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Offline rivka

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« on: December 05, 2007, 05:54:03 PM »
Earlier today, in an email from a supposedly educated professional, a whole slew of plurals-with-unnecessary-apostrophes.

ack!


And it's often NOT "and I." Sometimes it's "and me."  >.<


Feel free to add recent (or not so) incidents of your own.
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« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2007, 06:02:31 PM »
"Educated" doesn't really mean "excellent speller" or anything. But I do feel your pain. There's a thread on Hatrack right now with an incorrect "and I" in the title that made me mentally yell "and ME!"
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« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2007, 06:42:30 PM »
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There's a thread on Hatrack right now with an incorrect "and I" in the title that made me mentally yell "and ME!"
From Niki and you?
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« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2007, 06:49:48 PM »
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"Educated" doesn't really mean "excellent speller" or anything.
Well, that's hardly the only example of why I put "educated" in quotes regarding that particular individual. ;)

But you're right; my very well-educated and extremely intelligent father kills kittens regularly. :D

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But I do feel your pain. There's a thread on Hatrack right now with an incorrect "and I" in the title that made me mentally yell "and ME!"
You don't say?  :innocent:  
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« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2007, 10:02:19 PM »
Toe the line.

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« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2007, 06:03:12 AM »
That one always makes me laugh. I always wonder where, exactly, are they going to tow the line to? It kind of makes the phrase mean the opposite of what they meant.

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« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2007, 07:20:15 AM »
Exactly!

Another similarly confounding mis-cliche is "baited breath" (are we hunting wabbits?)
 
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« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2007, 07:54:09 AM »
My department director sent out an e-mail yesterday referring to our upcoming Christmas party as a "chin-dig." :huh:  
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« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2007, 08:00:56 AM »
That sounds painful.

Is Reese Witherspoon invited?
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« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2007, 08:10:01 AM »
:lol:  
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