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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Lol I make that joke all the time. "It was literally in the last place I looked." Well I would hope so genius, I would be pretty disappointed in you if you had continued to search for an item you'd already found.It's always the last place you look for it.
Why, do you keep looking for the item once you've found it. Perhaps it's the last place you would have thought of looking.
For all intensive purposes, it's the helmut that makes a dominate player
Lol I make that joke all the time. "It was literally in the last place I looked." Well I would hope so genius, I would be pretty disappointed in you if you had continued to search for an item you'd already found.
People either don't get it, or they do, and then subsequently punch me.
The punching is usually by my wife.
Them's fightin werds!jeezus k. rist...I take a day off and this damned place turns into Marshall Faulk's Nucular War Of Werds....
Reading English teachers with an axe to grind posts gives me a headache...
beats math teachers with an axis to find...
Their, their. They're no reason to get upset with there engrish
Best post of 2015!beats math teachers with an axis to find...
Hate to come across as a prig, but this erroneous construction keeps cropping up and it's driving me nuts. So, in the spirit of contributing to societal improvement, and given the doldrums between the Deflategate appeal hearing and the start of training camp, this might be a good time to implore all to consider this for your future posts.
"Could have ...", not "could of ..."
"Should have ...", not "should of ..."
"Might have ...", not "might of ..."
Etc.
Thank you for your consideration.
"Begs the question" is my current pet peeve.That one drives me nuts!
My #1 grammar pet peeve. People are trying to say they feel absolute about something, but are actually saying they defy something...I defiantly agree.
Nab!!! What took you so wong?
"Begs the question" is my current pet peeve.
Hear, hear! The misuse of "begs the question" is so commonplace it's apparently become acceptable to use it to mean "raises the question." If you properly use the phrase "begs the question" (meaning circular reasoning), chances are you're only going to confuse someone.