As a participant in this forum, I feel obligated to commend all of you for your impactful contributions to this discussion. It’s great that alot of you have used some of your bandwidth to articulate these good points, irregardless of how busy you are. You are all insuring that we have a healthy environment that incents people to make thoughtful comments.
haha. i used the word incentivize over christmas break while playing Scattergories with the fam. i didn’t know if it was an actual word, but it sounded real so i used it. +1 for MLA who is unbeatable at Scattergories. see: “sandwich”, “D”, “Denny’s Double Decker Deluxe” for 4. haha.
Another practice prevalent throughout US(and becoming popular) is omitting the “g’s” - like doin, goin, eatin, gettin . Once in a while I do like to hear/read complete words.
Ain’t nothin’ but a G thing
Well I’m peepin’, and I’m creepin’, and I’m creep-in But I damn near got caught, ‘cause my beeper kept beepin’ Now it’s time for me to make my impression felt So sit back, relax, and strap on your seatbelt You never been on a ride like this befo’ with a producer who can rap and control the maestro At the same time with the dope rhyme that I kick You know, and I know, I flow some ol’ funky shit to add to my collection, the selection symbolizes dope, take a toke, but don’t choke If you do, you’ll have no clue on what me and my homey Snoop Dogg came to do
#1 Gunner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This is a good brainstorming session. > > We are thinking vertically to flush out (drill > down) the critical issues by thinking outside the > box. > > At the end of the day we can unleash some key > deliverables to use going forward. > > We’ll need to touch base again to address the > metrics from today’s action items used to > determine the success of our synergy. > > Keep up the team work. Too funny 
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Some more basic ones: Then: Than Your: You are (You’re) Advice: Advise Practice: Practise Too: To Principal: Principle Inquire: Enquire Its: It’s I’m sure there are more…I can keep updating this list forever.
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I tend to whip out commonsensical from time to time. There’s another one I use, but I can’t seem to remember it.
Does “impactful” make sense in the context below? Please discuss…need an opinion on grammar and usage. Hot girl: “I had a wonderfully impactful time with you last night.” A friend: “Thanks…you’re not so shabby yourself, I suppose.”
“Look, we don’t need to boil the ocean here. This is really an optics issue.”
I recently received an email in which someone used the following phrase: “for all intensive purposes.”
bchadwick Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > “Insure” vs “Ensure.” Insure = make contingencies > for disaster. Ensure = Make certain. I can’t > tell you how many times I read something like “To > insure that our trades are executed quickly…” > and I want to ask, “Really, who’s the > underwriter?” My first manager looked a financial report that I wrote and I used the word “ensure” - she adamantly said that this wasn’t a word and she crossed it out in red and put “insure”. She made me print out all of my analysis documents and corrected them in a thick red pen like it was grade school or something before sending them to clients/execs. I corrected the report and kept the word ensure on there - I thought she made a mistake in the correction. I told her I looked the word up and my usage was correct. She about tore off my head and told me “not to make up stories about looking a word up if I didn’t really look it up”. I thought she was bat crazy at this point. She went on her rampage about how she was an english undergrad major and knew all about words and writing. I didn’t mean to be mean or arrogant, but I told her that maybe we should look up the word while we were in her office just so I don’t have to modify the report again and so we could submit the thing. She was outraged and said she didn’t want to waste her own time looking up words in the dictionary, but she would look it up quick just so that we could fix this report. So I pull up a chair to her computer and she looks up what ‘ensure’ really means and gets really pissed at me. I see the same thing that she is looking at on the screen, which basically says what I was telling her and then she says to change it to another synonym other than ‘ensure’ because she just doesn’t like that word. Also, she says that she never ever wants to see the word ‘ensure’ in any email or report ever again because she just doesn’t like that word. f-ing crazy bosses . crazy.
My old boss used to regularly submit articles for Barron’s. He definitely knew his stuff when it came to asset management, but I can’t imagine what the editors must of thought when it came to grammar and spelling. I was hesitant to try and help out and fix things because I didn’t want to look like a jerk. The worst was when he would insist that he was correct when using “to” instead of “too.”
Iginla2010 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Some more basic ones: > > Then: Than > Your: You are (You’re) > Advice: Advise > Practice: Practise > Too: To > Principal: Principle > Inquire: Enquire > Its: It’s > > I’m sure there are more…I can keep updating this > list forever. At the risk of sounding like an idiot, I thought “practice” was the american version of “practise,” which the Brits use, no?
philip.platt Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > bchadwick Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > “Insure” vs “Ensure.” Insure = make > contingencies > > for disaster. Ensure = Make certain. I can’t > > tell you how many times I read something like > “To > > insure that our trades are executed quickly…” > > and I want to ask, “Really, who’s the > > underwriter?” > > My first manager looked a financial report that I > wrote and I used the word “ensure” - she adamantly > said that this wasn’t a word and she crossed it > out in red and put “insure”. She made me print out > all of my analysis documents and corrected them in > a thick red pen like it was grade school or > something before sending them to clients/execs. > > I corrected the report and kept the word ensure on > there - I thought she made a mistake in the > correction. I told her I looked the word up and my > usage was correct. She about tore off my head and > told me “not to make up stories about looking a > word up if I didn’t really look it up”. > > I thought she was bat crazy at this point. She > went on her rampage about how she was an english > undergrad major and knew all about words and > writing. I didn’t mean to be mean or arrogant, but > I told her that maybe we should look up the word > while we were in her office just so I don’t have > to modify the report again and so we could submit > the thing. > > She was outraged and said she didn’t want to waste > her own time looking up words in the dictionary, > but she would look it up quick just so that we > could fix this report. So I pull up a chair to her > computer and she looks up what ‘ensure’ really > means and gets really pissed at me. I see the same > thing that she is looking at on the screen, which > basically says what I was telling her and then she > says to change it to another synonym other than > ‘ensure’ because she just doesn’t like that word. > Also, she says that she never ever wants to see > the word ‘ensure’ in any email or report ever > again because she just doesn’t like that word. > > f-ing crazy bosses . crazy. Holy Crap! Hahaha
maybe Ensure the drink made her sick one time?
I really don’t like spelling of “definately” and misuse of “its” and “it’s”.
What really grinds my gears is the phrase “to the extent that…” its probably correct english, but I just hate it when people use it. oh yea and “bandwidth” who the hell made this an acceptable term outside of the computer world? also the use of ‘u’ instead of ‘you’, ‘plz’ instead of ‘please’ in a professional email. If you are going to cc the big boss at least have the decency to type the word out.
No kidding, just got an email from my “superior” using insure. I want to reply with Bchadwicks response.