"Weird" is weird!

[eltristo]

"Ducati Monsters can go 120 m.p.h. and stop on a dime." versus "This sentence is right, but the previous sentence is wrong."

Are you saying that one of these sentences is wrong?  I'm not seeing it.

[jclin]

See, I should have re-read my post    Good job, me! 

Both sentences are correct. They're different examples of the same rule. Sorry!

[Howie]

I.E. is an abbreviation for id est, Latin, meaning that is or that is to say.

e.g. It is an abbreviation for exempli gratia, Latin, meaning for example.

[ducpenguin]

Just two....
1 - Anyway vs. Anyways...  anyway is singular!
2 - When someone corrects someone for saying wash or Washington using an "r". e.g. ( ) Warsh and Warshington. 
The reason that this bothers me is simple...say out loud - Colonel...see what I mean.

My grammer sucks...so those are the only ones that I will put out there.  I am the king of using comas and semicolons!

[Pakhan]

Just two....
1 - Anyway vs. Anyways...  anyway is singular!
2 - When someone corrects someone for saying wash or Washington using an "r". e.g. ( ) Warsh and Warshington. 
The reason that this bothers me is simple...say out loud - Colonel...see what I mean.

My grammer sucks...so those are the only ones that I will put out there.  I am the king of using comas and semicolons!

Some king you are, no commas or semicolons above.

[Kyna]

Some king you are, no commas or semicolons above.

Acutally he's the king of COMAS




and until you posted I wasn't sure how "commas" was supposed to be spelled.

[jclin]

2 - When someone corrects someone for saying wash or Washington using an "r". e.g. ( ) Warsh and Warshington. 

It seems to me that i.e. should be used in this case. "Warsh and Warshington" is everything you are talking about (from Wash and Washington) which just means you are rewriting what you've said before ("...saying wash or Washington using an 'r'") more concisely ("Warsh and Warshington"), basically a clarification.

From Grammar Girl (http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/ie-eg-oh-my.aspx):

Squiggly loves watching old cartoons (e.g., DuckTales and Tugboat Mickey). The words following e.g. are examples, so you know that these are just some of the old cartoons that Squiggly enjoys.

Squiggly loves watching Donald Duck's nephews (i.e., Huey, Dewey, and Louie). The words following i.e. provide clarification: they tell you the names of Donald Duck's three nephews.

In the first example, two cartoons out of hundreds of old ones are named. Thus, this is a list of examples. In contrast, notice that in the second example all of the nephews are named, thus this is a clarification of the term "nephews".

I don't know. I'm becoming confused.... Someone help!

[cmorgan47]

and until you posted I wasn't sure how "commas" was supposed to be spelled.

apropos the spelling of comma, spell checkers have ruined me.  i was bad to begin with, but i can't spell for crap now.


i'll throw out people who use apropos as a synonym for appropriate to sound smarter.

yeah, i guess we spend too much time debating this crap at work.... bunch of bored nerds

[c_rex]

I thought it was just me.  I used to be a decent speller and now, thanks to spell checker- my brain has rotted for spelling. 

[BWClark]

Literally!!!!

I literally almost died laughing.  really?...literally?

OMG totally! This literally makes my head explode with rage!

Another sentence-lengthening word that I don't like is "basically". It's basically just thrown in there as a way to make me, well, basically sound superior or smarter than you.

Idiot Tip: Use the word "essentially" instead. "Essentially" is essentially the same word as basically, but is essentially way smarter.

Bonus points: Use "however" instead of "but", and "hence" or "ergo" instead of "so" or "therefore". People will literally think you are like, basically Einstein.

(Edit: Confession time. I am guilty of saying "as opposed to" quite often. It's often not necessary at all, but I think I learned to throw it into conversation as a sentence-lengthening strategy to sound smart, as opposed to just letting the sentence finish and run the risk of sounding like I'm of normal intelligence.) 

[Doctor Woodrow]

2 - When someone corrects someone for saying wash or Washington using an "r". e.g. ( ) Warsh and Warshington. 

I am from Vancouver, Washington. While in California for two years people always thought I was from either Vancouver B.C., or Washington D.C. because they didn't really listen to what I was saying, they just assumed they knew what I meant. The only way I found to prevent this was to say "Vancouver, Warshington." It may have sounded funny, but nobody got confused. I don't really do it anymore now that I am back home in the Northwest.

The Doc

[Betty Rage]

double negatives kill me. I hate it when people use them and they lose respect instantly with me when they have sentences full of them.

Also, when someone is going to shorten "Until" to " 'till" and they spell it "tell".  E.g. "I'm not going out tell 8."

[SacDuc]

double negatives kill me. I hate it when people use them and they lose respect instantly with me when they have sentences full of them.

Also, when someone is going to shorten "Until" to " 'till" and they spell it "tell".  E.g. "I'm not going out tell 8."

That's no way to not treat someone who is unlikely to not misunderstand that not using double negatives is not only unintelligent also not prone to eschew obfuscation.

sac


/or not

[Betty Rage]

I don't have no understanding of your sentence, It dont make no sense.

[BWClark]

I don't have no understanding of your sentence, It dont make no sense.

Excellent! So there's no problem then...