I love you all, but Ohana is NOT an Irish Pub!

[Dreamfinder2]

The Attack of the Grammar Police!

Does anyone know when to use "who", "whose", and "who's"?

Or, do you know where dead people are buried? (Hint: it's not a cemetary.)

 

[Eeyore2003]

My dear sweet MIL used to always talk about "Ofrah". That wouldn't actually drive me nuts, but . The ones I use are "puter", (without quotes) since I'm a puter nerd, I type it allot (which is another one of my spell checker disasters), I never get allot or alot right. THEN I also do "cuz", just for ease in typing, probably cuz I use it allot/alot.

Becky

 

[Teresa Pitman]

I've seen "voila" written in so many weird ways - as "wallah" and "bwalla" and "vwa-la" and many other ways. Sometimes it has taken me ages to figure out what the heck the word is supposed to be. It's "voila." It's actually a French word. Not to be confused with viola, which is a musical instrument.

Teresa

 

[Sammie]

Add your and you're, loose and lose. It's amazing how many people use those incorrectly as well.

This is the one that give me the whillies, web sight,

 

[MareQ]

My dear sweet MIL used to always talk about "Ofrah".
Becky

ROFLMGDAO - I have a family member that says Pettridge Farms, Tubberware and uses the word PACIFIC in place of SPECIFIC.... Well to be more PACIFIC.... Sorry but I'd rather you were more Atlantic....

 

[Christine]

Thank you OP!!

I've seen a few people that have been to "Jinko"? I mean how can you get Jinko from Jiko. Oh, and it wasn't a typo. I've seen this quite a few times.

I brought up the "prolly" thing a few months ago on the community board. It was driving me crazy. I had people tell me that it was a "southern" thing and that they actually said it that way.

 

[Tam1067]

Neat - another thread that makes fun of people who can't spell. I bet none of the people who type dinning instead of dining or desert instead of dessert have learning disabilities that make written communication difficult for them. I bet none of them have been humiliated in school and have had to get up courage just to post to a written communication board. If you know what the person is trying to say why can't you just be tolerant of their short comings?

I teach English at a college, and this thread really illustrates what I try to stress to my students: we are all judged by how we write. It's too bad that lots of my students don't believe me when I tell them that getting the right to/too/two or your/you're IS a big deal to a lot of people. That's just how life is--just as we're judged based on our appearance or other factors that certainly do not show if we're nice, caring, good people or not.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Neat - another thread that makes fun of people who can't spell. I bet none of the people who type dinning instead of dining or desert instead of dessert have learning disabilities that make written communication difficult for them. I bet none of them have been humiliated in school and have had to get up courage just to post to a written communication board. If you know what the person is trying to say why can't you just be tolerant of their short comings?

The issues here don't appear to be related to people who can't spell (an example of that issue would be spelling misspelling mispelling) but of not knowing or worse, not caring to get one's message across clearly. "Whose going two loose alot of you're O'Hana's dinning plans over their on the Disney busses?" (did I get everything?)

Or, do you know where dead people are buried? (Hint: it's not a cemetary.)

In the ground? Okay, fine - in a cemetery. Hey, even the misspelled version is better than the more common response to "A plane crashes on the US/Canadian border; where are the survivors buried?"

 

[Bamabear]

I love coming to this site, y'all make me laugh.

 

[sleepydog25]

It's one thing to make a mistake, but to make a mistake when trying to be superior....If you consult your dictionary single "s" or "ss" are both acceptable(exceptable!) forms (as in big yellow). Busses,bussed, bussing, are just as correct as buses, bused and busing. I will confess that I stumbled across(acrossed!) this information when a note came home from school offering "bussing". So... don't be in such a hurry to make fun of someone, because it can backfire!

Not trying to be superior at all, or I would have taken a much sterner tone (such as one can do online, anyway). I actually found this thread to be one of good humor, a bit of levity thrown into an often too serious world. No one person or particular group of people is being singled out; no one is claiming to be a paragon of totally correct grammar or spelling; and people can laugh at my foibles and mistakes as much as they want and I won't mind as long as it's not mean-spirited.

As for buss, bussing, and busses, you are, indeed, correct. . .and I actually knew those secondary meanings, too. But, I'm old school, and as such tend to give the greatest credence to the most common form of usage. It's a function of age and Mrs Rogers, my college enunciation, diction, and walking dictionary/thesaurus professor. So, for the record, I say short-LYE-ved not short-LIV-ed and for'ead vice forehead. Flame away and I shall still be thy humble servant. . .

 

[fan_of_small_world]

This thread really made me laugh!

Has anyone read Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss? I never thought a book devoted to punctuation and grammer could be so funny!

 

[pperfectmom]

I love reading this thread. I am a southerner and am constantly bothered by the use of ideal instead of idea, physical instead of fiscal and where instead of were. Admittedly, my own mother does this . I have always been annoyed by people who can't spell basic words and I think computers have made it even worse in our society because there(not their or they're) is so much over-reliance on spell check. Granted, I am definately not perfect and do not mind anyone pointing out my errors. I will laugh along with you . My tolerance has grown tremendously after marrying a man with dyslexia who cannot spell at all. I know that he is not stupid, by any stretch of the imagination, but I pray the kiddos inherited my spelling and grammatical skills!

 

[pperfectmom]

BTW, I have never said "prolly" in my life, nor have I ever heard anyone else say it. It must not be a Kentucky thing.

 

[shellybaxter]

I teach English at a college, and this thread really illustrates what I try to stress to my students: we are all judged by how we write. It's too bad that lots of my students don't believe me when I tell them that getting the right to/too/two or your/you're IS a big deal to a lot of people. That's just how life is--just as we're judged based on our appearance or other factors that certainly do not show if we're nice, caring, good people or not.

If I were taking a college English course or writing as part of my job I would agree that I should get my written and writen correct. However, people who come here to the DIS didn't sign up for a college English course. They simply want to talk about something they enjoy and do so in the best way they know how. My learning disabilities are mild and I've overcome them to a great extent. It is still hurtful when I see people making fun of something that I've struggled with so much in my life.

Judging and making fun of people is wrong, whether the person judging can point to the rules of grammar to back up their position or not. It causes hurt feelings and makes people angry. We've seen some extreme consequences of judging in the school shootings that have occurred across our country. I simply think it’s easier to keep our judgments to ourselves and accept people the way they are. Especially in a forum that is obviously designed entertainment.

 

[Aisling]

If you know what the person is trying to say why can't you just be tolerant of their short comings?

I don't feel that the OP was judging anyone, making fun of anyone, or being superior.

I think it was a simple correction of a mistake a lot of people make. It isn't a spelling mistake. When people hear something starting with an O (like 'Ohaha, O'hare, O'Connor), they very often assume has the Irish punctuation. 'Ohana doesn't have an Irish punctuation, it has a Hawaiian one. Wouldn't you rather be correct than incorrect?

I remember a long time ago a pen pal visiting from Canada kept pronouncing Brooklyn as Brookline. I felt embarrassed correcting her, as stupid as that sounds, so I didn't. Until someone else did, and she said why I let her go around saying the wrond word all this time. She was hurt that I didn't correct her from the beginning.

By the way, I've been saying Mara, but I've recently found out it's The Mara.

 

[cdrn1]

I've seen "voila" written in so many weird ways - as "wallah" and "bwalla" and "vwa-la" and many other ways. Sometimes it has taken me ages to figure out what the heck the word is supposed to be. It's "voila." It's actually a French word. Not to be confused with viola, which is a musical instrument.

Teresa

An ad for our local supermarket listed "Chicken Viola" as one of the sale items for the week. DD and I still call it that. Our favorite is the Teriyaki.

 

[joll43]

I don't feel that the OP was judging anyone, making fun of anyone, or being superior.

I think it was a simple correction of a mistake a lot of people make. It isn't a spelling mistake. When people hear something starting with an O (like 'Ohaha, O'hare, O'Connor), they very often assume has the Irish punctuation. 'Ohana doesn't have an Irish punctuation, it has a Hawaiian one. Wouldn't you rather be correct than incorrect?

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Thank you - exactly! Now that most people communicate daily by typing, their spelling, punctuation and grammar skills are on display for the world to see. For the most part, fortunately or unfortunately, people type the way they speak - 'Ohana is a NAME; why change it?

Of course there are people with all kinds of learning disabilities; this isn't about that. This isn't about being superior or even knowing how to spell. I think it's worth noting that thousands of people can visit a place like...oh I don't know....'Ohana, for instance, see the sign, read about it, take pictures there, and still call it by whatever name is comfortable in their mouths.

yeesh.

 

[joll43]

Actually, you know what? Screw it, here we go:

It's "definitely" - not "definately" -
it's "would have" - not "would of" -

It's "Kali River Rapids" - not "Kali River Rabbits"

I actually just read that one a couple days ago.

 

[m4travel]

Or, do you know where dead people are buried? (Hint: it's not a cemetary.)

It used to be called a 'graveyard,' but I believe 'memorial park' is now considered more politically correct.

 

[MJMcBride]

you mean 'Ohana is not an irish pub? damn! Next thing you'll say is the Animal Kingdom is not a zoo.