It's very rare that I'm able to help someone out with so little effort.

http://kbarger314.smugmug.com/photos...86_dFXAn-L.jpg

EDIT: dammit, I thought that would be enough to flip the page. I guess I'm not as helpful as I thought. :cool:

EDIT: My first edit pushed it over the top.

Canyon leg--gone! Thanks so much. I'd much rather see a purdy bird when I open the link.

No offense, HLJ. ;)

My insanely sunburned back. stupidstupidstupid. i'm always so good about putting sunscreen on, but apparently i forgot yesterday before working in the yard from 1-3. no, i didn't feel it happening.

Hehe, I'm very badly sun burnt from my date on saturday, so I know the feeling....And it's a farmer's tan too....with a stripe...

fic writers who write:
"tact" instead of "tack" (as in, a new direction);
"baited" instead of "bated" (as in, waiting with bated breath); and
"loose" for "lose," dammit!

What writers are you reading who do that?

Miss Easy Bake Oven Master's Degree said the other day in a meeting: for all intensive purposes. I wanted to smack her.

What's a 'fic writer'?

fanfic writers--

"would of" instead of "would have" also makes me want to scream. In speech, it's not so bad, but I see it all the time in writing, too, albeit not so much in professional writing.

I read fanfiction--there's tons of it on the 'Net, usually based on tv shows, etc., and traditionally SF based, which has a long history of fanfic, although now there's lots of other genres. Most ('tho not all) I read is slash fanfiction; that is homoerotic. For instance, take any tv show you care to name, then put two male leads in a romantic relationship. Kirk/Spock ("kirk-slash-spock") was the original slash couple.

and yes, I have written this stuff--in Smallville and The Sentinel. Weird, I know, but we all need hobbies! Mine are grammatically correct, at least.

It bugs me when people say "often" without pronouncing the "t."

The word "y'all" used more than twice in one sentence is irritating, also. As in "Y'all gotta get y'all's finances figured out 'afore y'all get y'all's electricity shut off." (That was an actual quote from my conversation with Excel Energy.)

To me, pronouncing the 't' is an affectation--people trying to be highbrow.

eta: I just looked it up, and both pronunciations are in there, but sans-t is the first (preferred) version. I think it has to do with where you're from.

What about "All y'all"?

I have always pronounced the "t." Meh, oh well.

HLJ, I think 1 "all ya'll" counts for 2 "y'all"s.

But it's a perfectly acceptable pronunciation -it's the first option given in the Oxford English Dictionary.

eta, now I see cloud already said this. :lol:

Do you pronounce the d in Wednesday too?