Grammar mistake that shits you the most
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Very little angers me in this particular area. As long as people make a decent effort to make a coherent statement I let most things slide. However, if every word is wrong, or I have to read the sentence 47 times to understand it, Grammar Nazi-ing will happen. Also "1337" speak enrages me. Anyone who uses it for more than three words in a single post should be shot twice in the head.
I think the whole grammar police routine only serves to show what a sad and lonely existence that person leads...
I mean get a life, people talking online do so in an informal, relaxed and quick way so of course they are going to spell some things wrong and abbreviate or not punctuate it properly as its all just relatively meaningless chatter not a professional or academic paper. So having 100% perfect grammar in every post doesn't make you more intelligent then anyone else believe it not it just means you have more time in your life to devote to ultimately unimportant conversations and bringing it up as some sort of trump card just makes you look conceited and pretentious.
Having good grammar does not substitute having a valid point. What annoys me are people who bang on about another persons grammar using it as an excuse not to actually have a point and ignore anything they can't rebut because they have good grammar therefore they win.Personally when i see someone attack the other persons grammar rather then the content of their post i think they have lost.
I mean get a life, people talking online do so in an informal, relaxed and quick way so of course they are going to spell some things wrong and abbreviate or not punctuate it properly as its all just relatively meaningless chatter not a professional or academic paper. So having 100% perfect grammar in every post doesn't make you more intelligent then anyone else believe it not it just means you have more time in your life to devote to ultimately unimportant conversations and bringing it up as some sort of trump card just makes you look conceited and pretentious.
Having good grammar does not substitute having a valid point. What annoys me are people who bang on about another persons grammar using it as an excuse not to actually have a point and ignore anything they can't rebut because they have good grammar therefore they win.Personally when i see someone attack the other persons grammar rather then the content of their post i think they have lost.
I don't know where you're from, but here in Texas, words like "our" occasionally come across sounding like "are." I knew a few people that type phonetically and so it comes out that way.Nivag the Owl said:
My main problem is myself. I can't spell half the words I know, and the other half I'm probably confused on the meaning of. I hate it when I make a mistake or do something that people better at writing than me go. "Ooooh, thats a bad one." I'm sure I made at least one mistake in that paragraph alone.
You're/your
Were/Where
to/too/two
A few years back, someone in my school year died, and on facebook they made a memorial page for him. It read "A brother, a son and a freind too many".
Oh dear.
Were/Where
to/too/two
A few years back, someone in my school year died, and on facebook they made a memorial page for him. It read "A brother, a son and a freind too many".
Oh dear.
The mistake that gets me the most is when people yell about grammar mistakes when it's really an issue with diction or spelling.
Loose - lose
My loose pants caused me to lose the race
GET IT RIGHT!
also "addicting"
WRONG! it's addictive for fucks sake!
to, too and two piss me off when used wrong as well.
My loose pants caused me to lose the race
GET IT RIGHT!
also "addicting"
WRONG! it's addictive for fucks sake!
to, too and two piss me off when used wrong as well.
As I sub-edit fiction for a hobby, I cannot really get riled up about it but one of the most common errors is apostrophe abuse. It is everywhere. It seems that people think that where there is an "S" there is an apostrophe.
(Note, the above sentence did not contain any apostrophises).
It's this = It is this.
Its thing = Thing belongs to it.
It's not hard.
One more thing. Something I say to a lot of my clients is this:
"Spellcheck is not your friend, I am."
(Note, the above sentence did not contain any apostrophises).
It's this = It is this.
Its thing = Thing belongs to it.
It's not hard.
One more thing. Something I say to a lot of my clients is this:
"Spellcheck is not your friend, I am."
At the very least, they could go whole hog and do the appropriate misspelling.Mr.Black said:
As in "that's beyond ridiculous, it's redonkulous!"
The misuse of semicolons has been known to induce great fury within me.
I'm quoting you because I love your avatar.joshuaayt said:
I think I hate it when people type things like,
Hai, or Bai, instead of Hi or Bye. I especially hate kkthx and kkthxbai...makes me instantly want to scream and make sure that person can never type again.
I also hate it when people use, lolcatz typing. As if grammar wasn't bad enough, you have to try to use babytalk nonsense to try to say something funny, that really isn't funny at all. There are certain points when the lolcats thing is ok, mainly when its in extreme sarcasm, or if someone is making fun of other lolcats people using their own stupid language.
Hai, or Bai, instead of Hi or Bye. I especially hate kkthx and kkthxbai...makes me instantly want to scream and make sure that person can never type again.
I also hate it when people use, lolcatz typing. As if grammar wasn't bad enough, you have to try to use babytalk nonsense to try to say something funny, that really isn't funny at all. There are certain points when the lolcats thing is ok, mainly when its in extreme sarcasm, or if someone is making fun of other lolcats people using their own stupid language.
Misused apostrophes. It seems most people I work with just throw one in there whenever a word ends in an 's'.
Homophones. There, their, and they're are not interchangeable people!
Homophones. There, their, and they're are not interchangeable people!
