Another grumble....

pedant's hat on

Weren't we all born illiterate? (Even in the 21st century)

pedant's hat off

I too have seen chester draws! My latest bugbear - I seem to have rather a lot! - is 'hotting up' instead of 'heating up'.

Ooh 'scarey'.... Grrr

The response 'good' to the question 'How are you' sets my teeth on edge!

Being a historian of comparative religion, I read redified as re-deified meaning making someone a god for a second time. I doubt even the late Roman emperors actually did so,

Thank you all for many good laughs and yet another reason why I don't like Facebook.

I saw one for sale ward rope

I always assume these 'errors' lie in the lap of predictive text rather than any ignorance or lack of education on the part of the sender.o

Rectified??

The use of ‘conversated’ instead of ‘conversed’ seems to be used a lot lately.

A student of mine once used ‘haughty culture’ instead of ‘horticulture’.

Someone wrote (on email, so dont blame facebook) that he loves eating profiter rolls

There have always been a lot of people who find spelling and grammar difficult. I was amazed when I was teaching how many children confused words like accept and except , rigid and ridged. It's not to do with teaching standards falling really, some will never get it. But today we come across a much wider range of people through social media (such as this site too) so it seems to some of us (Including me) that there is more illiteracy about. My own problem is that I'm writing on my phone with predictive text which I can't work out how to switch off!

I think President Bush has a lot to answer for.

War drove (wardrobe) chester draws, they're, their, there, allowed, aloud - so many that drive me bonkers. I think "gotten" is the one that gets to me the most. It was even written in the itinerary from our last tour operator as in "tickets can be gotten....".

Jane10, I have a problem with “good” as well. I always want to tell people I wasn’t asking about their behaviour!

Nope - I can't fathom either 'good will jester' or 'ship this couple'. Elucidation please!

Goodwill gesture

Ship this couple, though??

The villain in many apparently illiterate emails is the dratted corrector which makes gibberish of many communications. I am an excellent speller, but keep the thing to speed up the chore of typing. I have often been embarrassed by stupid looking vocabulary in messages I did not check sufficiently. Maybe my next resolution is to find out how to delete this menace to communication.

Far North - gesture, of course, thanks!

Me: How are you?
A N Other: I’m good!
Me: I’ll be the judge of that!

I think 'ship this couple' is shorthand for do you want this couple to be in a relationSHIP. Many people 'shipped' Ted & Robin in How I Met Your Mother, although I certainly did not. I think it is a dreadful phrase.

My grandson insists that the weapon in Starwars is a light 'saver'. I thought this amusing until I saw that Amazon and Ebay often use this spelling!

Don't know if anyone noticed, Overthehills, but they used that expression on the last episode of Howard's End. "I'm good" in reply to the question "how are you".
Also some tv presenter recently said "they're on tenderhooks"

My friend told a new doctor that she takes frolic acid!

My grandson when small asked if he could have 'quad bikes and ships' from the fish and chip shop. Cod bites and chips.