Proper use of "They're, there, and their"

[Number_35]

The word 'LIKE' has become the most commonly used spoken word in America. It is also the most annoying.

Stephen Pastis, the creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine has taken a few very funny swipes at sloppy speech over the years.

In one strip, the characters are gathered around a casket. Someone asks who died.

Someone else answers "it's a funeral for the word 'said'".

There's a stunned silence until a woman wanders past with a cell phone:

"And then she's like 'no way', and I'm like 'rilly' and she's like 'no way', and then Jimmy's like ..."

 

[Number_35]

I just drank some fully melted ice

I had a supervisor who fell into the "why use four words when 12 will do the job" category.

Instead of telling us he was going to drink some water he might say "Certainly it is incumbent upon me to consume dihydrous oxide in liquid form, although it is also found in solid and gaseous forms".

 

[Revving2Redline]

About 3 months ago, I fix tens of thousands of instances of their spelled incorrectly in our database.

Sincerely thankful four your efforts to do so.

 

[4wd]

I had a supervisor who fell into the "why use four words when 12 will do the job" category.

Instead of telling us he was going to drink some water he might say "Certainly it is incumbent upon me to consume dihydrous oxide in liquid form, although it is also found in solid and gaseous forms".

Why say it a sentence when a paragraph is better!

 

[Owen Lucas]

I’ve been told I need help with my speeling.

 

[Revving2Redline]

Living in the Midwest where the status quo is missing tooth to tattoo is a rough 1:1 ratio I am glad its not any worse. Cant wait to see how much White Out was used to fix all the spelling mistakes on the computer screen.

 

[Revving2Redline]

I’ve been told I need help with my speeling.

Doubt it, what you need is a bigger typewriter as your sausage link sized fingers are missing the correct letters. I guess we could see if any of those Short Hand machines used by court reporters are available to us...

 

[CR94]

I just drank some fully melted ice

Some here will refer to an "ICE engine." That's absurdly redundant in two senses.
1. The "E" in "ICE" stands for engine;
2. Nobody would reasonably assume the vehicle in question has an external combustion engine, unless it's a Stanley Steamer.

 

[ZeeOSix]

Drop the "E" and save the board some used bandwidth.

 

[Hermann]

8+ pages over a vowel

 

[ripcord]

ur doing too much

You cap... go touch grass, LOLs

 

[OilStained]

Another item I am working on fixing in the database. An apostrophe is NEVER used to make a word plural, but on this site there are probably a hundred thousand instances. It takes time to fix them.

:%s/’s/s

Done and done

 

[ripcord]

:%s/’s/s

Done and done

Now he's got 2 problems, LOL.

 

[gman2304]

PIN number……

 

[wwillson]

:%s/’s/s

Done and done

That breaks all of the possessive and contraction words.

 

[OilStained]

About 3 months ago, I fix tens of thousands of instances of their spelled incorrectly in our database.

Is this reason sometimes I see the Edited by Moderator note on the bottom?

 

[wwillson]

Is this reason sometimes I see the Edited by Moderator note on the bottom?

No, the string manipulation in the database does not trip the edited by a moderator flag.

 

[OilStained]

Stephen Pastis, the creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine has taken a few very funny swipes at sloppy speech over the years.

In one strip, the characters are gathered around a casket. Someone asks who died.

Someone else answers "it's a funeral for the word 'said'".

There's a stunned silence until a woman wanders past with a cell phone:

"And then she's like 'no way', and I'm like 'rilly' and she's like 'no way', and then Jimmy's like ..."

Best of both words,
“Like I said…”

 

[danstraylee]

As long as it is not used incorrectly on a legal document does it really matter?

When you work in corporate America, you absolutely must use proper English if you want to be taken seriously.

Unless you are the CEO.....

 

[JohnnyJohnson]

Seriously isn't it time to close this trash?