural science 45. nescience
46. omniscience 47. omniscient 48. physical science
49. political science 50. precieux 51. prescience
52. prescientific 53. prima facie 54. proficiency
55. proficient 56. pseudoscience 57. rubefacient
58. science 59. science fiction 60. scient
61. sciential 62. scientific 63. scientific method
64. scientism 65. scientist 66. scientistic
67. secret society 68. self-sufficiency 69. self-sufficient
70. social science 71. social scientist 72. societal
73. society 74. society verse 75. somnifacient
76. specie 77. species 78. stupefacient
79. sub specie aeternitatis80. subspecies 81. sufficiency
82. sufficient 83. sufficient condition 84. superficies
85. type species 86. unscientific 87. valenciennes
88. vers de societe

My english teacher always told me another line: "I before E except after C except if its "Eigh" like Neighbor or Weigh.  

[PtolemaeusZero]

Okay, my grammar story:

It all started in a far away place in another time (cue the erie Twilight Zone music). I was reading a book that I had recieved from the librari. There was apparently a very confusing grammar mistake in which a person had writed: "Oh my god! Can't editors of books at least get something right!" Then the note on the inside of the library book proceeded to rant about this error for five more pages! It was hilarious! Or at leest I thunked it was.

Post Script (because P.S. is overrated) There are 4 errors. Find them. No find them, not later, NOW, FIND THEM NOW!!!!!!!!!  

[NightIntent]

You got desperate for errors in that last sentence, didn't you? XDD  

[PtolemaeusZero]

NightIntent

You got desperate for errors in that last sentence, didn't you? XDD

Maybe... okay, ya I did. I guess I should have evened it out a little. I'm not good at making errors. (Ha, *conceited* <----- That applies to the I before E thing!)