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November 6th, 2005Phil Ringnalda grinds his teeth when people say depreciated instead of deprecated. I know how he feels. The one that bothers me is hearing people say orientated instead of oriented, as in “object orientated.”
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November 6th, 2005 at 12:28 pm
A few more:
“administrate” instead of “administer”
“anyways” instead of “anyway”
“irregardless” instead of “regardless”
November 7th, 2005 at 2:46 am
…and “definately” instead of “definitely”
November 10th, 2005 at 12:14 am
How about:
“these ones” instead of “these”
Causes my toes to curl in disgust.
November 14th, 2005 at 6:50 pm
I’ve enough clients that can’t speak English very well at all that simple trip-ups like these cause no stress at all. You have to memory the grammar and the vocabularies, because you will send totally wrong message if you doesn’t use the preposition right place in the.
December 5th, 2005 at 12:20 pm
alternate vs. alternative
Americans don’t seem to know that alternate (as an adjective) actually means “the other”, not “an other”.
Or phrases (all too commonly used by alleged journalists) like “Carlton won their fifth match in as many weeks”. Aside from the perpetrator’s evident inability to distinguish between cardinal and ordinal numbers, one would be very happy if one’s favourite football team won five times in one week!