It's should have and would have not should of and would of

[pippinleaf]

That's all.

YANBU.
But I would say that, because I am a total pedant.
I also hate things like 'Columbia tower block' when it's a 'Columbian tower block' (currently on the BBC news website). It makes me wince.

However... I learned to be bilingual as a child, as a survival mechanism, with the posh stuff for home and broad local for playing out. My children persecute me for me for sounding like a yokel when I say 'cow'.

I don't speak proper,either.

I'd like to ask about something I keep reading on here...

"On an evening"

"On a morning"

Surely it's OF an evening? Not ON! Am I wrong?

That's probably a regional thing MrsW.

I hope we can still tolerate those?

But but these threads come up time and time again and people still do it.

You'll never stop it and all it does is piss usual people off.

Ahh....I have finally found kindred spirits

My MIL uses 'your' instead of 'you're' and 'could of' etc all the time...gaah!

However, definitely the worst I have ever seen was 'chester draws'. [fnar, fnar]

Just recently I've seen someone who proclaims to have qualifications beyond a mere degree, using the phrase "up most" on here.

I don't mind if people don't use perfect spag, I'm sure I'm guilty of plenty of errors myself.

I don't like text speak, I don't like using the wrong word entirely (have seen a few examples of "been" instead of "being"), I HATE rogue apostophe's and have to sit on my hands over those. But sit on my hands I do because this is not published material that has gone past an editor, we just have fallible humans making mistakes on here.

But really, is that the most important thing?

It's not the most important thing. But it is pretty important, because it devalues whatever you are trying to say. And it's so easy to avoid.

Ah, usual, round here it's, 'Oi don't talk proper, neither.'

Mintyy but I'm regional! I live in the North West! I say "Oop' stairs" and everything! I still don't say "On a night"

Dreadful isn't it?

Like all those uneducated oiks insisting on beginning sentences with "and" and "but" when surely, everyone knows how infra dig that is?

Then, of course, there's the missing commas in conditional clauses, and commas where there shouldn't be one?

Off you pop lovelies, see which of you has made the most basic mistakes this time.

Toodle-pip, until the next time.

PS PrettyPictures, it's the object form of "who". The obsolete dative case that still exists in some languages.

Drank is cleverer than everyone.

Nobody has answered poor,pretty and her question about whom.

Think of it like the difference between I and me.

Who did it? I did it.
You gave it to whom? You gave it to me.

There is more but that is basically it

It is very important. It matters. I always correct my class and my own children. It's not clever to be bad at grammar.

Much more cleverer.

YANBU to think it matters.

YABU to make a big and public deal of it somewhere where correct English doesn't matter (i.e. on forums which aren't about writing correctly).

My personal pet hate is when people spell "definitely" as "defiantly". On a writing forum I'll point it out. Somewhere like here? Not so much.

I enjoy language. I speak lots of them so when I see a mistake like should of, what I immediately feel is that the person is missing out, because they don't understand why it's wrong, ie they don't have the back-story.

Then I hand myself a grip and remember that not everyone shares my pleasures and ppl are kind and understanding about the fact that I am totally clueless about sport

I type as I speak.. I don't speak with an RP accent.

I couldn't give a flying fuck how anyone types on here.

Am loving rogue apostrophe's. I'm assuming it's ironic.

On an evening and of an evening sound wrong. Why not in the evening?

You're assuming its ironic?

Madinthecountry yes,..."In the evening" sounds much nicer.

I say your instead of you're all the fucking time on here, because it comes in first in my predictive text and it's quick, and I am y'know CHATTING.

beast that's awesome. Thankfully if you iz clueless about sport nobody writes you off as a thicko

Why is it patronising? Why is a person who uses proper grammar a pedant? It is only a forum, and of course we all make mistakes and have overexcitable iPads, so it doesn't really matter, but it is very distracting. And sometimes incomprehensible.