My grammatical peeves

[manley1]

[begin senseless rant]

Okay, I know that I need to unclench about this one, but I keep seeing people at work writing effect instead of affect, and it's driving me batty. I know that they are virtually homophones, but it shouldn't be too, too hard to remember that almost always affect is a verb while effect is a noun. When you affect something, a

Comments

[manley1]

S'ok. As Anna keeps readily pointing out:

1. I don't always have a leg to stand on as I make plenty of errors of my own.
2. There are cases in which the center does not hold, but I think still that they are fringe cases, not the norm.

[manley1]

I blame spell check for making us all lazy. Too many times, I have let it suggest a correction, only to have it put in the wrong word as it did when I just commented back to Anna above. Yeesh.

[anna_esq]

You mean using "propriety" instead of "proprietorship"?

[manley1]

Exactly. Freaking spell check--it seems to create more woes than solve for me. :-p

Please sir, may I have some more?

[sofija_m]

I loved this post.

Re: Please sir, may I have some more?

[manley1]

Of me being a crank for grammar? Or are we acting out that frat scene from Animal House right now? :-)

Re: Please sir, may I have some more?

[sofija_m]

The whole shaboodle :D

Re: Please sir, may I have some more?

[manley1]

As I was telling Anna earlier, this site:

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/

is now my hero. :-)

[jss1113]

Your sew write! I don't know what affect this will have, but it'll be continuously on my mind....

Oh, ouch. I can't even continue in that vein (not the artery, but the vein).

[manley1]

We be so S M R T!!!!!

[jss1113]

Wee dew!

[paterson_si]

UGH I am trying my best to come up with some decent writing, so don't beat me, please! :)

[manley1]

It's not a first language for you, so you get an automatic pass. :-)

[paterson_si]

So your telling me that all is good than? That I definately passed and that I am hear to stay? :)

[manley1]

Oy...