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Why do so many posters on here say "shots" when they mean "shoots". I have never understood this.
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I’ve never seen that. Have an example?
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Now, loose and lose I’ve seen.😁
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Most everyone I see post is well squared away.
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"Know guns, no crime. No guns, know crime."
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Or ‘where’ when it should be ‘were’!!
If school was attended during the forty/fifty era years there wouldn’t be a problem but after those years there’s no such thing as a ‘slam dunk’ regarding usage thereof!
Last edited by Sharpsman; 08/14/19.
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I see this quite a bit...
Sell / Sale:
"For Sell - _____", instead of, "For sale - _____", / "Decided to sale my _____ " instead of, "....... sell my _____".
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I’ve never seen that. Have an example? With so many threads here it may take a while to find an example. I saw one just prior to making this posting but that was yesterday. Jim
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break, and brake seem to be used out of place quite often. As does bear, and bare
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Or quite instead of quiet.
�Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politician.� �General George S. Patton, Jr.
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"prolly"
Like a toddler trying to say probably.
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"prolly"
Like a toddler trying to say probably. I like that one, saves me keystrokes. Geno
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In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
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member of the cabal of dysfunctional squirrels?
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leaving out the "from" when saying that someone graduated from some level of education (that obviously had very weak English requirements)
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
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Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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Everbuddy allways blams there mispled , mispronunciated , badd grammers on autokorrect ore spelchek. Mike
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I bet you fudgkers can spell hummingbird correctly.
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oughta correct 
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I love these threads as I think it impolite to correct someone's word and grammar usage in a thread. Threads like this open the door to do so.
First, "then" and "than" do not mean the same thing.
Their, there and they're mean completely different things.
Two, to and too, well, see the above sentences.
The list goes on and on. I'll just ad one more. For the sake of all that is holy, please, PLEASE, somebody tell me, how can you go through your whole life speaking the contractions for the words/phrases "should have", "could have", would have", etc. and not know the contraction you were speaking?!?! I understand so many of us here try to out huckleberry one another on a regular basis. That can be denoted by "shoulda", "coulda" and "woulda" just like "me and a pard". However, when you type "should of", "could of" and "would of", you clearly don't know you are saying the contractions "should've", "could've" and "would've".
I no I could of bin more taktful then the weigh I did it hear, butt I two am guilty of these things by accident or auto correct. Weather you agree or not, there better things for me to worry about.
Yes, I now feel better.
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