Honestly, to all intensive purposes you will thank me for this one day

[MutePoint]

I'm in no position to join the grammar police but some MNetters might be grateful to learn that

all intensive purposes should actually be: all intents and purposes

per say should be: per se

mute point should be: moot point

In saying that ..

Your been a bit mean pointing out all this spellling and grammer stuff. Its to difficult to rember it all, innit?

BakeOff - but the people making the mistakes won't be frequenting Pedants' Corner and nor do I. My OP wasn't meant to be sneery (I make lots of grammatical errors) but the 3 mistakes I listed are easily rectified if you are made aware of them.

I'll have to tell hubby, his going to die nowing his made mistakes like this.

"Easily recifiied if you are made aware of them"

You really don't have a clue do you?!

None of these mistakes phase me. Que loads of posters flaming me for saying that. Well they can get to the back of the que.

Wallah instead of voila??? That one hasn't actually happened has it? Love it. I think I will start using it.

I am guilty of getting bear and bare confused though.

ect, ect...

I should of listened to this advice and brought myself a grammer book.

Teeth are itching.

Infuriates me.

I love that these little mistakes wind other people up too! I thought it was just me being a bit sad.

The "could of" type mistake was used that frequently by people I know that I had to ask my mum if they were right and I was wrong.

Pacific, Chester draws, on route, they all annoy me too.

Anyway just carry on mocking people, I'm hiding the thread.

"Mind due", you're being a bit mean...!!

MutePoint- the people making errors won't be frequenting PC and neither will the people who start these threads on a weekly basis. No sneering and hee-hawing at other people allowed, you see.

BakeOff- no they don't.

the 3 mistakes I listed are easily rectified if you are made aware of them.

Sometimes it isn't us, it's the autocorrect, which is a cybersociopath in my opinion.

On route should be en route.

There is a poster on here who says mabey. And it's one of her favourite words so she says it A LOT.

How can you get maybe wrong? It's two words put together - "may" and "be" and it means the same as those two words. Drives me completely fucking batshit.

I'm defiantly with you OP.

They should of knew better.

This thread has impotent advise for all.

There is another thread running similar to this for you all to show how clever you are.

Without further a due is the one that always annoys me

But really, I can't get too worked up about all this, even though on my own terms I'm a pedant, we do have to accept dyslexia as in Bake Offs case which can be fucking crippling, and no amount of snooty threads on MN will make a difference to it.

A lot of the other mistakes mentioned up thread are also just colloquialisms, or a sign of poor education - neither should be sneered at.

#lightheartednessfail #butthereisaseriouspointhere

Incorrect grammar on an internet forum? I'm too tierd to care

Appauled at this knit picking.

You are all being a bit clicky. You are a grammer click.

BakeOff - sorry, should have clarified. I meant easily rectified by people who don't have dyslexia or learning difficulties. So if you've only heard per se in the spoken form, then how are you to know it's not written as per say?

PP mentioned "damp squid" - it was only by DH correcting me a few years ago that I realised I'd been saying it wrong all my life!

Ha! Only just registered the OP's username.

Serious point-
In some ways I think it's more important that people use a word (such as moot) verbally, even if they spell it incorrectly in paper, as it keeps the sense of the meaning alive in our language.
Isn't it better to be a society that knows what moot, voila, definite etc mean, than lose those senses completely?