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Geek Note: Have you guys and gals ever watched Never Been Kissed? I love how Drew Barrymore's Josie always corrects people on the proper usage of words. "You look nauseous." "Nauseated. I look nauseated." That is completely and totally me.
Back to the topic at hand. It even pains me to post this. A person actually wrote:
"He tolled me I should have..."
Somebody tolled you something? I literally got sick to my stomach reading that. For a quick English lesson:
- Tolled: to collect or levy a toll; taxed; to sound or strike a large bell by single strokes; "The first ghost appeared when the bell tolled one."
- Told: past tense of tell; "I was told that this was not a toll road."
"Tolled" and "Told" might be homophones (words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings), but they cannot be used interchangeably! Please learn to differentiate!! (At least this didn't get me as riled up as the spelling of "touché" as "too shea" on a Facebook post of a "friend" of mine. Of course, I can't really be friends with someone who writes "too shea." Oh my!)
Do these obvious and horrendous mistakes bother anyone else? Or am I just weird?
Too shea? Really? Are people really this uneducated?!
ReplyDeleteIt was really disturbing. What kind of world do we live in?!
ReplyDeleteWell, I do have to admit that "tolled" would be something that might bother me. I would say mistakes like not capitalizing, or transposing letters, or even not using proper punctuation would not, as sometimes people are just typing too fast.
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