So what he meant to say was: "In one of my earliest writing classes".

Or he's a teen valley girl.

I see what you did there.

If you're going to criticize someone in this thread, you'd better not write stuff like "was it you second." Hypocrisy is highlighted 'round these parts.

Making a typo in a pedant thread may be embarrassing but it is not hypocrisy.

Look it up if you don't know what it means.

Anyway, there is an Internet law about always making some kind of mistake if you are pointing out someone else's error. So I was just being a law abiding 'net citizen.

Some posts are completely pointless, as opposed to being just a little pointless.

When an OP starts a thread about punctuation and grammar then makes numerous grammar mistakes in his own posts it makes my "head" literally explode.

Saw this gem at the gym today:

In a thread with well over 1000 posts spanning over a year, I'm surprised no one has mentioned one that aggravates me: "can food" instead of "canned food."

The food in question has been preserved through a process known as canning; in other words, it has been canned. It is not food for cans or food made of cans.

whoever is in charge of updating websites suck when it comes to spelling...

People calling things "handicapped" like "handicapped parking". No, the parking spot is not handicapped, sir. Please just call it "handicap parking".

I had a loong, sh*tty 14 hour day today in which I flew from Houston to Little Rock, Arkansas, with a transfer in Dallas, followed by a 2.5 hour car drive through cold rain up sh*tty highway 67, featuring several poorly-labeled detours, in Northeast Arkansas to a town called Paragould, for 80 minutes of work, followed by the same thing in reverse all the way back home. I had 10 minutes for lunch to grab Hardee's (yay) drive-thru to eat on the drive back, and made the last flight out of Sh*ttle Rock with only 15 minutes to spare.

Sorry, I'm a bit cranky...they don't pay me well enough for such crap. But during my drive I was reminded why it's cool to be alive when I passed a gas station in some rinky-dink town called "Kum & Go".

"handicapped parking" is parking for the handicapped, and perfectly fine. also, in american usage, the period goes inside the quotation mark.

except when adding confusion.

But yeah, I tend to be a nit about the punctuation inside the marks.

It's parking for the handicapped.

A handicap is an abstract concept and cannot be parked.

So it's correct to call it "handicapped parking".

I think you mean "inside the quotation marks". You're not going to have much luck putting it inside one with any common font.

If you're going to start giving lessons, you really need to brush up on your capitalisation.

And in English English the full stop goes outside the quotation marks so you can't be correct for everyone.

You may be English but PHB is from Texas. He also makes numerous mistakes dispite his self-righteousness. I'm fine with every mistake of his being hammered.

By the way, I bought my hick brother and his girlfriend a joke book for Christmas. It turns out it's from Australia. Every five seconds I had to listen to, "zomg, they spell color with a 'u'" and "zomg, they spell realize with an 's'" and "they spell check 'cheque.'" It was pretty annoying.

They're in Texas, btw.

seriously, website = Web site. Two words and a capital "W."

So the sentences should have been

?
I'm not american, but that just looks wrong.

Dale, you really need to stop this nonsense. Are you going to bitch at people for writing email and online too? "No! It's E-mail and on-line!"

Guess what, dude -- we're not in the late '90s anymore.

Dictionary.com:

Wait, we're not in 1995 anymore?

lol. Also, I may be from Texas, but if you've ever interacted with me for 5 minutes, you would know that I'm wont to utilize The Queen's English.

Today driving through some small town in Southern Colorado, there was a billboard for a McDonald's, which I guess was also a truck stop type place. Anyway the sign said:

"Trucks"
"RV's"
"Campers"
"all welcome"

For some reason, they added an apostrophe to RV. Even though this is short for recreational vehicles, it should still read RVs, right?

right

this one made me go "wtf?"

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...postcount=1646

nuisance tearing it up, yet i'll sit silently because correcting people is lame

No, only when the quotes are for dialog (or maybe a few other cases). When used as above by prohornblower, the period inside the quote would be wrong.

FYP

oh, and +1.

Come here a minute.