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Spelling 101

Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:26 am
by 555BCTurbo
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


:D

Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:33 am
by asc_up
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

Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:10 am
by ciper
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."

Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:21 am
by SemperGuard
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.

Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:48 am
by douglas vincent
Where is Laurel? :(

Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:12 am
by legasee
Yeah, it drive's me nuts when i C stupid speeling eroors like taht!!1


:lol:

Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:53 am
by entirelyturbo
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.

Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:23 am
by AWD_addict
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. :P

Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:25 am
by thehookeup
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

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:31 am
by tris91ricer
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.

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:56 am
by evolutionmovement
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."

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:31 am
by Arctic Assassian
^ HAHAHAHA. Tounge-in-cheek to the MAX!

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:54 am
by SemperGuard
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.

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:02 am
by Imprezive
Well, I guess I don't need to take any more English classes.

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:53 pm
by Subtle
As the saying goes "To error is human" :roll: :roll:

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:45 am
by juice91si
Anyone read "Eats, Shoots and leaves"?

OP is a stickler. :-D

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:55 am
by 555BCTurbo
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. :roll:

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:03 am
by SemperGuard
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

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:29 pm
by SubaruNation
it's not that big of a deal.
we're not writing research papers here...


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

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:17 pm
by 206er
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... :lol:

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:07 pm
by 555BCTurbo
SubaruNation wrote:

and +1 to evolution's response, that was funny.
Agreed...that gave me a good laugh

Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:03 am
by NICO
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??

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:07 am
by entirelyturbo
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.

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:31 am
by 206er
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.