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Livvie

Weird is spelled weird. Was that done on purpose?

It doesn’t follow the normal rule.

Posted - December 3, 2021
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  • 44602
    That is rather odd. I think one of our grammatationizers could clarify that.
      December 3, 2021 2:49 PM MST
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  • 5451
    Your last grammar ticket from Stu was the inspiration for this question.  I think that unlike parking tickets, you can actually ignore grammar tickets.  If I’m wrong about that, you didn’t hear it from me.




    This post was edited by Livvie at December 4, 2021 8:06 PM MST
      December 3, 2021 3:37 PM MST
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  • 13277
    Huh? Ignore grammar tickets? What are you, some kind of deviant commie? Grrrr.
      December 3, 2021 4:02 PM MST
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  • 5451
    Oh, he has a mandatory appearance in grammar court.  I think he can just go ahead and skip it. 
      December 3, 2021 4:07 PM MST
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  • 13277
    As Randy would say, grrrr.
      December 3, 2021 4:39 PM MST
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  • 53503

     

      Influencing others to scoff at the law is par for the course. Please read on:

      This Livvie* person is a suspect in numerous crimes, so many that it’s believed she must be the crime boss of one or more gangs of felons. As queen of the miscreants, she most likely presides over untold scores of social misfits and criminal-minded sociopaths, her kindred spirits. A special task force of investigators must be put together to bring her to justice. Grrrrrrr. 


    *Most likely an alias. 
    ~

      December 3, 2021 6:18 PM MST
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  • 5451
    Randy, Randy, Randy, your wrong about one thing…. Oh wait, your right, their I go again, I AM a grammar criminal.
      December 3, 2021 8:11 PM MST
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  • 13277
    your you're

    There, there. Doesn't it feel better coming clean about it?
      December 3, 2021 8:32 PM MST
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  • 53503

     

      Er, um, Stu, step over here a moment, I need to speak with you. Partner, you do know that she wrote it that way intentionally, right? Look at the word “their”, you seem to have overlooked that.
    ~

      December 3, 2021 11:21 PM MST
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  • 13277
    So you're saying it was intentional misspelling with malice aforethought? That's an elevated charge with stiffer sentencing guidelines.
      December 4, 2021 2:57 AM MST
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  • 53503

     

      Yes and yes! Book ’em, Danno!
    ~

      December 4, 2021 8:16 AM MST
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  • 13277
    Intentional misspelling with malice aforethought in the first degree is punishable by no more than 150 and no fewer than 100 lashes with a wet noodle. Second degree is 125/75 and third degree is 100/50.
      December 4, 2021 9:33 AM MST
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  • 53503

     

      Grrrrrrr.
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      December 3, 2021 11:15 PM MST
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  • 53503

     

      Exactly which part of the word “MANDATORY” don’t you understand? Grrrrrrr.

    ~

      December 4, 2021 8:26 AM MST
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  • 13277
    I clarified it on your post about band names. Grrrr.
      December 3, 2021 4:03 PM MST
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  • 44602
    Again...that is odd.
      December 3, 2021 7:34 PM MST
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  • 13277
    Correct spelling is never odd.
      December 3, 2021 7:59 PM MST
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  • 6023
    I before e, except after c
    Or when sounded as 'a' as in 'neighbor' and 'weigh'
    Unless the 'c' is part of a 'sh' sound as in 'glacier'
    Or it appears in comparatives and superlatives like 'fancier'
    And also except when the vowels are sounded as 'e' as in 'seize'
    Or 'i' as in 'height'
    Or also in '-ing' inflections ending in '-e' as in 'cueing'
    Or in compound words as in 'albeit'
    Or occasionally in technical words with strong etymological links to their parent languages as in 'cuneiform'
    Or in other numerous and random exceptions such as 'science', 'forfeit', and 'weird'.

    Thanks to Merriam-Webster
      December 3, 2021 3:11 PM MST
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  • 5451
    I think I’ll start telling my kids “I before e, except after c, unless it’s weird.”  That won’t help with all those other exceptions, but at least they should get weird right.
      December 3, 2021 3:42 PM MST
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  • 44602
    Give yourself asker's pick.
      December 3, 2021 7:35 PM MST
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  • 44602
    Too much to think about.
      December 4, 2021 11:20 AM MST
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  • 13277
    Hence the original strange spelling that precipitated all this nonsense.
      December 4, 2021 11:25 AM MST
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  • 2128
    Yes! Actually it is a derivative of "we ired"! This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at December 4, 2021 8:07 PM MST
      December 3, 2021 3:58 PM MST
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  • 13277
    No. Grrrr.
      December 3, 2021 4:04 PM MST
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