help me out here, folks

[skoosiepants]

Let's make a list for the new year!

1. technically, it's 'another think'
2. passed/past are not interchangeable
3. 'no one' is two words - I blame E.E. Cummings for this, noone looks weird, so people were all, 'let's put a hyphen in!;' no, no, this is wrong.
4. the timeless classic: there/their/they're; know them, love them.
5. says/said are the best choices! I think it was chopchica who opened my eyes to this wonder - they disappear! You can use them all you want, and they never trip anyone up. Use them, and you shall understand.
6. actual names are awesome. There is no such thing as using a name too much. (I mean, unless you go crazy, there's some sort of line there.)
7. leave your crazy formatting at home, I want to read capital letters - it's not clever to use 'i' instead of 'I' or 'lorenzo' instead of 'Lorenzo.'

um, more?

In other breaking news: it is freezing outside.

Also, great things are happening over at sodamnskippy.

Comments

[lillypadmoose.livejournal.com]

'Would have' not 'would of' - 'of' is not a verb.

Also, which very few people seem to know (and is, admittedly, not relevant all that often) people are hanged, things are hung. People are not hung except in slang, in which case it means something entirely different. The death penalty (in some places, at least) involved being hanged by the neck until dead, not hung.

Sarcasm and irony are different things, although I can tolerate their misuse.

And finally (for now, since I'm painfully obsessive about grammar) things are 'similar to' or 'different from' each other, not 'different to' or 'different than'.

Will stop whining now ;)

[skoosiepants.livejournal.com]

oh, I hate the would of's, they SUCK.