# GAH! "Breaks" do NOT stop a train! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 25, 2007, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603 "2007-02-25T14:08:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/21 "2007-02-25T21:33:53Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Thank you! This one has been annoying me, too! [/QUOTE] Surely you meant “to!” 😛 And – its awful when a word doesn’t get it’s apostrophe. Their are so many words with they’re apostrophes missing, I mean there all over the place! Ugh, that is one ugly sentence there 😃 ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/22 "2007-02-25T21:46:12Z")
[QUOTE=kambuckta] a bunch of Siemens trains that have been overshooting [/QUOTE] There’s a joke in there somewhere, definately. 😉 A new one to me was “gall blatter”. :eek: And that appeared here on the Dope! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/23 "2007-02-25T22:00:27Z")
[QUOTE=According to Pliny] How does one stop a tarn then? [/QUOTE] You drain it. As for the OP, for all intensive purposes, it doesn’t make a bit of deference at the end of the day. ---
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/24 "2007-02-25T22:17:05Z")
Time heels all wounds. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/25 "2007-02-25T22:54:10Z")
I’m just greatful you all are such good spellers. ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/26 "2007-02-25T23:28:58Z")
I have too agree; all these mistakes make me shutter. My advise to newspaper publishers would be to take a peak at there papers sometimes to see how there editors are doing. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/27 "2007-02-26T01:11:13Z")
You all ignernt, I stick my tounge out at you! ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/28 "2007-02-26T01:40:46Z")
A new one I’ve seen that is driving me NUTS lately: “My daugther.” Your WHAT?? I have no idea what a ‘daugther’ is. And it’s constant - every time they use the word, it’s spelled that way. E. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/29 "2007-02-26T03:53:18Z")
So the consensus of opinion is that you should write good irregardless. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/30 "2007-02-26T03:56:34Z")
Well, if the train breaks, it’ll stop, right? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/31 "2007-02-26T06:56:25Z")
[I beg to differ.](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17285824/) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/32 "2007-02-26T08:00:26Z")
[QUOTE=Noone Special] Their are so many words with they’re apostrophes missing [/QUOTE] Missed one: > [@](#): > > _apostrophe_\*'\*_s_ ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/33 "2007-02-26T15:14:39Z")
You all need to stop before I hurt you all. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/34 "2007-02-26T15:17:34Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] You all need to stop before I hurt you all. [/QUOTE] Them’s the brakes… ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/35 "2007-02-26T15:21:13Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Them’s the brakes… [/QUOTE] That’s it. \*bites **jayjay** ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/36 "2007-02-26T15:35:42Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] That’s it. \*bites **jayjay** [/QUOTE] Owch! ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/37 "2007-02-26T15:36:16Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] That’s it. \*bites **jayjay** [/QUOTE] You don’t like this thread? Bight me! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/38 "2007-02-26T15:50:13Z")
**pilot141** Luckily, we had English teachers who learned us to speak good. Sure, they’re are topics more important then this, but its good too sea that “Dopers” no the proper use of language. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/39 "2007-02-26T19:07:12Z")
This kind of thing pisses me off everyday. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/40 "2007-02-26T19:23:50Z")
Does Texas only “mostly” contain you? You must be large indeed. 😃 WRT the topic at hand, it annoys me too, though not so much when it’s an honest typo. Bare/bear, there/they’re/their, etc. can happen to anyone as a result of fast typing even when the person does know the correct spelling. I sometimes trip up on they’re/there/their, because it’s as if my brain, when I’m typing, just selects any valid spelling for the sound without considering which is correct. This doesn’t happen with less common words. On the other hand, lose/loose sound different; that’s just a case of not being able to spell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603.md?page=3)