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Topspinmo 06-16-2025 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2432491)
My pet peeve linguistically is in TOTV when people use the word "loose" when it should be "lose". This could be because they temporarily have a "loose" screw in their head that they need to "lose". Lose means to fail to win or fail to find something. Loose is adjective meaning than something is not tight or free from restraint. Example - the dog got loose. One interesting example is the former military command "loose arrows". Some people in TOTV land may just keep their finger on the letter O so long that it becomes OO in the word LOOSE when they really mean LOSE (and they fail to proofread). But, I think that many people must believe that LOOSE is correct in all situations. I wonder ?

You lose me which makes me lost.

CFrance 06-16-2025 09:34 AM
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Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 2432276)
It's only proper if you're from Pittsburgh... :clap2:
'n at. Jeet yet?

CFrance 06-16-2025 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Pugchief (Post 2432107)
That's because couldn't is correct in this use.

I could care less means that there is less that you could care, whereas I couldn't care less is the superlative, meaning there is no less than you could care.

You're welcome. :jester:
"I could care less" is now an accepted form of sarcasm meaning the same as "I couldn't care less."

Aces4 06-16-2025 11:40 AM
There is no end to the obliteration of the English language. How about the annoying vetran, vetranarian, litrally, integerty, shtrong, shtraight, and annivershary to list a few anomalies. Then there are the newscasters starting a story with a couple they or a woman she or the policeman he.
Also, me and he are going away, him and me have a date tonight and this type of language is cutting across all levels of society. Listening to the English language now is often cringeworthy but them are the way it goes.

CoachKandSportsguy 06-16-2025 08:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Driller703 (Post 2432258)
I thought for a minute you were going to say irregardless!
irregardless has been added as a word, if i remember correctly. Words can be added to the dictionary over time. How do you think all those high tech words are now found in the dictionary?

A high school acquaintance mailed a new word request and it was added to one of the dictionaries, though the word was a derogatory use of someone's last name. .

fdpaq0580 06-17-2025 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by alwann (Post 2432079)
OLD JOKE.
"Where's it at?"'
"Don't be stupid. It's wrong to end a sentence with a preposition."
"OK then, where's it at, as---ole?"
"Preposition"? Isn't that hemorrhoid medication?

fdpaq0580 06-17-2025 10:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Pugchief (Post 2431931)
LOL, that has to be at the far bottom of the list of egregious spelling and grammar faux pas encountered on TOTV daily.
Fox paws?

fdpaq0580 06-17-2025 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2432324)
Maybe it should be - the 1st consecutive 2 items out of 20 ?
Zackly! 😃

fdpaq0580 06-17-2025 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by CFrance (Post 2439443)
"I could care less" is now an accepted form of sarcasm meaning the same as "I couldn't care less."
Not "accepted", "EXCEPTED". Just trina hep.

fdpaq0580 06-17-2025 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by tophcfa (Post 2432083)
Regardless, is it really important? I prefer substance over form.
Substance is not attractive if it isn't nicely formed. Just sayin' that both are important. 😉

Whatnext 06-17-2025 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by CFrance (Post 2439443)
"I could care less" is now an accepted form of sarcasm meaning the same as "I couldn't care less."
But it doesn't, does it?

fdpaq0580 06-17-2025 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Topspinmo (Post 2439432)
You lose me which makes me lost.
Are you sure you're not loost?
Or, should that be loosed?
Oh, hail! 🤔

Flyers999 06-18-2025 10:54 AM
Just reading all of the posts in this thread is making my blood boil.

Don't you hate it when ignorant people try to pass themselfs off as intellectuals?

CFrance 06-18-2025 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Whatnext (Post 2439685)
But it doesn't, does it?
It depends on how you choose to interpret it.

fdpaq0580 06-18-2025 09:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Flyers999 (Post 2439834)
Just reading all of the posts in this thread is making my blood boil.

Don't you hate it when ignorant people try to pass themselfs off as intellectuals?
Ya! Specially when they interups me right in the middle of my intelectualizing with frens. Know what I mean?

fdpaq0580 06-18-2025 09:54 PM
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Originally Posted by CFrance (Post 2439838)
It depends on how you choose to interpret it.
Literally?

Whatnext 06-19-2025 02:26 AM
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Originally Posted by CFrance (Post 2439838)
It depends on how you choose to interpret it.
Clarification is important if you 'could care less.' By what % could could you care less?
'Couldn't care less' is 100%

fdpaq0580 06-19-2025 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Whatnext (Post 2439899)
Clarification is important if you 'could care less.' By what % could could you care less?
'Couldn't care less' is 100%
Iffen you says so. Sounds 'bout rite tou me. 🤠

Topspinmo 06-19-2025 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Risuli (Post 2432094)
I'll add my pet peeve. "Two in a row." Two can only be consecutive. It takes three to make a row.

But, not when rows are inline. There can be 1 row or two or more rows lined up. :ho:

fdpaq0580 06-19-2025 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Topspinmo (Post 2440069)
But, not when rows are inline. There can be 1 row or two or more rows lined up. :ho:
If the Sargeant yell "lineup in a row,men" , and there is only you and Beetle, what do you do? Side by side? Front and back? Diagonal? Or tell the sarge he's a dumb mo#&@$#/@%er?
All I know is I will be 1st in line.

Topspinmo 06-19-2025 09:18 PM
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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2440077)
If the Sargeant yell "lineup in a row,men" , and there is only you and Beetle, what do you do? Side by side? Front and back? Diagonal? Or tell the sarge he's a dumb mo#&@$#/@%er?
All I know is I will be 1st in line.
Can’t yell that, I out rank him….:eclipsee_gold_cup:

ElDiabloJoe 06-20-2025 07:33 AM
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Originally Posted by alwann (Post 2431883)
Where my grammar book at?
:coolsmiley: I see what you did there.

Flyers999 06-21-2025 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by dougawhite (Post 2432295)
"She enjoys cooking her family and her dog"

"She enjoys cooking, her family, and her dog"
Now you've done it. That's the verboten Oxford comma you just used. Even Oxford doesn't use it anymore, sometimes. The Associated Press style—the standard style for journalism—does not use the Oxford comma. You won’t find it in most newspapers or in magazines anymore.

Even Oxford leaves out the Oxford comma sometimes | University Marketing Communications

(The Oxford comma, also known as the serial comma, is a comma placed immediately before the coordinating conjunction (usually "and," "or," or "nor") in a list of three or more items. )

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