Re: Friday Fun: What Pet Peeve makes you puke?

[jewahe -at- comcast -dot- net (Jeff Hanvey)]

I'm finding myself amused more and more by the construction "I don't <believe>, <think>, <etc>". I know it's become a standard way to express the lack of belief or a disagreement...but that "not" is misplaced...

It's even more amusing because I use these expressions so much, and have had to learn to edit them out of my writing...but they still creep in.

Other than that, I really don't have any particular "grammatical" pet peeves.

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Jeff Hanvey
Thomson, GA
jewahe -at- comcast -dot- net 

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From: "Nuckols, Kenneth M" <Kenneth -dot- Nuckols -at- mybrighthouse -dot- com>
> Earlier today I saw a post that contained what might have been a clever
> unexpected placement of a word, or what might have been the result of
> some automatic spell checker's "fix" of a typo. But outside our list
> it's such a basic and common error that it makes me want to puke every
> time I see it: when someone writes the word "loose" when he or she is
> trying to write "lose." 
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