Spelling and grammar matter

in you're brian it mattrs lulz grammer and speling on teh interwebz gud 1

Isn't posting on a web site such as this more like speaking than writing ?

Anyhow, IE 11 does have a spell checker now.

I installed the english version of Firefox and it spell checks on its own.

Matters*

"and grammar" is a prepositional phrase, so the verb only applies to the noun, "spelling". Therefore, it would be "Spelling and grammar matters."

Good day.

Last Edited by CrypticDreamer on 06/24/2015 11:28 AM

Agreed, OP! Always preview posts! And, while the "brian moran" bit is a tremendously funny insider joke, I still wonder what people stopping in here for the first time are thinking.

Of course, GM could set up an autocorrect so that anyone who wrote "brain" or "moron" would ALWAYS be posting with the GLP-approved spellings.

I'm amazed that there aren't more misunderstandings due to the bad spelling and lack of punctuation! Even though I have a good grasp of English, sometimes I have to read through something two or three times before being able to figure out where the commas, periods, quotation marks, etc. should have been and what a poster (probably) means.

It's like following a driving manual: the rules are there so we can all get along on the road, and it can get very messy when someone doesn't.


IMO, the all-time best book title is "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!" [link to www.amazon.com]

Last Edited by Little Penguin on 06/24/2015 11:40 AM

I can't recall ever having seen "and" described as a preposition. Pretty sure it's called a conjunction, which makes OP's subject plural, necessitating a plural predicate.

Hamfisted use of language does dilute the impact of a person's statements. Even if they're valid and insightful statements, I have to think "this dude is a gibbering idiot who somehow came up with a coherent thought (but was unable to express it in anything close to English). What's that saying about monkeys and typewriters . . . ?"

I hate getting into these discussions, but this one's sticking in my craw.

"Spelling and grammar" is a compound subject, so is treated as singular plural.*** For those of us who can no longer quote chapter and verse regarding correct usage, there's the "replacement" test. If you were to replace "spelling and grammar" with "they", you get "they matter", which is clearly correct (over "they matters," which gives me the willies just saying it.)

Your opinion ("it") matters.
On our team, Doug and Shelly ("they") matter.
All lives ("they") matter.
Joey's life ("it") matters.


<-------- because, as it's been pointed out, when you end any post with this, it's all good.



***Thanks, overgoverned!

Last Edited by Little Penguin on 06/24/2015 01:54 PM

OP go kick it to some homie who is sitting on a skyline and jam it up in that ass and set that bitch str8

Really? That's interesting. Is it treated as "singular?" That part of your post is confusing. I'm OP, I switched bars.

OMG OMG OMG

I'M NAKED!!!!


WOOOOOO HOOOOOOO

Its ok,OP, your just a grammartard. Dont exercise your brian, just go with the flow like all the other morans on hear.

Well, if we are nitpicking, punctuation goes inside the quotation marks.



Last Edited by Sleeping Giant on 06/24/2015 01:24 PM

Yes, we're aggressively picking at nits here. Aggressively and blindly. I'm looking so hard for a parenthesis and not finding any.

hahaha

They actually transformed into quotation marks

That happen's sometime's. People make mistake's sometime's, to. Little Penguin, for example, had a very good point, but dropped the ball and said "singular" when he or she meant to say "plural."

Wouldn't it be sweet if posters ran the "subject header" through spell check?

First impressions and all...

don't git two up set aboute spelling. the NSA has spel cheke.

Uh-huh, because of the compound thing. I wish that I could give a specific explanation, and I'm sure that there are some on here who can, but that "replacement" test will almost always answer any doubts.

Loyalty ("it") matters.
Loyalty and bravery ("they") matter.

See, this is why I don't like to get into this stuff. All I really have are examples; it would take me too much time to go digging around on grammar sites, looking for the correct explanation. Plus, you know GLP: "link or it didn't happen."

If I want to be a proper grammar nazi, I really need to find a good site to bookmark and study!

OMIGOSH, YES, "PLURAL"!!! DUH! And thanks!



Last Edited by Little Penguin on 06/24/2015 01:49 PM

I learn to spell on GLP.

Come on, ain't no bot gonna double-check its spelling and grammar.

The most annoying mistake (that I often make) is hitting "n" instead of the space bar on my iPad.

Brian Carsh Moran It was a geese!

Too many people don't seem to grasp the fact that bad spelling makes them look stupid. Period.