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Post by Tiger on Jul 31, 2009 13:27:35 GMT -5
Roll means "to move or cause to move in a particular direction by turning over and over on an axis". The word you are looking for is role, "the function assumed or part played by a person or thing in a particular situation".
That is all.
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Post by Jebediah on Jul 31, 2009 17:27:10 GMT -5
This reminds me of a woman I know. She pronounces and spells 'row' as 'roll.'
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Post by romets on Jul 31, 2009 19:17:53 GMT -5
Also: affect/effect. I know lawyers that mix those two up, though that's a bit more understandable. But still annoying.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 31, 2009 19:26:21 GMT -5
Who are you talking to, Tiger?
You're/your, there/they're/their, it's/its, who's/whose are my big ones. Listed in the order of how annoying I find them.
Also, thanks to Mr. Siwert, I've started correcting who/whom. Fucking English teachers.
Something that bugs me though; you know when people say a word pronounced like "soul-lee," used as "only because of this one thing"? I can't figure out how to spell it. I'd think "soley," but Word keeps telling me that's wrong.
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Post by romets on Jul 31, 2009 19:31:05 GMT -5
Something that bugs me though; you know when people say a word pronounced like "soul-lee," used as "only because of this one thing"? I can't figure out how to spell it. I'd think "soley," but Word keeps telling me that's wrong. "Solely." |
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Post by Jedi Knight on Jul 31, 2009 20:01:17 GMT -5
Something that bugs me though; you know when people say a word pronounced like "soul-lee," used as "only because of this one thing"? I can't figure out how to spell it. I'd think "soley," but Word keeps telling me that's wrong. "Solely." Yep! Merriam- Webster is your friend. Well allright, M-W is my friend. Now I need to get out of this thread before I fuck up all extant rules of the English language. Edited for grammar... |
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Post by The Lazy One on Jul 31, 2009 20:05:10 GMT -5
My mother constantly yells at me for asking where things are at.
That is all.
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Post by mistermuncher on Jul 31, 2009 20:14:24 GMT -5
Round these parts, there's some deeply special conjugation of the verb "To be". I used to believe this was a hangover from Irish/Gaelige sentence structure. I no longer believe this is the case, and have decided that people believe, on the whole, that it's correct.
Examples:
"There I was..." becomes "Here's me..." or "Here bes me...".
"He was..."-> "Here's him"
"This is the way he acted" -> "here bes the way he bes"
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Post by SimSim on Jul 31, 2009 20:21:47 GMT -5
My mother constantly yells at me for asking where things are at. That is all. What's wrong with where things are at? |
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Post by rookie on Jul 31, 2009 21:52:19 GMT -5
Who are you talking to, Tiger? That would be me. This is exactly why I try not to post when stoned. |
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Post by wmdkitty on Jul 31, 2009 22:01:15 GMT -5
Also: affect/effect. I know lawyers that mix those two up, though that's a bit more understandable. But still annoying. NOBODY can remember those two. That's why I'll be all, "...effect (or is it affect?)...". And even the spellchecker in Word mixes up "its" and "it's". What really trips me up, and I guess this is a spelling thing, but the order of "ie" and "ei" in words. EI should be a long-I sound, and IE a long-E, and if it's a long-A sound, it should be EY, and not EI, at least that's how my brain interprets it. But there are several words in the English language -- "neighbor", "ceiling", just off the top of my head -- just ... don't work that way. At least German is spelled roughly the way it's pronounced. (3 years in High School.) And my little brother is a walking FAIL -- "I don't have no...." -- GAWD, I want to slap him sometimes! |
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Post by Angel Kaida on Jul 31, 2009 22:17:20 GMT -5
For some reason my mom has picked up, along with the habit of running strings of words together and getting rid of the hard consonants, this regional grammar failure:
"He didn't see nothing."
Every time I hear it, I cringe. I'm terrified Jake will pick it up, because at that point I'll call the house less just to avoid hearing it.
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Post by Tiger on Jul 31, 2009 22:28:36 GMT -5
Who are you talking to, Tiger? That would be me. This is exactly why I try not to post when stoned. Partially. I've seen the mistake a couple times on these boards in the past few days. NOBODY can remember those two. That's why I'll be all, "...effect (or is it affect?)...". Affect is a verb. Effect is a noun most of the time. Its = possessive it's = it is. |
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 31, 2009 22:43:27 GMT -5
Yeah, WMD, those things aren't too hard to remember. And spellcheck is fucking stupid. It didn't give me any tips on how to fix solely.
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Post by 13rats on Jul 31, 2009 23:28:00 GMT -5
I'm mostly bothered by your/you're and they're/there/their. The lack of grammatical and punctuational knowledge today is pathetic. If things like this bother you, you would have torn up some of the "essays" I've seen from other people in my English class. That paired with the pathetic level of geography in U.S. schools....
Edit: Oh yeah, and what's the difference between who and whom? I remember in sixth grade my teacher said that who was used as a subject and whom was an object, but I want to make sure.
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