Bad grammar doesn't overly bother me. If I had to mark exams/essays and I had a barrage of mistakes throughout them I'd probably start to find it irritating but overall I'm not that fussed. I do agree with the article that people who constantly correct you are probably judging you and looking down on you. I think this can be harsh as receiving a good education as a child isn't always a given, plus some people really struggle in this area whereas they might shine in others. Having said that a wall of text with no paragraphs really tilts me so I just don't read it.

I am not sure why it bothers me, but I don't like to see the print or other media use "plane" instead of "aircraft."

Wrong thread.

I just read a comment from someone on facebook describing a hard drive that had gone "a-wall". Not only does this person not know that it's AWOL, it's being used incorrectly (unless I misunderstood, and the hard drive actually went missing rather than just breaking).

A-wall would annoy me.

I've been seeing aswell lately and that bothers me alot.

Nice

So, is "aswellas" next?

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Fix this sentence please:

"Nuts are reviewed by a team of food industry experts which analyzes shapes and determines if genetic modifying has occurred"

Should it be something like:

"Nuts are reviewed by a team of food industry experts who analyze shapes and determine if genetic modifying has occurred" ?

unsure if the "team" or "experts" is used to determine the which/who part of the sentence - using "experts/who" seems to sound better

"A team of food industry experts analyzes the shapes of nuts to determine if genetic modification has taken place."

It should be "which" rather than "that" if you go that direction, but the version with "who" seems definitely correct to me.

When referring to something like a team, it depends if we want to refer to them in a way that emphasizes the team as a single entity, or emphasizes the individuality of the members. So for instance we say "This basketball team is championship material". "Are" would sound strange there, because we're talking about the team as a unit. But usually when we talk about employees who act autonomously, we emphasize their individuality. For example, it's "Our team of friendly consultants are waiting to take your call", "is" would sound bizarre there. It's the same in your sentence, the analysis is actually done by individual members of the team, we don't really want to emphasize them acting as a single entity.

Also, some of the rest of the sentence is wrong or awkward, in particular "modifying" is wrong, "and" is the wrong conjunction because the analyzing shapes/determination is actually all the same thing, it's not obvious that the "shapes" are related to the nuts, "whether" would be better than "if". I'd go with:

Nuts are reviewed by a team of food industry experts, who analyze their shapes to determine whether genetic modification has occurred.

or:

Nuts are reviewed by a team of food industry experts, who analyze their shapes to determine whether they have been genetically modified.

or even (depending on context):

Nuts are reviewed by a team of food industry experts, who analyze their shapes to ensure they have not been genetically modified.

OOT Containment Thread, for people that post poorly. SMH at "that".



Killing me lately is people's constant misuse of compounds like "everyday" and "anyway" and so on.

"Running is an everyday thing I do." Fine.
"I run everyday." Ugh.

"I would've done it anyway." Good.
"Anyway you want it, that's the way you need it." No, thank you.

And it seems like it's only getting worse.

I'm also bothered by "awhile" and "a while" misuse.

Two things that I'm potentially wrong/over-nitty about.

Firstly, was reading a report talking about the use of 'different mediums' to communicate. Was under the impression that the plural of medium in that context is media. Some places on the internet say the latter is acceptable through common usage but I usually think that's a bull**** excuse.

Secondly, a friend described our joint work as 'Joe and I's', which feels morally abhorrent to me.

Agreed. The correct possessive form of I is mine, so: "Joe's and mine."

Thankyou for bringing this to our attention.

No, it is morally abhorrent.

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common usage is utter bull****, especially in instances like that. So many people say it wrong that we're changing the definition of English... ok.

Depending on how it is used in a sentence, it could be "my".

Correct, "mine" stands alone as a pronoun while "my" must have a noun to modify.

Agreed. I was assuming the first case.

I found this sign recently and thought that it might have a home in this thread.

A drawing of a one-eyed, beat-up, amputee mutt is not getting my butt on a barstool. What is going on there?

It was a shady looking dive type bar. Stand-alone building, dark windows, empty parking lot, and a drive through lane where you can pick up booze without having to go in. Other such drive through places exist in Ohio - I think it's legal as long as they don't give you an open container. You can drive up and order a 6 pack or a 40 if you want to.