# Yet another grammar rant...my eyes are bleeding! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 24, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308 "2004-08-24T18:22:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/61 "2004-08-25T15:27:42Z")
"Steering wheel on my pants’ Feh! 🙂 As for the sign, he wrote his brilliant idea down, took it to Sign-A-Rama and told them to print one out for him. So they did. As written. I would quote his Dish Washing Instructions but they make me shudder. His sister wrote the sign by the time clock that says, “Violators will be wrote up.” ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/62 "2004-08-25T15:35:36Z")
Orientate is the preferred form in Australia and the UK, and possibly South Africa according to a hit on Google. I just wanted to say that I’ve recently been disturbed to see people substituting the word “anymore” for “now” or “nowadays”. Examples: Anymore, things have changed; The things you have to go through anymore! Fingernails on the blackboard. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/63 "2004-08-25T15:35:55Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] [Phoebe]Wow - I just got that![/Phoebe] _I first read it as meaning “Some people lead; some – which are you – follow”. See - bad grammar gets in the way of reading comprehension._ That’s how I read it too! That it might be intended as a question didn’t even occur to me. It’s still wrong, though. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/64 "2004-08-25T16:26:52Z")
Oh, get over it, people. Maybe not everyone wants to utilize your language methodology. A sign I just saw outside of a conference room: STOP! Food is purchased for Trainee’s only. If you are “NOT” a Trainee, please “DON’T” eat it! ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/65 "2004-08-25T16:30:48Z")
I hate when people use _petted_ as the past tense of _pet_. As in, “I petted the dog”. Arrgggh. Oh and don’t even get me started on the reverse-psychology quotation marks!!! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/66 "2004-08-25T17:21:38Z")
[QUOTE=TerrorcottaI would quote his Dish Washing Instructions but they make me shudder. [/QUOTE] Oh, please share! ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/67 "2004-08-25T17:29:12Z")
Oh the pet peeves… My Cow-orker is in the endlessly frustrating habit of using ‘hisself’ and ‘thierselfs’. Not so bad, except she talks for a living. What gets me hot under the collar are the mental defectives that use prostrate in place of prostate. HEAR ME NOW, YOU BESLUBBERING, ADDLEPATED CANKER-BLOSSOMS, (a fine use of the shakespearean insulter, dont you think?) The Prostate is something you have checked…PROSTRATE is a way you can check it. Please, get it right! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/68 "2004-08-25T17:38:59Z")
> [@avabeth](#): > > Oh, God, make it stop!!! :eek: :eek: > > **Chefguy** , I showed (‘showded’) that note to mr. avabeth, and he just looked at it, looked at me, and said “That’s a joke, right?”. You’ve just destroyed his sanity 😃 . When I posted it, it looked made up to me as well, but I can assure you that it’s genuine. She’s a very nice woman, actually, but her English and grammar is god-awful. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/69 "2004-08-25T17:41:23Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > When I posted it, it looked made up to me as well, but I can assure you that it’s genuine. She’s a very nice woman, actually, but her English and grammar is god-awful. Or “are”, even. :smack: fuckin’ Gaudere can kiss me arse… ---
**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:** [August 25, 2004, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/70 "2004-08-25T17:50:50Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > A sign I just saw outside of a conference room: > > STOP! > > Food is purchased for Trainee’s only. If you are “NOT” a Trainee, please “DON’T” eat it! I see myself responding to this with a big grin and finger quotes, “Okay, I **“won’t”**!” then gleefully plunging in. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/71 "2004-08-25T19:29:27Z")
Exgineer, would you agree that the group is properly called a Hoarde of Misers? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/72 "2004-08-25T19:39:32Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > I see myself responding to this with a big grin and finger quotes, “Okay, I **“won’t”**!” then gleefully plunging in. Being that it was “Indian” food, I “was” seriously considering “doing” just “that.” ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/73 "2004-08-25T19:46:13Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Exgineer, would you agree that the group is properly called a Hoarde of Misers? It’s probably just that I’m really dim, but I really don’t understand this question. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/74 "2004-08-25T22:31:33Z")
The subtitle to this thread should be “Gaudere’s Law In Action”. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/75 "2004-08-25T22:42:39Z")
You’d think people would have learned by now how to make proper passed tents! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/76 "2004-08-26T00:03:12Z")
While we’re at it: **"Wherefore" does not mean “where”** , despite [all](http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/1025701) [the](http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast15jan_1.htm) [dumbasses](http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=298) [who](http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7F04-1F5B535F-397B3692-prod5) [think](http://www.isi.edu/~brian/security/asn1.html) [it](http://www.monkeycube.com/article-13) [does](http://www.monkeycube.com/article-13). ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/77 "2004-08-26T08:26:28Z")
> [@Terrorcotta](#): > > He has a sign over his desk: Some people lead, some follow, which are you! > [@](#): > > I first read it as meaning “Some people lead; some – which are you – follow”. See - bad grammar gets in the way of reading comprehension. The way I read it, he’s reminding his employees that they are inferior to him. The exclamation point adds emphasis, as if he’s poking his employees in the chest as he tells them they must follow his lead. You seem to have found a different meaning that escapes me. Please share. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/78 "2004-08-26T09:44:57Z")
> [@Trigonal Planar](#): > > I hate when people use _petted_ as the past tense of _pet_. As in, “I petted the dog”. Arrgggh. Am I being whooshed? What is the past tense? ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/79 "2004-08-26T10:06:34Z")
I admit to hating the word “complected” as well. Imagine my aggravation when I looked it up and there it was in the dictionary. I felt betrayed. One thing that my boss does drives me crazy, though it’s a pronunciation thing rather than a grammar thing. She pronounces “mammogram” as “mammygram.” It wouldn’t be so bad, except that you all have no idea how often that word comes up in our conversation. ---
**Author:** ![marky33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@marky33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marky33)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308/80 "2004-08-26T10:30:16Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > What chaps my ass all out of proportion to the offense is people who use “hoard” when they mean “horde.” For the sake of your ass, do not read the first post in this [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=272632) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-grammar-rant-my-eyes-are-bleeding/261308.md?page=5)