Grammar/Spelling Rehab Thread - Page 8

**plotthickens** · 04-09-2012, 10:22 AM

	Originally Posted by envirodude To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I know I'm straying from the spelling/grammar focus here, but how do people feel about the recent trend (again, in my circles) to addressing diverse audiences in emails as "folks"? A tad too folksy for my taste.

I agree. "All ya'alls" is much better.
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**Still Standing** · 04-09-2012, 10:42 AM

	Originally Posted by envirodude To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	And very common in engineering and bureaucracy: superseded spelled ...ceded.

It's apparently
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	I know I'm straying from the spelling/grammar focus here, but how do people feel about the recent trend (again, in my circles) to addressing diverse audiences in emails as "folks"? A tad too folksy for my taste.

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I do it all the time around here. You don't like "y'all" either, I'll bet. I wouldn't do it in a formal/business email, but I like to give a not-so-serious tone to my other types of communication, so yeah.

**Distance** · 04-09-2012, 10:51 AM

It's such a deviant spelling of supersede. Brings to mind colonial war games.

'I supercede you Finland, for Vladivostok and three barrels of smoked pork.'

**deconspire** · 04-09-2012, 10:58 AM

	Originally Posted by Uriel To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I am not very good with grammar and punctuation. This thread makes me feel insecure and inferior. I got one. *You mean he like, like* like, like likes me?**

Perfect grammar.

	Originally Posted by envirodude To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I know I'm straying from the spelling/grammar focus here, but how do people feel about the recent trend (again, in my circles) to addressing diverse audiences in emails as "folks"? A tad too folksy for my taste.

Meh, I don't like it either for the same reason.

Here is my grammatical tosser: take v. bring. E.G., "Hey, let's bring some beer when we go to the party". WRONG-O! Movement of something from the point of departure = take. Movement of something from the point of arrival = bring.

**plotthickens** · 04-09-2012, 11:01 AM

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

It is gramatically correct.
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**reckful** · 04-09-2012, 11:07 AM

	Originally Posted by envirodude To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I know I'm straying from the spelling/grammar focus here, but how do people feel about the recent trend (again, in my circles) to addressing diverse audiences in emails as "folks"? A tad too folksy for my taste.

I think "folks" works well in the right context. Here's the latest post in Paul Krugman's blog:

Originally Posted by Krugman

A good article in the Times about the terrible state of Texas schools — followed by a truly awful comment thread, in which many readers rush to blame, you guessed it, teachers’ unions.

Folks, this isn’t an article about New York, where three-quarters of public-sector workers are unionized. It’s about Texas, where only one in five public workers belongs to a union. Blaming unions for the problems of Texas is like, well, blaming Jews for the problems of Japan: there aren’t enough of them to matter.

Cooper · 04-09-2012, 11:08 AM

	Originally Posted by Distance To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	It's such a deviant spelling of supersede. Brings to mind colonial war games. 'I supercede you Finland, for Vladivostok and three barrels of smoked pork.'

Artio won't like that....

**Distance** · 04-09-2012, 11:10 AM

	Originally Posted by Cooper To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Artio won't like that....

Redacted. I'm a-feared of Artio!

**envirodude** · 04-10-2012, 08:40 PM

	Originally Posted by plotthickens To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I agree. "All ya'alls" is much better. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

	Originally Posted by Still Standing To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	...You don't like "y'all" either, I'll bet. I wouldn't do it in a formal/business email, ...

Before you mock me, walk in my shoes:

Folks have got to submit mileage claims by the end of the week.
Edit: You must submit ...

Folks, don't enter a premise unless you feel absolutely safe doing so.
Edit: Never enter premises unless ...

Just sayin', y'all!

And if supercede starts to be accepted, I'm officially moving to the woods to live as a bitter curmudgeon.

Now, I know what you're thinking; you're thinking, "Did he really say, 'enter a premise'?" Sadly, yes. At my workplace, premises has become corporately converted to premise. It's right there in the software. It's on the "New premise" form. "Will you be opening a new premise today, ma'am?" Do I need to explain why I'm looking for a new job? Hope not [HIDE="..."]This dot dot dot is for Plot Plot Plot![/HIDE]

Espadrille · 04-11-2012, 11:00 AM

Folks, how about a good way to "grow" a business? Do you sprinkle water on it?

**fokalina** · 04-11-2012, 01:18 PM

Smileys or smilies? I've always preferred smileys, but is it right?

(Referring to emoticons)

**Distance** · 04-11-2012, 01:19 PM

	Originally Posted by fokalina To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	emoticons

BOOM!

**reckful** · 04-11-2012, 01:29 PM

	Originally Posted by fokalina To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Smileys or smilies? I've always preferred smileys, but is it right?

Dictionary.com doesn't recognize smilie as legit, but Wikipedia describes it as a "variant" that is "not as common" as smiley.

I also prefer smiley.

ADDED: And as for the plural form (probably what you were talking about, now that I think about it), Dictionary.com only recognizes smileys, but Wikipedia notes that smilies (plural) is more "commonly used" than smilie (singular).

**deconspire** · 04-11-2012, 01:34 PM

If not all of them smile, then how can they all be labeled smileys?

Syllogism fail.

**Litchee** · 04-11-2012, 01:38 PM

A lot is written in two words. A. And then lot.
An
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**nowt** · 04-11-2012, 01:38 PM

I just say 'emotes' when I see them and then esmite my own eeyes.

**plotthickens** · 04-11-2012, 01:40 PM

	Originally Posted by nowt To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I just say 'emotes' when I see them and then esmite my own eyes.

What's a "yes"?

**nowt** · 04-11-2012, 01:41 PM

I eedit eslow.

	Originally Posted by plotthickens To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	What's a "yes"?

**Still Standing** · 04-11-2012, 01:44 PM

	Originally Posted by fokalina To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Smileys or smilies? I've always preferred smileys, but is it right? (Referring to emoticons)

Smilies would be the plural of smily, which does not exist.

To me it doesn't really matter if the smileys smile or not. "Emotion icons" make me think of touchy feely pop artists.

Cooper · 04-11-2012, 03:20 PM

"smiley things"

**Distance** · 04-11-2012, 03:21 PM

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Cooper · 04-11-2012, 03:22 PM

^ "crying thing"

**Bardas** · 04-11-2012, 07:41 PM

So is "ironical" a legitimate use of the word? Seems like "ironic" gets the job done, but I see the former usage a lot.

**mieu** · 04-11-2012, 07:45 PM

	Originally Posted by Cooper To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	^ "crying thing"

Cryley

Cryley Myrus

**deconspire** · 04-11-2012, 08:24 PM

	Originally Posted by Bardas To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	So is "ironical" a legitimate use of the word? Seems like "ironic" gets the job done, but I see the former usage a lot.

That's just how the hipsters say "ironic" now. They are running out of deck options.

04-09-2012, 10:51 AM	#178
Distance Core Member [409%] MBTI: eNTj Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 16,399	It's such a deviant spelling of supersede. Brings to mind colonial war games. 'I supercede you Finland, for Vladivostok and three barrels of smoked pork.'
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04-09-2012, 11:01 AM	#180
plotthickens Core Member [660%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 26,417	Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. It is gramatically correct. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
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04-11-2012, 11:00 AM	#185
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04-11-2012, 01:18 PM	#186
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04-11-2012, 01:34 PM	#189
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04-11-2012, 03:20 PM	#195
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Cooper Core Member [1334%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 53,387	^ "crying thing"
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Bardas Member [25%] MBTI: intj Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 1,012	So is "ironical" a legitimate use of the word? Seems like "ironic" gets the job done, but I see the former usage a lot.
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