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Beware United Airlines' tricksy check-in kiosks or you'll pay hundreds more {WalletPop}

Mar 4th 2010 3:41PM OK, it was an informative article. I don't fly much, but it did give me information about what not to do. My question is this: DOES ANYONE EDIT THESE ARTICLES BEFORE RELEASING THEM?
"Stupider" is not a word! If you want to make this word a comparative adjective you would write or say: "more stupid." The rule states: words with more than one syllable do not use -er or -est as a word ending to show comparison. These words are made comparative and superlative using "more and most." So, "stupid" becomes "more stupid" or "most stupid."

Where they got the letter "i" in the middle is a mystery to me. You would only use the "i" if the word ended with the letter "y." In this case you can bend the rule, and two syllable words can be made comparative or superlative by changing the "y" to "i" and then adding -er or -est. So, "pretty" becomes "prettier" or "prettiest."

That's my grammar lesson for the day. I'm just so tired of reading articles that aren't proofed. I'm a writer/editor by trade. Mistakes like this ruin the article, and make the writer/publisher look STUPID!

Asylum Makes Grammar Fun -- Tips for the Grammatically Challenged {Asylum}

Jan 26th 2010 10:35AM There are so many people using improper grammar that is becoming imbedded into our language. I hear newscasters saying: "There's two storms coming our way this weekend." When they should be saying, "There ARE two storms."

Another common error is the use of "less and fewer." "Less" is used for words we call, "non-count," such as "sugar, water, rice, paint." We can't count these things unless we put them in containers, such as, one cup of sugar, two glasses of water, a bag of rice. Therefore, we should say we have LESS RICE, and FEWER CUPS OF RICE. Go to the grocery store. Look at how they have labeled their checkout lines - five items or LESS. This is wrong, since we are counting the items, it should read: five items or FEWER.

Then we wonder, "Why can't our children write properly? Why is their grammar so bad?" Oh, and that's another one. "I feel BAD." This is actually correct when used in the context of health. If you say, "I feel badly," it means your hands or fingers don't work properly, and you can't use your sense of touch.

Some people don't care, and when they read this will say that it's very petty to pick apart what people are saying and writing. I disagree. If you have the choice to show others that you are smart or stupid, which would you choose?

A local law firm actually put an add on TV with a grammatical error. It involved "less and fewer." I called them and asked them to think about their audience. If I had to choose a law firm that makes grammatical errors in their television adds, I wouldn't choose them to represent ME. Their lack of knowledge or choice of sloppiness would cause me to seek council elsewhere. The law firm pulled the television add.