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

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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

mackereloffact we had that recently in our local paper. The headline was "homeless woman find £60 for stealing £1 biscuits" or something like that. It was clear it was a mistake and should have been fined but the pile on was a bit

Frit to death is said a lot around these parts.

I would say it.

I definitely make errors in both written and spoken grammar. I also notice other people's errors. I find it rude and petty when adults correct other adults.

Irony bypass here snowflake
Mea culpa.
Feeling a right eejit now.Sorry.

I love frit and tret (they're used a lot where I grew up).

They may not be 'standard' English but they're both perfectly acceptable.

Jjou if the communication/understanding is there what's the problem?

Saussure wouldn't have a problem with that, if you see 'Chester draws' advertised for sale what image comes to mind? For most the picture in their head is a probably wooden piece of furniture with sliding shelves, not a man named Chester in his undies.

Letter shapes, word formation, even grammar rules are arbitrary, it's a communally agreed code. Or else how would we know both A and a - very different shapes, can both be used to start the sequence of shapes that we agree represent the apple.

Where it gets really interesting is when you start getting into Chomskian linguistic psychology - like the way natives of cold countries have numerous different words for snow, or the British over use of the word sorry...

The prolonged and heated family row over "you've got another think coming" v "you've got another thing coming still boils over from time to time. May I mention another bugbear: Que for cue

Had a job application from an individual who wanted to apply for the roll of secratary. One of her strenthgs was great attention to deatil.

A graduate emailed me 'for all intensive porpoises'

I'm very wary of it all. I'm a bit of a pendant

I have a friend who says "neutral friend" for "mutual friend"

She is lovely, sweet and funny but I can't handle that

Mild in comparison to some of this though.

Only "should of" gets my goat.

Is it goat? Or some other animal? Stoat?

I defiantly can't wait to see other people's responses!

"Frit" and "tret" are dialect, rather than errors, Eminem

My favourite was from a penfriend, who wrote "Spelling is not my fortay".

Spudlet Wed 08-Mar-17 09:19:06

Autocorrect is the spawn of Satan if you ask me. Sneaky little fekker is always changing things at the last second!

This!
It took me three rectification messages to change "contract" to "contrary" yesterday.

Literally dying of laughter at these examples - especially "wallah".
I don't "judge" posters for the occasional slip or typo (as I'm getting older I've noticed that there is often a slip between the brain and the keyboard) but I do notice.... and so will potential employers.

PS For the avoidance of doubt, I do know that if I were "literally dying" I should have sent for an ambulance rather than wasted my final minutes typing this post.

I am adverse to all this!!

Gotta rush, I'm late for my antinatal appointment

Luv it!

I heard a Mum at my DS's school call Norovirus 'Neurovirus' it made my eye twitch

I now really want an intensive porpoise.....

Please stop with alot. It's a lot.

I'm a particular fan of malapropisms which my lovely aunt seems to be an expert in

Saussure wouldn't have a problem with that, if you see 'Chester draws' advertised for sale what image comes to mind? For most the picture in their head is a probably wooden piece of furniture with sliding shelves, not a man named Chester in his undies.

Saussure might have had a problem if he was searching for something on eBay.

Vocal cords not "vocal chords"

Mixing up:
stationery/stationary
practice/practise
its/it's
lose/loose

Incorrect use of "literally", e.g. "I literally died laughing". (You did? When is your funeral?)

"Struggling" is suddenly a really popular word, but actually it isn't the only way of saying someone is having difficulties, finding life hard etc. and it certainly shouldn't be applied to inanimate objects. The light does not "struggle" to be bright enough for your room, and the boiler does not "struggle" to heat the water properly. They are not aware they are supposed to perform better and do not "struggle" to do so.

Using sh when it should be s. Shtruggle, shtrictly, shtudent.

Tomasz Schafernaker saying Acklantic instead of Atlantic.

"Saussure might have had a problem if he was searching for something on eBay." That's what wildcards on searches are for! Gets you good bargains

We had plans drawn up for a new house. The master bedroom had an 'on sweet' bathroom.