Ok, I guess you posted this because the word "competition" is misspelled (took a while to find it). Can we please stop with these? The topic here is grammar and punctuation. Typos and misspellings are so boring. Please start a separate thread.

I hope you found more than just a misspelling of competition.

Meh… that was literally kind of boring.

No, I didn't. But I stopped looking after I saw the misspelling. Did I miss some egregious grammatical error?

Oh, I see now that "dating" was misspelled too.

OK but I don't feel I can start a thread on OOT. Someone else can tho.

start a blog

It'd be a top 20% thread in present-day BBV4L, so there is always that!

I think you are leveling.

That combination of complete ineptitude and utter goofiness made me smile.

Just don't read the ones you find boring.

Or don't waste time saying they're boring.

So, please, clue me in. What is the error in that post? I see three misspellings.

And, btw, how do you suggest I not read the ones I find boring? It isn't until I've read them that I see they are just another typo posting.

He should have said "don't comment on them." That is good advice. Perhaps people will stop posting them if they are universally ignored.

How do you smuggle a vagina?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...ml?cps=gravity

What does that have to do with this thread?

"DUTCH MILITARY PLANE CARRYING BODIES FROM MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT 17 CRASH LANDS IN EINDHOVEN"

(Sorry for the caps)

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/dutch...ands-eindhoven

That is a pretty bad one, specially coming from AP.

Lol I finally figured out what was wrong with this after searching for a story about a crash landing and finding nothing in the news.

Here's something quite the opposite of the usual posts: the best uses of punctuation ever. (And a pleasure to read.)
http://www.vulture.com/2014/01/best-...kens-levi.html

Thanks for that link! Very interesting.

I'm sitting at the car wash right now. I look up and see a sign that reads:
"Open 8:AM to 6: PM"

I like that

See Wordsmith's riposte: http://stancarey.wordpress.com/2014/...s-word-crimes/

Stan is a liberal who wants everything and everyone to be equal. Ain't gonna happen, my friend.

That might be the worst article I ever read

Oh my I did not agree with that article at all.

"...it’s a hotchpotch of ill-informed prescriptivism, a mean-spirited rant about trivial linguistic errors, non-errors, and non-standard usages traditionally decried by hobbyist peevers."

Where I grew up, it is "hodgepodge". Maybe this is an acceptable alternative? Either way, seems like slang. Off to a rocky start imo.

"For example. Could care less isn’t wrong – it’s an idiomatic variant. ... Less for fewer isn’t wrong. Non-literal literally isn’t either (and has been used even in classic literature for literally centuries)."

I don't want to live in a world where "could care less" is accepted, when it all started as a sarcastic comment in The Breakfast Club. He is just wrong about "literally" too.

This article just makes me sad. Defending bad grammar--not a noble pursuit.

your a moran.

maybe you're a greater authority on the english language than thackeray, bronte, dickens, twain, joyce, and nabokov, but more likely you're just a narrow-minded prescriptivist, and a provincial one, at that. ["hotchpotch: noun, british 1. variant of hodgepodge."]