An interesting article was published this week in Felix: a survey was conducted at Imperial and found that everyone sucks at spelling and grammar. Especially the British students. Surprise, surprise.
I noticed quite a few of my pet hates in the common mistakes: effect/affect, its/it’s, separate…
Dr Lamb believes the reason is that the youth of today […]
“I could care less about the Patriot Act”.
Really? How much less could you care then? No, damn it. You meant that you couldn’t care less.
Let’s just agree to disagree
No. God damn it. Let’s just disagree. After all, it’s the same bloody thing.
That’s it.
This is definitely the most misspelled word on the Internet.
Actually, here’s a really helpful web page.
The most annoying noise known to man?
Life goes on eh?
I like reading. I like writing. I hate English.
There is nothing more tedious than analysing texts and repeatedly making bullshit up about the effect of linguistic devices. “Wordsworth’s use of foregrounding in this stanza emphasises his love of the English countryside.” Does it? Fuck no.
All I ever learnt in English A-level was how to […]