It's "could have been", not "could of been"

By old Harry, I ain't had this much fun since I was watchin' Jimmy's face as Maggie tried to explain how she stove up the Chrysluh!

RelocatedPatFan said:

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.

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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.

Wax Frog said:

For all intensive purposes, it's the helmut that makes a dominate player

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That one drives me nuts!

Ross12 said:

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.

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Speaking of literally.

New rule: you can't use literally in a sentence with a number.

Eg. Tom Brady literally threw 50 tds one season.

Well, he did throw 50 tds.

New rule: just don't use literally for anything. Just stop, literally.

Joker said:

jeezus k. rist...I take a day off and this damned place turns into Marshall Faulk's Nucular War Of Werds....

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Them's fightin werds!

I aint got no Marshall and the only Faulk that's been around these parts is Kevin. Unless you meant to say Faulk Goodell?

I knew you shouldn't of went their.

Hey mods, could we move this thread to the ****ty part of the forum that deals with boring non-football stuff. Reading English teachers with an axe to grind posts gives me a headache...

cscirpoli said:

Reading English teachers with an axe to grind posts gives me a headache...

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beats math teachers with an axis to find...

Joker said:

beats math teachers with an axis to find...

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Or divorced guys with an ex to mind.......

Let's pair this down a little, per say. I mean, you could of posted other examples to. It doesn't really effect me, but some people could really work on there grammar's.

nabwong said:

Their, their. They're no reason to get upset with there engrish

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Nab!!! What took you so wong?

The pre training camp doldrums have arrived early this year..

For all "intensive purposes" this thread has shyt the bed.. I did hear that the "punctuation police" got a search warrant for Patsfans.com.

Joker said:

beats math teachers with an axis to find...

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Best post of 2015!

Prolly: Probably.......

raduray said:

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.

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I defiantly agree.

Wheelman said:

That one drives me nuts!

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"Begs the question" is my current pet peeve.

Anteros said:

I defiantly agree.

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My #1 grammar pet peeve. People are trying to say they feel absolute about something, but are actually saying they defy something...

I think this one is actually a product of the generation of autocorrect. Kids don't know how to spell "definitely", they attempt to spell it and type "definatly", and their autocorrect feature switches it to "defiantly" and they say "oh, so that's how you spell it", not realizing that it's a completely different word.

I defiantly hate 12 year olds with iPhones.

Wax Frog said:

Nab!!! What took you so wong?

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Its all gonna be ok.

vyrago said:

"Begs the question" is my current pet peeve.

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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.

YOUGOTMOSSED said:

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.

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Interesting. I've never used it and probably never heard it used correctly.