Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (751)	1/20/1998 12:54:00 AM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4710

Pet Peeves? Well my Pet Peeve is WHY do Americans always have to bug Canadians when they say "EH?" Question, what do Americans say? Eh? ---(also pronoced "A")

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (751)	1/20/1998 2:03:00 AM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Holly, >>Number-one pet grammar peeve: Using "myself" in place of I or me I share your feelings about this current usage. I think it results from trying to avoid the perfectly proper use of the objective pronoun in compound constructions. For example: "That project was done by my wife and me." It's perfectly correct that way, of course, but people have tended to wrongly "correct" that to the horrible "by my wife and I". I guess they think they can get around the whole mess by using myself instead of "I" or "me". Jack

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (751)	1/20/1998 11:19:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4710

Ooooo-good one! That drives me crazy, too. -Self is a reflexive or intensive pronoun and just doesn't stand alone. I also don't like what is apparently considered acceptable informally, the use of -self with the comparative. ("He did as well as myself"--terrible!) WHat about using liable instead of likely? Or like instead of as? These bother me, too.