Spelling 101

555BCTurbo · Post by **555BCTurbo** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:26 am

Ok...I see a constant spelling error on here that just drives me nuts.

The plural of Legacy is not Legacy's...

Legacy's is possessive, for example:

"The Legacy's wheels were really dirty."

If you are referring to more than one Legacy, it would be Legacys. As in:

"There were thirteen Legacys at the show."

Apostrophes are for use in 2 instances:

1) Contractions

2) Possessive conditions

asc_up · Post by **asc_up** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:33 am

and to add to this...

the word "your" is possessive.
the contraction "you're" means "you are"

their=possessive
they're=they are
there=a place

use them right....please lol

ciper · Post by **ciper** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:10 am

You don't change the spelling of a name. For example if five people had the name Gary you don't say "My school had five Garies."

SemperGuard · Post by **SemperGuard** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:21 am

Numbnuts. Legacy is a proper noun. You don't change the spelling of a proper noun.

With the amount of grammatical errors you made in your post, there is really no reason for you to complain about what others type. Don't try and pick apart this post, because I don't care if what I'm typing is grammatically correct or not.

douglas vincent · Post by **douglas vincent** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:48 am

Where is Laurel?

legasee · Post by **legasee** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:12 am

Yeah, it drive's me nuts when i C stupid speeling eroors like taht!!1

entirelyturbo · Post by **entirelyturbo** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:53 am

No offense, but it's really not that big of a deal, at least not to me.

And it should be to me, because I'll soon be graduating with an English major.

AWD_addict · Post by **AWD_addict** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:23 am

subyluvr2212 wrote:No offense, but it's really not that big of a deal, at least not to me.

And it should be to me, because I'll soon be graduating with an English major.

Are you going to be an English teacher? Because you will need to be fitted with a high horse with that sort of reasonable attitude.

thehookeup · Post by **thehookeup** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:25 am

subyluvr2212 wrote:No offense, but it's really not that big of a deal, at least not to me.

And it should be to me, because I'll soon be graduating with an English major.

thank you. lol i see your point nick. but come on most of us are drunk when we post here lol. currently i am

tris91ricer · Post by **tris91ricer** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:31 am

Don't forget 'where'. People say 'were' all the time, too. Drives me batty!

Also, I believe it is correct usage of plural Legacy to use 'Legacys', since it is a proper noun (it's a formal name!), and 'legacies' refers to the original meaning of the word/existential thing 'legacy', therefore it is an 'object', fitted for the 'ies' as its suffix when not singular in description.

evolutionmovement · Post by **evolutionmovement** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:56 am

Brake - the friction device that converts kinetic energy into heat to stop your car.

"I need to bleed the BRAKEs. Where do I apply the leeches?"

Break - 1. Describing the act of damage to something or the end of a series. 2. An interruption of an activity, event, etc.

"Mr. Squiggly, my damn manager at McDonald's, made me work all day hitting those burger-imprinted keys on the register. I couldn't even take my fifteen-minute BREAK (2.) and it made me want to BREAK (1.) his nose."

it's - the contraction of "it has".

"She has a great body, but her face looks like IT'S been set on fire and someone tried to put it out with a brick."

its - possessive. (it's used to be the possessive, but nobody here is old enough to remember that time. My grandfather's grandfather wouldn't be old enough.)

"I touched ITS ass and now my hand smells."

too - in addition, also.

"If you have sex TOO often, the soreness you will develop will make you want to lay off her/him/it for a while."

two - the quantity between one and three.

"I only have TWO dollars, is that enough for a blow job?"

to - expressing a progression from one thing towards another.

"I am going TO the mall to pick up young sluts and the cheap consumer-item-of-the-month that marketing people tell me I need to feel good about myself."

Arctic Assassian · Post by **Arctic Assassian** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:31 am

^ HAHAHAHA. Tounge-in-cheek to the MAX!

SemperGuard · Post by **SemperGuard** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:54 am

HAHAAHAH. This is too great, he actually went back and corrected Legacies to Legacys. Way to be so decisive and rude with your first post, and just be wrong. Classic 555 right there, no pun.

Imprezive · Post by **Imprezive** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:02 am

Well, I guess I don't need to take any more English classes.

Subtle · Post by **Subtle** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:53 pm

As the saying goes "To error is human"

juice91si · Post by **juice91si** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:45 am

Anyone read "Eats, Shoots and leaves"?

OP is a stickler.

555BCTurbo · Post by **555BCTurbo** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:55 am

SemperGuard wrote:HAHAAHAH. This is too great, he actually went back and corrected Legacies to Legacys. Way to be so decisive and rude with your first post, and just be wrong. Classic 555 right there, no pun.

I don't really think that my initial post was rude...I never called anybody names or singled anyone out or anything...

And yes, I was wrong with the proper noun tense thing...but I am still right about Legacy's not being the correct plural tense of the word, which is my original premise.

I made a mistake and was called on it and subsequently corrected it...

Next time you make some kind of little error I will sure to jump all over you like stink on a skunk.

SemperGuard · Post by **SemperGuard** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:03 am

You jump all over crap all the time to many people, including myself. So it wont be anything new.

Whether you single one person out, call someone a name, or whatever, you're still going out of your way to start a big hurrah about grammar. However, yours isn't all that great. I know my grammar isn't perfect either, but I'm not trying to make a stink about it.

I know I make mistakes, and I know others make mistakes. So I don't come out like "Hey you guys are dumb, and this is why.", anymore. I've matured a little bit, obviously not enough to stay out of arguments like this, but hopefully one day I will be mature enough.

Don't give me some crap about me being elitist. I'm just saying that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

And I think I'm done

SubaruNation · Post by **SubaruNation** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:29 pm

it's not that big of a deal.
we're not writing research papers here...

and +1 to evolution's response, that was funny.

206er · Post by **206er** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:17 pm

evolutionmovement wrote:Brake - the friction device that converts kinetic energy into heat to stop your car.

"I need to bleed the BRAKEs. Where do I apply the leeches?"

Break - 1. Describing the act of damage to something or the end of a series. 2. An interruption of an activity, event, etc.

"Mr. Squiggly, my damn manager at McDonald's, made me work all day hitting those burger-imprinted keys on the register. I couldn't even take my fifteen-minute BREAK (2.) and it made me want to BREAK (1.) his nose."

it's - the contraction of "it has".

"She has a great body, but her face looks like IT'S been set on fire and someone tried to put it out with a brick."

its - possessive. (it's used to be the possessive, but nobody here is old enough to remember that time. My grandfather's grandfather wouldn't be old enough.)

"I touched ITS ass and now my hand smells."

too - in addition, also.

"If you have sex TOO often, the soreness you will develop will make you want to lay off her/him/it for a while."

two - the quantity between one and three.

"I only have TWO dollars, is that enough for a blow job?"

to - expressing a progression from one thing towards another.

"I am going TO the mall to pick up young sluts and the cheap consumer-item-of-the-month that marketing people tell me I need to feel good about myself."

you should do standup...

555BCTurbo · Post by **555BCTurbo** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:07 pm

SubaruNation wrote:

and +1 to evolution's response, that was funny.

Agreed...that gave me a good laugh

NICO · Post by **NICO** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:03 am

funny post lol, i seen the topic and siad shit might as well post one cuz we all love how i spell.

anyways what did ever happen to Laurel??

entirelyturbo · Post by **entirelyturbo** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:07 am

SemperGuard wrote:I'm just saying that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

They can't ever get naked either!

Nico, Laurel is a long story.

My true feelings on the matter are as follows: If the post is horribly worded or all one sentence or paragraph... I don't read it. If the poster didn't take the time to make it into something coherent, then I regard it as babbling and it's not important enough for me to worry about it. That's why you never see me correcting anyone's grammar or spelling.

206er · Post by **206er** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:31 am

I can pretty much interpret any babbling without issue. french canadians, europeans or otherwise. I know for damn sure that I wouldn't be able to type the one foreign language I know(espanol) as good as most foreigners type english, so it's a non issue. but it's a non issue from the outset.
laurel has one of those C4 corvettes now(as of a few years ago) and is too cool for school. There's more, but I'm not really qualified to talk about any of it.

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