Grammar mistake that shits you the most

[tofulove]

but in all seriousness, if some one uses to instead of too, whats the big deal? did that mess you up, were you confused by that? i mean if simply using the wrong to, too ,two, is enough to make you misunderstand some one, i think your the one who is lacking in intelligence. and if you do understand with out any difficulty, than your just a dick who feels the need to correct minor grammar errors as a way to feel superior than those with less writing skills than your self.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Personally, for me it's text-speak. I could kind of understand the point of it back in the 90's when texts were limited to 100 characters, but technology has moved on! Not to mention the fact that the internet has never had a post size limit. It winds me up when I see 'M8' instead of 'mate', 'L8R' instead of 'later', and so on.

Also included in this are people who SAY text speak in real conversations. I know someone who actually says 'LOL' instead of laughing.

 

[tofulove]

personally im a horrible writer, i always have bin, and i don't mind being corrected by a friend who doing it to honestly help me, but in most cases people do that mainly to try to get a upper hand in a flame battle, or to try to act smug.

 

[tofulove]

Personally, for me it's text-speak. I could kind of understand the point of it back in the 90's when texts were limited to 100 characters, but technology has moved on! Not to mention the fact that the internet has never had a post size limit. It winds me up when I see 'M8' instead of 'mate', 'L8R' instead of 'later', and so on.

Also included in this are people who SAY text speak in real conversations. I know someone who actually says 'LOL' instead of laughing.

now people who say L o L, or lul drives me crazy but thats another subject for another day in another thread.

 

[BlackHat]

When amerifags tell me I've spelled a word wrong because i have spelt it using the UK spelling and not the bloody American one we invented the bloody language first now spell it right arse

For those who don't know what I'm getting at

Uk: apologise
US: Apologize

(and its even worse when your Internet and word programs insist on spelling it the American wY)way

 

[InitHello]

The one thing that arouses my fury and ire more than anything else is ... apostrophe for plurals. It's very simple: An apostrophe means that something belongs to something else. "The car's wheels" is correct, "The cars wheel's" makes me want to stab puppies.

When amerifags tell me I've spelled a word wrong because i have spelt it using the UK spelling and not the bloody American one we invented the bloody language first now spell it right arse (snip)

Edit: Not accusing you of this attitude, but I have the corresponding fury at UK english speakers who use their invention (which was really an amalgamation of anglic, saxon, latin, french, and any other languages it could accost in a dark alley) of the language as an excuse to tell americans that their way is oh so wrong. And on a side note, "color" is the original latin word for color, so it's hardly wrong to spell it that way.

Double edit - you invented corkscrews and cordite, the english language just happened to develop itself in your country.

 

[Cherry Cola]

When people misspell definitely.

Mostly they spell it as "defenetely" or "Definetely" or some other way that annoys me quite a bit.

 

[The_Echo]

Beyond everything else, using "apostrophe-S" when pluralizing a word. Apostrophes are read to indicate ownership or the omission of letters. Nothing else.

Aside from that, all the basic things listed by other users sets my blood to a boil. Pluralizing with "apostrophe-S," however, is just bloody horrible.

 

[Tom Phoenix]

More often then not, I usually get annoyed at myself for making grammar mistakes. Since my knowledge of English is not too bad, I absolutely hate it every time I make a mistake.

Anyway, I am not much of a grammar nazi and I do not mind if other people make mistakes. That said, I do get annoyed when people refuse to use even the most basic grammar (like starting a sentence with a capital letter, ending it with a punctuation mark, using paragraphs...) beacuse they think that the Internet excuses them from writing properly.

I especially get annoyed when people do not use paragraphs when making posts. It makes my eyes bleed trying to read text that is bunched up together into a disorganised mess. Makes you wonder if they even know what the Enter key does...

 

[BlindMessiah94]

Everything everyone posted.

Plus the word anyway.

People type anyways and there is really no such word. It is purely colloquial (and only so because people kept using it until it became a thing!)

 

[ScruffyTheJanitor]

I'm more of a kill the people who can't understand that stupidest/stupider.. or any of the suchlike... aren't words. You can be increasingly stupid, more stupid or the most stupid... but none of this "stupider" bollocks.

Same goes for any word that follows the "don't be thick and just add "er" to the end"

One that irritates me in speech is "I'm going to go and do...." which should be, "I'm going to go TO do" although it's too common to hate so much.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Personally, for me it's text-speak. I could kind of understand the point of it back in the 90's when texts were limited to 100 characters, but technology has moved on! Not to mention the fact that the internet has never had a post size limit. It winds me up when I see 'M8' instead of 'mate', 'L8R' instead of 'later', and so on.

Also included in this are people who SAY text speak in real conversations. I know someone who actually says 'LOL' instead of laughing.

now people who say L o L, or lul drives me crazy but thats another subject for another day in another thread.

I hope not! If that gets posted as a new thread then I'll probably spend all day on the thread spewing bile and hate on the subject, then get ban-hammered for trolling - not something I want.

 

[Deadlock Radium]

This is more of a personal mistake, but I have an annoying habit of holding the shift key for too long when I try to capitalize words, usually at the beginning of sentences when I start typing fast.

Example: "GOd damn it I did it again. WHy do I keep doing that? IT pisses me off to no end."

GRAAAAAH WHY CAN'T I STOP DOING THAT!!?!?!

That. It seriously makes me rage at myself and then edit it so there's only one capital letter in the start of a sentence. I love the 'Edit'-button <3

 

[Dott]

"Curse your brutal cunning" often becomes "Curse your brutal cumming".

"Sec" also has a bad habit of becoming "Sex".

Perhaps I just have a sick mind which makes me do this without knowing it myself.

 

[Dott]

This is more of a personal mistake, but I have an annoying habit of holding the shift key for too long when I try to capitalize words, usually at the beginning of sentences when I start typing fast.

Example: "GOd damn it I did it again. WHy do I keep doing that? IT pisses me off to no end."

GRAAAAAH WHY CAN'T I STOP DOING THAT!!?!?!

That. It seriously makes me rage at myself and then edit it so there's only one capital letter in the start of a sentence. I love the 'Edit'-button <3

/agree

 

[awmperry]

The one that's always annoyed me hugely - even more than every other grammatical error that annoys me, which is most of them - is "I should of done such-and-such". "Should of", "could of", all that... it's "should have", which is contracted to "should've", which morons then mistype as "should of".

They should've gone to school.

 

[jymkata]

Sometimes one of my friends will forget to let go of the Shift key when typing, meaning he'll say something like
"I HAVE TO LIVE THERE FOR !" MONTHS!"
Which always makes me do a double-take

 

[Sven und EIN HUND]

I hate der,die,das in german language, in school even if you have word written correctly it doesnt count until you have one of those and mostly its not easy to remember which word has which.

Christ I hear you dude. English is my first language and I've been learning German for 4 years in school, although this is the only year where they've been teaching me valuable stuff.

In terms of English, 'their', 'they're' and 'there' definitely springs to mind.... Also, lyk, lier, sik, cos... I know a guy who spells one as won, and heaps of girls around my area of the 'popular' demographic describe a good day as a 'cute day'. Yeah, fuck my area.

 

[Superior Mind]

Quite a bit, I'm a bit of a closet grammar Nazi. Probably the one that constantly gets to me is "alot".

But the biggest arse in the world of grammar is just plain old text speak. My cousin writes in it fluently, she's travelling through Canada at the moment which is fantastic. Thing is when she sends e-mails telling me about how she's getting on I can't read the damn things - or I can, it just takes me a quarter of an hour to decipher the bloody thing first.

People need to remember: text speak may take half as long to write but it takes about five times as long to read.

 

[zHellas]

its / it's

Largely because it's the one I get wrong most often, even though I know how to do it right. It really pisses me off when I see I've done it wrong again. Because of that I've been paying special attention to it, but that also makes me notice it more in other people's posts.

I pretty much just use "it's".

And any other grammar/spelling mistakes(besides the it's thing) annoy me....