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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:55 am
by hound
JuSt By ChAnCe ArE YoU A tEaChEr? :shock:

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:21 am
by DieMonkeys
hound wrote:JuSt By ChAnCe ArE YoU A tEaChEr? :shock:
No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once.

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:29 am
by hound
:| :) :D :lol: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: your to funny

rants are good

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:33 am
by Mr_Salad
+1 Monkeys. Gotta love the long winded rants. I just wish I could do that to some of my co-workers and be able to apologize with a smiley afterwards. :lol:

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:17 am
by Sabredude
:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Image

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:28 am
by bok
I remmeber a sotry abuot teh hmuan mnid's ablity to raed wrods taht were msisplleed as lnog as the wrod was lnog eoungh and the frist and lsat leettr was the coerrct one.

but yeah, eye hayt bed spallers end fowks hoo dont unnerstand homonyms

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:16 am
by DieMonkeys
hound wrote::| :) :D :lol: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: your to funny
*You're

Follow the same rules.

Alright, I'm headed out back home to SC from VA. If I don't see yall again, you guys rock, even the ones who mispell everything.

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:33 am
by hound
Just so you know it's holiday not holidy. Not that I'm one that should be correcting.

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:39 am
by skoebl
DieMonkeys wrote: The worst problem is the misuse of they're, if you have a question, break it up! "They're coming by to pick up the motorcycle." Hmm, doesn't sound right, let's break it up: "They are coming by the pick up the motorcycle." Yes, that's correct.

Uh....."they're coming by to pick up the motorcycle" is correct :laughing:
It's a proper use of the contraction (they are = they're). Your second example (which I didn't include) was right though :mrgreen:

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:46 am
by jonnythan
skoebl wrote:
DieMonkeys wrote: The worst problem is the misuse of they're, if you have a question, break it up! "They're coming by to pick up the motorcycle." Hmm, doesn't sound right, let's break it up: "They are coming by the pick up the motorcycle." Yes, that's correct.

Uh....."they're coming by to pick up the motorcycle" is correct :laughing:
It's a proper use of the contraction (they are = they're). Your second example (which I didn't include) was right though :mrgreen:
You might want to reread his quote. After he breaks up the contraction and rereads the sentence, he concludes "Yes, that's correct."

He then follows that with another usage of "they're" that is revealed to be obviously incorrect when the contraction is broken up.