Grammar mistakes your friends make

I'm reminded of some people who say "for all intensive purposes," which makes no sense. The phrase is "for all intents and purposes."

And also people who say "one foul swoop" as opposed to "one fell swoop"

Basically any misuse of some word or phrase that people generally seem to miss, "supposebly" is one example that comes to mind. I'm not sure what else there is that hasn't been mentioned already.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by ShlupQuack

Not a single one of my fourteen-year-old sister's friends know what the hell this crazy word "you're" is. Almost every comment on her MySpace pictures if "omg your so pretty!"

It drives me to madness.

---

Why are you on Myspace anyway? o_O

My English teacher in grade 11 once told our class about a time when she was correcting the provincial English assessments and one student instead of writing "make belief" wrote "maple leaf". lol.

For some reason my driving instructor always used to say 'patently' instead of 'blatently' which, even though I don't usually care about other people's grammar unless it's for something important, REALLY starts to grate when you're stuck in a car for hours on end with someone endlessly saying 'now he could PATENTLY see you there and he still pulled out...'

That's patently ridiculous, Imperfectionist!

spelling mistakes:

definately, definetely (which I can understand, a lot of people don't know it's "definitely". I even used to spell it that way up until ~3 years ago when I looked it up.)

Odviously.

Supposedbly.

etc.. :(

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Raistlin

Some of my friends, though also tons of other people, say "I could care less," when they really mean "I couldn't care less."

---

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Raistlin

I'm reminded of some people who say "for all intensive purposes," which makes no sense. The phrase is "for all intents and purposes."

---

i see you have visited Paul Brians’ website recently

also I hope you enslaved those basketball people

I do not befriend people who make grammar mistakes!

I do not have many friends. :(

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Meat Puppet

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Raistlin

Some of my friends, though also tons of other people, say "I could care less," when they really mean "I couldn't care less."

---

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Raistlin

I'm reminded of some people who say "for all intensive purposes," which makes no sense. The phrase is "for all intents and purposes."

---

i see you have visited Paul Brians’ website recently

also I hope you enslaved those basketball people

---

Huh? I figured the former out on my own, and the latter mistake I didn't think anyone made until my college roommate did so on a paper he asked me to proofread (I proceeded to laugh at him).

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Raistlin

I'm reminded of some people who say "for all intensive purposes," which makes no sense. The phrase is "for all intents and purposes."

---

Oh, my GOD, I love that!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Laddy

I do not befriend people who make grammar mistakes!

I do not have many friends. :(

---

Ditto'ed.