Completely off topic here. The grammar choices I hate: --When people say "an historic" instead of "a historic." --When people pronounce February as Feb-ru-ary instead of Feb-u-ary. What are the grammar choices that get on your nerves?
I suppose I could come up with some pet peeves but my all time favorite turn of phrase was Howard Cossell on Monday Night Football uttering a complaint about someone (I don't remember who) as a "ubiquitous redundancy."
I don't have a problem with the February thing...either way is OK. In terms of grammar, punctuation and spelling is concerned, my entire experience on message boards is offensive. Coming from a HR background, I find most posts deplorable. Oh well, oh shit. Is what it is. Kids today lack a lot of the basic training we had. I continue to work on my kids to fill in the blanks.
well of course it works both ways but when you are trying to describe how much you dont care about something, saying "i could care less" denotes that there are things you care less about, thereby rendering the idea that you "dont care" about said subject as incorrect by logical comparison. "your mom is going to die" "i care about that more than anything in this world, so clearly, i could care less about other things" "so you hate your mom?" "youre an idiot"
"Common, what are you talking about?!" "It's a mute point." "Irregardless, you're wrong!" "I could of done it better!" Anything that ballerkingn said.
Both of my examples work both ways too. I think that Feb-ru-ary is actually the preferred pronunciation in most style guides -- it just pisses me off for reasons I can't explain. I've found that people who say "an historic" are not to be trusted.
Either or either? How do you say it? I used to think it my duty to insist on the germanic rule of ei sounding like "i". But I've mellowed and since decided to go with the flow. Personally, I don't trust people who use wry smilies ;-) Except when I do.
Sometimes it comes across as very affected behavior when you insist on using proper grammar. The effect is lost on those who could care less.
You have hit on one of the all-time greats. Many pronounce them as if they're homonyms. Both words can be used as either a verb or a noun. I would not blame those who learned English as a second language to ask WTF with regard to these two words. Most folks I've seen simply ignore affect and instead use effect indiscriminately.
You can effect a change. A change can affect things. New starting SG has the desired effect. The old SG's quality of play effected his current situation. Though Rip's injuries have affected our current SG situation.
Was just talking to a friend about "irregardless" the other night. One thing I do that bugs people is pronounce "theater" as "thee-ay-ter" instead of "thee-uh-ter" or even more casual "thee-ter". I never thought it was weird but I actually made an effort to say it the other way and I feel pretentious. Though perhaps saying it the way I do say it makes me sound like a moron.
