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Posted: 8/28/2004 3:07:42 PM EDT
I have noticed here and at my work (corrections) that a lot of younger and 'some' older poeple are sadly deficient in proper use of "than" and "then" in their sentences.
I would read a report or a post here at arfcom where the person will write (example)" I would like to know THAN, what is the best product for my money" OR ANOTHER EXAMPLE...this product is better THEN this other product... why are people so confused as to which word to use?? I know these words can sound alike but correct spelling of two completely different meaning words is just plane stupid. what errors have you noticed in your everyday life that is an example of the dumbing down of america?  
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Posted: 8/28/2004 3:08:53 PM EDT
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Well, I noticed that one! 
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Posted: 8/28/2004 3:09:19 PM EDT
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Prolly just a brain frat
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Posted: 8/28/2004 3:11:49 PM EDT
[#3]
I really don't care. English have sum of the worsed rules to learned.
MT |
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Posted: 8/28/2004 3:13:02 PM EDT
[#4]
JUST WHAT WE NEED,
another grammer grammer natzi |
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Posted: 8/28/2004 3:13:25 PM EDT
[#5]
Yep, prolly.  Semper Fi |
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Posted: 8/28/2004 3:16:46 PM EDT
[#6]
I noticed you didn't have a comma between your open quote and the close parentheses. You also didn't capitalize the "W" in the word "why" at the beginning of your sentence. You missed a period. You have an extra question mark at the end of one of your sentences. You didn't capitalize another "W." |
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Posted: 8/28/2004 3:41:15 PM EDT
[#7]
And how about America?
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Posted: 8/28/2004 3:46:21 PM EDT
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what errors have you noticed in your everyday life that is an example of the dumbing down of america?
what errors have you noticed in your everyday life that are an example of the dumbing down of america? sorry, i'm just being an ass. i could fucking care less how you or any other of america's gazillion self-proclaimed intellectuals write, speak or otherwise mutilate the king's engrish!!! jk, man! jk! |
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Posted: 8/28/2004 4:01:41 PM EDT
[#9]
It's the QUEEN's English at the moment, buddy!
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Posted: 8/28/2004 4:04:50 PM EDT
[#10]
pardon me!
i have commited a fox paw! |
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Posted: 8/28/2004 4:06:38 PM EDT
[#11]
English is simply the result of Norman men at arms trying to get laid by Saxon bar maids. Taken in that light, it's kind'a hard to get too worked up about it.
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Posted: 8/28/2004 4:23:21 PM EDT
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I seem to be bucking the trend here, but the missuse of THEN and THAN that I see often here really bugs me too. I'm sorry but it seems so obviously wrong. THEN refers to time, THAN involves a comparison. How can you ignore that!
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Posted: 8/28/2004 4:27:12 PM EDT
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Dam man tlk bout som fuked ^ shtz ya here?
I be finnin the dy i kan b lake u iz |
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Posted: 8/28/2004 4:34:06 PM EDT
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[lmao] Hell, yeah, you have! But you're forgiven for being so clever! |
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Posted: 8/28/2004 5:00:08 PM EDT
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By far the most common mistake is the misuse of the apostrophe. Hands Down!
I see it EVERYWHERE. Hamburger's $2.50 AR-15's rock! Chevy's rule! Blahhhhhhhhhh...... 
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Posted: 8/29/2004 1:41:06 PM EDT
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Well, I am either a dumb ass with all of my gramatical errors contained within my original post, or I intentionally placed them there to see if my fellow arfcomers would catch it.
GOOD WORK! 
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Posted: 8/29/2004 1:42:16 PM EDT
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Say what man me not speaking english, and then and then. Me be da bomb man, they spin they spin
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Posted: 8/29/2004 1:45:18 PM EDT
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Dont even get me started.
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Posted: 8/29/2004 2:28:41 PM EDT
[#19]
Your post. America is spelled with a capital A, as well as the bolded red. |
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Posted: 8/29/2004 4:06:51 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/29/2004 4:36:13 PM EDT
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Does it irritate you guy when I do this...between my sentences...(or what I can sentences...not what an Engrish Teacher would consider a sentence)...
...MT...Pockets 
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Posted: 8/29/2004 4:48:33 PM EDT
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[cliffclavin]ehhhh....it's a little known fact that that's actually pronounced fox pass, ehh, just like, ehh, King Louie the 33rd said it back in Paris there, hey?[/cliffclavin] |
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Posted: 8/29/2004 4:49:39 PM EDT
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It's "for all intents and purposes" not "for all intensive purposes".
"It's going to its den" not "its going to it's den" "I need to have lunch too" not "I need too have lunch to" "James' car sucks" not "James car suck's" or "Jame's car sucks" "You're going to poke your eye out with that" not "your going to poke you're eye out with that" If you spell like this: "Yo! sup!!!11 r u up to play online? cool! Cya!" I won't even read it. I was home-schooled. It prepared me well to be a spelling and grammar nazi. I don't even have to use spel cheker. |
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Posted: 8/29/2004 4:49:40 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/29/2004 4:55:35 PM EDT
[#25]
It is the psychopoliticians trying to gain control over us!
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Posted: 8/29/2004 4:58:57 PM EDT
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I've got my party member's book, too - I am #6 7/8! 
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Posted: 8/29/2004 4:59:10 PM EDT
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your worried about then and than when people are let loose in publik saying yo, yo, yo and you know what I'm sayin after every sentance fragment?
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Posted: 8/29/2004 5:06:03 PM EDT
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Check this out. More dumbing down of today's kids. Why can't they put something intelligent and mind-stimulating on the back of boxes, rather than mind-numbing stupidity like this?
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Posted: 8/29/2004 5:21:13 PM EDT
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Because mind-numbing stupidity sells, yo. 
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Posted: 8/29/2004 5:57:08 PM EDT
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If you hadn't gone and done the Revolutionary War thing, you would all be speaking the Queen's English flawlessly right now. You Americans never think anything thru !
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