Now I have had this blog since the end of July….so not even 7 months yet. I get a lot of email regarding a lot of subjects, but the past week I have gotten FOUR, yes FOUR emails explaining to me that my grammar is incorrect on the words:
Your vs You’re
and
Than vs. Then
I didn’t know you all cared so much. Much less four separate people….or maybe its one and she is really insistent on me changing it and has come up with additional aliases….either way, I am starting to think that my site has been printed on a teachers site and they are all coming over to correct me in a big red pen grammar mob.
The fact is, I am lazy. If spell check says its right, its right. I have seen bloggers SOUND OUT THEIR WORDS and not even spell check, so surely my little grammar no nos are not that heartbreaking. My biggest mistake is skipping words and I usually don’t catch that (if i do at all) till after the post is published. I can read a 500 page book in 2 hours, and have been able to since I was about 8 and my mind is trained to automatically skips words like “the”, “and”, and “or”. Because of that, I often do it in my typing as well.
So when we were out driving this weekend and I saw this sign down the street from us, I realized………Its NOT me.
Its Alabama.
Its starting to rub off onto me.
ICK! GET THE ALABAMA OFF OF ME. ITS CONTAGIOUS!!!
- #1 OIA
- #2 OIA
- #3 Miniature Horses
- #4 OIA Undercover Reporting
- #5 OIA
- #6 OIA
- OIA Halloween edition
- #8 OIA
- #9 OIA
- #10 OIA
- #11 OIA Interstate
- #12 Camo Chair
- #13 His and Hers Business
- #14 Accents
- #15 SuperFord
- #16 Gas Station Sign
- #17 Interesting Rebel Flag
~Trisha
I don’t mind people who misspell but for business signs they should!
@ Trisha-admin:
That’s great, everything’s cooool, no problems, Mate! G’day!
Signed: Throwing another shrimp on the barbie — which is always quite better than having a Barbie ‘throw’ herself onto a shrimp … We all know that’s no fun!!
There was a time when I probably would have silently stewed about the misspellings. Now? I don’t care. As long as I can understand what you are saying, it works for me.
@ Kathryn:
Kathryn, this post was not meant to insult you at all….it was merely to address *all* the emails I got in the week, you were not the only one so it was starting to get funny and ironic. Then I wanted to pick at the incorrect spelling I saw in my state as a way to tie it in. I actually DID see on a forum that my post was shared on that someone picked at the same thing and she actually used the term “red pen”, which is why I put that in.
If you scroll down you can see my friend Melissa poke at me about it just being who *I* am…and she knows, we have been typing online together for many years. She used to correct me all the time but gave up. I outlasted her. MUHAHHAHAHHHAHHA
Please don’t think i didn’t appreciate your kindness…I do. I am just uncorrectable. Like an old dog with old tricks. I probably need an editor to be honest. I will try to make a more conscious effort about the “your” thing.
I was not trying to get onto you or anyone else, but just make a fun pick at my SELF and defend myself to anyone that may be thinking of emailing me, because apparently, I think people are thinking about it. HAHHAHAHHA
If you scroll through the comments, you can see that I clearly defended everyone that emailed me and said they were nice in their emails….and they all were really nice. And I know they were diff people, I was just making a poor attempt at a joke.
Trisha
I think we all do it at some point. It’s just easy to miss when we are typing fast and skimming along.
My grammar totally sucks, it is what it is! I have been corrected so many times and I TRY to get it right but I still screw it up. It’s quite embarrassing when someone corrects me…..especially my MIL in public….EEK!! Honestly people seem to think that if you don’t use proper grammar you must not be very smart but it’s just not the case. Some of us have a mental block PLUS got a very poor primary education. I think I’m lucky enough to have both
but I went on to graduate college and graduate school so I must not be too stupid……..but I most definitely got a VERY poor primary education.
Oh well
“Much less four separate people….or maybe its one and she is really insistent on me changing it and has come up with additional aliases….”
Ah, no, I can only speak for myself, and I only wrote the one time. Don’t know who the other three are, and what a coincidence that we’d all write at the same time.
My god, if I had known that it would blow up into all this I would have never written. Believe me, I wrote in only the kindest way, giving Trisha compliment after compliment and was only passing along some tips to a wonderful writer. And I was trying to do so w/ humor and in a good way.
You can see for yourself – here’s what I wrote after having read her post, “What is the difference between networking and a clique?”
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Kathryn totally said:
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Hi Trisha,
Excellent, love the way you write so candidly – such wit and sarcasm, and loved your vid on YouT about “Julie the [village idiot] head honcho ‘explaining’ the CPSIA,” which was great. (By the way, I was the one who played off of your ending comment in that post – how she could go suck a [lead, more than 600 parts per million] egg!).
Today, though, I have an English tip I’d like to cement (learnedly and good heartedly) into your head concerning the difference betw “your” and “you’re.”
“Your” denotes ownership as in “your desk,” “your pen.”
“You’re” = you are (a contraction only, whenever used).
Some examples from your post:
“A) your not good enough”
“B) your not smart enough”
[both should be "you're" not...]
“…Yoda of the online world, chances are your going to be…” [your needs to be "you're"]
“…the new girl in the friendships, your the last…” ["you're"]
“If your looking for someone to tell you how great you are every moment…” [your should be "you're"]
I’m just writing to help you out b/c I love what you have to say, having discovered you lately w/ the CPSIA bs (which I’m sure they’ll be amending; it’s such an outrageous piece of legislation – totally fubar, and that’s putting it mildly, of course).
So, grammatically speaking, I hope my [anally-retentive] little English lesson will help!
Signed: Mrs. Inga Lish
- 23 January 2009 at 2:11 am
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@ Kathryn:
Quite honestly, I’m just super lazy. I’m lucky if it goes through spell check properly. LOL!
trisha
- 23 January 2009 at 8:55 am
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It was an honest and genuine effort to only help Trisha, IF she wanted to pay it any mind, no big deal!! And now that she has answered it (that day and w/ what she all said today) I now know it doesn’t matter to her and that’s fine, totally fine – the world is still spinning. No, I am not the ‘police’ — it was merely an offering of grammatical help from an interested reader and a fellow writer. I truly love her sarcasm, realism, just everything. I think she’s a riot!
I didn’t write to insult her, or in any way to project that I was grammatically perfect in any sense of the word – or that anyone is – for crying out loud.
I’m sorry for writing it, Trisha, and now I see that I shouldn’t have, so I won’t in the future. As far as the other three people go – I can only apologize for myself. My intent, though, was offered w/ graciousness, not viciousness of any sort. I’m sorry if I affronted you, or upset you. I do understand that it’s your content that’s important — it’s relevant, poignant, and insightful. And it’s ‘Trish’…and that’s all that counts.
Signed: I rest my case (and obviously the ‘case’ should have never been opened — I now know!)
@ Trisha-admin:
Why, yes I do! =)
I’d take grammar police over the person who decided that I was putting labels on myself by putting a description of myself in my “About Me” section. Why couldn’t I just say “I’m a happy mom to 7 children.” and leave it at that instead of being egotistical by saying I’m a babywearer who cloth diapers.
That’s the south for ya! LOL (And I have southern roots)
Damn rednecks…
ROFLMAO, I didn’t even notice prescription. Until I read the replies I thought it was over AVAILABLE *sigh*
I really think everyone was trying to be super nice..it just happened that i got 4 in a week and i was DYING. I didnt realize people cared. LOL!
Now I am all self conscious.
trisha
Wow. Is this really all they’re worried about? Must be nice.