Advise vs. Advice

[rbattelle]

Advise - to give information or notice to.

Advice - recommendation regarding a decision or course of conduct



I've noticed a plague of people all over the web spelling "advise" when they meant "advice". For example, "I need advise". Normally I don't point out things like this, but it's become an epidemic!



Just thought I'd put this out there as a public service announcement.



Ryan

 

[jwilliams3]

I know I am guilty of this one "there" vs. "they're"

 

[Blu-meanie]

AND... . the spelling is atrocious too. There is even a spell check on the regular replys. Some of the posts are actually painful to read.

 

[silverram03]

These word are commonly known as "homonyms" or words that sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things. Here are just a few!http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html

 

[bmoeller]

Here we go again. :-laf

 

[Double J]

Good advise.





:-laf Sorry, I couldn't resist.

 

[dpuckett]

I thought I was the only one.....

I think it goes back to the school system, (or lack thereof) and the fact kids no longer have to learn anything to pass tests. English and especially grammar are being downgraded to second line classes. Heck, people around here cant even speak coherent English, much less write it. My girlfriend did better in high school than I did, yet I can write and express myself more thoroughly and concisely. now if I could just learn to type consistently.....



Oh, go try to read some of the posts on the other Dodge diesel site- I cant make it out sometimes.



Daniel

 

[rbattelle]

Well, I didn't want this to turn into an all-out bad-grammar rodeo, but here goes!



One Of The More Interesting Things I've Noticed Coming Into More Common Use Is The Capitalization Of The First Letter Of Every Word In A Sentence Couple That With Little Or No Punctuation And You Have Something That Is Virtually Impossible To Decipher.



Ryan

 

[Double J]

I PERSONALLY LOVE THE "ALL CAPS" POSTS.



HMMM... WHAT'S THIS BUTTON DO?

 

[PC12Driver]

This thread should be a sticky!

How about "your" vs. "you're".



Your = possessive. For example, that's your truck.



You're = contraction of "you are". Example: You're not serious, are you?



All together: You're really not going to put those $5 flame job stickers on your $30,000 truck, are you?

 

[Carlsummers]

How sad it is that most people in this country cannot compose a grammatically correct sentence. The education system in this country is in the toilet.

 

[scootergmc]

Wel, I Cal It Da Evalooshun Of Langwage. Wat Dus It Madder As Long As U Know Wat I Am Sayun?

 

[AMink]

to-too-two, red-read, here-hear, reed-read



Did you eevr see the thnig werhe as lnog as the fisrt and lsat ltteers of the wrod are in the corcret spot, msot ppeole can raed it ok?

 

[gitchesum]

Here we go again. :-laf

Yup, hear we go again. :-laf :-laf

 

[dpuckett]

AMink- I still have to concentrate real (reel?) hard.



I was fortunate enough to go to a private (catholic church) school in my early years (K-2), so I actually learned phonics- the process of sounding out words based on the rules of language and what letters make what sounds when combined in a certain way. Plus, my grandmother taught me to actually wirte longhand when I was about five or six. Even though my girlfriend went to a lot better high school than I did, I still do much better grammatically than she does. I think I may have been on the tail end of the "old school" schools- I started kindergarden in 84; she was 5 yrs behind me.



DP

 

[rbattelle]

Also - "fuel" is spelled "f-u-e-l", not "f-u-l-e". I've begun seeing the latter in common use.



Ryan

 

[fest3er]

... the spelling is atrocious too. There is even a spell check on the regular replys.

Speaking of spelling... :-laf