Sunday Night Grammar School.

Horse Plains Drifter

montanajoe

that's not common core spellin

Warbirds

brier-49

Rocky Raab

Reading poor grammar and spelling is like seeing some guy with his shirt buttoned wrong, his fly open, and his shoes on the wrong feet. And you know what you think of a guy like that.



While we're at it, "50$" is wrong. The correct style is $50.

SCOUT5

For the most part I know the grammar rules and what words to use. But in a forum like this I start typing and hit submit, usually, without proof reading. So while I know the difference between their, there, and they're that doesn't translate to me always typing the right word. That is one of the reasons so many of my post are edited. I read them and see errors I didn't catch before posting. I do use spell check a lot due to a deficit in that area. For some reason I often only type you when I mean to type your and I have no idea why I do that as much as I do.

One thing I notice people using incorrectly is the word and, when saying numbers. Even Ivy League, college educated professional journalists that routinely put their nose up in the air when listening to us country boys talk. As an example, a lot of people will say four hundred and eight nine dollars when the correct way to say it is four hundred eighty nine dollars. Anyone that attended as much as a third grade math class knows and denotes a decimal as in, four hundred eighty nine dollars and fifty two cents. I taught this to my sons and made sure they understood it. But I also taught them that while they understood it they should not correct people when they heard someone using it wrong.

Anyway, if we have to proof read and edit everything we ever type on a forum like this, there's just a lot that's not going to get said. Or is that be said? Or maybe not gonna get said?

Edit: I even had to edit this post. I had typed not instead of no and I had added an extra it as I changed the wording mid sentence. I submit to arrest by the grammar police. But you better be ready to feed me because I'm not posting bail.

Rocky Raab

Typos and clearly inadvertent mistakes are forgivable, good sir. (I edited THAT for a typo!)

jimdeere

I?ve always wondered, when is it appropriate to spell out numbers in a sentence?
As, 7 and seven.

SCOUT5

jimdeere wrote:

I?ve always wondered, when is it appropriate to spell out numbers in a sentence?
As, 7 and seven.

I've wondered that too. But i guess it doesn't bother me enough to actually look it up.

kimi

Horse Plains Drifter wrote:

N'o!

RIA10MM

U no eye saw sumthing like That on semilor foreims.

11b6r

Shall we speak of muzzle breaks? (WTH- how did you break it???)
On the auction side I have been known to search for Endfields and Mossburgs that no one else is looking for- due to misspellings.

The headache that I have with the computer is the auto-complete function- where the stupid little box figures it will complete my sentence for me- but that is NOT what I was saying.

The spellchecker also has a total attack of the vapors when I am writing to local folks in Hawai'i. Proper Hawai'ian has an extra punctuation mark, called the okina. Used to separate paired or tripled vowels to indicate full pronunciation of each letter. Looks like an apostrophe- but it ain't.

Rocky Raab

Jim and SCOUTS, the accepted style is to spell out numerals from one to nine, but use digits for 10 and above. One exception is if you start a sentence with a number, and then it is spelled out. Examples: There are eight planets, some of which have over 50 moons. Twenty people lined up for tickets.

Edit to add: numerals are one of the only exceptions to the "no apostrophe for plurals" rule. You do use an apostrophe in the rare instance when you're writing about plural numbers. It's also an exception to the style rule above - a double whammy! Example: My serial number has two 4's and two 8's.

jimdeere

I'm so confused!
(Not really. )
Thanks, rocky.

toad67

SCOUT5 wrote:

jimdeere wrote:

I?ve always wondered, when is it appropriate to spell out numbers in a sentence?
As, 7 and seven.

I've wondered that too. But i guess it doesn't bother me enough to actually look it up.

IIRC, zero to ten is spelled, eleven and up are numerals. Just trying to remember what my grammar taught me....

toad67

forgemonkey wrote:

toad67 wrote:

SCOUT5 wrote:

I've wondered that too. But i guess it doesn't bother me enough to actually look it up.

IIRC, zero to ten is spelled, eleven and up are numerals. Just trying to remember what my grammar taught me....

You sly ol' dog ,,,,,,,

Them old eyes are still sharp...

SCOUT5

Thanks for straightening us out of the numbers, I'll try to remember that.

BobJudy

toad67 wrote:

SCOUT5 wrote:

jimdeere wrote:

I?ve always wondered, when is it appropriate to spell out numbers in a sentence?
As, 7 and seven.

I've wondered that too. But i guess it doesn't bother me enough to actually look it up.

IIRC, zero to ten is spelled, eleven and up are numerals. Just trying to remember what my grammar taught me....

Speaking of Grammar, ain't she the one who makes synonym rolls?

hobo9650

I'll come by tonight to get some, honey.

Is not the same as:

I'll come by tonight to get some honey.

Just sayin.

varian

if the first word in a sentence is a number, you spell it. also never end a sentence in a preposition.

Toolman286

I was taught that words like deer & bear, etc., could be used as singular & plural. Now I hear people using deers & bears for plural. As I'm typing this, deers gets a red underline. What is your opinion?

jimdeere

Bears, yes, deers, no.

11b6r

Is it one moose and two mice?

BobJudy

Why are a bunch of gooses - geese? What about beer? Is it a 6 pack of beer or a 6 pack of beers? Inquiring minds are often confused. Bob

P.S. I used the number 6 just to tick off the first person who is going to correct me.

Brookwood

I write all of my grandkids cards and letters in CURSIVE. When they first started receiving them from me, they had to have their parents translate what I was writing.

It encouraged them to learn cursive and today they write back to me in a language that I think may be "hood rat" :shock: , or ?? Just their way of getting even with ole gramps! I'm starting to understand this lingo and it just goes to show you that none of us are too old to learn new things! 8-)

brier-49

I'll just leaf this here