Would of, Should of, Could of

[MoltenRock III]

MR3 you have just proven you dont read the threads prior to typing your opinion... lol. And that's why I love you racist asian ass.

You should love me. I rock, bitch!

 

[teadrinker]

Elementary illiteracies. However, the world (and online forums such as these) are full of folk for whom English is not their first language, and they should be congratulated for trying to manage a maddeningly inconsistent language. However, those fully brought up in English speaking environments, and who've completed schooling, should be ashamed of themselves.

Any mother tongue is worth taking the small effort to speak and write it well.

-T.

 

[TickTockMan]

RB perhaps one needs to check in with his optometrist because apparently you didn't see this entire post.

And don't anyone not help Rareboy 'cuz me and him are good like that yo.....

My humor usually gets overlooked.


I get told I am too subtle most of the time.

 

[rareboy]

^I got it.

And loved it.

But I wouldn't correct any poster in this thread.

That egregious and hurtful assault deserves a thread all on it's own.

See what I just did there?

 

[JOHN B]

Hey, thanks Rareboy! I ain't never thought of it like that way before.

 

[BINOWGAYLATER]

Place: Busy donut shop
Person in front of me ordering:
"Can I get a dozen OF donuts?"



Fuk no - not until you can ask for it in English !!

 

[ozguy]

Would of

Should of

Could of

Oh how I HATE it when my students write or say that!!! I've been known to spend whole lessons making the little shits practice saying or writing it correctly!

THE PHRASE IS - "I couldn't care less"

I don't know how many times I've seen Americans on this forum continually getting that phrase wrong.

If you say "I could care less" you're saying there are actually circumstances that could be worse than you're actually feeling, so you're stating an equivocal position. It's the same as if you said: "It's entirely possible for me to care even less"

I don't know how it was that Americans were taught this phrase wrong.

Yay for ChickenGuy!! All you Americans ... GOT IT??? GOOD!!!!

 

[TickTockMan]

I thought this thread was silly until I read "I could care less" above. That has always bothered me. It makes no sense and people just use it all of the time...

I guess we all have our thing.

Yay for ChickenGuy!! All you Americans ... GOT IT??? GOOD!!!!

You guys slay me.

 

[JayHawk]

You know on this stuff I could care less.................. woulda it been betta if we was in english class all our lives?

Seriously don't you have enough troubles in life?

 

[TheOscar]

Yeah, people make those types of mistakes all the time. I also hate the "their, they're and there" mistakes. All of those....

 

[TheOscar]

Here I thought we were going to discuss regrets, but this is better.

Don't get me started on the abuse they're/their/there endures in practically every thread.

Aaa, your avatar! Aaaa!

 

[Críostóir]

I've been seeing 'take a peak' on here a lot lately.

This is a peak:

This is a peek:

 

[Críostóir]

You know on this stuff I could care less.................. woulda it been betta if we was in english class all our lives?

Seriously don't you have enough troubles in life?

O fur gods ache, go a weigh.

 

[JayHawk]

I wish i could weigh anchor... I surely and sorely do......

 

[bankside]

could of ?? Really? Have you encountered anyone using "could of?"

hmm,..Not me

Yes, I seen that all the time.

 

[chrisw87]

I accept that I have quite terrible spelling and grammar, I have always suffered my entire life with a deficiency in this area, however I do get your point.

Frankly my pet peeve is much lesser, TXT tlkn whn itz nt needded wif reeeeeely bad spellins.

 

[Kester]

Now we is gettin our englishes from the internets.... lordy be

RB you shoulda ask to start you own sub forum 'bout them their words 'n' stuffs.

SO I suppose LOL, ROTFLMAO, GFYYCP and WRCOGAFLR are out as well..

What does that even mean?

 

[frankfrank]

I seldom used to see mis-speaks such as "could of" or "should of" when I was a kid, but they have become COMMON now. I've even seen this in newspapers and such (rarely) in recent years.

I think the confusion comes because "could of" and "should of" sound EXACTLY like the INFORMAL versions could've and should've.

 

[freefall]

^Aren't the shortened figures sources of the misspellings and wrong grammars?

Reminds me anyway of this good poster in The Oatmeal:
10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling

 

[freefall]

Jos, perhaps not in formal writing, but you often find in every day's speech, like: "Yup, [I have] seen that before." Don't know if it were correct.

(And to Freefall's point, and others before him, the contractions are only indirectly the basis of the corruptions described by the O.P. The source of all corruptions is the laziness of the listener, when a native speaker, with hearing a phrase and then phonetically spelling it while making no attempt to have it make sense grammatically. In short, it is anti-grammar, the substance of the universe that fill up the vast majority of space on the interned.) When the situation is that a non-native speaker is making slips, that's excusable if the person is not a diplomat, etc.

I would like to e-kiss you I always tell my friends the importance of writing correctly small details disregard of how they sound and they always respond as if I were a talking pork leg, saying, "No one would ever pay attention." Good lord.