For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

[Ruby Vee]

"PT" means Physical Therapist. If you cannot bring yourself to type out "patient", the correct abbreviation is "pt".

It's LOSE your license, not "loose" your license. I've seen this one so often I'm starting to type "loose" myself.

"Needless to say" means it is so obvious that you don't even need to point it out. Why do people persist on using this when it is neither obvious or even remotely likely?

Why is "NETY" even still a thing?

[catsmeow1972, BSN, RN]

I understand all of the aforementioned grammar issues stated here. One I did not see (maybe i missed it) was "conversate." Ugh! It is "converse" as in talking with another, present tense or "conversation" as the description of having spoken with another. I think it is such. Feel free to correct me.

I had the benefit of a Catholic school education in the seventies and eighties. If I learned anything (besides the neurotic tendencies that are nurtured by 12 years of "your parents are paying dearly for you to be here and you are not, i repeat not, allowed to screw it up) it was how to write good (well, I could not resist that one.)

Perhaps it is my older-than-dirt, non millennial mindset but I habitually re-read emails before I send and have been known to ensure that my texts are grammatically correct. At my job, we have a little communication gadget that we all carry that could best be described as a texting device on steroids. It's pretty neat actually, but my grammatical twitches make it so that I take forever to send a text. It seems that "text speak" and what I see as lousy grammar are not only becoming mainstream, they are becoming acceptable means of torturing language.

[morte, LPN, LVN]

what subjects are your kids missing out on, when so much time is taken up with the sentence diagramming?

[morte, LPN, LVN]

Pickles, did not even "see" the formally, i went immediately to the currently, as being the problem...

[morte, LPN, LVN]

i think that would qualify as devolving, yes?

[morte, LPN, LVN]

hmm, I i will have to consult my elder sister on this "graduated high school" business. Somehow it seems not to grate my nerves, though i do see "from", and understand its appropriateness.

[Extra Pickles]

Correct grammar IS being taught, it's part of standard curriculums everywhere. Whether the student pays attention and learns is a different thing entirely.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

what subjects are your kids missing out on, when so much time is taken up with the sentence diagramming?

Recess.

[djh123]

"I graduated nursing school." No, schools graduate students. Students graduate from schools.

I hear this all the time, especially about students "graduating high school." Where did this come from? Is this accepted now?

I think it's the way the English say/write it, and it's become more accepted over here. But I might be wrong.

[djh123]

Something that cracked me up was a short piece on 'your' vs. 'you're', which we know that something like 90% of people seem to get wrong these days. Here the article (obviously) explained the difference, and someone commented 'Really??', like they still couldn't believe 'you're' existed, and when/why to use it. Ha ha.

[Sour Lemon]

Something that cracked me up was a short piece on 'your' vs. 'you're', which we know that something like 90% of people seem to get wrong these days. Here the article (obviously) explained the difference, and someone commented 'Really??', like they still couldn't believe 'you're' existed, and when/why to use it. Ha ha.

I used "your" in place of "you're" on a post last night and can't edit it. It's killing me. I tend to write like a drunk when I'm tired, though ...and sometimes when I'm not.

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

I used "your" in place of "you're" on a post last night and can't edit it. It's killing me. I tend to write like a drunk when I'm tired, though ...and sometimes when I'm not.

I type almost all of my posts on my iPhone, so the limited editting windpw often irritates me.

I never learned sentence diagramming in school. It was out of fashion and just never covered by the time i was in school. I don't think it hurt my ability to use proper grammar.

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

"It's a doggy dog world."

Yes, I have seen that several times. How do people use that phrase when obviously, they don't know what it means?

I honestly think this is how a person hears it . . . and maybe never read it in a book or news article so never saw it written.

Say "dog eat dog" fast . . . it can sound like "doggy dog".

Just think about how we hear lyrics of music and find out we are wrong. In fact, Dave Barry wrote a short book about misheard lyrics. Pretty fun.