Author Topic: Spelling Challenge (Read 38801 times)

jvk · « **Reply #85 on:** December 30, 2018, 02:01:11 PM »

Quote from: AlligatorDicax on December 28, 2018, 01:04:04 PM

A fine example of nonsense in defense of ignorance and ambiguity! That which is correct can be looked up in a credible prescriptive reference source. Whereas whatever are the most common usages of the moment can't always be--perhaps to avoid propagating ignorance--and may change with each arriving generation. Maintaining & using that which is correct is the simplest way toward preventing or eliminating confusion when attempting to convey thoughts or ideas accurately.

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Note †: The change away from straightforward Latin would fit the overt hostility to Western Civilization for which the Obama Administration was notorious (less so the Clinton Administration).

Duly noted and properly chastened, AlligatorDicax.
Actually, I was planning on looking up the clarification of am and pm, but other more important issues intervened. (Children, diapers, and meals, specifically!) It would actually be a good homework assignment some time for one of my older ones. I'll have to TRY to remember that.
And yes, Nadir, clarity is always good. My husband's always telling me to just say what I mean. Writing is easier; you can step back a moment and tweak a word or two and correct your grammar. Speaking properly from the moment you open your mouth can be a work in progress! I'm sure there's something in this paragraph that could be corrected, too. Well, that's I come to this thread! :-\

forlorn · « **Reply #86 on:** December 30, 2018, 02:19:34 PM »

Some pet peeves of mine.

When people say bias when they mean biased. Bias is the noun, biased is the adjective. "The referee is biased" not bias.
When people say "I could care less". That means you do care, and does not specify at all how little or how much you care. It's "I couldn't care less". This issue seems to be mainly an American one for some reason, over here everyone says couldn't.
Another American one. "I got done". No, no, you finished. You did it. You don't *get* done.

Nadir · « **Reply #87 on:** January 10, 2019, 08:26:54 PM »

Since: from a particular time in the past until a later time, or until now:
(From Cambridge Dictionary online)

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Quote from: Clemens Maria on Today at 05:21:29 PM
and the fake popes since Pope Pius XII.

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Quid asks:
Are you saying Pope Pius XII was a fake pope - an antipope?

My guess is in the negative. I think that in this sentence CM uses the word since to mean after that time, i.e. after Pius XII

Here is an example in which it is plain that since means after, but there are many times where it is not so plain.

Your piano playing has really come on since I last heard you play.

In other words when I last heard it, it wasn't up to scratch.

I'd never before thought about the possible confusion/misunderstanding. So thanks, Quid.

Maria Regina · « **Reply #88 on:** January 10, 2019, 11:32:47 PM »

Quote from: Nadir on December 28, 2018, 05:25:40 PM

I am pleased to see you are correcting me. Thank you, Alligator for clarifying and correcting. I see now that 00.00 and 12.00 are neither a.m. nor p.m. I had not given sufficient thought to it.

That it why it is best to use military time.
0001 UT and 0002 UT would be minutes after midnight Universal Time. At 0500 UT, it would be 4:00 PM PST.

Nadir · « **Reply #89 on:** January 23, 2019, 02:12:02 AM »

I would of come if I had been invited
I could of laughed my head off.
I should of said my prayers.

When an English Speaker intends to say "Would HAVE", he may contract the written form to would've. Less literate persons, when they hear WOULD'VE, write would of, leaving the poor sentece without a verb. It matters little in spoken English but it written English it is a no-no!

I would HAVE (would've) come if I had been invited
I could HAVE (could've) laughed my head off.
I should HAVE (should've) said my prayers.

CathInfo.com

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