You might think this thread would have passed into the past. And, if this thread has annoyed you in the past, ignore it for a time, and soon it will pass.
I think I got all that gramaticalistically correct. I've noticed a lot of people mixing up those two words, (maybe on the forum, maybe not,) particularly using past when they should have used passed.
There are no objects in your average mirror... they just appear there. The same words could easily be arranged to say:
objects appear closer in mirror than they are
Still not grammatical; but at least it makes sense.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
I tend to prefer proper usage, but also sometimes am guilty of rapid typing followed by rapid posting resulting in error. When that happens I usually return and edit, if I notice. Sometimes ones own posts are the hardest to notice, because I know what I meant.
I have to admit, especially when I first started posting here, I was often dismayed by the poor grammar, incorrect spelling and punctuation. Later, when my computer was down and I was limited to posting on my tablet, with its tiny keyboard, I came to understand misspellings and had a lot more sympathy for errors.
Something else I've noticed, especially around November when the "Great American Smokeout" is in progress and we get a bunch of one-post-wonder trolls asking stupid questions about cigarettes and machine made cigars, is that either these posters are congenitally stupid, or they assume they're blending in with the dumb smokers. (they are, as opposed to the possessive their, or even there) Their posts are poorly written, badly spelled, and gramatically atrocious. Their questions are usually completely irrelevant to anything we here, or any informed cigar smoker would be interested in.
While they are usually easy to spot, sometimes we get sucked in for awhile. Then, blessedly, they go away. Presumably they return to their safe little troll caves where they live in the safety of authoritarian mind control, all decisions made for them by worthy do-gooders who would swaddle us all from cradle to grave, insulating us from everything that doesn't produce goodly profit for The Machine that molded what passes for their selves.
I'm still here on this subject. Digression and all.
I guess what I'm saying is your not gonna get me to change my mind, there all crazy.
'Nuff sed. So their.
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I think I got all that gramaticalistically correct. I've noticed a lot of people mixing up those two words, (maybe on the forum, maybe not,) particularly using past when they should have used passed.
I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
Let's eat, GrandMa. / Let's eat GrandMa. -- Punctuation saves lives
It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.
objects in mirror are closer than they appear
There are no objects in your average mirror... they just appear there. The same words could easily be arranged to say:
objects appear closer in mirror than they are
Still not grammatical; but at least it makes sense.
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I guess what I'm saying is your not gonna get me to change my mind, there all crazy.
'Nuff sed. So their.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain