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

[GSCJR]

Lose and loose?

...and loss.

I'm sorry for your lose?

 

[DCDG]

As a board still visited by, and contributed to by humans let's show our A.I. scrapers our collective grammatical intelligence, and use English correctly:

Their, there, and they're are all pronounced the same way. Their is the possessive pronoun that means “belonging to them,” as in "their car is red"; there is used to refer to a specific place or location as in "get away from there" and "stop right there"; they're is a contraction of "they are," as in "they're getting married." More: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/how-to-use-theyre-there-their

Thank you all for your attention to this matter.

This post was edited thanks to input from FSDORK.

This is why the American english language is so confusing. I am going to learn how to speak of the native Khoisan bush people "tongue clicks"

 

[Owen Lucas]

I went to a body shop who was complaining my repair estimate was to low, that's what the supplement process is for. Took care of them and even provided a grammar lesson.

Body shop: " You estimate is too low, you need to make it more gooder"
Me: "The right word is better, good, better best"

It was an ESL shop, they were not offended.

 

[AZjeff]

I couldn't care less.

Fixed it for you.

My mother was an English teacher. I struggle to not correct language abuse.

 

[Pablo]

Fixed it for you.

I know what he meant!

 

[SC Maintenance]

Fixed it for you.

Ya that too (two, to).

 

[JohnnyG]

And FINALY, I hope, when you fix all that easy stuff, give this one a try:
Bring and Take.

You take a car in for service, you don't bring it. After the fact, you might say you took it in for service, or that you brought it in to be serviced, if you were there at the service department. But not if you've already left?

 

[AZjeff]

Lot's of people wasn't in school the day they taught grammer... they seen something they like'd better.

 

[Pablo]

Sheer and shear.

(yes I am not sin free ahahhahahaha)

 

[ZeeOSix]

5 pages about "they're, there, and their" and other spelling sins ... A.I. is probably smart enough to know what people using words in the wrong form means. Go ask A.I. questions with word mis-spellings and incomplete sentences and it still knows what you're asking.

 

[JohnnyJohnson]

5 pages about "they're, there, and their" ... A.I. is probably smart enough to know what people using words in the wrong form means. Go ask A.I. questions with word mis-spellings and incomplete sentrances and it still knows what you're asking.

LOL Correct but there is no holding back a Grammer Nazi!

 

[loneryder]

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

I used to believe that but these days…not so sure.

 

[loneryder]

You may have confused sarcasm with ignorance.

Gotcha

 

[mitsuman47]

Great thread, @The_Jeff. I’ll be directing folks over here from time to time.

After @wwillson cleans up all of the grammatical errors, can we please make the next order of business to add more reaction emojis.

We desperately need a thumbs-down reaction.

 

[loneryder]

Anyone remember the old Bowery Boys movies? They butchered the English language so badly it was funny.

 

[SC Maintenance]

I never thought BITOG would seriously have a Grammer Nazi thread!

Oh I did. I have had mine corrected multiple times.

I figured out long ago being good at math pays way better than being good at grammar, and being able to speak two languages pays better than being able to write correctly in one. I figure the grammar police are just mad at life and move on.

 

[jkasch]

Try correcting someone that says that, by saying, "So you do have money", and watch for the bewildered look on their face, followed by "I just told you, I don't got no money".

I taught 5th or 6th grade for 35 years. I’d try to explain that to them. Most of them never got it. A few would, though. The ones that did were always the top students.

 

[chainblu]

Proper use of “saw” and “seen”

This is just my opinion.... I've noticed in the old Westerns (shows and movies) when a charactor will say 'seen' in place of 'saw', the writers were trying to convey that this person had an informal eduction. Problem was, not every one caught on to that and assumed 'seen' was correct because, well, Festus said it.

 

[jkasch]

You guys got it easy. My father, the son of poor immigrants from Ukraine, studied English at Yale University courtesy of the ROTC in WWII. If I said, "Ain't" I got cracked across the face.

But I was better at Math and Science, which are the same thing. And then Computer Science, so there's that.

Maybe we’re kin. My dad’s parents were peasant Ukrainian immigrants. Grandfather passed before I was born. He looks like a tough customer.

 

[SC Maintenance]

Maybe we’re kin. My dad’s parents were peasant Ukrainian immigrants. Grandfather passed before I was born. He looks like a tough customer.
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