The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks

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Damn Spider pig

Nice to see you haven't lost your "evil" streak Kat!!!
Don't you just "hate" to see bad "grammar"?

I want to die peacefully in my sleep, just like grandpa. Not screaming and panicking like his passengers.
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R.

Q. How do you write?
A. One word at a time.

You treat it like a joke, but I am actually appalled by some of the grammar and spelling in this country. I remember a stall I saw recently selling "Spicey Ales".

It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.

i'm sure the others are actually appalled too.
laughter helps soothe our pain.

joe pancake?

It's "tragic".

But I see your point.

Or should that be "point"?

It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.

I've just Googled the word spicey and found at least seventy pages of entries. The online Urban Dictionary and Merrian-Webster sites seem to accept the spelling and give several definitions of the word. They also list spicy, so maybe it's another case of an Americanized spelling being accepted in the UK. Well, I've always thought that Websters Dictionary was American.

Just to add another example, I caught a snippet of conversation this morning on the radio where someone was discussing his collection of cactis! Surely he mean cactuses?

I want to die peacefully in my sleep, just like grandpa. Not screaming and panicking like his passengers.
Don't drink and drive from The Lancre Tavern

Really, I think it should be cacti. But cactuses is also accepted.

And spicey wasn't just an casually used Americanized phrase. It was the name of the stall! In big letters!

I was ashamed when my parents bought "spicey" ales from them.

It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.

I was being "Ironic"

I want to die peacefully in my sleep, just like grandpa. Not screaming and panicking like his passengers.
Don't drink and drive from The Lancre Tavern

It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.

I say lets go back to the time before spelling and we could do "spell as you feel" again... It'd be like those pay what you can / feel restaurants the 7th Days run.

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There once was a man named Bruce
Who liked to sit on a spruce
He ate lots of chowder
And yelled at me louder:
"I'm talking to YOU, Mrs. Hughes!"
--> The Literary Genius: Mowgli

I thought we already "had"...

Damn Spider pig

Oh dear.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. - Rabbi Moshe ben-Maimon

Incorrect spelling is the new black.

Nah, I think it's more in the grey.

Sometimes the problem is not with incorrect spelling but simply the use of the wrong word. Often with humorous results.

For example...

1 - The traffic was being held up by a stationery van.
2 - The men armed themselves with rifles and went out hunting bare.
3 - The decline of the university's standards was attributed to the selection of bad principles over the years.
4 - The male was delivered by the postman

Spelling and grammar are correct according to MS Word.

I'd hate to start learning English as a second language. It was hard enough the first time round.

I want to die peacefully in my sleep, just like grandpa. Not screaming and panicking like his passengers.
Don't drink and drive from The Lancre Tavern