Why YSK?

The first person who typed “should of” probably heard of it in real life that was meant to be “should’ve”, they typed “should of” online and readers thought that it’s grammatically correct to say “should of” which is in fact wrong and it became widespread throughout the years on Reddit.

I hope something could start to change.

    • @ronaldtemp1OP
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      1 year ago

      I know right, I know people make careless grammatical mistakes all the time, including me, which is completely fine but people outright thought that “should of” is correct and use it all the time starts to get annoying

    • @Today
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      131 year ago

      Same! I rather see shoulda than should of.

    • @ramblechat
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      71 year ago

      I know, for all intensive purposes it’s maddening.

    • @samus12345
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      1 year ago

      That and “all of the sudden.”

    • @lhx
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      61 year ago

      But more importantly, where do you stand on the Oxford comma?

      • @Ghukek
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        51 year ago

        I strongly prefer it but it’s not something I feel is worth correcting someone on.

      • @Today
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        51 year ago

        Oh, Dude! I’m 99% for it. On the night before my uncle’s funeral, while labeling photos for the slideshow, two of my cousins got into an Oxford comma fight. John, Joe, and Jeff. Take out the second comma. But it’s right! But it looks stupid! Fight! Fight! Fight!

        • @Rick
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          21 year ago

          Ah funerals, people really get upset over the smallest things due to all the pain from the loss. I don’t want to ever go through that again but I know it’s just a part of life. :(

          • @Today
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            31 year ago

            Yeah. Had to do it twice in the last year. Sucks.

            • @Rick
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              21 year ago

              Damn man, I’m really sorry for your losses. I’ve experienced something similar in the past. It’s like when one person dies, more follow shortly. I feel like when people loose their loved ones, its like some peoples bodies when they are old just give up as the person they loved disappeared.

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
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        31 year ago

        It’s mandatory in a series, only. Something is only a series of there are three. Plenty of time the cadence and diction sounds like a series but isn’t.

        If the first two or last two are antecedent to one another, you don’t need the comma. Said another way, if the first or last noun is not severed from the second, you need a serial command to indicate that.

        It depends on what you’re trying to say.