Grammar Nazis

[Denis]

Using the common thinking, why not play it safe?

Deni's' Thunderbird will not be ready until 'S'aturday at the earliest.   

Excellent. I've temporarily changed my name to Deni's'.

[Barklessdog]

over the last 25 years I've found the degradation of the English language to be horrendous

LOL , afaik


gtg

[uwe]

With a German origin speaker that would be:

Deni's' 'S'underbird will not be ready until 'S'aturday at 's'e early-SS.

[Denis]

Ja, but mein Sunderbird ist not schwarz!

[gweimer]

Yes, it's sad that the English language has lost its correct usage...

[Dave W]

While we're on stuff like this, I'm irritated when I see quotation marks when nothing is being quoted. And I'm not the only one with this pet peeve: see The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks 

[Lightyear]

Using the common thinking, why not play it safe?

Deni's' Thunderbird will not be ready until 'S'aturday at the earliest.   

Let us not forget D'ave   

[Pilgrim]

D'ave's not here. 

[Freuds_Cat]

D'ave's not here. 

Maaaan. 

[Freuds_Cat]

The one that gets under my skin is  "could of" instead of "Could have" or even "Could've" the latter being mostly responsible for the offending former 

[Barklessdog]

"?"

[Highlander]

While we're on stuff like this, I'm irritated when I see quotation marks when nothing is being quoted. And I'm not the only one with this pet peeve: see The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks 

"Guilty as charged..." 

[Dave W]

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A woman I worked with for a couple of years could not write a memo without using unnecessary quotation marks, it irritated me every time I had to read one. That was about 30 years ago. If she uses voice recognition software today she probably tells it to add them.

[Lightyear]

I blame the texting nightmare.  I get business emails, from professionals, that insert things UR instead of you are or you're.  Let us not forget GR8     Four, sometimes six years of college and you have this...

[Nocturnal]

A good friend of mine still uses "air quotes" all of the time. Somehow he just never learned the art of applying them in the proper locations in his dialogue. He almost never "quoted" the proper word in the sentence. For me, watching someone air quoting wrong is worse than reading them. Another old friend always asks: How "is" Mark "doing" these "days"? because that is about the way Mark would use his quotes.