[Jasmen8182]

SCAR wrote: I appreciated the post Jassy where you used a preposition at the end of every sentence. Very creative because the sentences still fit what you were trying to say. Maybe you need to write for some rappers! No you don't want to talk about cars, ho's and guns all day so that probably would be a bad idea.
Thanks. Yes, the rapper think probably wouldn't work. I've had poetry published but later found out that having to BUY anthologies to get a copy... is one of the warning signs that they want any ol' stuff. The guidelines are at www.utmostchristianwriters.com. The International Library of Poetry even offered to put one of my poems to music- for opurchase by yours truly

[Jasmen8182]

Yes, spelling bloopers fit nicely too. From a beaten-to-death thread I gleaned the following: sensItive, stanDARD, and humOrous. The same thread gave me "then it is" which should be "than it is."

[Jasmen8182]

Sly is right- sometimes the fingers slip; I'm just OCD and usually delete and redo....
I guess that should say "I have OCD...."

[Jasmen8182]

Just came from non-LU.... "...woman's conference" wouldn't be worth having- only one woman would be there. A "women's conference" would have a much greater turnout (b/c the latter is plural possessive).

[LUconn]

On Sunday morning before church I was watching one of those Sunday morning news shows and they were walking around Louisiana with one of it's senators and she was talking about the water flooding in and she said "literally all hell broke loose". I was frightened for a while until I realized that she doesn't know what that word means.

[WinthropEagleFan]

Over the last few years on messageboards, I've seen the word "prolly" written more times than I can remember (where the word "probably" should be used). It makes me cringe everytime...

[PAmedic]

that's SJ's trademark

[A.G.]

I'm still trying to figure out what the heck
KOL
means!!!

[PAmedic]

keep on landscaping.

its his business, literally

[Jasmen8182]

That does sound scary, LUconn- I can't believe she used the word "literally."
Two of you gave good examples of how to use apostrophes-or not use them. "...it's senators" was intended to be possessive but is actually "it is"; "its his business" uses the possessive for the pronoun "it" but based on context the writer intended to make a contraction.

[LUconn]

I'll probably be skipping this thread from now on.

[Jasmen8182]

kinda like the "compain abt. LU rules thread"- these types of discussions can be kept separate w/out clogging other threads w/ nit-picking. I would say "sorry to have offended" but for two reasons: the aforementioned and the fact that someone who states they'll be skipping this won't need to read a sarcastic apology.