That one mistake...

[Strazdas]

so many grammar nazis here. you must hate every post i type. so ill post here. just to spite you.

What bothers me is how people go about something done in a sequel, for a thing that has no sequel, and then i find out its actually a original thier talking about, thinking its a sequel to a reboot. hilarity ensues.

Its also funny when foregners cant speak my name, and say "Stardas" instead i feel like a stardas.

Every time you type 'alot', an innocent Alot dies horribly.

Think of the poor Alot.

Care about Alot.

Because only you can save Alot.

Really, this thread is just going to turn into people ribbing off of things other people say, as it already has to some extent.

I agree, they are s fuzzy.....

Anyways, people who use "txt speak" drive me batty. I mean... really. People don't even text with "u" and "wit" anymore. Why are they typing like that on the internet?

You dont visit twatter do you?

Saying " i could care less " is .

No its not. I could care less means that i have a undefined amount of care (or else i wouldnt be posting this post now do i) but i could have less of it since its not a thing i want to care about. I could care less is a pretty legit sentence.

 

[Lonewolfm16]

I used to hate it when teachers got my name wrong. My name is Noah, but I would often be called Nathan instead. Aside from starting with the letter "N", the names aren't very similar, so it baffled me that so many teachers got it wrong. Thankfully, my high school teachers actually get it right.

Whenever someone calls a previous entry in a series a prequel. Don't know why it annoys me, but it does.

This bothers me as well. I can't really put my finger on why it annoys me either, but it still does.


Lastly, I hate it when my classmates make the unbelievably stupid mistake of plagiarizing their papers. Moral issues aside, they don't even do it well. So many people in my class got caught because they left things in from the article they copy-and-pasted that were dead giveaways, such as "citation needed", or "continued on page eight" (when the paper they turned in didn't even have eight pages). Not only that, but they plagiarized from the sources that they cited. They basically worked from a cheat-sheet, and then handed the teacher said cheat-sheet. Sweet spider-monkey Jesus, if you're going to do something morally reprehensible, at least give enough of a damn to do it well.

Those people annoy me most when they are in my group. Once, in middle school, we had to design a state. We went for a alliance between colonials and the Iroquois Confederacy. I agreed to do a little more than half the work in the group in exchange for creative freedom. I took the group's papers home to check and type them. One of my group-mates just copy pasted the economics sections from Wikipedia. It was pretty much what you described, except it didn't even make sense since it was half a article about Iroquois trading. I trusted them with one thing and they fucked it up! I had to rewrite it from scratch... in addition to most of the other papers. Sometimes I hate group work.

 

[McMullen]

Spelling I can understand, but many of the common grammar errors are so easy to avoid. Everybody complains about how inconsistent English is, yet the consistent rules get violated just as often as the inconsistent ones. The most noticeable example is apostrophes. Use apostrophes when the s means the word belongs to someone or something, not when there are many of that word. You can also use it as a contraction for "is", which takes higher priority: English has its faults, but it's really not that bad once you get used to it. Easy rule, but so many people break it.

Most of the stuff mentioned doesn't really bother me. Maybe its because I don't tattoo the swastika of spelling on my forehead, I just don't really care if people have bad grammar or spelling because I do too. Thank god for auto correct or I'd probably have to walk the plank of the internet. Doesn't it just seem stuck up that this thread even exists? Just seems like a big jack off party of OH I HAVE BETTER SPELLING AND GRAMMAR THEN YOU DO THEREFORE I AM ULTIMATELY BETTER THEN YOU IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE. LET ME SHOVE IT IN YOUR FACE TO MAKE MYSELF FEEL BETTER. Just saying...

Um, there's not that many people saying that here, if there are any at all. If anything I'd say you're trying to make yourself feel better about your mistakes by attacking the people who point them out, rather than making any effort to learn from them. If your method of responding to your own errors (not just in language, but in general) is to get mad at everyone else for not accepting them as correct, then that's likely to hold you back in life. You should work on that.