On Tuesday 23 August 2005 21:17, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 22:10, James Knott wrote:
Quite so. It's amazing the number of people, who don't know the difference between you're and your. Another prime example of ignorance is "irregardless". The word is "regardless".
Or irrespective, depending on what you want to say
My pet peeve is "would of" or "should of". It looks so ugly it just gets on my nerves
I think it's because very large portions of the last few generations just weren't taught any basic grammar. For reasons I can't fathom, teaching children basic parsing and correct construction seems to be seen somehow as an act of oppression that will strangle their creative urges, rather than as giving them the sharpest tools to express those urges to best advantage. Bit sad to lose track of the use of English (for native speakers, at least) among people using computers, who ought to be well aware of the need for precision and syntactical correctness from their command line experience. I'm sure the reason 'would of' and 'should of' upset you so much is because those two really do show that the writer can't tell a verb from a preposition and are thus much more badly lost than those merely baffled by the few simple rules surrounding the use of the apostrophe. Best Fergus