• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    This may be beyond most people on the internet. We’re still dealing with

    • ‘literally’ is not ‘figuratively’
    • ‘mail’ (and thus ‘e-mail’) , like ‘traffic’, gets no S on the noun; ever.
    • ‘that’ vs ‘whom’
    • ‘any way’ vs ‘anyway’ and others like ‘startup’ vs ‘start up’ (which are as different as “What’s up, Chuck?” vs “What’s upchuck?”)
    • comma placement, for that matter; because “What’s up, Chuck?” is not the same as “What’s up Chuck?”
    • the comma is not a period, nor a semi-colon, nor a colon.
    • the semi-colon is near the ‘L’ key

    … and other easy stuff. I think the reluctance to keep kids back a grade has led to graduates like my niece who cannot make change from a dollar and can’t spell the ‘first-1000’ words on her own.

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      7 months ago

      … literally is an intensifier. It’s been used as such for 300 years. Making the argument that it should only be used literally isn’t some new thing and it certainly isn’t correct either. Do you also get confused by other words with two conflicting meanings? Do you think a meat cleaver sticks meat together?

    • BluesF@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      You seem to be missing a colon in your comment, that’s the little symbol with two dots and should be used when starting a list in that fashion, FYI.

      Also in what I assume was your haste to demonstrate that you use semicolons, you have misused the semicolon twice.