Comments on: English Language HateRant http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=18 simplify Wed, 31 Oct 2018 04:08:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: matt http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=18&cpage=1#comment-43 matt Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:59:10 +0000 http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=18#comment-43 @KYouell: Yeah, I see 'breathe' vs. 'breath' all the time online. Like "I had to stop and catch my breathe!". Simple spelling errors don't seem to bug me quite as much as word variations. For example: your and you're, or their, there, and they're. Even so, I just recently caught a long standing error in the title of one of my posts where I'd typed "you're" instead of "your". I think most of my ire is directed at misguided attempts to "fix" the language or to enforce rules which are arbitrary or weren't even valid rules to begin with. @KYouell: Yeah, I see ‘breathe’ vs. ‘breath’ all the time online. Like “I had to stop and catch my breathe!”. Simple spelling errors don’t seem to bug me quite as much as word variations. For example: your and you’re, or their, there, and they’re. Even so, I just recently caught a long standing error in the title of one of my posts where I’d typed “you’re” instead of “your”.

I think most of my ire is directed at misguided attempts to “fix” the language or to enforce rules which are arbitrary or weren’t even valid rules to begin with.

]]> By: KYouell http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=18&cpage=1#comment-42 KYouell Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:37:56 +0000 http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=18#comment-42 Don't forget "breath" when people really mean "breathe" and "clothe" when they really mean "cloth" -- so frustrating! Don’t forget “breath” when people really mean “breathe” and “clothe” when they really mean “cloth” — so frustrating!

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