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Jay520 on 25 July 2011
Final-Fan said:

See, the question is whether the two (whatevers, I suck at naming the grammar stuff although I'm good at it functionally) are directly connected.  "You have to clean a hamster's cage often because they poop so much" is wrong; a writer making this mistake probably is mentally thinking "because hamsters poop so much", but forgot that they originally started the sentence referring to one hamster (even though it represents all hamsters).

But in Rol's case, it's a separate sentence, so couldn't he say "one" and by implication be referring to "one thread"?  In that case, he has not specified what I rarely make one of (which is arguably incorrect, but not the same mistake you claim he made), but we draw the obvious conclusion that he refers to a thread.


Seperate sentence. hmm.... 

I think you're right. My brain hurts, it's late, I don't know. 

I just know Rol's original sentence sounds better with 'any'.



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Troll_Whisperer on 25 July 2011

Despite the fact you're kind of taking the piss by misspelling on purpose, what you say is very true.



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Troll_Whisperer on 25 July 2011

BTW one that pisses me of is 'should of' instead of 'should've'. That doesn't make any grammatical sense.



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Marks on 25 July 2011

I totally agree with #8. For some reason it drives me nuts when people spell lose as loose.



Soleron on 25 July 2011

effect/affect is the one that I hate the most.



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TruckOSaurus on 25 July 2011

This being a sales site, the worst offense is people who confuse "sale" and "sell".



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Laurel Aitken on 25 July 2011

I'm not a native English speaker, so my spelling and grammar are quite bad, but even so, I can notice some obvious mistakes made by native English speakers in this forum. I see they misuse a and an a lot. Anyway, I think this is a universal problem, because when I'm checking some comments in Spanish, I can't believe what I'm reading.



Mr Khan on 25 July 2011

This thred am insluting I.



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d21lewis on 25 July 2011

I hate when someone writes "should of" instead of "should have". It makes my blood boil. People also have the bad habit of calling me d12 instead of d21. The 21 is the most important part!!



d21lewis on 25 July 2011
Troll_Whisperer said:
BTW one that pisses me of is 'should of' instead of 'should've'. That doesn't make any grammatical sense.


I also hate when I don't read a thread and I post something, only to find that someone else has posted the exact same thing.