6 Aug
2003
6 Aug
'03
11:02 a.m.
The lastest ones are "have gotten" and "enthused", which have become
commonplace in our English.
May Edwin Neumann have mercy on our fractured words.
Gary Hildebrand
St. Joseph, MO
My pet peeve is the use of "I've got..",
"You've got...", "They've got..",
etc.
-----Original Message-----
From: James Sissel [mailto:James.Sissel@labone.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:19 AM
To: kclug(a)kclug.org
Subject: RE: Work In KC Area?
My pet peeve is people who don't know the difference between your and
you're.
-----Original Message-----
From: Monty J. Harder [mailto:lists@kc.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 8:42 PM
To: kclug(a)kclug.org
Subject: Re: Work In KC Area?
"Steven Elling" <ellings(a)kcnet.com> wrote:
I wish I would of known that before I went to
DeVRY. I would of just
went
to Goodland VoTech and saved a bunch of money in tuition and living
expenses. Plus, I would of been better off.
I suggest that a bit broader education, which includes some English to
go
along with the technical classes, would _have_ served you better yet.
You used the word 'of' four times above, and three of (heh) them should be
'have':
'would have known'
'would have just gone' (not 'went')
'would have been'
There. I'm the freaking Grammar Nazi. 
6 Aug
6 Aug
12:35 p.m.
New subject: OT: RE: Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area?
> My pet peeve is people who don't know the
difference between your and
> you're.
Mine is "utilize" and all its forms. What is wrong with "use"? Every
time
I see this, I think of some marketing type trying desperately to upgrade
his/her sixth-grade writing skills to a full seventh. Nothing that crosses
my desk for review gets by with it. --Patrick :-)
12:58 p.m.
New subject: OT: RE: Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area?
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Patrick Rigney wrote:
Mine is Architected. It always makes me think of someone bludgeoning
people by swinging an architect around by his/her ankles...
Peter Wallace
> My pet
peeve is people who don't know the difference between your and
> you're.
Mine is "utilize" and all its forms. What is wrong with "use"?
Every time
I see this, I think of some marketing type trying desperately to upgrade
his/her sixth-grade writing skills to a full seventh. Nothing that crosses
my desk for review gets by with it. --Patrick :-)
7 Aug
7 Aug
6:15 p.m.
New subject: OT: RE: Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area?
You owe me a new laptop. 8-)
Peace... Sridhar
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Patrick Rigney wrote:
Mine is
Architected. It always makes me think of someone bludgeoning
people by swinging an architect around by his/her ankles...
ROFL! So, you've invented a new weapon... the architrebuchet? ;-) 
6 Aug
6 Aug
1:31 p.m.
New subject: OT: RE: Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area?
> My pet peeve is people who don't know the
difference between your and
> you're.
Mine is "utilize" and all its forms. What is wrong
with "use"? Every time
2:39 p.m.
New subject: OT: RE: Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area?
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Fred Cisin wrote:
Mine is Architected. It always makes me think of
someone bludgeoning
"dialog" as a verb "you need to dialog that among yourselves"
Ouch, that's painful...
Peter Wallace
> My pet
peeve is people who don't know the difference between your and
> you're.
Mine is "utilize" and all its forms. What is wrong
with "use"? Every time 
7 Aug
7 Aug
8:51 a.m.
New subject: OT: RE: Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area?
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Fred Cisin wrote:
Mine is Architected. It always makes me think of
someone bludgeoning
"dialog" as a verb "you need to dialog that among yourselves"
When I was young I could never understand "party" as a verb. Now that I'm
older I completely understand it.
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> My pet
peeve is people who don't know the difference between your and
> you're.
Mine is "utilize" and all its forms. What is wrong
with "use"? Every time 
6 Aug
6 Aug
2:50 p.m.
New subject: OT: RE: Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area?
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Patrick Rigney wrote:
Mine is Architected. It always makes me think of someone bludgeoning
people by swinging an architect around by his/her ankles...
Peter Wallace
The idea has a certain charm, though, in that it might well do as
much damage to the architect as to the people ;>
- don
> My
pet peeve is people who don't know the difference between your and
> you're.
Mine is "utilize" and all its forms. What is wrong with "use"?
Every time
I see this, I think of some marketing type trying desperately to upgrade
his/her sixth-grade writing skills to a full seventh. Nothing that crosses
my desk for review gets by with it. --Patrick :-)
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