Incorrect: You might could buy one.
Correct: You could buy one.

Incorrect: I should of listened.
Correct: I should have listened.

Incorrect: That fence needs fixed.
Correct: That fence needs to be fixed.

Incorrect: We're going out. Do you want to come with?
Correct: We're going out. Do you want to come with us?

Incorrect: I'll sell it for cheap.
Correct: I'll sell it cheap.

Incorrect: In which chair is he setting?
Correct: In which chair is he sitting?

Incorrect: All of the sudden, the car broke down.
Correct: The car suddenly broke down.

Incorrect: I will axe him a question.
Correct: I will ask him a question.

Incorrect: Let's make our excape.
Correct: Let's make our escape.

Incorrect: Flag that sentence with an asterix.
Correct: Flag that sentence with an asterisk.

Incorrect: Let me explain the reason why this happened.
Correct: Let me explain the reason this happened.


Continue.

9/10/2008 4:18:25 PM

this has never been done before



ever

9/10/2008 4:19:37 PM

Quote :

"You might could buy one."

Anyone who says that deserves a punch to the balls/ovaries.

9/10/2008 4:20:30 PM

Quote :

"That fence needs fixed"

who the hell says that?

9/10/2008 4:20:39 PM

amen.

Incorrect: He did good yesterday.
Correct: He did WELL yesterday.

Pet peeve...

9/10/2008 4:21:11 PM

Incorrect: This is the dumbest thread I've posted in
Correct: This is the dumbest thread in which I've posted

9/10/2008 4:21:52 PM

man i tell you what i'll talk however i damn well feel like talking you goddamn yankees come down here and think you kin tell me how to fuckin speak my own damn language dammit why don't y'all just take ya sorry asses back up north cross that damn mason dixon line you goddamn queers

9/10/2008 4:22:49 PM

^ I have 95% confidence you're just dicking around.

9/10/2008 4:24:28 PM

who cares

9/10/2008 4:24:58 PM

Incorrect: I attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Correct: I am a homosexual.

9/10/2008 4:26:01 PM

heighth

and barnes and nobles

but really,

Quote :

"who cares"

9/10/2008 4:26:06 PM

^^^^look here you fuckin yankee don't you bring your fancy ass statistics and confidence intervals and shit down here in my homeland and try to tell me i'm just dickin around seerrus as a heart attack is what i am

[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 4:26 PM. Reason : goddamn fast-posting yankees is what ya are]

9/10/2008 4:26:13 PM

Quote :

"That fence needs fixed"

Quote :

"who the hell says that?"

I think it is more of a northern thing, or at least PA Dutch. My family up in PA say shit like that all the time. They also say shit like "Outen that light" instead of "Turn out that light"

9/10/2008 4:26:37 PM

hahahahahahahaha

9/10/2008 4:26:45 PM

speaking is only tangentially related to the written language

and within a dialect, there are all kinds of ways of speaking that are "correct"

9/10/2008 4:26:49 PM

seerrus

9/10/2008 4:27:08 PM

Incorrect: Please put that up.
Correct: Please put that away.

9/10/2008 4:27:18 PM

Is your family a bunch of Quakers? Or Mennonites?

[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 4:27 PM. Reason : ^ up a few more]

9/10/2008 4:27:19 PM

more like that fence needs fixen

9/10/2008 4:27:40 PM

hey, mash dat button right der fer me

[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 4:30 PM. Reason : and i say "mash" instead of "press" or "push" all the time...my wayco comin out...dbmcknight knows]

9/10/2008 4:28:50 PM

Quote :

"I think it is more of a northern thing, or at least PA Dutch. My family up in PA say shit like that all the time. They also say shit like "Outen that light" instead of "Turn out that light""

That sounds WAY more like a Penn Dutch thing, than a northern thing, seeing as how that's very much a german syntax and feel.

"Turn out that light" would be "Machen das Licht aus"

9/10/2008 4:29:15 PM

correct: im fixin to go to the store

I'm walls1441 and i approved this message.

9/10/2008 4:30:54 PM

I, too, hate vernacular speech.

9/10/2008 4:31:02 PM

Quote :

"Incorrect: I attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Correct: I am a homosexual."

Winner

9/10/2008 4:31:19 PM

I'm walls1441 and i have approved of this message.

9/10/2008 4:31:53 PM

Quote :

""Incorrect: I attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Correct: I am a homosexual.""

I lolled

9/10/2008 4:32:25 PM

^

9/10/2008 4:32:33 PM

Quote :

"Is your family a bunch of Quakers? Or Mennonites?"

close, they are German but live in the heart of PA Dutch Country. They all have crazy accents, to the point that if you haven't been around them for a while it almost doesn't sound English. And, they are about 20 minutes from Lancaster, so it is pretty common to see Horse and Buggies rolling through town.

9/10/2008 4:32:54 PM

[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 4:36 PM. Reason : .]

[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 4:36 PM. Reason : .]

9/10/2008 4:33:13 PM

For all intensive purposes.

9/10/2008 4:33:14 PM

i'm fixin to fuck you goddamn queer-talkin yankees up is what i'm fixin to do

goddang queers

9/10/2008 4:33:32 PM

wrong: vetanarian
correct: veterinarian

9/10/2008 4:34:17 PM

wrong: expresso
correct: espresso

expresso is only correct if there's an s prepended

9/10/2008 4:35:36 PM

Incorrect: I could care less.
Correct: I couldn't care less.

9/10/2008 4:37:22 PM

Quote :

"For all intensive purposes."

I find myself guilty of that one sometimes. I also make the mistake of:

Incorrect: Go and talk to bolth of them.
Correct: Go and talk to both of them.

9/10/2008 4:37:41 PM

Quote :

"Winner."

My heart is very full right now.

Quote :

"wayco"

so lazy.

9/10/2008 4:37:49 PM

wrong: no
correct: of course i want to have sex with you

9/10/2008 4:38:39 PM

you try to cram all that in the tiny little reason for editing box

9/10/2008 4:39:23 PM

Quote :

"wrong: no correct: of course i want to have sex with you [no homo]"

FTFY

9/10/2008 4:40:55 PM

some things i say don't line up to the strictest grammar rules, but i say them anyways.

9/10/2008 4:46:45 PM

its a mute point and a doggy dog world.

9/10/2008 4:50:28 PM

^^iswydt
^lol

[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 4:51 PM. Reason : doggy dog]

9/10/2008 4:51:10 PM

Quote :

"Incorrect: I should of listened. Correct: I should have listened."

I should've listened sounds the same though

9/10/2008 4:55:24 PM

Quote :

"Incorrect: Go and talk to bolth of them. Correct: Go and talk to both of them."

That's not an error. It's a fucking accent.

9/10/2008 5:06:32 PM

Quote :

"Incorrect: I could care less. Correct: I couldn't care less."

that one drives me up a fucking wall

9/10/2008 5:10:57 PM

^

9/10/2008 5:12:14 PM

^^

9/10/2008 5:14:48 PM

9/10/2008 5:56:00 PM

thanks 'diak

now the hook of that common / lily allen song will be cycling through my head for the rest of the day

9/10/2008 5:57:40 PM

YOU MONGREL! i was too late

i thought this thread was about



[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 5:58 PM. Reason : g]

9/10/2008 5:57:51 PM