Laura F wrote:
Thank you!  I was thinking about posting something similar today also.  You beat me to it.  The noodity one is the best....I think I'm going to use it from now on

I'm a profetional photographer with lots of experiance Laura.  I'd like to get some great shots consisting of glamorous noodity.  The compensation would be TFP, so it's not a payed gig.  Interested?

Ransom J wrote:

I'm a profetional photographer with lots of experiance Laura.  I'd like to get some great shots consisting of glamorous noodity.  The compensation would be TFP, so it's not a payed gig.  Interested?

cheeky bastard

Adrenalin Concepts  wrote:

cheeky bastard

Established experianced profetionals are never cheeky.

John Jebbia wrote:
Free spellcheck for those who need it most. These are the most common mistakes I see on here:

* It's not payed work. It's paid work.
* It's not experiance. It's experience.
* It's not refrances. It's [/b]references[/b]
* It's not profetional. It's professional
* It's not noodity. It's nudity. (Ok.. I made this one up.)

This has been a public service announcement from your county library.

uh oh, where is the grammar check...?  the most common mistakes i 'HAVE' seen...

i think the library needs to go to the library.

Mike Walker wrote:
Of course if MM had a Spell checker in it's system that would fix it all.
Mike

Yes, because spell checker knows "it's" means, "it is" and nothing else.

W.G. Rowland wrote:
It's [ b ]

Whachu talkin 'bout? I got that right.

WillSpringfield wrote:
uh oh, where is the grammar check...?  the most common mistakes i 'HAVE' seen...

i think the library needs to go to the library.

Not if I meant to say "The most common mistakes I currently see on here..." As if I have multiple browser windows open as I am typing up the thread.

But I see your point too. It could be said either way and be correct.

Stephen Melvin wrote:
Yes, because spell checker knows "it's" means, "it is" and nothing else.

Well actually he IS grammatically correct. With  "it" referring to MM and the " 's " applying possession, "it's" is perfectly acceptable in the context it was used in.

Ransom J wrote:
Well actually he IS grammatically correct. With  "it" referring to MM and the " 's " applying possession, "it's" is perfectly acceptable in the context it was used in.

'"it's" is a contraction for '"it is" and is never used as possession.  "Its" without the apostrophe is used to designate possession.

Its going to rain. 

John Jebbia wrote:
So are we all in agreement that I was correct to begin with?

No, you'll always be wrong.

DigitalCMH wrote:
No, you'll always be wrong.

Sounds like something my mother would say.

DigitalCMH wrote:

'"it's" is a contraction for '"it is" and is never used as possession.  "Its" without the apostrophe is used to designate possession.

Its going to rain. 

Stephen Melvin wrote:
Yes, because spell checker knows "it's" means, "it is" and nothing else.

Ransom J wrote:
Well actually he IS grammatically correct. With  "it" referring to MM and the " 's " applying possession, "it's" is perfectly acceptable in the context it was used in.

No, he IS not. "It's" means "it is." Nothing else.

Stephen Melvin wrote:
No, he IS not. "It's" means "it is." Nothing else.

Correct.

e-string wrote:
Actually, paid and payed are both correct.

I don't like payed, but it's still correct.

If we're being really anal.. this one is open to some debate, but "payed" is 90% archaic. The only sense that's still commonly accepted is as the past tense and past participle of pay "to let out (a line or cable) by slackening". So in the sense he meant it, I would consider it incorrect, but I admit not every dictionary will restrict it to that meaning. 


Doing my Phd in English:-)

Stephen Melvin wrote:
No, he IS not. "It's" means "it is." Nothing else.

Not sure what we are debating here.

I typed: "It's not payed work. It's paid work." Which is the same thing as "It is not payed work. It is paid work."

Again.. Not sure what the debate is.

DigitalCMH wrote:

'"it's" is a contraction for '"it is" and is never used as possession.  "Its" without the apostrophe is used to designate possession.

Its going to rain. 

Stephen Melvin wrote:

Stephen Melvin wrote:
Yes, because spell checker knows "it's" means, "it is" and nothing else.

No, he IS not. "It's" means "it is." Nothing else.

i guess you missed where I said I stood corrected.  Since that time i have layed down corrected, eaten a piece of pizza corrected and smoked a cigarette corrected.

Ransom J wrote:

I just asked an English Major.  i stand corrected. Carry on.

My high school diploma wasn't enough for you to trust me?  You bastard!

e-string wrote:
lol. The last example is wrong.

"It's their car" is correct because "It's their car" = "It is their car".

"The car needs its oil changed." That is how you use "its".

I concur with e-string.