Half of children aged between 10 and 12 do not know what a noun is or cannot identify an adverb while almost a third, 31 per cent, cannot use apostrophes correctly.Which is funny. Based on the grammar I see in the comment feeds of most blogs, 50-70% of grown adult men, primarily in North America, don't know the difference between "they're", "their" and "there". They also have a hard time using the words "to" and "too" properly. What a bunch of loosers! There abuse of grammer is to much.
More than one in five 22 per cent could not use the correct version of 'they're', 'there' and 'their' in a sentence and more than four in 10 couldn't spell the word 'secretaries' correctly.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Stupid Brits
Gosh, those limeys sure are stupid.
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Your being very unfare in you're comments its' typical off poeple like you too make funn of forriegner's wehn you dont now anybetter!!!!
(Seriously, do you ever read read the comments at the CNN website? It's utterly astonishing that most of those people actually made it to adulthood).
I haven't seen CNN's comment feed in a while, but every once in a while I'll look at the comments about stories on Yahoo! and I groan.
confusing loose vs. lose is the most common mistake I see everywhere.
funny, from English class I'd always thought the issue would have been it's vs. its.
Apostrophes used to denote plural, and incorrectly using its and it's, is what I see most often.
I've read comments that look like somebody took a handful of apostrophes and sprinkled them around like pepper.
I tend to think it is spell checkers plus laziness...
Just to be clear, I ain't claiming perfect grammar. I make my share of mistakes. But the they're/their/there thing really grinds my nerves.
And let's be blunt, language evolves.
'Decimate' has changed radically from its original definition.
And 'whom' (versus 'who') is also now as obsolete as second person familiar.
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