Quick grammar question

What about that awful hybrid of irrespective and regardless - irregardless? Heard it again this morning.
 
Betsy Og said:
While I don't consider myself a grammar dunce (dear This post will be deleted if not edited immediately I hope I don't make any errors in this post!), I've always grappled with the following issue. Should one write:

1) ... please contact my colleague Jacinta or me.
2) ... please contact my colleague Jacinta or myself.
3) ... please contact my colleague Jacinta or I.
4) ... please contact me or my colleague Jacinta.

I'd usually go for 1 or 2 above (after some agonising). Number 3 sounds a bit Rastafarian/Jamaican, 4 just looks wrong because you are putting yourself first.
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I would definitely use the first option. This neat article explains it quite well.
 
Some I have encountered;

They're/their/there
Wary/Weary
Quiet/quite
series/serious
Where/were/we're/wear

It is really annoying when people are trying to write stern letters to you ( I get that in my job a lot unfortunatley!) and they cant even get the words right. Now I know when typing a bit of a rant on AAM etc. I wouldnt take too much time examining the spelling etc. but writing a letter I would always try and make sure it would at least read correctly!

If sum1 sends me a mail usin txt chat I SNAP!!
 
Betsy Og said:
3) ... please contact my colleague Jacinta or I.
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"I" is a nominative (the subject of a sentence: I run, I hit him, I write to her);
"Please contact I" doesn't work - because "contact" takes an accusative (or object).
 
Hello

The phrase "between you and I" is constantly being used on TV and radio, and smacks of people trying too hard to be gramatically correct, and over compensating for their lack of grammar. The correct term is "between you and me", where you and me are the objects of the sentence. The work "I" is the subject of a sentence. The proper subject of the sentence in this case is the implied "It" as in "It is between you and me".

Professor SM
 
I think this is used a lot by people who want to sound as if they know what they're doing. Twink comes to mind for some reason (and I'm not happy about it).
 
Square Mile said:
Hello

The phrase "between you and I" is constantly being used on TV and radio, and smacks of people trying too hard to be gramatically correct, and over compensating for their lack of grammar. The correct term is "between you and me", where you and me are the objects of the sentence. The work "I" is the subject of a sentence. The proper subject of the sentence in this case is the implied "It" as in "It is between you and me".

Professor SM
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Actually, the verb "to be" has funny rules, and in the example you give
"It is between you and me"
I is correct.
 
Square Mile said:
Hello

The phrase "between you and I" is constantly being used on TV and radio, and smacks of people trying too hard to be gramatically correct, and over compensating for their lack of grammar. The correct term is "between you and me", where you and me are the objects of the sentence. The work "I" is the subject of a sentence. The proper subject of the sentence in this case is the implied "It" as in "It is between you and me".

Professor SM
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Professor,

Is it the work or the word? ;)
 
Some FG spokesman on Morning Ireland this morning in relation to Bertie's phone call to AIB: "Regretfully..." when he should have said "Regrettably...".
 
What about Bertie's famous comment when Albert Reynolds pushed out CJ? I think it was, "I never thought it would have came to this."
 
A few of my pet peeves:

Exasperate for Exacerbate, as in "this has exasperated the situation"

Adverse for Averse, as in "he is very risk adverse"

Refute for Deny, as in "I categorically refute that allegation!"
 
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