Grammar 101: YAY!!!

How is it possible that Flammable and Inflammable mean the same thing???

flam·ma·ble [flam-uh-buhl]
adjective
easily set on fire; combustible; inflammable.

in·flam·ma·ble [in-flam-uh-buhl]
adjective
capable of being set on fire; combustible; flammable.
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On another board a multitude of threads are written "ISO Providers That (Do Something)."

Aren't providers people "who" deserve a personal relative pronoun?

(I had to look that up)
To follow up on Holly's post, I received this email today:

"So sense I have received so many interests in your city, you have peaked my interest."

This is a 16 word sentence and she misused four of them, for a 25% failure rate. That's hard to beet. Originally Posted by awl4knot
That is so funny awl4knot! Did she want to meat you?

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It all depends on how remembered the person writing would like to be ? Example is posted above .If those signs were correctly spelled would they be posted on here ? It,s all in the matter at hand . Is not ass in english arse ? I shee see sheels at thee c shore . Didnt you just think cindy brady ?
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Im not trying to be a ass just i struggle in type but not in person . sorry
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Lmao !! I type even worse than this !
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LMAO!

First time I have seen this thread! Awesome.

Others that REALLY bug me---

receive (recieve)
friend (freind)
separate (seperate)

and not dropping the "e" with "ing"

giveing, loveing etc.

Those are the biggest violators. I try to breathe deep on some other errors.
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I try to breathe deeply on some other errors. Originally Posted by FireKitten
Suck some air.
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See? Exactly!!!
Someone is planning on having an out of body experience...
"My attention will be souly on you. "
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I got 12/12. Originally Posted by JessicaKnightly
How sexy! I know whose showcase I'll be excited to read later.
On another board a multitude of threads are written "ISO Providers That (Do Something)."

Aren't providers people "who" deserve a personal relative pronoun?

(I had to look that up) Originally Posted by awl4knot
This always bothered me. Even though I know that most likely the poster is just not that stringent with grammar, it comes off that the poster thinks we are just soulless bodies.

I got a 12/12.

You wouldn't know it from all my run-on, awkward, and sometimes archaic sentence structure. Also my tendency to write how I talk, fragments and all.