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12-29-2009, 08:30 PM
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The future is unwritten
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Learn Your Damn Homophones
Learn your damn homophones.
Affect Your horrendous grammar affects the quality of your input as an interlocutor. Effect Your grammar’s effects are so unspeakable that you should be prosecuted at The Hague. Capital Capital punishment should be applied to people who use improper grammar. Capitol Improper grammar is not allowed inside the capitol. Discreet If you can’t discern the difference between homophones, then be discreet. Discrete There is a discrete difference between someone who knows homophones and someone who does not. and many, many, more. 
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12-30-2009, 12:01 AM
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I can hear my ears
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count down to the
Learn your Damn Homophobes clone thread..... 3....2.....1....
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12-30-2009, 12:14 AM
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To shreds, you say?
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Homophones:
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12-30-2009, 05:53 AM
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polaroid of perfection
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If you're sticking a penis in your ear, you're doing it wrong.
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12-30-2009, 11:30 AM
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To shreds, you say?
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01-05-2010, 12:25 PM
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Person who doesn't update the user title
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Of yore I knew the difference between your and you're. I vividly remember the results from one fellow who didn't, and split the difference with Y O U apostrophe R. It wasn't even a typo; it was intended as the possessive, and on a hand-lettered sign.
Decent training in the language would fix this in all but the most thickheaded. It did so in my day.
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I hear them call the tide
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01-05-2010, 01:57 PM
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Junior Master Dwellar
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Variations on apostrophe catastrophes............
There was a road sign not too far from here giving directions to 'St. Mary,s Church & Centre'. Also, a local company had its entire fleet of vans emblazoned 'Robinson,s'*. The proprietor was a deeply unpleasant man and deserved the ridicule. Having said that, most people probably thought it was grammatically correct. E & OE Carruthers PS * The name has been changed to protect the guilty. |
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