Difference between 'and' and 'but'

[Yeem]

You know what really gets to me?

When people can't tell the difference between 'and' and 'but'!

Example:

RIGHT: "It is a nice day, but storm clouds are brewing."

WRONG: "It's a nice day, and storm clouds are brewing." (This is correct only if you think storms are nice!)


RIGHT: "The audition went great, but I broke the chair when I got up to leave."

WRONG: "The audition went great, and I broke the chair when I got up to leave." (So breaking the chair is a plus?)


I see this kind of crap everywhere. Why? Why?!

/rant

 

[IronWing]

The world would be lost in the sea of ignorance but for the shining beacon of your wisdomy brain squeezins we are in receivement there of.

 

[TecHNooB]

definately

 

[yankeesfan]

You know what really gets to me?

When people can't tell the difference between 'and' and 'but'!

Example:

RIGHT: "It is a nice day, but storm clouds are brewing."

WRONG: "It's a nice day, and storm clouds are brewing." (This is correct only if you think storms are nice!)


RIGHT: "The audition went great, but I broke the chair when I got up to leave."

WRONG: "The audition went great, and I broke the chair when I got up to leave." (So breaking the chair is a plus?)


I see this kind of crap everywhere. Why? Why?!

/rant

I hate it when people use sentence fragments in their writing. You should learn to avoid them. Also, you do not know how to use singe quotation marks.

 

[UncleWai]

I agree and your thread sucks.

 

[RapidSnail]

You know what really gets to me?

When people can't tell the difference between 'and' and 'but'!

Example:

RIGHT: "It is a nice day, but storm clouds are brewing."

WRONG: "It's a nice day, and storm clouds are brewing." (This is correct only if you think storms are nice!)


RIGHT: "The audition went great, but I broke the chair when I got up to leave."

WRONG: "The audition went great, and I broke the chair when I got up to leave." (So breaking the chair is a plus?)


I see this kind of crap everywhere. Why? Why?!

/rant

As far as I'm aware, none of those examples are grammatically or semantically incorrect.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

The world would be lost in the sea of ignorance but for the shining bacon of your wisdomy brain squeezins we are in receivement there of.

Shiny bacon sounds tasty... :hmm:

 

[Sea Moose]

<--- official president of the anti grammar nazi league

 

[fatpat268]

terrible rant and terrible examples

Seriously, those examples were the best you could come up with?

 

[Cogman]

As far as I'm aware, none of those examples are grammatically or semantically incorrect.

Exactly. You can have a nice day and storm clouds. You can have a good audition and break a chair (It could have been part of the audition).

If you are a logician, and and but are interchangeable when transforming sentences into logic statements.

In other words, OP is full of crap.

 

[gorcorps]

You know what really gets to me?

When people can't tell the difference between 'and' and 'but'!

Example:

RIGHT: "It is a nice day, but storm clouds are brewing."

WRONG: "It's a nice day, and storm clouds are brewing." (This is correct only if you think storms are nice!)


RIGHT: "The audition went great, but I broke the chair when I got up to leave."

WRONG: "The audition went great, and I broke the chair when I got up to leave." (So breaking the chair is a plus?)


I see this kind of crap everywhere. Why? Why?!

/rant

None of those sentences are wrong. "And" doesn't automatically denote something positive, it just denotes something that happened alongside the first thing.

 

[RedRooster]

I learned this week that "But" is a verbal eraser, and makes the listener subliminally disregard everything said up to that point in the sentence.

I'm assuming "And" is verbal tape then.

 

[PottedMeat]

lol thread backfire. the many minutes OP must have been ranting about that and minutes more formatting his post.

 

[Meghan54]

Actually, to be a complete grammar Nazi, commas are completely unnecessary in any of the OP's quoted sentences.

 

[her209]

RIGHT: I'm pregnant, but you're not the father.

WRONG: I'm pregnant and you're the father.

 

[Yeem]

Hah!

The grammar nazi bait worked.

 

[Cogman]

Hah!

Ima TrolL!

Fixed that for you.

Grammar nazi's are the ones that post grammar rules in non-grammar related threads. This is a grammar related thread. You didn't bait grammar nazi's, you've just proven your ignorance.

Oh, and LOL at her's example.

 

[SKORPI0]

RIGHT: I'm pregnant, but you're not the father.

WRONG: I'm pregnant and you're the father.

 

[BoomerD]

<--- official president of the anti grammar nazi league

That's because you're an Aussie. The entire world knows youse bollix the English language worse than any other "native English" speaking group in the world...with the possible exception of your neighbors, the Kiwi's.

Along the OP's original lines,

"It's a nice day, but it's going to get hot."
OR
"It's a nice day and it's going to get hot."

For me, the former is more correct, BUT, for some people, the latter is more to their liking.

 

[spaceman]

there are no rules

 

[Cattykit]

OP is the one who really doesn't know the Difference between 'and' and 'but'.

 

[Schfifty Five]

You know what really gets to me?

When people can't tell the difference between 'and' and 'but'!

Example:

RIGHT: "It is a nice day, but storm clouds are brewing."

WRONG: "It's a nice day, and storm clouds are brewing." (This is correct only if you think storms are nice!)


RIGHT: "The audition went great, but I broke the chair when I got up to leave."

WRONG: "The audition went great, and I broke the chair when I got up to leave." (So breaking the chair is a plus?)


I see this kind of crap everywhere. Why? Why?!

/rant

/agree

Although this is lower on the list of grammar pet peeves. Two other grammar mistakes that I hate more are:

1. "should/would/could of" instead of "should/could/would've or should/could/would have"

2. "Mine as well" when they should be saying "Might as well". Correct Ex: "This stock price is so low that I might as well just hold onto it."

 

[Perknose]

"Mine as well"

THIS is the worst, by far. Sure, both are deep holes in the ground, but only "mine" takes the conjunction "ore."

 

[coldmeat]

I've never heard anyone use and in that way before, always but.

 

[Tiamat]

fail thread is fail