Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 11:33, Steven W. Orr wrote:
And a pet peeve of mine is misuse of Latin in general, e.g., the biggest
of which are confusing i.e. and e.g., and mispronouncing etc (i.e., et
cetera) as ex cetera.
Hey, Steve! Good to read you again.
I thought this thread would die, but since it refuses I'll just *have* to pitch in. Generally spelling and grammar are going downhill fast... English is my second language and I still find that most of the "natives" speak/write/think in simply deplorable fashion. Examples:
Misuse of similar words: complimentary/complementary or affect/effect Language destruction: walla! (voilà!) and expresso (espresso)
"its" versus "it's". grrrr .....
rday
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Since this is now a permanent thread :-) can I add that I recently saw someone in a fairly intellectual discussion group persistently using "mean't".
Sadly, I expect that the posessive pronoun "it's" will soon be accepted practice ...
Regards, Peter Smith
