I see billboards, signs, magazines, etc that butcher the English
language. Is it really that hard to have someone proofread things? These
are things that make Americans look like a bunch of ignoramuses...(and I am
'born and raised', so no flames please).
their vs there or they're
your vs you're
to vs too
its vs it's
and the list rolls on...
Whew! *that* was an interesting rant for a Tuesday morning...
Sorry for the OT post, but I felt like chiming in...
Ray
At 09:15 AM 7/13/2004, you wrote:
>One final one that i just HAD to add to this OT post: Lose vs. Loose.
>
>Gets my blood boiling for some reason. I'm convinced that well over half
>the population believes that "lose" is the opposite of "tight", and that
>my Royals "loose" twice as many games as they win.....
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sean Corfield
> To: CF-Talk
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 11:59 PM
> Subject: Hot Button - English pedantry (was: cfmail suddenly not
> working...very wierd
>
>
> > But the error message infers that the login is not being accepted.
>
> <hot button>
> *implies*
>
> You might *infer* from the error message that the login is not being
> accepted.
> The error message might well *imply* that the login is not being accepted.
>
> Sorry, but my wife & I were just bemoaning the fact that many people
> out there don't know the difference between affect / effect, mute /
> moot, and infer / imply and I swore to her that computer people get
> infer / imply right most of the time...
> </hot button>
>
>
>
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