The spelling / grammar thread

[MakeAJazzNoiseHere]

You can make your tie loose, but if you make it too loose, you might lose your tie.

[jackson1]

Thanks Jazz! Now make a sentence with choose

[jackson1]

Lots of folks here do it with Jackson's and Charvel's.

Guilty prior to this thread.

[RacerX]

So, you possess your mother? I find that a bit weird.

Well, she belongs to you...would be another way to denote possessive. Before contractions and apostrophes, possessive sentences would contain lots of words, ie: The land of my father lies beyond the castle of the duke.

This reminds me of the Germanic prefix von and the Dutch van, van de or van der. They mean "from" or "from the" or "from the area of". My own last name starts with Vander, and that means everybody with my last name (ancestors anyway) was from the area denoted by the 2nd name (which I won't give you here, heh).

ie Van Essen = from the area of Essen, VanderMolen / VanderMuelen / von Muelen= from the windwill.

then you might have "dorp" or "dorf" (village) ie von Dusseldorf = from the village by the river Dussel

[jackson1]

(which I won't give you here, heh).

I know it already, muhahaha.

OK. Interesting.

[Grim]

Choose is a present tense verb. You can choose something. For example, if you like Jacksons, you might choose to play a Jackson instead of a Gibson. It's the act of choice.

In the past tense, you would use chose. For example, "What did you choose?", to which you could reply, "I chose ... "

Tried not to make it too simplistic. I detest when an instructor makes me feel like an idiot.

[RacerX]

One that always irks me is when people say could of, should of or would of.

Joe, check out the first line of bully Ritchard Gale's apology letter

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/chifley-college-student-casey-heynes-bully-ritchard-gale-says-he-was-provoked/story-e6frea8c-1226026621695

[Scooter]

Choose is a present tense verb. You can choose something. For example, if you like Jacksons, you might choose to play a Jackson instead of a Gibson. It's the act of choice.

In the past tense, you would use chose. For example, "What did you choose?", to which you could reply, "I chose ... "

Tried not to make it too simplistic. I detest when an instructor makes me feel like an idiot.

I thought 'choose' went on your feet.

Nice thread BTW....

[toejam]

Joe, check out the first line of bully Ritchard Gale's apology letter

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/chifley-college-student-casey-heynes-bully-ritchard-gale-says-he-was-provoked/story-e6frea8c-1226026621695

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[jackson1]

... aren't = are not.
... ain't = (slang?)

[Gartron]

Nerdzzzzz!!

[Endrik]

It was a dark and stormy night

[amimbari]

what about us here in Pittsburgh that uses yinz for "all of you", and yoose as " all of you" as well.
european english is bad enough, american english is the worst.

night/knight --pronounced the same
to/too/two
and who in the fuck pronounces Wednesday as Wed-nes-day

[john.w.lawson]

"I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us."
- Mark Twain's Autobiography

[micha]

The problem arises because the word of is pronounced uv...

Oh no, not this one again...
All your would'ves, could'ves and should'ves still sound stupid! No matter how they're written.