Lol - Facebook related

[TrickyBob]

Do you ever read a status or comment and just laugh and laugh to yourself?

A woman posted on someone else's status about how she just "expected" another position. And she kept using "expected" instead of accepted. I really just want to comment with "you were accepted" and ask if this higher position relies on spelling at all. 

Just little things, like the girl who kept posting "I still have another 19 lbs to loose!" and kept using "loose" instead of "lose".

Or those who say "I weighted in on the scale". The word is weighed, you weighed in on the scale. (Right? RIGHT? So many people use "weighted" that sometimes I have to pause and wonder if this is acceptable anywhere.) 

[studytime45]

Hate. Rage. Ugh.

My girlfriend/housemate confuses your/you're ALL.THE.TIME. and I point it out sometimes, but I don't want to be a picky bitch.

[sake]

I have NEVER seen anyone use the word weighted, spelled like that. So I believe you are correct in thinking the only acceptable way to spell weighed is W-E-I-G-H-E-D.

I will admit that lose and loose sometimes get me confused, but only for a second, then I remember which one is correct.

Getting mixed up with expected and accepted is just fucking stupid. lol

ETA: I am generally a really good speller, like my co-workers come to me with spelling conundrums, but I can never spell whether. I almost always forget the first 'h' or spell it weather, which I know is incorrect. 

[Deleted]

Yes. all the time.

I have a 'friend' that got a kitten and posted. "[kitten name] is our new edition to the family"

[TrickyBob]

I know with cell phones being used for facebook, auto correct does play a part. But when you write the same mistake for a few days, I feel it is the person making the mistake.

Your and you're drive me nuts. So does accept and except.

I know we are ALL guilty of these, I'm no angel by any means but if you're talking about your new promotion and accepting it; I'd take pains to get the word right.

[TrickyBob]

May 17, 2013 11:50:11 GMT -5 @fogducker said:

Yes. all the time.

I have a 'friend' that got a kitten and posted. "[kitten name] is our new edition to the family"

PLEASE tell me you asked what volume! 

[wambam]

One of my FB friends posted a picture of the number on the scale this morning. I thought that was really weird.

[TrickyBob]

May 17, 2013 11:49:07 GMT -5 sake said:

I have NEVER seen anyone use the word weighted, spelled like that. So I believe you are correct in thinking the only acceptable way to spell weighed is W-E-I-G-H-E-D.

I will admit that lose and loose sometimes get me confused, but only for a second, then I remember which one is correct.

Getting mixed up with expected and accepted is just fucking stupid. lol

My fitness pal is a cesspool of "weighted". You either weighed or waited, but you did not weighted. 

[Deleted]

When people use "weary" instead of wary or leery. BNALGJAGOHLALGHALGHLAGH

[goaskalice]

I actually keep a "friend" around just for this purpose. I literally have no idea how anyone does business with her, her grammar is beyond atrocious. But I get a good laugh.

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May 17, 2013 11:52:38 GMT -5 jillianashley6 said:

Weary/leery/wary piss me off. They are not the same words!!!

lol we posted at the same time

[nomad100]

My cousin's spelling and grammar are so bad that it is like reading the phonetic spelling of words in the dictionary.

It has been pointed out to him that how he writes is really bad and his response is that he doesn't care.  

Sometimes I find it easier to sound the letters aloud versus to trying to read the word in my head. 

[chedominique]

A friend on my FB put this "Your looking at an educated woman." She wrote this the day before her graduation and got tons of likes.

Seriously, that statement bothered me.

[sunshineray]

May 17, 2013 13:53:43 GMT -5 chedominique said:

A friend on my FB put this "Your looking at an educated woman." She wrote this the day before her graduation and got tons of likes.

Seriously, that statement bothered me.

Ugh. That just makes me cringe. I know I'm not a grammar/spelling expert, but I don't see how people make it through life not knowing the difference between your/you're, too/to, etc. How do they get jobs?? 

Accept/except is a pretty big pet peeve of mine.


When to use "a" vs "an" is another one of those things that just bug me. It's like, CAN'T YOU HEAR THE DIFFERENCE? I have someone on my FB who regularly misuses all of them and it drives me batty. 

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someone posted on my wall after my uncle died "sorry for your lose"

[game blouses]

My cousin and his wife misspell a word in every single one of their updates, which are multiple times a day. At this point I'm thinking they're extremely clever and trying to trick everyone into thinking they can't write. It's better than the alternative.

[sunshineray]

May 17, 2013 14:10:50 GMT -5 @sloanpeterson said:

someone posted on my wall after my uncle died "sorry for your lose"

OMG.