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Pet Peeve

2007-04-09

I'm not a particularly picky person.  I obviously am not a great writer but, that doesn't mean that the way some people write doesn't just drive me right up the wall.

I think if I see one more person use THEN instead of THAN, I'LL SCREAM!!!  I'm blown away by how many people think they can interchange the two words.

Example: I'd rather have ice cream for dessert then cake.  Maybe that's a bad example, I'd like to have ice cream then cake too but, what I was trying to convey was that you have a choice, it's either cake or ice cream and this hypothetical person chose ice cream.

I'd rather have ice cream THAN cake!

Then/Than...it's not the same!! 

This does not mean you can critique my writing :)  I've already admitted that I'm not a writer and I will add, I am also not an English major.

I'm very sensitive though Wink

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scribbles (2007-04-09)
You are very brave to post this. LOL Some people must have slept through English class long ago.

Barnabus (2007-04-09)
I agree with you!, but also the words, cuz Are you 4 ice cream? We went 2 class...You want me to do that? Ok I'll

Mary Mary Quite Contrary (2007-04-09)
I'd rather have ice cream than cake too...as long as it's chocolate, rather than another flavor! ;)

DELETE ME PLEASE (2007-04-09)
I am journalism Major and I have 10 English classes under my belt from a previous school and I still make that mistake while writing. The problem isn't so much I don't know the difference; it's that I am not a good editor of my own stuff. That is a simple fact of writing someone else has to edit it for I will miss at least 50% of the mistakes. But it's better then nothing or was that supposed to be than??

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