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• brains

  (Not that it's happening so much tonight, but for future reference, if someone makes this mistake, please direct them to this thread.)

  Use there when referring to a place, whether concrete ("over there by the building") or more abstract ("it must be difficult to live there").

  * There is an antique store on Camden Avenue.
  * The calculus books are over there on the floor.

  # Use their to indicate possession. It is a possessive adjective and indicates that a particular noun belongs to them.

  * My friends have lost their tickets.
  * Their things were strewn about the office haphazardly.

  # Remember that they're is a contraction of the words they and are. It can never be used as a modifier, only as a subject (who or what does the action) and verb (the action itself).

  * Hurry up! They're closing the mall at 6 tonight!
  * I'm glad that they're so nice to new students here.

  Aug 13, 08, 11:33 p.m. – Permalink

• PonyBoy

  They're are times in my life when their are folks who think there all that and have to correct me to suit THEIR snootiness.

  • so THEY'RE!!!!– PonyBoy1/2

    :D– PonyBoy2/2

  

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  Dog-earAug 13, 08, 11:35 p.m. – Permalink

• JG_LB

  http://www.usnews.com/articles/b…

  

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  Dog-earAug 13, 08, 11:39 p.m. – Permalink

• MrOneHundred

  Grammatical errors annoy the balls off of me.

  • i see what you did their– 7point34

  

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  Dog-earAug 13, 08, 11:41 p.m. – Permalink

• PonyBoy

  this are our demands?

  

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  Dog-earAug 13, 08, 11:42 p.m. – Permalink

• airey

  on a forum, who give a fucj…

  • ME!– MrOneHundred

  

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  Dog-earAug 13, 08, 11:46 p.m. – Permalink

• JG_LB

  i can has grammar nazis?

  

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  Dog-earAug 13, 08, 11:47 p.m. – Permalink

• Invalid

  They're over there with their friends...

  

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  Dog-earAug 13, 08, 11:48 p.m. – Permalink

• _salisae_

  it's very simple. i learned it in second grade.

  • Ah, my obscure favourite,– MrOneHundred

  

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  Dog-earAug 13, 08, 11:48 p.m. – Permalink

• JG_LB

  

  • Not my sentiment, I just thought it was funny.– JG_LB1/3

    hooooooooOOOGGGAANN!– PonyBoy2/3

    the guy is wearing a monocle– _salisae_3/3

  

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  Dog-earAug 13, 08, 11:49 p.m. – Permalink

• _salisae_

  though, being a hyper and dyslexic child i remember looking a word up in the dictionary in that same 2nd grade class ... say the word is i don't know .. dyslexia

  i flipped to the d section of the dictionary then flipped to the y section then the s and then all the sudden i was like WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING?

  i was so embarrassed and no one was even paying attention to my circumstance.

  • i actually said fuck as well.– _salisae_

  

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  Dog-earAug 13, 08, 11:51 p.m. – Permalink

• acescence

  you know there are many ESL people here you insensitive bastard.

  • engrish as a second language– _salisae_1/2

    you'll have to excuse me i only know one language and i'm a bastard.– _salisae_2/2

  

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  Dog-earAug 13, 08, 11:55 p.m. – Permalink

• dog_opus

  Good God almighty, thank you, brains. Excepting non-native speakers and those with a learning disability, what the heck is up with the rest of you English-raping goofballs? It's laziness and, perhaps more importantly, an apathetic educational system that has fostered this colossal ignorance. We work in a communication-based profession, and it seems like a bunch of us don't even have mastery of our own language's basic grammar.

  Here are some of my favorite semi-literate gems:
  your (instead of you're)
  a whole 'nother
  beg (instead of raise) the question (begging the question is a logical fallacy)
  could (instead of couldn't) care less
  would/could/should/might/etc. of (instead of have)
  than/then
  loose (instead of lose)

  Grammatical nihilism.

  Vernacular and slang is one thing, but being utterly unaware of the fundamentals of ones language is quite another.

  • Oh, and pluralizing nouns with "'s" – another beauty.– dog_opus1/2

    http://www.apostroph…– acescence2/2

  

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  Dog-earAug 14, 08, 6:57 p.m. – Permalink

• Witt

  Pardon me if I missed any long before. I try buckets.

  

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  Dog-earAug 14, 08, 7:05 p.m. – Permalink

• Jaline

  brains, you should've added this to your wonderful profile over in the QBN Dating thread.

  • You're clever ;)– Witt1/2

    :P– Jaline2/2

  

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  Dog-earAug 14, 08, 7:24 p.m. – Permalink

• dskz

  u got it.

  

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  Dog-earAug 14, 08, 8:32 p.m. – Permalink