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Originally Posted by broomhandle

"Your an idiot."

I've seen this more than once on other forums and it can't be beat.

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Originally Posted by Golfingdad

Not sure if it was already posted, but I can't believe how often people write 'loose' in the place of 'lose.'


I think there are literally more people on nutrition forums who want to loose weight than lose it.

In that case I blame standard English about as much as I blame the people who get it wrong.

Lose is a ridiculous way to spell looze.

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We have an exec admin assistant where I work who makes a pretty good salary and she sends out emails all the time with these types of mistakes. It's downright embarassing.

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Originally Posted by broomhandle

What amazes me is the number of people who don't get the basic idea of contractions.

Nobody says or types, "Never throw you are club."

Many would type, "Never throw you're club."

Don't be amazed ... it's not that people don't understand them, it's that they're typing fast and not proof-reading.  At least that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

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Originally Posted by jamo

Or the poster was just tripping balls on acid.

joo ever try that shit in your morning coffee. Makes the whole office more interesting!

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Originally Posted by Golfingdad

Don't be amazed ... it's not that people don't understand them, it's that they're typing fast and not proof-reading.  At least that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

I believe it. I very rarely make these errors, except when I'm typing in a hurry. Writing by hand, I don't think I've made an apostrophe error in years.

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Originally Posted by broomhandle

"Your an idiot."

I've seen this more than once on other forums and it can't be beat.

Or the more aggressive, "Your retarded". I automatically assume anyone who incorrectly uses homophones has double digit IQ.

Others that really bother me are shitty uses of apostrophes:

-It's 1950s not 1950's, unless you're specifically to something from 1950.

-The plural of an acronym or number doesn't need an apostrophe. "United have many 737s amongst their fleet"..."The interest rate on ARMs is variable after 3 years"

-Why do people think an apostrophe is needed to make something plural? pizza's?! menu's? pro's?

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Originally Posted by Fraser

Or the more aggressive, "Your retarded". I automatically assume anyone who incorrectly uses homophones has double digit IQ.

Others that really bother me are shitty uses of apostrophes:

-It's 1950s not 1950's, unless you're specifically to something from 1950.

-The plural of an acronym or number doesn't need an apostrophe. "United have many 737s amongst their fleet"..."The interest rate on ARMs is variable after 3 years"

-Why do people think an apostrophe is needed to make something plural? pizza's?! menu's? pro's?

To be fair, the first two of those have some reasonable logic behind them. The New York Times only recently (~ 2006) stopped using an apostrophe after decades, and the acronym is a reasonable, if unnecessary, extension of the rules for plural letters (now only for lower case plural letters, at least according to the Chicago Manual of Style). Those two don't bother me so much because of that---they're more arbitrary than mixing up "it's" and "its."

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Originally Posted by zeg

To be fair, the first two of those have some reasonable logic behind them. The New York Times only recently (~ 2006) stopped using an apostrophe after decades, and the acronym is a reasonable, if unnecessary, extension of the rules for plural letters (now only for lower case plural letters, at least according to the Chicago Manual of Style). Those two don't bother me so much because of that---they're more arbitrary than mixing up "it's" and "its."

Some are difficult. What would the plural of TaylorMade R11S be? R11Ss? R11S's?

My choice: try to reword the sentence to avoid it.

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I've subscribed to this thread just so that I know if I get caught with something stupid.

Oh, and I'm a little late to the party, but beat this:

I stopped short of the end, because it was boring.

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Originally Posted by Missouri Swede

Some are difficult. What would the plural of TaylorMade R11S be? R11Ss? R11S's?

My choice: try to reword the sentence to avoid it.

I don't think the apostrophe is used for plural.  So, R11Ss, I think.

Unless you're talking possessive, like "I like my R11S's shaft."

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If you're talking about the Jones family, you might refer to them as the Joneses, but not the Jones' or Jones's.  Unless you're saying that you like the Jones' car.  Or would that be the Joneses' car?

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Good points all, but I fear that grammar and spelling are undergoing a not very slow death with the younger generation today. The same may be said for composition of speech and text in general. Here:

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