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Long story short. Back in my younger days I spent time with a lady who quite frankly was out of control with drugs and you name it. Really bright and educated woman, when she finally sobered up and got her life back on track she sent me a letter and stated how she had cleaned up her "sorted" life. I know, why nit pick on something like that, can't help it.
Just read in a blog article: (my daughter) laughedhistorically.
Wow.
Bwahahaha! This one really cracked me up!
I love this thread.
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Oh my goodness. I just about spit my coffee out a moment ago when I read this post: "Deep dish pizza must be an afrodisiac."
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This is a truly great thread, and congratulations for making it last so long. I haven't even read the whole thing yet, but a few comments, after my own diatribe:
My biggest beef today is capitalization. People seem to be capitalizing nouns a lot on the web, as if English was German. Not just proper nouns, but words like Mother and Travel and Strawberry and Chocolate. E.g., "I went to the Department Store to buy a Dress and stopped to buy a Hamburger before I went Home".
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I think that "creme" belongs on the list, too. I, personally, am not the least bit interested in snacking on "creme-filled" cookies.
As someone else said, "creme" is a perfectly good French word, and that's how it's used in such phrases as "creme brulee" and "creme caramel" (although correctly in French, crème brûlée and caramel.)
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...(If I see "fresh" in quotation marks, I am definitely not buying any of those vegetables!)
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I maintain that the worst things of all are quotation marks, which are supposed to connote that something isn't right...not be inserted in advertising for emphasis.
I hate this too, and I see it all the time. What's wrong with bold or italics for emphasis?
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Or people who send out printed Christmas--or any--cards signed "The Smiths." (You'd think the company that printed the cards might bring that to their attention.)
This is a tough one, and somewhat pedantic I think. The rules with apostrophes with plurals get pretty twisted and complex.
The most recent examples of an inability to spell I've run across in various threads include "dignaty," and "definatly." There must be something about the letter 'i' that these people find offensive. (Or, I should probably put that more appropriately, "offensave.")
That just made me wonder and search online if there was a typical sandwich wrap that'd be called a California wrap -- and then think "Some people must really not like it."
My biggest beef today is capitalization. People seem to be capitalizing nouns a lot on the web, as if English was German.
It's not a foreign practice, it's just archaic. Nouns are all capitalized in the US Constitution.
I don't have a problem with capitalizing a word if you want, in your context, to raise it to a special level deserving of proper noun status. Like "What my father said was the Law". Or, "Remember that Pride is one of the Deadly Sins", to assign a status above simple generic attributes. In fact, in your post, I might have capitalized 'capitalization'---a thing that I am naming, not merely referencing inter alia.
People seem to be capitalizing nouns a lot on the web, as if English was German.
...as if English were German.
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