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dc804

« on: February 06, 2009, 08:00:40 PM »
What types of literary mistakes have you made, or frequently make?

With me, I am always confusing the words soldier and shoulder. I mean shoulder and soldier. I am always spelling soldier as 'soldior'.

I also spell the word lose as the word loose. Why is it spelled L-O-S-E anyway? It has the long O sound. It should have two Os.

My favorite band is Queen. But for some reason, I always mess up while pronouncing the name and have to literally spell it out so the person I am talking to knows what band I am talking about. That's why I avoid saying what my favourite band is. Though if asked, I will say it.

And one time when I was talking about having a dream where I was counting sheep in my sleep, I said counting sleep in my sheep.

What word and writing mistakes do you make, and have made?

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CrossEyed7

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« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2009, 08:06:11 PM »
I always remembered the difference between cavalry and Calvary because cavalry can't be compressed into two syllables to fit into a hymn.

I often switch around prepositions (like "the nearest Sunday in us to the future" rather than "the nearest Sunday to us in the future"), and sometimes use the wrong gender when I'm not concentrating enough; for example, I always end up describing Anderson Cooper as "Gloria Vanderbilt's daughter." Usually only in speech, though.
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dc804

« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2009, 08:09:24 PM »
When I made this topic, I accidentally named it "You literary mistakes". Now it's fixed.
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CrossEyed7

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« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2009, 08:11:17 PM »
I noticed it, but I thought you were being witty.
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dc804

« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2009, 08:17:07 PM »
My cousin made a video series known as Yoshi's Island: Remade & Replayed, but the title screen on the opening scene said Replayed and Remade. He didn't find out until I told him 6 months later.
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BP

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« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2009, 08:19:11 PM »
Grammar and spelling are some of my high points. I've always been good with both (though I have loosened up with preposition rules and rarely punctuate sentences in IRC). I make many typos, however, and talk faster than I should.
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« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2009, 08:36:24 PM »
I more often make mistakes when when it has something to do with school.

One thing I've found rather odd is when I look at an old paper of mine with an obvious and incredibly stupid mistake, and my teachers never seem to see it. These mistakes bother the crap out of me, but apparently my teachers adapted easily to my really stupid mistakes on papers.

If you're talking to me on Facebook... never expect the same typing method I use here. I'm ridiculously sloppy when doing those instant-message chat things.

I have gotten better though. (well, less so on AIM or Facebook.)
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Luigison

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« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2009, 08:59:37 PM »
I have a bad habit of ending words with an "e".  I think it's because I had so many British textbooks in college.  BTW, I had to backspace in the previous sentence because I spelled "think" as "theink".  Maybe it's just a habit of typing the work "the". 

I spent several minutes today explaining to students the importance of proper spelling and grammar because of an English question that came up, but felt dirty about doing so because to me it seemed a lot like a "do as I say, not as I do" lecture.  On the other hand, I had to take about twenty minutes out of my physics lecture today to clear up an Earth science misconception because another teacher had told students that California was going to fall off the map.  It's likely I made a grammar mistake in my explanation that caused an English teacher to have to correct me, but in the word of two of my students, "English sucks; science rules."
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ShadowBrain

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« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2009, 10:35:36 PM »
Online (and whenever else I type), I make a generous effort to spellcheck. However, there are certain words I often forget how to spell, like "chief".
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jmdblazer

« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2009, 12:39:00 AM »
I'm pretty good with spelling, though I can never remember if it's tomorrow or tommorow.
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Chupperson Weird

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« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2009, 01:23:21 AM »
When I was 4, I thought the word "you're" was spelled "your".
I once briefly thought "explanation" was spelled "explaination".
I used to think the word "jibe" was "jive".
I still have trouble with the word "recommend" occasionally.
That was a joke.

ShadowBrain

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« Reply #11 on: February 07, 2009, 08:18:24 AM »
Quote from: Chupperson Weird on February 07, 2009, 01:23:21 AM
When I was 4, I thought the word "you're" was spelled "your".
I'm 17 and half the people I know still do that... *facepalm*

As for "jibe" and "jive", that's an understandable eggcorn.

Quote from: Chupperson Weird on February 07, 2009, 01:23:21 AM
I still have trouble with the word "recommend" occasionally.
Quote from: jmdblazer on February 07, 2009, 12:39:00 AM
I'm pretty good with spelling, though I can never remember if it's tomorrow or tommorow.
Yeah, anything with a lot of alternating and/or repeated letters sometimes gets me.
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Chupperson Weird

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« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2009, 12:01:18 PM »
I have never encountered most of the eggcorns listed on that page. Or the word/misunderstood word "eggcorn" either.
That was a joke.

Turtlekid1

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« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2009, 04:56:02 PM »
I've never done this, but I tire of seeing "definitely" spelled as "defiantly" on fanfiction.net.
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Luigison

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« Reply #14 on: February 07, 2009, 09:29:01 PM »
“Evolution has shaped us with perceptions that allow us to survive. But part of that involves hiding from us the stuff we don’t need to know."
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