Grammar Nazi

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Doc Creed

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You know what? Good for you! You yourself are wordsmith of some skill, and the best of them usually have certain eccentricities. And our elementary school stuff hangs on hard. For years I've remembered, "AEIOU ... and sometimes Y, and sometimes W." Over the last 3 decades if I mentioned W was sometimes a vowel to someone, I'd get baffled stares. I'm pretty sure I've lost relationships over it -- turns out, it was true! Google it if you don't believe me. Oh, and I was at schooled at the cusp of the period when students were suggested to write a seven with a line thru it to make it more easily recognizable. Not me, I put my foot down. This isn't what a seven looks like ...

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This is what a f-cking seven looks like!!!

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Thanks, Grin. No one likes to broadcast their shortcomings but I figured this was one I could live with, ha.
I am off to Google your dubious claim...kidding, I believe you. :heheh:
 

grin willard

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Thanks, Grin. No one likes to broadcast their shortcomings but I figured this was one I could live with, ha.
I am off to Google your dubious claim...kidding, I believe you. :heheh:

Thanks Doktor. There were times over the years that I kinda doubted it myself. That my youthful mind addled with sugary cereals, cool-aid, tang, airplane glue, and Saturday morning cartoons had dreamt it up.
 

Neesy

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Thanks Doktor. There were times over the years that I kinda doubted it myself. That my youthful mind addled with sugary cereals, cool-aid, tang, airplane glue, and Saturday morning cartoons had dreamt it up.
I looked it up and when they started talking about "dipthongs" my eyes glazed over...
 

Neesy

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Not bad, just wrong. :)
The seasons are generic nouns and therefore shouldn't be capitalized. In the case of a street name or name of a hotel, etc., then they'd be capitalized, of course. I am getting better at catching myself, though. :biggrin2:
So then I had to go look up the difference between bad and wrong - maybe I'll just quit while I'm ahead

Not bad, just wrong... :cool-new:
 

Nomik

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I'm a grammar Nazi, but sometimes I run across idioms that have cultural, generational, or geographical differences.
For example:
My mom says "You have another think coming" ... I always thought that I had another thing coming.
I thought "full of beans" meant flatulent, but according to an ESL lesson I recently taught, it means "full of energy".Thoughts on idioms...?
 

Nomik

Carry on
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Who's winning??
Well, you guys represent the majority of my friends. I run a few online ESL teaching forums and I’m constantly getting people riled up because I say “edit your post!” I’m sorry, but if you are looking for referrals for an English teaching job, your grammar had better be impeccable. I know it’s Facebook, but it’s an English teaching arena!
 

not_nadine

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I'm a grammar Nazi, but sometimes I run across idioms that have cultural, generational, or geographical differences.
For example:
My mom says "You have another think coming" ... I always thought that I had another thing coming.
I thought "full of beans" meant flatulent, but according to an ESL lesson I recently taught, it means "full of energy".Thoughts on idioms...?

Sig's got this going in another thread.