language "Argh!"

[GAspnes]

Mostly I can let stuff go. Thirty years of writing and editing, I've seen everything, twice. But there is a problem here at DU that is getting on my nerves.

Hoard is a hidden collection of valuables.

Horde is the noun you're looking for when you want to refer to many of the same thing -- He suffered from a horde of spelling errors.

It's making my eyes hurt to see 'the BFEE is a hoard of old geezers'. There is a certain poetry in describing them as a hidden collection, but I don't think it's what was meant.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Careful, I am the language police and you will now be the spelling

police. What do you want? Grammatical correctness? It is the only thing more evil than political correctness. It is evil to ask people to think and learn. It is not evil to support their stubborness to resisting being educated.

[Skittles]

2. I AM LOOSING IT

that's a bad one here too. And SPEACH. For heaven's sake. :(

[Dookus]

3. don't forget..

hypocracy (what's that? Government by hypocrites?) and athiest (the superlative form of Athier?).

[Iris]

5. how do you spell the word for being in a "hypocritic" state?

I've been seeing it wrong so long, I think I'm spelling it wrong. Is it even a word?

[SoCalDem]

8. H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-S-Y-

:)

[Iris]

10. Thanks! (and love your frog!)

[SoCalDem]

11. Goobig.com is very handy to have as a bookmark

http://www.goobig.com/knowledge.html

[QC]

14. Thank you! "Hypocracy" makes my teeth hurt!

[greekspeak]

4. If I make mistakes in my grammar and spelling

you can thank my 10th grade English teacher. She taught grammar and spelling by teaching common mistakes that people make. In other words, she taught us students how to make sure we knew how confusing English is. I still get confused to this day about some grammatical issues with which I did not have problems before that woman's class. I think I know German and Greek grammar better than Engish.

[Booberdawg]

6. My all time favorite

found on a med app filled out by a male agent

pabst smear (referring to female exam)

[TahitiNut]

18. Pouring beer on a bagel?

:eyes:

[SoCalDem]

7. and, lest we forget... Cache vs cachet

:grr:

cache..pronounced cash.. (hidden stuff)
cacchet...pronounced cash-ay...(an indication of approved or superior status )

[catpower2000]

9. "Which VP should Gore OF chosen"...

Kill me. Kill me now.

Cat

[Dookus]

12. yes...

I nearly hurt myself resisting the urge to respond to that one.


But that's a whole nother thread.

[Walt Starr]

13. This is Series!

Don't loose site of the big pitcher!

This sight has too many speling polcie

[WilliamPitt]

15. 'loose;' 'Isreal;' 'reign in;'

:)

[Don_G]

16. Is It Possible

To hoard a horde of whores?

Many of us don't have your level of expertise of the "English" language, but I've just described the current administration.

More to the point, want to get up a collection to place Dennis Rodman next door to Dimbo in both DC and Crawford should he be re-selected?

[SoCalDem]

17. Isreal, in all fairness "could be a typo"

I am the queen of typo and I have done that one too :)

[Clete]

20. I do typos too, like their and thier.

Sometimes I don't have time to proof read.

[polmaven]

36. Their, there and they're

are more commonly "misplaced" words.

[QC]

19. What will the Bush's do next?

[SoCalDem]

21. Do schools even teach grammar anymore??

I can vividly remember in 4th, 5th, 6th, & 7th grades, having grammar drills and tests all the time.. Every paper in every subjuct received a context and a composition grade.. It was taught , and taught harshly, in my day...

We had to study all of it and actually would be called to the board and be asked to diagram reallllly hard sentences..

I wonder if that stuff is even taught to kids.. We cannot chide them for their lack of grammar skills , if no one has even taught them :(

[QC]

22. I teach freshman comp, which leads me to wonder

if anyone does anything at all in school before arriving at college.

Most of my students can't do basic grammar, can't analyze even a simple argument (as in answering the question, "What point is this author trying to make?"), and have little knowledge of even the broadest outline of American history, such as when the Civil War took place, who Joe McCarthy was, and the like.

These kids are generally very bright and want to do a good job, though, which leads me to think the problem is poor preparation. I still enjoy teaching, but it's a tough job to try to being people up to speed in one or two semesters.

[SoCalDem]

23. That is really sad..

When I was a freshman in high school, we were handed a booklet.. That booklet contained the things we needed to know in order to do well in college.. It contained a reading list of about 100 or so books that we would be expected to have read.. It listed a bunch of historical facts and eras that we would be expected to at least know about and why they were important..

We were required to take civics and government.. English EVERY sememster...math EVERY semester..

Although my sons speak well and use proper grammar, it's more MY doing than the school.. None of the 3 really enjoy reading , as I did when I was young.. My youngest would come home from school and inform me that they were studying "....." or "....".. I would ask him what books the teacher had assigned... the answer?? They were watching the MOVIE or film strips.. :grr: I would then get pertinent books and make him read them.. He hated it at the time, but when he was in college, he often got the impression that HE was the only one in his class that knew what was going on :shrug:

[Alenne]

25. "and ake him read them"

[SoCalDem]

26. What do you expect from the "Queen of Typo-stan "?

:P

[Alenne]

24. "To try to being people"

[QC]

29. oops

[spinbaby]

27. Fowl play

Baited breath.

Towed the line.

DU typos are a lot of fun.

[scarletwoman]

28. "Marshall law" -- AAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!

THAT'S the one that always gets to me! It's MARTIAL LAW -- as in military/martial -- from MARS, old Roman god of war.

I think I will have died and gone to heaven if I never see "marshall law" in another post ever again!

(Yeah, "marshall law" -- Wyatt Earp's in town, better do what he says... :eyes: )

sw

[Booberdawg]

31. OOPS!!!!

note to self .....:D

[TahitiNut]

34. Marshall Law ...

(about amplification equipment)

[renegade000]

30. heh, we should have grammatical moderators

who can tag posts with warnings such as:

-warning: contains alarming phonetic spelling of vernacular.
-caution: disturbing use of punctuation.
-discretion suggested: explicit spelling inaccuracies.
-alert: semantics may be not appropriate for some audiences.

[SOteric]

32. "definately" - I've seen that pervasively and persistently and

from people who are otherwise bright.

I'm beginning to wonder if there was a misprint in a popular spelling primer, widely distributed in U.S. grade schools.

It's 'definitely' in case you're one of those who thought they'd been spelling it properly.

[dolo amber]

33. I agree 100%

Yup, I definAtely agree...:eyes:

edit: Incidentally, I started posting this before SOteric's post was up :D

[maxanne]

35. Marshall Law

really got me the other day, irregardless of all the others!!

AAAARRRRGGGGGHHH!

Don't even get me started on the spoken word. Do people who order "Eye-talian" dressing on their salad visit Eye-taly?