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Author Topic: "A lot" is two words Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 04-06-2009 03:05 PM                     I remember trying to learn what YMMV stood for. Thank goodness for Google. I also find it fascinating that some of these acronyms are becoming slang in real life. Maybe it is because I'm around students so often, but does anyone ever hear folks using BTW? In its spoken form you say "Bee Tee Dubs". Cheers, AJG  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 04-06-2009 03:08 PM                     1) When you don't care about something you shouldn't say "I could care less." 2) It's pretty common for people to not understand the difference between "it's" and "its." 3) There's no such word as "supposibly" but that doesn't make people stop writing/saying it.  |  IP: Logged Greg Anderson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 766 From: Ogden Valley, Utah Registered: Nov 1999 posted 04-06-2009 03:39 PM                        You guys might enjoy the Grammar Girl Podcast, with "quick and dirty tips for better writing." It's well-done and each episode is refreshingly short. (It might be easier to just search for it in iTunes and receive the episodes automatically.)  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-06-2009 03:58 PM                     FWIW, YMMV AFAIK. LOL.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 04-06-2009 04:09 PM                     Banned.  |  IP: Logged Jarret Chessell Master Film Handler Posts: 288 From: London, Ontario, Canada Registered: Jan 2009 posted 04-06-2009 04:33 PM                     quote: Brad Miller So macs are for the lesser-educated? BURN!!! Laugh out loud  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-06-2009 07:38 PM                     quote: Joe Redifer and I know people can write more gooder if they tried just a bit harder. Ha! Joe, you might not have noticed this, but there is a problem with your sentence above. VERY funny considering what you're talking about. You should have had a comma between 'can' and 'write'. Silly.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-06-2009 09:21 PM                        The time seems right for this: Mr. Language Person: Idiot's Guide to Englesh BY DAVE BARRY (This classic Dave Barry column was originally published June 8, 2003.) It is time once again for Ask Mister Language Person, the column that provides you with the grammar, punctuation and vocabulary skills you need to verbally crush your opponents like seedless grapes under a hammer. Today's first language question comes from author Joyce Carol Oates, who writes to ask: Q. At restaurants, I often order the soup du jour. My question is, what is "jour"? A. It is a French word meaning "bat spleens." Q. Speaking of restaurants, can you give an example of pretentious menu language? A. Yes. We were dining recently with Mrs. Language Person at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Fla., and the menu listed the following item, which we are not making up: "Chef's Daily Inspiration of Soup." When the waiter came around, we asked him: "What is the Chef's Daily Inspiration of Soup?" And he answered, quote: "It's the soup of the day." Q. I have a question about the correct pronunciation of the word "aunt." I say it's pronounced "aunt," but my husband insists that it's "aunt." Who is right? We argue about this all the time! Also I'm pretty sure he's sleeping with his secretary. A. According to the American Association of English Professors of English, the correct pronunciation is "nuclear." Q. Like many people, I am troubled by the part of "Humpty Dumpty" that goes: "All the king's horses and all the king's men, couldn't put Humpty together again." Why does it mention horses? Does anybody seriously believe that if a bunch of horses saw a giant egg broken into pieces, their response would be: "Hey! Let's try to reassemble this!"? Also, in "Cinderella," are we really supposed to believe that the prince -- this guy who danced with Cinderella all night and wants to MARRY her -- believes that the only way he can recognize her is to make her TRY ON A SHOE? As if a shoe is some kind of medieval DNA sample? So if Cinderella's foot swells up, the prince is going to say: "Well, you LOOK exactly like the woman I love, but the shoe never lies!" A. You have given this a lot of thought. Q. At least once a day, my phone rings, and I answer it, and the person on the other end -- the person who called ME -- starts the conversation by asking: "Who is this?" Is that rude? A. It most certainly is, because this person is committing the grammatical "faux pas" (literally, "bat spleen") of using a pre-emptive connubial pronoun in an infricative phrase. The proper wording is: "Whom is this?" Or, more formally: "Just exactly whom the heck is this to whom I am speaking to?" Q. I would like to use the word "synergy" more often. What does it mean? A. "Synergy" is one of the key words used by business professionals to indicate that they have no clue as to what business they are actually in. ("The Harbingle Organization: A Paradigm of Synergy") Q. Is it time now for examples of actual language usage sent in by alert readers? A. Yes. --Veronica Peterson sent a newspaper ad for a Watertown, N.Y., dental clinic offering "Personalized Dentures." --Bob Emerick sent an ad for a fundraising dinner in Tampa, Fla., with this headline: "Shaquille O'Neal Attacks Literacy." --Ed Lacy reports that he saw a sign in the men's room of an Office Depot that said: "EMPLOYEES MUST WASH YOUR HANDS." (Ed writes: "I waited 15 minutes for someone to wash my hands.") --Susan Tudor sent an article from the Anderson, Ind., Herald Bulletin, headlined: "MINORITIES IN SHORT SUPPLY." --John Noren sent an informational document from the Internal Revenue Service containing this statement: "The definition of a child living at home is a child who lives at home." --Bill Belt sent a letter that his elderly mother received from BlueCross BlueShield that begins with this cheerful and personal salutation: "Dear Catastrophic Member:" --K. Houser sent an article on shark attacks from USA Today, quoting a shark expert as follows: "To have shark attacks, you have to have people together with sharks in the water." Q. You need BOTH? A. Yes. To create synergy. Link (for those who need one)  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 04-06-2009 10:32 PM                        Wasn't there a topic somewhere on here about misspelling the word DEFINITELY? I still think Marley and Me should have been called Marley and I... I use to have issues spelling Wednesday. Then I thought of it as marrying Mike Nesmith from the Monkeys. WED-NES-DAY. Sounds stupid, but hey, I helped me not to spell it Wedensday.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-06-2009 11:06 PM                     Mike's talking of soup reminds me... Dumb (or Dumber) to their waitress: "What's 'Soup de Jour?'?" "It's the Soup of the Day." "Mmmm...that sound's great. I'll have that!" Oh, how we laughed.  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 04-07-2009 12:35 AM                     How about : Gizmachie: A misc. part that you can't remember the proper name of... Gizinta: The part that mates with the Gizmachie Rectumfryer: A crappy rectifier (like early Strong switchers) People who pronounce "Xenon" as X-E-NON instead of "Zee-NON" Theater (live performance) techs who get their panties in a wad when I say "Xenon Bulb", as their lighting instruments (not Lamps) have Lamps, NOT bulbs. BFD I say. BFD: Big Deal FUBAR: Up Beyond All Recognition  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 04-07-2009 01:24 AM                     quote: Tony Bandiera Jr Rectumfryer: A crappy rectifier (like early Strong switchers) ..and they're still crappy and you're stuck with a dead horse when one goes since STRONG doesn't fix them anymore.  |  IP: Logged Brian Michael Weidemann Expert cat molester Posts: 944 From: Costa Mesa, CA United States Registered: Feb 2004 posted 04-07-2009 04:50 AM                        quote: Allison Parsons I still think Marley and Me should have been called Marley and I... Isolated like that, I believe either version is correct. Subject versus object, the title doesn't specify which with any context. Are Marley and I the subject of the movie, or is the movie about the things happening to Marley and me?  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-07-2009 09:42 AM                        Agreed with Brian. Besides, "Marley and Me" sounds friendly and cuddly. "Marley and I" sounds like two women talking about going shopping.  |  IP: Logged Carey Barber Expert Film Handler Posts: 143 From: Newport News, VA, USA Registered: Jan 2003 posted 04-07-2009 10:13 AM                     Here are two errors that I see often and am surprised have not been mentioned already... 1. Writing "should of" instead of "should've" --- They are trying to contract "should have" --- Frankly, I am not sure that "should've" is a proper contraction anyway. 2. I think the grand champion for misspelled online words is "loose" instead of "lose"  |  IP: Logged

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