I still find it amazing that people are this anal. As long as the thought is coherent, who cares if the spelling and grammar are correct? (Obviously you, my apologies)
What this does affect, is people who now will not post because of it. Afraid the grammar police will break down their door and pull them out into the public for a beating.
I tend to just ignore spelling and grammar problems in posts, but the one that gets me the most is the “to” vs “two” vs “too” confusion that seems to be so rampant. I can certainly give a break to those for whom English is a second (or third) language, but it just grates on me when it comes from native English speakers.
Another thing I hate to see is when in response to a post or question someone uses “WE ALL” or “PRETTY MUCH ALL OF US” as if they speak for everyone. I dont remember anyone asking me.
To Phatman: In case you were referring to my post, let me defend it. I was just pointing out that I thought it funny that the grammar police sometimes used the word “grammer”. I just liked the irony.
As far as misuse of words, a common one that was mentioned was “ignorant”. Often people are called dumb or stupid when they’re in fact just ignorant.
The best definition I’ve heard for “synnergy” is the the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, which pretty much encapsulates the definition above. Does anyone know if there is one word that sums up the opposite phenomenon, i.e. the whole is less than the sum of its parts? Just curious.
By the way, I can't remember if this was listed above, but along with the "you're" v. "your" and the "two" v. "to" v. "too" confusions you must include "their" v. "there."
Maybe the opposite of synergistic is antagonistic?
I guess this would be two things that bind to the same receptor, so for a given amount of receptors you get an insufficient amount of either. Using both you get less than the sum of the two parts.
