Re-signed ≠ resigned
by Sean Yuille on Jan 12, 2012 3:18 PM EST
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Re-signed and resigned are two different words. When a player is signed to a new deal with his team, he is re-signing. When somebody quits their job, they are resigning. Saying "Player A resigned with his team" is incorrect. It should be, "Player A re-signed with his team."
Obviously a minor thing, but the dash makes a big difference.
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Thanks for the reminder Sean.
You will probably get slagged for being a member of the Grammar Police. LOL
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In my opinion, there's a big difference in nitpicking grammar
and identifying incorrect word choices that change the whole complexion of the statement. I’m re-signed to the fact that speeling will always be a problem, their going to happen irregardless.
It's turkey, Lions and Macy's. Any other combination is just ludicrous.
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by Leonuro on Jan 12, 2012 3:24 PM EST up reply actions 6 recs
+1
I’m all four gooder English
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by RealityIsOptionable on Jan 12, 2012 3:30 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Aaahh!!!!
It burns! My eyes!
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by UndaDawg on Jan 12, 2012 3:40 PM EST reply actions 13 recs
Really ?
I’m the only one that read that and thought it was a disgusting act of love LOL
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by The Profiler on Jan 13, 2012 11:02 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
(703): fucking a dude
(703): i mean: fucking a, dude
(703): wow, that comma made all the difference there
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Awesome!!!
I hope the “offence ≠ offense” post is up soon too. Just a pet peeve for me as well. Law ≠ Sports!!!
by AxelFoleysLions on Jan 12, 2012 8:43 PM EST reply actions
Offence/offense is the same word.
British vs American spellings.
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by Mavyrk on Jan 12, 2012 8:58 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Yep
And we have several non-Americans on here, so that, along with defense, doesn’t bother me.
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by Sean Yuille on Jan 12, 2012 9:03 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
along with defence/defense, that is
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I find that defense of the defence offensive :)
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by Wayne Fontes on Jan 13, 2012 5:46 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
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Yeah that was a faux pas on my part.
Spelling with the C is pretty much everywhere not America. No offense to the non-Brits!
The law vs sports distinction is actually about how they’re pronounced than the spelling. Sports pronounces it OFF-ense, whereas every other use of the word is off-ENSE.
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by Mavyrk on Jan 12, 2012 9:05 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I am not Brit i just can't spell
so guess that throws a monkey wrench in me using that excuse. I pretty much violate every possible rule on here..spelling.. puncuation… gramar
get what i did? (oh and i don’t use capital letters correctly either).
Now if you see a totally correct comment you know to call the police because someone has murdered me and taken my place!!!
Oh my god, thank you
I wish more people would make this post, I feel my brain die a little when I see that mistake.
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I think Sean cracked the top ten as far as informative posts with this one.
I’ve re-read it a dozen times………or is it reread?
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by Elfuego51 on Jan 12, 2012 11:02 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
I know this difference exists and I still mess it up on occasion.
I think it is just my lazy proofreading skills, or more accurately, my lack of any proofreading at all. I blame it on trying to rest my old, poor eyes. That’s my story and I am sticking with it! LOL
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Never really cared about correct punctuation on sports blogs....
I mean who cares? It’s not like we’re making life and death decisions in here, or discussing quantam physics.
That said, the whole defence, offence shit does get on my nerves sometimes. Other than that I don’t really care.
"That's my quarterback man"- T.O.
who cares?
Well if you’re interested in communicating an idea to someone via writing, that person cares. I knowe, sum peeple loose intrst in speeling kerectly becos its sew hard, but it rilly heps us reeders.
I'm not though.
Especially not on a fucking football blog. Now if I happened to be sending an email to my boss or something of that nature I would be much more conscious of my grammar. I don’t understand how a misplaced Comma makes it harder for you to “reed.” I mean when I check my ten year old niece ‘s homework I don’t struggle to read it because it’s not perfect. If you do than your probably not much smarter than than the person who’s punctuation you are criticizing.
Here’s another thing. A lot of times when someone’s grammar is not flawless it’s not due to one’s illiteracy, but due to the fact that said person has very little time to comment. For example, I like to post at times during my 5 to 10 minute breaks at work. I’m in a hurry. I have no doubt that many of you have similar issues as well. Also, a lot of the times people are posting via mobile phones. It takes considerably more time when posting with my iPhone rather my laptop
Again, this is just a football blog for god’s sake. The most important things debated here are the lion’s draft day hopes and such. Go police some other blog for their grammar because frankly I’m tired of the shit
By the way, I was not responding to Sean’s initial post. He runs this blog and can police whomever he wishes.
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by Lionking4420 on Jan 14, 2012 11:49 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
You are missing the point
It’s not about grammar police. It’s about writing what you mean. Grammar rules are what we use to be understood correctly.
If you said “Suh resigned with the Lions”, that would be saying his career was over. Is that what you meant? I would think not.
Could someone else figure it out based on common sense and context? Sometimes. But why make them wonder? Use the rules. Be clear.
by birdseed on Jan 17, 2012 9:55 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Better example:
Jim Schwartz resigned with the Lions. There it makes a ton of difference. One little dash could lead to a 400+ comment thread of panicking/bitching.
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by Latif Masud on Jan 17, 2012 11:50 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
And one mistakenly happy Joshsun
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by TheLoneDavid on Jan 26, 2012 11:28 AM EST up reply actions
That "Comma" should not be capitalized.
Lol
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My question is, where'd you find the "not equals" sign?
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by AlaskaLion on Jan 14, 2012 3:31 AM EST reply actions 2 recs
We've already gone over this above
For non-Americans, that is often the correct spelling.
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I always thought it was spelled D ]-I-I-I-[ ...
by Black & Gld on Jan 24, 2012 6:39 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Haha
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by Sean Yuille on Jan 24, 2012 10:34 PM EST up reply actions
How about
Da Fence
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by Wayne Fontes on Jan 14, 2012 8:30 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Seriously.
They aren’t even pronounced the same.
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by MSUDersh on Jan 16, 2012 10:25 AM EST reply actions 2 recs
Terry Pratchett, literary genius.
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by TheLoneDavid on Jan 16, 2012 9:55 PM EST up reply actions
I think the recent FanPost "Resigning Avril is not a top need"
makes Sean look like a soothsayer. It came just a few days after this post.
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