Principal Principle
 

Why do people keep on saying "Principle plus Interest"??? Argh!

My personal principles are not for sale.
You need to pay principal and interest to the bank.
The high school principal is angry.
I got an approval-in-principle for my loan principal.

<whinge over>

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Grama nazi?

Are you saying it's the principal of the thing?

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LoLz

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It's not grama nazism - just using the right words in the right place :)

Last week, I was horrified to discover that all of the people in our American office believe that 'Premise' is the singular form of 'Premises'...


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I am soooo with you! But everyone hates me when I point out the correct spelling!! The other day I saw a law firm which stated its 'principle' area of business was litigation. ARGH :ohmy:

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That is bad practise.

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There terrible.

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who wants to buy some office stationary at officeworks?

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naa its crap that stuff never moves

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Halting from making commonwealth *twitch* for a moment, I'd much rather people put their efforts into saying something interesting and considered, than put those same efforts into learning the, frankly stupid, vagaries of the English language. You can run a text through an automatic checker to fix most major grammar issues - you can't fix dumb thoughts the same way.

Witness the perfectly formed, grammatically correct, diatribes from politicians' mouths.

Learning the difference between 'principal' and 'principle' is a 'nice-to-have' relative to knowing when you are talking crap.

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Commonwealth is a principal ballerina:D

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i'm a principled ballerina

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how do you distinguish between principal and principle, in orally released form?

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:amen: its usually irks the anally retentive :D

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If it's coming from a politician's mouth it has to be principal, since everyone knows politicians have no principles.

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LinkedIn is full of Principle Engineers :)

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You should run away from any mortgage broker who incorrectly uses "principle". :scarper:

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I can understand Joe Public not using grammar correctly, but when it is on an official document, shop sign (ie made by a signwriter rather than hastily chalked on a board,) or in the newspaper, then time should be taken to get it right.

Both my OH and I find the lazy use of spelling, punctuation and grammar to be increasing.

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I can't, I'm by no means perfect, but a decent level should be expected of everyone.

The level of competence in my new workplace is shocking, most of them are behind where I would have considered myself at the end of primary school

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Increasing what?

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LoLz x10

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Most cringeworthy for me

'I / You / She / He / We / They should OF known better.':frown:
Could be any other should / could / would construction as above.

Seriously!?! You should HAVE gone to school!

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I think people should be accurate. I mean I don't want my hypertension being mistaken for hypotension.

My dad used to get annoyed at folk confusing gasometers and gas-meters.

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My current pet hatred is the incorrect usage of "I" instead of "me".

I don't know if people think it makes them sound more intelligent to say "Sally and I" instead of "Sally and me" but it isn't always correct.

It's really simple though - take out 'Sally and' in your sentence and then work out whether you'd use "I" or "me".

Unless, of course, you aren't using a sentence containing "Sally"...

:D

(Yes, this is completely unimportant to most people. Do I care? No.)

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so is that Dreamy and I or Dreamy and me:blink:

im still no wiser:lol:

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Depends what Walter and I are going to do :P

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:rofl:

see youre too smart - you've tied me in knots already:p:lol:

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I = doer
me = receiver

I kill you, you kill me.