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OT: Words that are commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - BamaScorpio69 - 12-01-2012 12:47 PM
You're is short for you are.
Your shows that something belongs to you or is related to you (e.g., your car, your father).
http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/youre_your.htm
And don't blame the misuse of "you're" and "your" because you are (or you're) posting on a internet message board.
RE: OT: Words that commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - TU72N76 - 12-01-2012 01:20 PM
then / than
RE: OT: Words that commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - CalallenStang - 12-01-2012 01:22 PM
"Coog'ed it"
Means you blew a big lead/sure thing...not that you struggled from the get-go.
RE: OT: Words that commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - Noodles - 12-01-2012 01:22 PM
powers at be (instead of "powers that be")
mine as well (instead of "might as well")
dominate (instead of "dominant")
RE: OT: Words that commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - TribeNiner - 12-01-2012 01:23 PM
Would of (incorrect) v. Would have (correct)
Loose (not tight) v. Lose (to not win)
RE: OT: Words that commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - jobu - 12-01-2012 01:31 PM
There vs. Their vs. They're
RE: OT: Words that commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - stinkfist - 12-01-2012 01:32 PM
TTT
RE: OT: Words that commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - olliebaba - 12-01-2012 01:37 PM
Birth and berth. Birth is the act of being born and berth is a position.
I don't know why we're even doing this, people will just prefer to be wrong.
RE: OT: Words that commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - Chappy - 12-01-2012 01:53 PM
"For all intensive purposes" always makes me groan. For all intents and purposes.
RE: OT: Words that commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - Chappy - 12-01-2012 01:54 PM
And since this is a sports board, I get tired of people referring to teams in BCS AQ conferences as BCS teams. All of FBS is BCS.
RE: OT: Words that commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - Chappy - 12-01-2012 01:55 PM
...or at least will be for 1 more season...
RE: OT: Words that commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - EagleX - 12-01-2012 01:58 PM
not to put too fine a point on it, but if you're expecting proper grammar on the internet, you're in the wrong place. it just doesn't live here.
in fact, I think the internet may speed the undoing of the entire language, but that's a completely different conversation.
RE: OT: Words that commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - BamaScorpio69 - 12-01-2012 02:16 PM
(12-01-2012 01:53 PM)Chappy Wrote: "For all intensive purposes" always makes me groan. For all intents and purposes.
That's funny.
RE: OT: Words that commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - BamaScorpio69 - 12-01-2012 02:20 PM
(12-01-2012 01:58 PM)EagleX Wrote: not to put too fine a point on it, but if you're expecting proper grammar on the internet, you're in the wrong place. it just doesn't live here.
in fact, I think the internet may speed the undoing of the entire language, but that's a completely different conversation.
Definitely not expecting it and I agree with you last comment. But lets not blame the internet for everything...lol.
BTW, capital "I" next time. Or is it "capitol".....lol.
RE: OT: Words that commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - EagleX - 12-01-2012 02:25 PM
(12-01-2012 02:20 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:(12-01-2012 01:58 PM)EagleX Wrote: not to put too fine a point on it, but if you're expecting proper grammar on the internet, you're in the wrong place. it just doesn't live here.
in fact, I think the internet may speed the undoing of the entire language, but that's a completely different conversation.
Definitely not expecting it and I agree with you last comment. But lets not blame the internet for everything...lol.
BTW, capital "I" next time. Or is it "capitol".....lol.
touche. I have been fighting the tyranny of the shift key for decades.
RE: OT: Words that commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - TU72N76 - 12-01-2012 02:31 PM
"I could care less" should be "I couldn't care less"
RE: OT: Words that commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - PGPirate - 12-01-2012 02:31 PM
Asinine.
Like, her face is a seven, but her asinine
RE: OT: Words that commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - RaiderATO - 12-01-2012 02:39 PM
"Tough road to hoe" Damn right it's tough. They paved that thing.
Resign vs. Re-sign.
RE: OT: Words that commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - MTPiKapp - 12-01-2012 02:40 PM
(12-01-2012 02:31 PM)TU72N76 Wrote: "I could care less" should be "I couldn't care less"
That one drives me crazy.
Another one that is almost too stupid for words, I've actually seen multiple people use "granite" in place of "granted" as in "granite we may not have played a great game, but we found a way to win."
RE: OT: Words that commonly misused on Internet message and chat boards. - olliebaba - 12-01-2012 03:09 PM
For all "intensive porpoises" "there" sports fans and aren't "intirely" the brightest and that "road to a ho is tough". "Granite" it's what it is.