Does the Misuse of Infer and Imply Bug You?

[TomYo689]

No, that's what he's implying. The inference is implied.

 

[Zack]

No, that's what he's implying. The inference is implied.

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[Bartleby]

I could care less.

 

[dido]

Are you inferring I can't tell the difference between the two?

 

[LucyDuke]

I just find such things distracting. Like someone's got their shirt on inside out. Maybe most people don't care if your shirt is on inside out, but I notice and wonder why you don't care.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Do you ever think thay couger people are typimg on their phones and tje autocorrect ids actively defeating theu attempts ay proper spwlling? I realize spwlling =/= grammar but theu arte closely linked amd I think people should chill out and not judge each other over spwlling amd grammar mistakes, particularly woth soooo many ESL posters. Ypu lok dumv when you're arguments ater nased on ontology or, whay thw hell ever. Yupi knoq whay they meabt, stip hiding behind webster. Thay isn't directed at anyone in particular. Actually oit was directed at traitorfisj + no onw else in particular.


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[hobbsyoyo]

That is why swype sucks. It was awesome for a year but at this point it's collected so many spelling mistakes and spanish that it is useless. There is no global list I can go into to remove mispellings, you have to remove them all one by one as they gappen.

Anywho I feel grammar and spelling nazis are annoying in that all too often they use it as a way to hide from the fact they can't refute the gist of what the other person (badly) wrote. It's a cop out.

And grammar nazis that are just grammar nazis to be grammar nazis are jerks.

 

[LucyDuke]

Being a jerk about it is not cool. Being bugged by it is totally reasonable.

I can't take seriously anything said including "u" as a word. Sorry, I just can't.

 

[Zack]

Anywho I feel grammar and spelling nazis are annoying

*Anyways, <independent clause>.

 

[Goodfella]

Yeah, it does bug me. I'm also irritated that people often don't put the period before the quotation mark. The period should always go before the quotation mark.

 

[Zack]

Yeah, it does bug me. I'm also irritated that people often don't put the period before the quotation mark. The period should always go before the quotation mark.

This never felt right to me. If I end my sentence with a one-word quotation, for example, it feels wrong to include the ending punctuation inside the quotation mark.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I never realized until now that you guys say "period" instead of "full stop". Another day older and wiser.

 

[Quackers]

It can only be full stop, peroid...

 

[Zack]

I never realized until now that you guys say "period" instead of "full stop". Another day older and wiser.

"Full stop" sounds like something you would say on a telegraph.

 

[Goodfella]

This never felt right to me. If I end my sentence with a one-word quotation, for example, it feels wrong to include the ending punctuation inside the quotation mark.

Actually, I don't think they do it that way in the UK and I don't know about Australia. But if you live in the US or Canada, too bad. You need to learn for it to feel "right."

I never realized until now that you guys say "period" instead of "full stop". Another day older and wiser.

It's a period! End of discussion, full stop!

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I don't know about Australia.

Quotations are ended with "mate"

 

[azzaman333]

"right."

 

[Core Imposter]

I really don't under stand the difference between the two words. Can someone misuse them in a sentence?

 

[Flying Pig]

Implication is done on the part of the sender of information, while inference is done by the receiver. Thus, correctly:

'The report [source of information] implies that the NHS is underfunded'
'I [receiver of information] infer from the report that the NHS is underfunded'

 

[Goodfella]

Sorry, majority rule.