I don't get you grammar checker.

[drobert44]

My grammar check keeps trying to tell me to put capital letters into the middle of sentences. I don't get why?

Mostly though, I wanna hear some of the craziest things that your grammar program has tried to do or suggest.

I don’t trust it!

 

[TiberiusPrime]

Everyone likes a little ass but nobody likes a smart ass. Here's a little ass for everyone to enjoy

Hey, better to be a smart ass than a dumb ass.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Don't forget to add a sub-entry for "grandfather clock".

Should grandfather be possessive, or perhaps even plural possessive in this usage?

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Hey, better to be a smart ass than a dumb ass.

Far worse to be both...

 

[SkyBubble]

My old phone's autocorrect function in text insisted on calling it Walnart.

That's funny. It sounds like a cross between Walmart and walnut.

 

[SkyBubble]

Google says:
Ass came first as the animal is actually the African Wild Ass.(yeah, let your imagination run wild with that.)
The word "donkey" likely originated as a slang or dialectal term in the late 18th century, possibly from a diminutive of "dun," meaning a dull gray-brown color, which is a common color for donkeys. Another theory suggests it was influenced by the word "monkey," which also ends in "-key". The older and more formal term for a donkey was "ass," but "donkey" became more common, possibly due to the word "ass" also being used as a vulgar term.
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I've also seen Ass defined as 'An aggressively stupid person.'
I think this is one of the most appropriately descriptive definitions I have ever seen. That person is not only stupid, they work at it, and hard.

What I don't understand is why you brits insist on diluting the power of the word by changing the spelling. I mean, you know American English is the correct way to say and spell thing, right?

Does anyone find it amusing tht the symbol of one of our major political parties is an ass?

 

[SkyBubble]

Change "ass" to "buttocks" when referring to a person being an ass.

Your spellchecker is such a buttocks.

 

[SkyBubble]

As opposed to the Received Pronunciation (RP) accent was promoted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as the prestigious standard of the upper classes and the British elite, making it a social marker of wealth and status rather than a naturally occurring phenomenon...

Damned elitist monarchist, brits. have to contrive everything to their standard... LOL

"There are some places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years." -- Professor Henry Higgins, My Fair Lady

 

[SkyBubble]

A-ss is the non-rhotic pronunciation of Arse.

The e-rhotic pronunciation?

 

[SkyBubble]

Butt... some people are more than just an asshole.

I've made people mad by calling the leader of terrorist Iran the "Assaholah."

 

[SkyBubble]

Janitor is actually Latin, from the root "Janus" meaning arch or gate. A janitor is the person who guards an arch or gateway.

My Latin teacher used to say that all the short, ugly words are Germanic, but the others are Latin.

The fact of the matter is that English is a Germanic language with a Latinate language overlaid on it (likely from the Norman Conquest.)

 

[SkyBubble]

I don't use a grammar checker, but I always have the spellchecker on as I'm writing. The strangest suggestion it's made - and I've mentioned it here before - was the single time in all my erotica that it wanted to change "cock" into "clock". As in, "She opened her mouth and engulfed my clock."

She must have a very large mouth.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

"There are some places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years." -- Professor Henry Higgins, My Fair Lady

Then, of course, Shaw, who was oft quoted as saying; "England and America are two countries separated by the same language,"

 

[NuclearFairy]

It just tried to get me to put a random t into the middle of a sentence...

XD You're drunk, grammar checker, sleep it off and lemme write in peace.

 

[drobert44]

Should grandfather be possessive, or perhaps even plural possessive in this usage?

Well, it’s an adjective.