Advice!!!!!!!!

[Mouse House Mama]

Advice Advice Advice! Not ADVISE!
Sorry I had to get that out. It makes me nuts to keep reading that over and over again.
Back to your regularly scheduled Dis.

 

[wenrob]

Can I add lose to that? Lose and loose are two different words and are NOT interchangeable. You lose weight, you lose your keys, you lose your mind. Your pants are loose, your tooth is loose, not lose. Unless of course you've lost them.

Thanks for that, I feel better.

 

[illuminationsfanatic]

Advice Advice Advice! Not ADVISE!
Sorry I had to get that out. It makes me nuts to keep reading that over and over again.
Back to your regularly scheduled Dis.

Glad to know I'm not the only one who goes crazy reading that!!

 

[Mouse House Mama]

Oh I am with you on the whole lose loose thing. I am far from the grammar police but come on! Oh- and if I read about one more parent who called or wrote a letter to the "Principle" I am going to scream!

 

[Scurvy]

Thank you. That's been bothering me also.

While we're on the subject, it's moot point, not "mute point". Seriously, there's no such thing as a "mute point".

Also, it's "doesn't", not "does'nt". The apostrophe goes where the missing letter should be, not between the two words.

 

[quasar4legs]

Thanks for the advise

 

[kimblebee]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Would've, could've should've. Would of makes no sense.

OOHHHH and another new one. It's voila. Not wah-la.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Hope you're all wearing your flame suits!! I could easily be wrong, but somewhere in this thread, posters might jump in telling you/us "nobody's perfect", "stop picking on people", "maybe they don't know any better" (isn't this a perfect learning opportunity?), and "people have learning disabilities and CAN'T use the right word/form/properly-placed punctuation...

May I add the ubiquitous their (possessive pronoun) / there / they're (noun/verb contraction of they + are); and your (possessive) / you're (noun/verb contraction); and two (number) / too / to ("I'm too sleepy to research the distinctive parts of speech that differentiate these two words from each other").

While I'm at it, 'between' and 'among'. Between is used when comparing or discussing two items, persons, issues, etc. Among is the proper term when comparing three or more persons, items, etc.

And heck, why stop now ? There's a difference between 'less' and 'fewer'. Less is used when the difference is indeterminate: "Less than a million gallons of oil spewed out of the hole in the Gulf of Mexico in the last five minutes"; fewer is used when the number is known: "Express Lane: 12 items or fewer" (and yes, most supermarket/box store express lane signs are WRONG )

 

[Otimon]

Great thread. Makes me cringe to hear, "I seen him yesterday...." instead of "I saw him yesterday....".

Is proper grammar not taught in the schools anymore?

 

[kaytieeldr]

Oh, grammar is taught; the question is, is it learned? But seriously - the people who are making these mistakes graduated from high school five, ten, twenty, or more years ago.

For those who claim, "Some people just can't spell (or spelling isn't important)", well, when you end up using an entirely different word - yes, it matters. When you end up using a word that just plain doesn't exist - wah-la - yes, it matters. When the misspelled or misused word changes the context of what you intended to say - yes, it matters.

 

[Sparx]

What about complement and compliment? I see that one on restaurant menues all the time!

 

[Northstar]

Advice Advice Advice! Not ADVISE!
Sorry I had to get that out. It makes me nuts to keep reading that over and over again.
Back to your regularly scheduled Dis.

Okay, OP. But be prepared to deal with the consequences of your partial explanation:

"Please advice me what to do about this matter...."

(And if you correct them at that point... or someone else does... they'll be saying "But Mouse House Mama told me 'advise' is wrong.")

 

[shortbun]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Would've, could've should've. Would of makes no sense.

OOHHHH and another new one. It's voila. Not wah-la.

Ahhh, yes but 'would have' makes sense!!! Voila!!

 

[shortbun]

Okay, OP. But be prepared to deal with the consequences of your partial explanation:

"Please advice me what to do about this matter...."

(And if you correct them at that point... or someone else does... they'll be saying "But Mouse House Mama told me 'advise' is wrong.")

Yeah, 'advise' is a verb and describes an action as in 'advise me about the way to handle this problem', where 'advice' is a noun, the subject of the phrase or a thing as in ' his advice about investing was wrong so I won't allow him to advise me any longer.' Wooooohahaaaaaaa!

 

[kimblebee]

Ahhh, yes but 'would have' makes sense!!! Voila!!

Maybe it's too early, but I don't get what you are trying to say. Would've is a contraction for would have so of course it makes sense. Unless you are making a joke, in which case I am blonde so I apologize for not getting it

 

[shortbun]

How about this one: Where's he at? Where did you leave it at? Where did you stop at?
Where are you at? Leave off the 'at' people, the sentence stands without it, it's redundant and you've dropped a preposition at the end of a sentence- this is a no-no!!!

 

[shortbun]

Maybe it's too early, but I don't get what you are trying to say. Would've is a contraction for would have so of course it makes sense. Unless you are making a joke, in which case I am blonde so I apologize for not getting it

No, you're right(or should I say your right, lol?). Some folks don't know that would've is a contraction, they think the phrase is 'would of' as indicated by a previous poster.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

Okay, OP. But be prepared to deal with the consequences of your partial explanation:

"Please advice me what to do about this matter...."

(And if you correct them at that point... or someone else does... they'll be saying "But Mouse House Mama told me 'advise' is wrong.")

Sadly you are so right!

 

[Luvchefmic]

Thank you. That's been bothering me also.

While we're on the subject, it's moot point, not "mute point". Seriously, there's no such thing as a "mute point".Also, it's "doesn't", not "does'nt". The apostrophe goes where the missing letter should be, not between the two words.

Sure there is... I point the remote at the tv to channel surf & have it on mute at the time

 

[chicagodisneyfan]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Would've, could've should've. Would of makes no sense.

OOHHHH and another new one. It's voila. Not wah-la.

That makes me crazy too! And there have been many spellings of voila here -
vollah, wahhla, wahlah, etc.

Advise/Advice makes me cringe when I see it used incorrectly.