'Could of' ' Would of' ' 'Should of'

[pasty]

It's all the fault of spell check

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew

 

[ryeseagull]

I bought a book with me. The subject matter really effected me.

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

I suspect this irritation could be age-related; with only the old geezers fulminating...

Did it start with texting, where 'of' saves 2 characters against 'have'? Used regularly, the virus then spreads to pollute all written communication.

Whatever the origin, it's profoundly depressing when people are too dim to see how our language works.

Unless what we're seeing here is in fact coursework for an A-Level in modern grammar.

 

[Kazenga <3]

f*** of?

 

[Wozza]

Don't make teachers escape goats!

 

[Superphil]

This thread is turning into a bit of a damp squid. Anyone else agree?

Don't go putting anyone up on a pedal stool

 

[pasty]

Did it start with texting, where 'of' saves 2 characters against 'have'?

I think the "of" thing is down to phonetics. When speaking, people tend to say should've, would've, could've and so on, which sounds more like "could of" than "could have", so people tend to write that way.

 

[Simster]

Before I was married, I was seeing a girl who insisted we get to know each other before I was allowed to have sex with her. She said "lets get to know each other first and then afterwards it'll be no holes barred"


I wish I'd met my wife just a week or so later so that I could discover whether or not that was actually what she meant.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I blame syntax.

 

[RexCathedra]

Don't get worked up too much over the fate of English.
Latin's a dead language, too, but you don't see me complaining, now do you?

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Grrr....................

This is basic stuff. Why are there so many people who get this wrong?

Winds me up, I can tell you.

For someone who "excels" in picking people up on their grammar, you would have thought you would know that as a brand name, it is Pot Noodle.

 

[papajaff]

Piss of you bunch off loosers

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Because they don't read, reading is for loosers.

Whats a looser? Someone who has poo poo trouble? Or whose trousers keep falling down?

 

[Chesney Christ]

"More better"

Aaaaaaaaaaarrrghhhhhh. The amount of grown adults who say this.... Morons.

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

"At this present moment in time".

f*** off.

 

[Tomnorthi]

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[sam86]

Me and a mate got lost the other day, and we where wondering were we where.

 

[Scampi]

Whatever the origin, it's profoundly depressing when people are too dim to see how our language works.

Oh the irony

 

[Skint Gull]

I think the "of" thing is down to phonetics. When speaking, people tend to say should've, would've, could've and so on, which sounds more like "could of" than "could have", so people tend to write that way.

Of course that's why, doesn't excuse the fact the spastics can't grasp basic English though does it

 

[blue'n'white]

It's well good innit
"Can I get a coffee" with the annoying Australian intonation rising up at the end of the sentence really winds me up. Yes you moron of course you can GET a coffee - what you actually mean to ask is "Can I HAVE a coffee"
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