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Grrrrrr... Pet Peeves Email Swap

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Swap Coordinator:ArtsOnFire (contact)
Swap categories: Email 
Number of people in swap:18
Location:International
Type:Type 1: Electronic
Last day to signup/drop:June 30, 2011
Date items must be sent by:July 7, 2011
Number of swap partners:6
Description:

I just read a profile and saw one of my grammatical pet peeves in the listing.......grrrrrr

SPOILER ALERT: There is off color language in this swap; in the description and probably in the answers you will receive. If that is something you can't handle, stop reading RIGHT NOW and click the back button.

This is not meant to be a bitch fest, just a place to let off steam!

You will email your answers to the following questions - PLEASE NOTE: Try to not give just one word answers: elaborate and explain. Don't just answer the question but tell us why!! You can send the same email to all partners.

You will have six partners

One of my pet peeves is that I have to say the following: Don't flake, people, it's an easy swap. I won't be able to angel because we are sending to all other participants.

Copy these questions and add your answers:

  1. What is your biggest grammatical pet peeve?

  2. Who is the celebrity who annoys you the most?

  3. What one specific trait bugs you the most about other people's driving?

  4. If you're 25 or younger, what bothers you about the "older generation?" If you're 26 or older, what bothers you about "the youth of today?" Don't forget to tell us how old you are.

  5. What does your boss, teacher, parent (someone who you're subordinate to) do that just frosts your ass?

  6. When you're at the grocery, what gets you riled up?

  7. Who among your family gets on your nerves the most? What is it that they do?

  8. What aspect or practice of mainstream media pisses you off?

Please note any suggestions or questions you'd like to see answered; I'll add those that fit the idea.

Discussion

papercaper 06/14/2011 #

If this was a snail mail swap, I'd join in a heartbeat! One of those ubiquitous grammatical errors that drives to distraction is 'then' in place of 'than'. e.g., "I like that one more then this one." The only one that fucks me off more than that is people writing 'stationary' when they really mean 'stationery' - especially at a place like swap-bot where so many of us do talk about stationery! How hard is it to learn it once and for all? Devote an afternoon to learning the difference between the two words. A sacrifice of one afternoon for a lifetime of rectitude! Some people should also remember that in the word 'separate', the r separates two 'a's. (That's how my 5th grade teacher taught me.) Although I do understand the difficulty - at first approach it can appear to be counterintuitive - another thing worth learning is that the apostrophe in 'it's' is a signal that the word is a contraction of two words ('it is'). I guess I just learnt that one outright because it looks like an anomaly; there's no possessive indicator necessary with the word 'its' when it is the possessive form of 'it'. 'Its' is devoid of the expected apostrophe when it is meant to mean something belonging to 'it'. OK, class dismissed. Teacher's passion is on the wane...!

Gofeen 06/14/2011 #

'Its' is devoid of the expected apostrophe when it is meant to mean something belonging to 'it'. Now I didn't know that and I'm a primary school teacher. At least I was till 7 years ago. Goes off, hides head in shame. LOL

ArtsOnFire 06/14/2011 #

PAPERCAPER - That is THE pet peeve that instituted this swap. It's is a contraction meaning it is - it's NEVER possessive.

Hizzah! Someone who understands my pain! Why don't you start this theme as a snail mail swap, I'm in!

Momskii 06/16/2011 #

Just a note, to remember stationery think E for envelope.

ArtsOnFire 06/17/2011 #

Thanks for the stationery trick, Momskii!

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