French benefits

[pstirling]

the one that really annoys me that has been getting a lot better lately is the loose and lose confusion. Loose = not taut, lose = doesn't win. The best is when someone refers to someone else as a looser.

[Brent Burns]

I know that some can be very phonetically interesting. For example, one time, my son came to me to borrow my laptop, but he spelled, "Labtop." I informed him that I would not give him my laptop, and he was taken aback for several seconds and then demanded by asking me again for "labtop." I simply told him that I can not give him what he wanted because he spelled it wrong. He threw up his hands and spelled it correctly, "laptop."

Ever since that incident, he remembered to spell it correctly everytime he asked me for the laptop.

[grinderpete]

I am surprised that so many people are annoyed on a daily basis by bad grammar or spelling. Who cares? Isn't English a living language?

[Anderson]

One that gets me that I had not heard until I went to West Texas (Lubbock) was people saying "a couple or three." As in:

"Oh, I think we got a couple or three different ways we could go with this."

Its "two or three" or "a couple or a few" I dont care which just dont combine them.

[Gregg Pathiakis]

Anyone else have any commonly missused figures of speech? I will get the ball rolling with:

"All intensive purposes," rather than "All intents and purposes"

"Smokey mirrors" rather than "Smoke and mirrors"

"All-American" rather than "All-America"

"Pled guilty" rather than "pleaded guilty"

"Supposably" rather than "Supposedly"

You know it wasn't until today that I understood the topic title? I have read all the updates to this thread as they've come in, but I couldn't figure out what the title meant. I've never heard of someone making that mistake, but it's pretty funny.

[laxfan25]

Anyone else have any commonly missused figures of speech? I will get the ball rolling with:

"All intensive purposes," rather than "All intents and purposes"

"Smokey mirrors" rather than "Smoke and mirrors"

"All-American" rather than "All-America"

"Pled guilty" rather than "pleaded guilty"

"Supposably" rather than "Supposedly"

You know it wasn't until today that I understood the topic title? I have read all the updates to this thread as they've come in, but I couldn't figure out what the title meant. I've never heard of someone making that mistake, but it's pretty funny.

You hadn't seen that FedEx commerical Gregg? "We get fringe benefits, NOT French benefits...It's the Leaning Tower of Pisa - NOT pizza!"

[Danny Hogan]

doesn't necessarily fit the topic, but a great shaq quote from about 5 years ago:

"my game is like the pythagorean theorem...there is just no answer" -Shaq

(Flash back to kenny mayne (?) on sportcenter) "The court-side reporter didn't have the heart to tell him the answer is c squared"

[Gregg Pathiakis]

Anyone else have any commonly missused figures of speech? I will get the ball rolling with:

"All intensive purposes," rather than "All intents and purposes"

"Smokey mirrors" rather than "Smoke and mirrors"

"All-American" rather than "All-America"

"Pled guilty" rather than "pleaded guilty"

"Supposably" rather than "Supposedly"

You know it wasn't until today that I understood the topic title? I have read all the updates to this thread as they've come in, but I couldn't figure out what the title meant. I've never heard of someone making that mistake, but it's pretty funny.

You hadn't seen that FedEx commerical Gregg? "We get fringe benefits, NOT French benefits...It's the Leaning Tower of Pisa - NOT pizza!"

Ah yes.. I have.. my bad... just never connected the two.

[Dan Wishengrad]

One that irks me is:

"should of"... or "could of" rather than the correct:

"should have" or "could have" or even "should've" or "could've"

[KnoxVegas]

One that irks me is:

"should of"... or "could of" rather than the correct:

"should have" or "could have" or even "should've" or "could've"

I just saw this in another post. You beat me two, er too, I mena to type to it.

[FLAK]

One that irks me is:

"should of"... or "could of" rather than the correct:

"should have" or "could have" or even "should've" or "could've"

this one strikes me as odd, because when someone pronounces "should've" isn't the "ve" supposed to resemble "of" i mean its one think when people write it because thats ignorant, but the pronunciation is just a little too close for my taste.

[Wade]

the one that really annoys me that has been getting a lot better lately is the loose and lose confusion. Loose = not taut, lose = doesn't win. The best is when someone refers to someone else as a looser.

It's even more annoying when you pass out after a post-game celebration, wake up in the morning to drive 3 1/2 hours back to school, rush to class, and don't realize until you sit down and stare at the back of your leg that your sister chiefed you the night before with poor spelling (yeah, there's a Chico grad for you) meaning you have been cruising around campus with "I'm a Looser" written on the back of your leg. Oh yeah, it was also team picture day.

Oh course the above is totally hypothetical and would never happen to me or my teammates!

[UofMLaxGoalie11]

http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/

You can help save a dying breed.

[echo 600]

Pictures on a wall are "hung".

When a person kills himself, he "hanged" himself.

However, what drives me absolutely nuts is the overuse and incorrect use of the word "literally" to try to add emphasis to a story.

[Tim Whitehead]

Yeah, my head literally explodes whenever I hear someone misuse that word...