>
> Sorry, this was sent before I finished yesterday, and that half-written,
> unsigned post was my Infamous #3 for the day:
> tedious phrases like:
> in and of themselves
> no way, shape or form
> words that don't need to be hyphenated, but students do anyhow:
> pre-occupied
>
Dear Tipsters,
Moving on to a related language practice:
"Any time soon" instead of "in the near future" or simply "soon".
Any other examples of "filler" phrases that take up time and space?
What about this from the advertising world: "All new" (when it is clearly not).
Sincerely,
Stuart
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Oftentimes when "often" workspreventative instead of preventive
can not instead of cannot
tedious phrases like:
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A trend I've been seeing in student writing over the past few years involves words such as "nowadays," "overall," and "themselves." Some students will break these words down into their component parts and write "now a days," "over all," and "
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Especially for those of you who are also IRB members, how many times have you
seen "Principle Investigator"? ;-)
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Especially for those of you who are also IRB members, how many times have you
seen "Principle Investigator"? ;-)
Miguel
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I love this Britishism, but do not know if it's grammatically correct in UK:
American Me: Is she going home after dinner?
British You: She might do (or just, "Might do.")
Paul
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>Here is Grammar Girl's take on "went missing".
>
>http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/went-missing.as
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Dear Tipsters,
What do you think about the ubiquitous use
o his steps."
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Because of students' significant confusion over the use of affec
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Dear Tipsters,
What do you think about the ubiquito
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Here is Grammar Girl's take on "went missing".
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/went-missing.aspx
She says that it is correct, a British usage dating to
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Finally, someone can tell me if the term "went
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Ah! in that case:
affect
effect
as verb
and as noun
All wrong:
The hot weather does not effect me.
The new policy took affect yesterday.
Annette
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
University of San Diego
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Finally, someone can tell me if the term "went missing" is actually correct, as
in: "The two hikers went missing shortly after sunset."
It sounds so wrong!
Pat Santoro
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My number one is the misuse of me and I.
John and me went to the zoo.
He gave the book to John and I.
ARRGGH very educated people do this because I believe it
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>Flout vs. Flaunt.
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>One of my English Dept colleagues caught m
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Many students flout the rules for correct word usage.
But when
Flout is to treat in a contemptuous manner and flaunt is to be ostentatious or
showy.
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Many students *flout* the rules for correct word usage.But when their grades
suffer because of it, they don't *flaunt* their poor grades.
Beth Benoit
Granite State College
Plymouth State University
New Hampshire
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Serafin, John <
john.sera...@email.stvincent.edu> w
Flout vs. Flaunt.
One of my English Dept colleagues caught me on this one in a committee report
that I had drafted.
I'll leave it to Tipsters to see if they can provide correct examples of the
usage of these words before I give that English Prof's examples.
John
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Jim Dougan wrote:
> Remember, though, that languages evolve - and does so fairly quickly.
> The things we decry now may well be standard usage in 100 years.
>
This is, of course, true. My complaint was not about usage quibbles
(which often amount to regional and class differences in the way
la
differentiate between "affect" and "effect", but I know
faculty who have problems with that one.
-Don.
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see none of these errors...uh-huh.
Bev
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From: Michael Britt [mailto:mi
Okay. I need a little venting too. Here's what bothers me:
When people don't pronounce the "g" in recognize and it becomes "reconize"
When people pronounce "resource" as if the word had a "z' instead of a "c".
Okay. I'm done.
Michael
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People using the reflexive "myself" instead of me. "The people there
included John, Mary, and myself..."
Using "comprised OF" instead of comprised. "The comm
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In the past few years, this error has become increasingly common (and
makes me crazy).
I would like to loo
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Subject: [tips] word confusions
Two word confusions I am tired of seeing (even in newspapers and books
sometimes):
jive vs. jibe
"Your excuse for missing the test does not jibe with the facts."
"Jive"
Two word confusions I am tired of seeing (even in newspapers and books
sometimes):
jive vs. jibe
"Your excuse for missing the test does not jibe with the facts."
"Jive" is a dance.
dribble vs. drivel
"Don't give me that drivel. Just tell me what really happened."
"Dribble" comes out of babies mo
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