I can't take it anymore. (quote, similar)

[PanTerra]

Originally Posted by in_newengland

Thank you very much for the explanation. Gone are the days when we could trust the announcers on radio and tv to be role models for good speech. Sheesh, now you can't even trust the BBC. The beeeb. Of all things. Hyper-correction.

That's where I have heard more errors using "I" when they should have used "me."

[Mightyqueen801]

My daughter and I used one of those machines at the supermarket to rent a movie yesterday. On the main menu screen, there was a choice of languages: Egnlihs or Spanish.

[leanansidhex]

Sorry if this has already been posted. I haven't read them all yet.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by leanansidhex

Sorry if this has already been posted. I haven't read them all yet.

Someone did, somewhere in here, and I'd never heard it said before--and then I heard my niece use it!

[swbtoo]

Originally Posted by leanansidhex

Sorry if this has already been posted. I haven't read them all yet.

Face it, some purposes are more intensive than others, wouldn't you say?

[PJSaturn]

Originally Posted by southward bound

Face it, some purposes are more intensive than others, wouldn't you say?

Ha. Good one, southward!

[PJSaturn]

Here's one that bugs the heck out of me. This is an excerpt from a post in another forum:

"This happened a long time ago but my kids think it's so funny..they will prolly tell this story at my Funeral."

I've seen the non-word, "prolly," half a dozen times in threads just in the past couple of days. What's up with that? Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I suppose it's the posters' shorthand for "probably," but it makes them look stupid!

[swbtoo]

Heard on ABC morning news today:

In a report that the housing market is beginning to show a slowdown, the reporter said we need to see if we can accelerate that.

Yep. That's just what we need -- a faster slowdown.

[Rob Allen]

From another forum here at city-data:

"Reasons for moveing: To expencive to live in (state)"

This person wants to move to my state.

[PanTerra]

Originally Posted by PJ8

Here's one that bugs the heck out of me. This is an excerpt from a post in another forum:

"This happened a long time ago but my kids think it's so funny..they will prolly tell this story at my Funeral."

I've seen the non-word, "prolly," half a dozen times in threads just in the past couple of days. What's up with that? Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I suppose it's the posters' shorthand for "probably," but it makes them look stupid!

Indeed. I can understand using the shorthand when texting on a phone's alpah-numeric key pad, but good grief, when you're using a keyboard, word-up, as opposed to man-up. I have heard it working it's way into spoken conversation, as well. That's the worst.