Anonymous
Post 10/21/2014 11:44     Subject: Re:It's "toe the line," people
Anonymous wrote:Please do not insert "the" before a disease. "I got the diabetes."


Sure hope I don't get flu this season. It spreads like plague.

Anonymous
Post 10/21/2014 11:33     Subject: Re:It's "toe the line," people
Anonymous wrote:Some of these aren't grammar mistakes, they are colloquialisms.

+1
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2014 11:31     Subject: It's "toe the line," people
Anonymous wrote:It's no one, not noone.


Thank you for telling me this! I will begin to use it correctly to-day.

Anonymous
Post 10/21/2014 11:28     Subject: Re:It's "toe the line," people
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am good.

I am well.

Both correct. Hate when people correct, I am good.


Yeah, but often people use the wrong one in context.

How are you doing?

I'm doing good. ---> What, like feeding the hungry and clothing the poor?


Is that what you think they mean, when you hear them say it?
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2014 11:26     Subject: It's "toe the line," people
Apple's ad campaign:

Think different.

always drove me nuts. Either they want you to

Think, "different."

or they wanted you to think differently.

I think they meant the former, but did not like the visual clutter of punctuation.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2014 11:25     Subject: Re:It's "toe the line," people
Anonymous wrote:I am good.

I am well.

Both correct. Hate when people correct, I am good.


Yeah, but often people use the wrong one in context.

How are you doing?

I'm doing good. ---> What, like feeding the hungry and clothing the poor?
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2014 11:21     Subject: Re:It's "toe the line," people
Anonymous wrote:"I could care less." drives me nuts!
It's "I couldn't care less." folks!


I could care less about this, but only a little.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2014 11:18     Subject: It's "toe the line," people
Anonymous wrote:OP, you are a trooper to endure all of these errors.

In this context, I should write that OP is a trouper unless, of course, OP is a state trooper. Then, OP, a trooper, is a trouper for enduring all of these errors.


Never knew that! I thought "trooper" as in a foot soldier, who carries on without complaining. But I suspect that trooper is now acceptable. Google ngrams shows that since 1997 or so "a real trooper" is more common in books than "a real trouper."

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=a+real+trooper%2Ca+real+trouper&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Ca%20real%20trooper%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Ba%20real%20trooper%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BA%20real%20trooper%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Ca%20real%20trouper%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Ba%20real%20trouper%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BA%20real%20trouper%3B%2Cc0
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2014 11:12     Subject: Re:It's "toe the line," people
Anonymous wrote:I work in an elementary school and kids now say:

"Can I get ______?" not "may I please have_____?" when asking for something. Not in a situation like "can I get up and go get myself a pencil", more like when an adult is handing out something..."can I get a: cookie, snack, sticker?"

They don't even know it's wrong/rude, so my public service to the city is that I correct them each and every time. Why does this make me so crazy?


Totally agree. Who's with us? Can I get an amen?
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2014 11:05     Subject: It's "toe the line," people
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Don't take things personally, NOT "don't take it personal."


+1

NAILS on a blackboard when I hear this yet, I hear it more often said this way than the proper way.



Drive safe!

Aagh!


And every time I try to correct my DH on this, he thinks I'm wrong. Then again, he's from Texas and says NEW-Q-LER in stead of NEW-CLEAR


Your DH is right about the number of syllables in the word. Your wrong on that.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2014 09:18     Subject: Re:It's "toe the line," people
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"Champing at the bit," NOT "Chomping at the bit"


I thought it was chomping. Why champing?


Because "champing at the bit" is the original, correct phrasing.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2014 09:18     Subject: Re:It's "toe the line," people
Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

or ending any sentence with a preposition!

Where are you at?



This is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.



If you're making a joke, I don't know what you're laughing at. There's not much here to make fun of.


It's a reference to a joke my HS English teacher told. It was about taking the "don't end a sentence with a preposition" idea too seriously.

Here's another one.

Guy #1: "Good to meet you. Where are you from?"
Guy #2: "I am from a place where we learned not to end our sentences with prepositions."
Guy #1: "Oh, I'm sorry. Let me rephrase. Where are you from, asshole?"


Funny. Good one
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2014 09:17     Subject: It's "toe the line," people
Correct: The president spoke to Harold and me.

WRONG: The president spoke to Harold and I.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2014 09:15     Subject: Re:It's "toe the line," people
Anonymous wrote:"Champing at the bit," NOT "Chomping at the bit"


I thought it was chomping. Why champing?
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2014 07:18     Subject: It's "toe the line," people
'worst', sorry! ^^^^