I can't take it anymore. Part 2 (sentence, quote)

[Retriever]

Originally Posted by KathrynAragon

OK - I may have mentioned this before but...

Mantel - the trim around a fireplace.

Mantle - a sort of cloak, an article of clothing.

I hate it when people wear their fireplace trim, or dress their fireplace in cloaks.

Similarly, I am irked by people who complain that their car "shutters" under certain circumstances.
I usually suggest that they check the car's siding, as well as its shutters.

[suzy_q2010]

I wouldn't really think twice about it if I seen someone wearing them.

[Dirt Grinder]

Originally Posted by KathrynAragon

Mantel - the trim around a fireplace.

Mantle - a sort of cloak, an article of clothing...

You know what happens when a word is overly misused - mantle is accepted as a variant spelling of mantel.

[SandHills]

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.... Sew mani peaple git urked ovir misspellings asswell.
.... Those pesky spelling checkers get easily confused sometimes.
.... For those never seeing this yet...

.... Eye halve a spelling chequer
..... It came with my pea sea
..... It plainly marques four my revue
..... Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

..... Eye strike a key and type a word
..... And weight four it two say
..... Weather eye am wrong oar write
..... It shows me strait a weigh.

..... As soon as a mist ache is maid
..... It nose bee fore two long
..... And eye can put the error rite
..... Its rare lea ever wrong.

..... Eye have run this poem threw it
..... I am shore your pleased two no
..... Its letter perfect awl the weigh
..... My chequer tolled me sew.

.... http://www.latech.edu/tech/liberal-a...ellchecker.htm

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[shyguylh]

I'm glad to have found this thread.

I couldn't possibly read all the posts, so mine may have already been covered.

Am I the only one getting tired of the misusage of it's vs its, and your vs you're? It's spreading in other ways, too, I see things like "I love my dog's"--your dog's WHAT, exactly? Or they say "We're going to look at some house's."

It's considered bad form, I don't know why that's the case, but regardless I sometimes actually correct these things when I see them, even on people's own posts on their own page. I especially hate it when people say things like "it doesn't matter, you know what they're saying." I'm sorry, but I think getting such things correct DOES matter, it's called having an education and using it and not appearing ignorant or slothful. Heck, I use proper writing even in my text messages, right down to not skipping punctuation and capitalizing the first word of a sentence and the like.

[Retriever]

"I was out of town and ate at Quiznos since years now."

[Nicci6Squirrels]

planned parenthood doesn't do abortions clinics do and doctors...... they do the pills and condums.... before the babies come about really people your getting paranoined.

[Nicci6Squirrels]

This question was asked:

without going school you can graduate?

And this answer was given:

They went to school. They where homeschooled.


This poster also has something to add to the conversation:

What's wrong with home schooling... Thats known for producing really knowledgable inteligent student.. Its one on one education.

[Dirt Grinder]

"I'm shocked many people don't know when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor."

[SandHills]

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.... Why, 1917 of course. Everyone knows that!

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.... This one just melts my mind:

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.... "she loives with her dad who has had several girlfriends. my daughter gotten her cell phone that she can makr NO calls from only get on internet with to play games and fb. Supposely she has developed quit the attutitude."

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