On 2026-06-18 12:10 p.m., Nyssa wrote:
Rhino wrote:
On 2026-06-18 11:09 a.m., Nyssa wrote:Ah, but Usenet has so many other benefits, we can give
Rhino wrote:You're not alone. For example, when I gave examples of my
On 2026-06-18 9:59 a.m., Nyssa wrote:Heehee!
BTR1701 wrote:
On Jun 16, 2026 at 9:45:49 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk"
<anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
A small public service announcement from the
Department of Things That You Should Know...
It has not "peeked" your interest.
Nor has it "peaked"your interest.
...it has piqued your interest.
You are not "phased" by something.
You are fazed by it.
What if the phaser was set on stun?
Another one I forgot to include is the phrase/term
"It's a moot point."
It is not "mute point" as most of the internet would
have you believe.
That one has been around for decades, before the
Internet became the fun toy of the great unwashed.
I had a couple of co-workers who used the wrong word.
Both were from Texas. ;)
Nyssa, who knows one of the two went to Baylor, but the
other was retired Army so know telling where he
"learned" it
Today's challenge: can you find the homonym confusion in
Nyssa's post? I no you can.... ;-)
I did just now. Sorry 'bout that.
Nyssa, who has never been able to proof-read her
own work
pet peeves, I misspelled a word. I wrote: "I like you're
care"; I meant to write "I like you're car" as an example
of incorrect usage. I wish Usenet let you edit your own
posts but, alas, it doesn't.
it a pass for that one.
Nyssa, who doesn't use social media at all; Usenet is
so much better!
We are of like mind on that; I don't do Twitter, Instagram or all those others either. Mind you, I think you could argue that Usenet *is* social media, it just happens to be (arguably) the oldest social media, one
that has largely been forgotten. Like so many other things, it all
depends on how you define the term.
Your Name wrote:
On 2026-06-17 03:28:45 +0000, Pluted Pup said:
On 6/16/26 7:09 PM, Rhino wrote:
On 2026-06-16 8:47 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
A small public service announcement from the Department
of Things That You Should Know...
It has not "peeked" your interest.
Nor has it "peaked"your interest.
...it has piqued your interest.
You are not "phased" by something.
You are fazed by it.
If yourCO'e had a long day, you are weary.
If you suspect someone is an idiot, you are wary.
It is "due course", not "do course".
"Per se", not "per say".
And if you are aggressively disinterested in something,
you say, "I couldn't care less", not "I could care
less".
And while we're here, it's "could have", not "could
of", but that particular battle may already be lost
along with "literally" and "decimate".
Thank you for your attention during this brief outbreak
of grammatical housekeeping.
May I contribute a few of my own pet peeves about
misused words?
"You're" is NOT the same as "your". "You're" is short
for "you are" as in "you are right". "Your" means a
thing that belongs to you, as in "I like your car". The
following are both WRONG: "I like you're care" and "Your
the best basketball player I know".
"It's" is NOT the same as "its". "It's" is short for "it
is" (or occasionally "it has") as in "it's great to have
the day off sometimes". "Its" means something belonging
to it as in "the cat licks its fur". The following are
both WRONG: "Its time to go to work" and "the cat licks
it's fur".
"Its time for work" can be correct ... if the time is when
something
called 'It' goes to work (for example, Cousin It). :-)
Whose fur is the cat licking? It's fur. As in The Cat
Licks It's Fur.
Pet peeve of mine, saying "it's" is always a contraction
of "it is".
It's also a possessive or whatever it's called.
No it isn't. Rhino is correct - "it's" with an apostrophe
is *ONLY* the contracted form of "it is" or "it has".
I'll toss in one I keep hearing:
"I'll keep you _apraised_ of the situation"
when the correct word in that sentence would
be _aprised_.
I'm hearing a LOT of people use the past tense
form of a verb instead of the past participle.
Example:
"He had _went_ to the store."
instead of the correct form using the past participle
of the verb which would be
"He had _gone_ to the store."
It's not isolated to one verb; it seems to happen for
all verbs. Have they made past participles illegal,
and I missed the memo?
Also errors of not using the adverb form of an adjective
when modifying a verb (adding "ly" to the adjective).
Plus a host of other grammatical faux pas. <sigh>
Nyssa, who hears better and more grammatical English from
people who learned it as a second language than she hears
from native speakers of English these days
On 2026-06-18 12:10 p.m., Nyssa wrote:
Rhino wrote:
On 2026-06-18 11:09 a.m., Nyssa wrote:Ah, but Usenet has so many other benefits, we can give
Rhino wrote:You're not alone. For example, when I gave examples of
On 2026-06-18 9:59 a.m., Nyssa wrote:Heehee!
BTR1701 wrote:
On Jun 16, 2026 at 9:45:49 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk"
<anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
A small public service announcement from the
Department of Things That You Should Know...
It has not "peeked" your interest.
Nor has it "peaked"your interest.
...it has piqued your interest.
You are not "phased" by something.
You are fazed by it.
What if the phaser was set on stun?
Another one I forgot to include is the phrase/term
"It's a moot point."
It is not "mute point" as most of the internet would
have you believe.
That one has been around for decades, before the
Internet became the fun toy of the great unwashed.
I had a couple of co-workers who used the wrong word.
Both were from Texas. ;)
Nyssa, who knows one of the two went to Baylor, but
the other was retired Army so know telling where he
"learned" it
Today's challenge: can you find the homonym confusion
in Nyssa's post? I no you can.... ;-)
I did just now. Sorry 'bout that.
Nyssa, who has never been able to proof-read her
own work
my pet peeves, I misspelled a word. I wrote: "I like
you're care"; I meant to write "I like you're car" as an
example of incorrect usage. I wish Usenet let you edit
your own posts but, alas, it doesn't.
it a pass for that one.
Nyssa, who doesn't use social media at all; Usenet is
so much better!
We are of like mind on that; I don't do Twitter, Instagram
or all those others either. Mind you, I think you could
argue that Usenet *is* social media, it just happens to be
(arguably) the oldest social media, one that has largely
been forgotten. Like so many other things, it all depends
on how you define the term.
I usually call the new social media commercial social media
to emphasize the ad-based and data-mining nature that drives
it.
On 2026-06-17 03:28:45 +0000, Pluted Pup said:
On 6/16/26 7:09 PM, Rhino wrote:
On 2026-06-16 8:47 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
A small public service announcement from the Department of Things That You >>>> Should Know...
It has not "peeked" your interest.
Nor has it "peaked"your interest.
...it has piqued your interest.
You are not "phased" by something.
You are fazed by it.
If yourCO'e had a long day, you are weary.
If you suspect someone is an idiot, you are wary.
It is "due course", not "do course".
"Per se", not "per say".
And if you are aggressively disinterested in something, you say, "I
couldn't care less", not "I could care less".
And while we're here, it's "could have", not "could of", but that
particular battle may already be lost along with "literally" and
"decimate".
Thank you for your attention during this brief outbreak of grammatical >>>> housekeeping.
May I contribute a few of my own pet peeves about misused words?
"You're" is NOT the same as "your". "You're" is short for "you are" as in "you are right". "Your" means a thing that belongs to you, as in "I like your car". The following are both WRONG: "I like you're care" and "Your the best basketball player I know".
"It's" is NOT the same as "its". "It's" is short for "it is" (or occasionally "it has") as in "it's great to have the day off sometimes". "Its" means something belonging to it as in "the cat licks its fur". The following are both WRONG: "Its time to go to work" and "the cat licks it's fur".
"Its time for work" can be correct ... if the time is when something called 'It' goes to work (for example, Cousin It).-a :-)
Whose fur is the cat licking?-a It's fur.-a As in The Cat Licks It's Fur. -aPet peeve of mine, saying "it's" is always a contraction of "it is". It's also a possessive or whatever it's called.
No it isn't. Rhino is correct - "it's" with an apostrophe is *ONLY* the contracted form of "it is" or "it has".
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