10 April, 2008
there they're their
I am constantly amazed that most of my co-workers have not managed to figure out which of these is which. I am also amazed that there are people in the semi-professional world that don't know the difference between tolerance and tolerable. Seriously, one of them is a deviation from a standard and the other is capable of being endured. I mean, how hard is that? If there is any argument against English as a national language, it's this: most of the native speakers here don't really speak it anyway.
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they're completely silly, with their ignorance and there intolerable intolerance!
how about except v. accept. that's another one that almost no one i work with knows.
now I got a should of instead of should have.
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