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could of
Posted by: Grammar Nazi ()
Date: April 28, 2010 04:27PM

Could HAVE

Does this drive anyone else crazy?

No matter how articulate the post, I just stop reading if I run across "could of".

http://www.couldof.com/

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Re: could of
Posted by: Johnny Walker ()
Date: April 28, 2010 04:28PM

Yes. Also "intensive purposes." How does that even make sense in your head?

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Re: could of
Posted by: General Lee ()
Date: April 28, 2010 05:43PM

Well when you say "Could've" it sounds just like you are saying "could of". I guess that's why some people write it that way.

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Re: could of
Posted by: UuNy9 ()
Date: April 28, 2010 05:49PM

"ATM Machine"

What, prey tell, is an Automatic Teller Machine Machine?

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Re: could of
Posted by: Jim Bob ()
Date: April 28, 2010 06:28PM

Or when people say, "7 AM in the morning"

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Re: could of
Posted by: 124C41 ()
Date: April 28, 2010 06:31PM

Most abused: its and it's

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Re: could of
Posted by: Conie ()
Date: April 28, 2010 06:43PM

Can this seguay (sp?) into the wrong use of words?

Ironic, by Alanis Morissette.
None of that shit is ironic.
That song pisses me off!

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Re: could of
Posted by: Conie ()
Date: April 28, 2010 07:04PM

124C41 Wrote:
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> Most abused: its and it's


More abused: whose and who's

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Re: could of
Posted by: Mr Captcha ()
Date: April 28, 2010 07:14PM

Conie Wrote:
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> 124C41 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Most abused: its and it's
>
>
> More abused: whose and who's

Mostest abused: There, their, they're

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Re: could of
Posted by: you're on your own ()
Date: April 28, 2010 07:16PM

Conie Wrote:
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> 124C41 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Most abused: its and it's
>
>
> More abused: whose and who's

on this board: your and you're

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Re: could of
Posted by: Conie ()
Date: April 28, 2010 07:19PM

Mr Captcha Wrote:
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> Conie Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > 124C41 Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Most abused: its and it's
> >
> >
> > More abused: whose and who's
>
> Mostest abused: There, their, they're

Yeah..I wood agree.

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Re: could of
Posted by: General Lee ()
Date: April 28, 2010 07:57PM

UuNy9 Wrote:
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> "ATM Machine"
>
> What, prey tell, is an Automatic Teller Machine
> Machine?



Same thing with VIN NUmber. What is a Vehicle Identification Number Number?

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Re: could of
Posted by: say ()
Date: April 28, 2010 08:02PM

I want to smack people that say they "changed out" some car part or another. For example: I "changed out" the water pump.

No asshole, you REPLACED the water pump.

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Re: could of
Posted by: Conie ()
Date: April 28, 2010 08:07PM

I don't know if this is a southern thing or what, but i hate when people
say UMbrella instead of unBRElla.

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Re: could of
Posted by: Harry Tuttle ()
Date: April 28, 2010 08:07PM

I can't believe that nobody has pointed out that this doesn't belong in Fairfax General by now.

General Lee Wrote:
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> UuNy9 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > "ATM Machine"
> >
> > What, prey tell, is an Automatic Teller Machine
> > Machine?
>
> Same thing with VIN NUmber. What is a Vehicle
> Identification Number Number?

You guys just don't understand...
Quote

You are sad." the Knight said in an anxious tone: "let me sing you a song to comfort you."

"Is it very long?" Alice asked, for she had heard a good deal of poetry that day.

"It's long." said the Knight, "but it's very, very beautiful. Everybody that hears me sing it -
either it brings tears to their eyes, or else -"

"Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause.

"Or else it doesn't, you know. The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes.'"

"Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to feel interested.

"No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little vexed. "That's what the name
is called. The name really is 'The Aged, Aged Man.'"

"Then I ought to have said 'That's what the song is called'?" Alice corrected herself.

"No you oughtn't: that's another thing. The song is called 'Ways and Means' but that's only
what it's called, you know!"

"Well, what is the song then?" said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.

"I was coming to that," the Knight said. "The song really is 'A-sitting On a Gate': and the
tune's my own invention."

So saying, he stopped his horse and let the reins fall on its neck: then slowly beating time
with one hand, and with a faint smile lighting up his gentle, foolish face, he began

Signatures are for fags

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Re: could of
Posted by: Voter___ ()
Date: April 28, 2010 08:11PM

Add 'I could care less...'

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Re: could of
Posted by: Conie ()
Date: April 28, 2010 08:12PM

Who's ultimately responsible to make that call?

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Re: could of
Posted by: Sweeney Todd ()
Date: April 28, 2010 08:54PM

Alot.
Definately
Their/they're/there misuse
To/too misuse

If I see anyone of those I pull the eject handle immediately. I figure the writer is too stupid to have anything intelligent to say.

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Re: could of
Posted by: Blackie ()
Date: April 28, 2010 09:36PM

Can I aks you jus one question?

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Re: could of
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: April 28, 2010 09:46PM

It's pronounced "could-a"

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Re: could of
Posted by: Knucklehead Mcspasmatron ()
Date: April 28, 2010 10:11PM

cleanliness is next to managerliness

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Re: could of
Posted by: newgatedenizen ()
Date: April 28, 2010 11:21PM

seems like there is an anti-wrong word sediment on this forum

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Re: could of
Posted by: graymoose1 ()
Date: April 28, 2010 11:48PM

I hate it when people start a sentence with "I mean" or responds with "I know,right?"

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W.W.S.D. what would Scooby Doo

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Re: could of
Posted by: hkHH7 ()
Date: April 29, 2010 02:11PM

UuNy9 Wrote:
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> "ATM Machine"
>
> What, prey tell, is an Automatic Teller Machine
> Machine?


Yes, PREY tell, indeed.

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Re: could of
Posted by: MrMephisto ()
Date: April 29, 2010 03:58PM

graymoose1 Wrote:
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> I hate it when people start a sentence with "I
> mean" or responds with "I know,right?"

I'm sayin'.

I also hate the word "bro." Bro-ham is fine, though. I mean, until I hear that way too much.

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13 4826 0948 82695 25847. Yes.

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Re: could of
Posted by: Conie ()
Date: April 29, 2010 04:25PM

How about when people start a comment with - "Not for nothin', but..."
I understand some of these "sayings" are specific to some areas. Like "I know, right?". I think that's a New York, New Jersey thing. And I say that sometimes.
It makes way more sense to me than "Not for nothin', but.." which I think is also
a northeast thing.

I'm just sayin'

Maaaybe....they arose from translations from Italian, Greek... Bad translations.

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Re: could of
Posted by: fairfaxdude ()
Date: April 29, 2010 04:38PM

Conie Wrote:
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> How about when people start a comment with - "Not
> for nothin', but..."
> I understand some of these "sayings" are specific
> to some areas. Like "I know, right?". I think
> that's a New York, New Jersey thing. And I say
> that sometimes.
> It makes way more sense to me than "Not for
> nothin', but.." which I think is also
> a northeast thing.
>
> I'm just sayin'
>
> Maaaybe....they arose from translations from
> Italian, Greek... Bad translations.


Eh, I dunno. I think regional colloquialisms (sp?) are all right, even kinda funny. Like where I grew up, people would say.."Hey, wait just a cotton-pickin minute...."...seemed normal then, now I laugh every time I hear it.

______________________________________________
I have had to change the addresses to my retaliatory blogs over half a dozen times.

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Re: could of
Posted by: Conie ()
Date: April 29, 2010 04:42PM

fairfaxdude Wrote:
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> Conie Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > How about when people start a comment with -
> "Not
> > for nothin', but..."
> > I understand some of these "sayings" are
> specific
> > to some areas. Like "I know, right?". I think
> > that's a New York, New Jersey thing. And I say
> > that sometimes.
> > It makes way more sense to me than "Not for
> > nothin', but.." which I think is also
> > a northeast thing.
> >
> > I'm just sayin'
> >
> > Maaaybe....they arose from translations from
> > Italian, Greek... Bad translations.
>
>
> Eh, I dunno. I think regional colloquialisms
> (sp?) are all right, even kinda funny. Like where
> I grew up, people would say.."Hey, wait just a
> cotton-pickin minute...."...seemed normal then,
> now I laugh every time I hear it.


I know!..right?

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Re: could of
Posted by: fairfaxdude ()
Date: April 29, 2010 04:58PM

Conie Wrote:

> I know!..right?


My son says that all the time. Drives me batshit crazy.

______________________________________________
I have had to change the addresses to my retaliatory blogs over half a dozen times.

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Re: could of
Posted by: Harry Tuttle ()
Date: April 29, 2010 07:46PM

I've always had problems with "All but..."

Like "The city was all but destroyed"....

It seems like it should make sense but, when I hear an example of it, I get all but confused?

Signatures are for fags



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/29/2010 07:46PM by Harry Tuttle.

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Re: could of
Posted by: ThePackLeader ()
Date: April 29, 2010 10:22PM

Another annoyance which I am now hearing often, especially in movies, is when someone says: "These ones". What a God awful example of spoken English.

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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).

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Re: could of
Posted by: bloody blisters ()
Date: April 29, 2010 10:23PM

"oh hell yeah" gets me.

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Re: could of
Posted by: ThePackLeader ()
Date: April 29, 2010 11:15PM

bloody blisters Wrote:
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> "oh hell yeah" gets me.

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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).
Attachments:
HELLYEAH!.jpg

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Re: could of
Posted by: FoolSmacker ()
Date: April 29, 2010 11:45PM

"Literally".....

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Who knows from whence he came, and who knows where he goes, dot dot dot.

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Re: could of
Posted by: Alias ()
Date: April 30, 2010 03:27AM

Conie Wrote:
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> How about when people start a comment with - "Not
> for nothin', but..."

Not for nothin', Conie, and I swear on my father's grave that I could care less, but I literally fell off my freakin' chair. Its not to often that I hear that expression down here.

This begs the question... do you know any yoots from Brooklyn or Queens?


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Re: could of
Posted by: Conie ()
Date: April 30, 2010 09:20AM

Alias Wrote:
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> Conie Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > How about when people start a comment with -
> "Not
> > for nothin', but..."
>
> Not for nothin', Conie, and I swear on my
> father's grave that I could care less, but I
> literally fell off my freakin' chair. Its not to
> often that I hear that expression down here.
>
> This begs the question... do you know any yoots
> from Brooklyn or Queens?
>
>


No..just from Staten Island. My cousin (the plumma) Vito's kids Nick and
Vinnie

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Re: could of
Posted by: Gonads & Strife ()
Date: April 30, 2010 09:30AM

"Supposeably" - kill yourself.

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Re: could of
Posted by: MrMephisto ()
Date: April 30, 2010 09:59AM

FoolSmacker Wrote:
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> "Literally".....

Misusing that really pisses me off. Like when some dick-biter says, "I literally died laughing," all I can think is, "boy, I wish that were true."

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13 4826 0948 82695 25847. Yes.

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Re: could of
Posted by: FoolSmacker ()
Date: May 02, 2010 12:01AM

Another one that drives me nuts:

People who think "Voila!" is spelled (or pronounced) "Walla!"

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Who knows from whence he came, and who knows where he goes, dot dot dot.

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