Spelling, punctuation and grammar!
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Posted on: 2009-12-30 13:02 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Heh. Good list. But they left out some others (then again, if they had put them in, it would have no longer been a Top 10.
Retarded, not Retarted
Which, not wich
Ridiculous, not Rediculous
I know I had a bunch more, but of course, can't remember them at the moment.
Oh there are plenty of them that were left out.
Could have is the correct usage instead of could of. That's a bit more of a personal gripe 
I just thought it was a neat reference guide for those who are unsure.
Should this have gone into the Player Guides, d'you think?
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Originally Posted by Arctic_Princess
Could have is the correct usage instead of could of. That's a bit more of a personal gripe
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Also: "mute point". It's MOOT point! And while you're at it, get offa my lawn!
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Originally Posted by Karl_Rove_Man
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I'm surprised "rediculous" didn't make the list. This one has be boring holes in the backs of my eyes for years, and it will never stop!
Also, there is something about using baloney/bologna to describe nonsense that I'm not quite sure about.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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In this game, one of the greatest spelling villains that I notice is the word villain.
When you say 'villian,' you are not referring to those enemies on the street who run amok and cause chaos, you are referring to the aliens who live on planet Villia!
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TO THE END!Villains are those who dedicate their lives to causing mayhem. Villians are people from the planet Villia!
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It's a reference to what goes INTO baloney. All the 'garbage' bits that would be otherwise inedible. So, saying something is 'baloney' is essentially saying it is a melange of castoff crap. Same expression as "a load of tripe".|
Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I'm surprised "rediculous" didn't make the list. This one has be boring holes in the backs of my eyes for years, and it will never stop!
Also, there is something about using baloney/bologna to describe nonsense that I'm not quite sure about. |
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And.. it's not "cannon". It's 'Canon' as in 'Canonical', or "Something that is accepted as fact without it needing to be proven."
The game's underlying story, the lore, is known as 'Canon' because according to the people who wrote the game, "This is what we based everything on. It should not be meddled with or contradicted." Compare to religious writings, Scripture, dogma, et cetera.
I'm sure there's a ton of other homonyms that get blatantly misused... all hail the spellchecker, which lets people get away with this sort of thing as long as a word is spelled correctly, no matter how egregiously mis-used....
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I like to use could've, would've, should've. 
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Incidentally, you've correctly omitted the serial comma in the thread title. The word "and" acts as a delimiter and an additional comma would have been obnoxiously redundant. (-:| Spelling, punctuation and grammar! |
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Originally Posted by Soul Train
It's a reference to what goes INTO baloney. All the 'garbage' bits that would be otherwise inedible. So, saying something is 'baloney' is essentially saying it is a melange of castoff crap. Same expression as "a load of tripe".
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I have long thought that this is caused by the contraction could've. It sounds similar to could of so, someone may use that trying to spell it phonetically.|
Originally Posted by Arctic_Princess
Could have is the correct usage instead of could of. That's a bit more of a personal gripe
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One of the funniest boo boos I've seen was when someone on another forum referred to something he didn't like as 'a load of crock'.
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I was actually taught in second or third grade that a list of three things should have two commas, as in "one, two, and three." I learned later that it is redundant, but have only ever had one teacher (in college) tell me that it was outright inappropriate to use the second comma.|
Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
Incidentally, you've correctly omitted the serial comma in the thread title. The word "and" acts as a delimiter and an additional comma would have been obnoxiously redundant. (-:
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Anyway, someone has to use the extra commas left out by the people who refuse to use them at all.
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Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
What about "horse feathers," then?
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It's not "Could care less."
Quite frankly, if I have a reason to say it, I have no more capacity to care about the subject and "Couldn't care less."
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Really, it depends on the style guide used for the writing. For instance, MLA and APA which is commonly used in college (at least in the US) requires the serial comma. So, GuyPerfect is both correct and incorrect in his assertion that the omission is correct. I typically don't use them but, that is from years of writing for high school and college newspapers. Both used the AP style guide, which is one of the styles where it is omitted.|
Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
I was actually taught in second or third grade that a list of three things should have two commas, as in "one, two, and three." I learned later that it is redundant, but have only ever had one teacher (in college) tell me that it was outright inappropriate to use the second comma.
Anyway, someone has to use the extra commas left out by the people who refuse to use them at all. |
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That is probably true. It's still no excuse! Homonyms are not interchangeable, dag nabbit!|
Originally Posted by Radionuclide
I have long thought that this is caused by the contraction could've. It sounds similar to could of so, someone may use that trying to spell it phonetically.
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But even as your linked article points out, whether a serial comma is acceptable or not varies by media, reader, subject, and the color of a frog's leg hair.|
Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
Incidentally, you've correctly omitted the serial comma in the thread title.
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Originally Posted by Rajani Isa
people who confuse a winged unicorn with a pegasus.
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That is probably true. It's still no excuse! Homonyms are not interchangeable, dag nabbit!
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I actually have no hard and fast rules on comma useage, and as English is a foreign language to me, I tend to apply my own native comma rules to the English language... With mixed results.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
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Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
That's 'alicorn', thankyouverymuch!
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Hmm, I've never heard of "alicorn" before. The only single word I've ever seen to describe a winged unicorn before was "hypacorn".
Also, if it comes from "alae" (Latin for wings, IIRC), shouldn't it be "alacorn" or something?
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"Alot" should be a word.
There is no "wat", it's either "what" or "watt".
Ur is an ancient and long lost city. i'm not quite sure why some people feel compelled to blame it for things happening today. "thats ur fault" (Let's not worry about the lack of punctuation or capitalization that seems to follow that city around.)
"I" as a personal pronoun should always be capitalized. There are some neurotics that do not for reasons related to convoluted religious "logic", but in my case i do it as an affectation and literary quirk.
Also, a question mark, "?", is useful for letting people know that you're asking a question.
Plus all the grammatical errors in this post that weren't referenced at all.
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