Mike Cash
骨も命も皆此の土地に埋めよう
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Number 10 is common. If you pronounce "could've" it sounds just like "could of".
Think about it.
Damicci said:Number 10 is common. If you pronounce "could've" it sounds just like "could of".
Think about it.
There's a difference between speaking and writing. Speech is spontaneous and once you've said a word you can't erase it and replace it with another one. Writing is an other matter and criticism has much more merit when it's directed at written English rather than spoken English. Still there's nothing pedantic about using lie and lay correctly and anyone who knowingly uses them wrongly is just being ridiculous.Glenn said:I use "different than" all the time, and have never been corrected on it. I also hear it all the time, and don't really see much of a problem with it.
Same thing for "lay/lie," nobody uses them "correctly" anymore, and even though I'm aware of the difference and try to use them "correctly," I still make mistakes, like overcorrecting ("lie it over there"). Then there are times when using them "correctly" just feels pedantic.
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JimmySeal said:There's a difference between speaking and writing. Speech is spontaneous and once you've said a word you can't erase it and replace it with another one. Writing is an other matter and criticism has much more merit when it's directed at written English rather than spoken English. Still there's nothing pedantic about using lie and lay correctly and anyone who knowingly uses them wrongly is just being ridiculous.
The only conflicting rule, when it comes to apostrophes, is how to make a word possesive when it ends in "s." There's no such thing as its'.Reiku said:The problem is all the conflicting and contradictory rules, such as the use of apostrophe's. (its it's its')
The text book that my school uses actually tells students to use "can" when asking for permission or favors:"Can" for "may"
LOL. Get some sleep.Tsuyoiko said:I have been making a lot of mistakes myself this week, probably because I am tired. The another day I typed 'could of'
JimmySeal said:The text book that my school uses actually tells students to use "can" when asking for permission or favors:
"Can I go to the park?"
"Can you open the window?"
It makes me want to beat the authors with their own book. It brings back flashbacks of fifth grade:
Student: Can I go to the bathroom?
Teacher: I don't know, can you? (or) I sure hope so.
Jimmy Seal said:The text book that my school uses actually tells students to use "can" when asking for permission or favors:
"Can I go to the park?"
"Can you open the window?"
Nope!Mike Cash said:Surely she said, "I surely hope so."
To be honest, I had no idea that "i.e." didn't mean "for example" and that it requires a comma. Someone told me a long time ago that it's an abbreviation of "in example," which should have seemed fishy but I was about five at the time. I'll be using it correctly from now on.Kirei_na_me said:Maybe somebody will learn from this...then again, maybe not...
Ah yes, people seem to use sugoi as an adverb all the time, but it still never fails to grate on my テ。窶コ. I also want to know why teenagers and young adults who should know better refer to their family members using honorifics when talking to teachers and strangers. Someone really dropped the ball on that one.Glenn said:I'm sure at some point when I'm in Japan I'll end up saying things like sugoi ii just from being exposed to it all the time, although from what I was taught it should properly be sugoku ii.