Writer's Block: Peevish
Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
[Error: unknown template qotd]People who mix up "then" and "than". The fact you might pronounce it the same way doesn't mean it has even remotely the same meaning.
Case in point? Icon I saw on devART: "Better to DIE on FOUR LEGS then LIVE on TWO." Typical silly, pithy anti-human teen!were sentiment, but doesn't quiite mean what they think it does.
Oh, and stupid questions in "QotD".
Case in point? Icon I saw on devART: "Better to DIE on FOUR LEGS then LIVE on TWO." Typical silly, pithy anti-human teen!were sentiment, but doesn't quiite mean what they think it does.
Oh, and stupid questions in "QotD".
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Date: 27 Jan 2009 07:14 pm (UTC)'Then' and 'than' don't sound the same at all, at least not to my ear. Silly Brits, always pronouncing everything funny. ;)
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Date: 27 Jan 2009 07:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 27 Jan 2009 07:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 27 Jan 2009 09:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 28 Jan 2009 06:23 am (UTC)Violent tendencies? Me? Naaaah.
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Date: 28 Jan 2009 02:59 pm (UTC)Like you're/your (which I personally find even more annoying than their/there/they're) - there's a brilliant icon people use that's basically grammar-snark, and one of the quite is:
"'Your stupid' - your stupid what?"
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Date: 28 Jan 2009 03:00 pm (UTC)Hmm?
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Date: 28 Jan 2009 04:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 28 Jan 2009 04:56 pm (UTC)OH GOD MY NOSE I THINK YOU BROKE IT
*sprays blood around*
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Date: 28 Jan 2009 05:41 pm (UTC)*runs away from retribution to go to work*
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Date: 28 Jan 2009 06:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 29 Jan 2009 11:04 am (UTC)My sixth grade English teacher - the second year we were actually allowed to read and write English - told us 'The apostrophe stands for something missing, so it goes where you dropped a letter.' and never had to explain again. My seventh grade teacher banned the use of contractions as too difficult even for native speakers. (I ignored the ban, because I felt I knew what I was doing and she in turn ignored my contractions.)