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Most prevalent spelling & grammatical errors on Grupthink?
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Avatar Image   Started by brinkofacomplex brinkofacomplex has 1,074 Grupie Points 7 months ago         Comments 7 Comments

Their they're. You notice them.
People are complaining about getting marked down, so, let's help them avoid those "poorly said"s.

Tags: annoying, grammar, grupthink, ignorance, nazi, spelling

 
       
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Using 'loose' instead of 'lose'

Such as: I want to loose 20 pounds on my new diet. Drives me crazy!... [show more]

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Capitalizing common nouns

Common nouns don't become proper nouns just because they're significant to the meaning of your sentence.

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Confusing 'compliment' with 'complement'

They're not alternate spellings; they're totally separate words.

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Passangers

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Skrrrriti 7 months ago

this topic may be better in here http://www.grupthink.com/grup/72

sum of us iz komfortable wit the relaxd styliztic norms of phorum postin'

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brinkofacomplex 7 months ago

Ahh, yes, that is a more relevant grup.
and, i'm perfectly comfortable w informal language, and laziness, to a degree. but, there's no point saying "iz" instead of "is" except to be "cool", and, more to the point, people should know the difference between possessive & plural, and have their "there"s straight. there's just no excuse not to.

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brinkofacomplex 6 months ago

BTW I requested membership to the Proper Police grup so I could move this topic, but the admin appears to be an infrequent visitor so I haven't been accepted.

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Skrrrriti 6 months ago

its a lame grup anyhow, just a bunch of bitter folks who hate fads and pop culture, start your own

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brinkofacomplex 6 months ago

I did kind of get that impression. So now I've made a grup, but apparently I can't edit the grup affiliation of a topic... Arg.

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Skrrrriti 6 months ago

yeah,
that would be a nice option in the next grupthink release *ahem*

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Skrrrriti 6 months ago

http://www.wikihow.c...-Into-Firefox

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This topic was started by brinkofacomplex brinkofacomplex has 1,074 Grupie Points on April 3rd, 2008. 10 grupies have voted on one or more of the 6 answers.

Tags: annoying, grammar, grupthink, ignorance, nazi, spelling

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