The Grammar Nazi in You!

[Euryalus]

[HEADING=1]INJUSTICE LEAGUE[br]ASKS [br][small]-The Grammar Nazi in You!-[/small][/HEADING]​

Like every good Sith... bad Sith?

...Like every successful Sith... There we go... I feed off of my anger and frustration [footnote]Still working on the whole using it to fuel magic powers thing though[/footnote], and while many things aggravate me, today's topic is linguistically inspired.

The word kittycorner... is dumb.

And everyone around here seems to use it. If you've never heard it (I hadn't before moving here), it just means diagonally across the street from something.

Which makes me ask "why wouldn't you just use diagonally across from" then? It's more descriptive and better! It's existence infuriates me!

*flips table*

Okay, maybe infuriates is a tad strong XD

But I don't like using it myself.

Also when people say turrent instead of turret[footnote] God dammit Knifer![/footnote]

That's irritating...

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TL;DR: What words, phrases, or misspellings get your goat?[/HEADING]​

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[Tireseas_v1legacy]

The classic "They're, Their, There" one infuriates me to no end.

IT'S NOT THAT HARD PEOPLE!

 

[Barbas]

"Pretensious", as well as the confusion between "Your" and "You're"...and sometimes even "Yore". Basically, errors that are easy to correct or look up but are repeatedly made anyway, either through genuine learning difficulties or simple idleness. It is difficult to tell which is causing the problem, though, so I've let it annoy me less and less over time.

 

[JoJo]

The infamous writing 'a lot' as 'alot' is a particularly grinding error. Moving away from mistakes, the worst slang term I know has to be 'fit', when it's used mean a person being attractive. It just sounds awful to my ears, especially combined horrible grammar such as 'she's well fit' or even worse derivatives like 'he's a fitty'. Ugh.

Another that comes to mind, the misuse of 'ironic' to mean anything that's odd or coincidental rather than it's actual tighter meaning. I have a friend who does this and it's very annoying. No, us meeting on the way back to my house on the day we were scheduled to meet at my house later is just a lucky coincidence, not irony!

 

[shrekfan246]

The classic "They're, Their, There" one infuriates me to no end.

IT'S NOT THAT HARD PEOPLE!

Now, see, this one and "your/you're" and all of those similar words I can at least understand, especially for people who don't speak English as a native language. It's annoying when native speakers get it wrong, sure, but it at least can make a small amount of sense when you consider how many people just don't give a shite about their language courses throughout school.

What confuses me is the use of "defiantly" in place of "definitely". I mean, merely saying it aloud should be enough to make you realize that you're not using the correct word, surely.

OP wants me to rant about "alot" as well, but I've already done that before and I don't care to get a bunch of responses making excuses about how "language is just changing, maaaaan, get used to it!" again.

 

[Artina89]

When someone spells definite as definate. It aggravates me no end, especially when I see it on documents at work which is slightly worrying as well, because I personally don't want to see official documents with spelling mistakes.

 

[Kitsune Hunter]

While anything coming out of a chav's mouth is enough to make me bang my head against the wall out of frustration, the worst offender would be when they're talking about themselves, they call themselves "us". It's "me" not "us", you don't have a split personality, you're not Gollum (although considering how most chavs look and act, the jury might still be out on that one)

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

Generally, I'm tolerant toward bad spelling and grammar. I understand not everyone is completely literate, I understand not everyone paid much attention in school or does much reading. I completely understand why a lot of people have bad spelling and grammar, and I do not hate them for it. But there is one.... one....

Writing "you" as "u". I don't know why this one in particular annoys me, but by fucking Satan's fire, does it.

 

[Imp_Emissary]

Well, it wasn't here, but the last grammar error I saw was someone using your, instead of you're.

They were also being a passive aggressive jerk at the time too.

:/ Why must jerks also have bad grammar?

 

[shrekfan246]

Writing "you" as "u". I don't know why this one in particular annoys me, but by fucking Satan's fire, does it.

A good "u mad bro?" still gets a laugh out of me on occasion simply because "You mad, bro?" just doesn't have the same impact, but otherwise I have to agree that text-speech abbreviations are pretty obnoxious. I don't even use them while texting, though I won't berate people who do.

 

[Elfgore]

My grammar Nazi is pretty easily contained. As long as you use capital letters and basic punctuation, I'm fine with whatever you do. The only time I get really aggravated is when I see "Yo dawg, wat u doin latr tonith?" That style of writing existed back when texting required you to hit one button multiple times to get on letter. They don't even make those phones anymore and you're on a computer. Use proper English please. It's not that hard.

 

[Hero of Lime]

I try to stress that one should say "well" instead of good, if only because it makes you sound well educated. So for example, when someone asks you "how are you today?" You should reply with well. I wouldn't care much, but I've noticed some people actually respond well to one saying well instead of good, so I think it's a nice habit to pick up.

I can excuse most bad grammar since people make mistakes, I certainly do. I used to get it's and its mixed up. Usually I would say spell out it's when I should of written its.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Everything gets my goat. Your & you're are particularly aggravating.

 

[Scarim Coral]

None what so ever given to my bad spelling, grammer and punctuation on here from time to time. It made me think how the role players on here were able to put up with me when I used to role played on here.

 

[purf]

The classic "They're, Their, There" one infuriates me to no end.

IT'S NOT THAT HARD PEOPLE!

Now, see, this one and "your/you're" and all of those similar words I can at least understand, especially for people who don't speak English as a native language. It's annoying when native speakers get it wrong, [...]

Not having any proof, but somehow I have the suspicion that those mistakes are especially done by native speakers.
Same with "of" and "Could/should/would"

Something from my native language: people typing in their dialect. "net" instead of "nicht"? Mental note: file under Stupid.
But, thinking about it, I'm really more of a mere spelling nazi. In informal surroundings like here, I like to practice a more creative use of punctuation or Capital Letters. So, no problem with you doing that, too. Unless, of course, YOU:ARE 1(ONE!) ---- OF THOSE!! on YOUTUBE WHO OBAMA=666= -=LIZARD PEPOLE=- AS THADDEUS 87:1317! REPENT!

On that occasion: I never use autocorrect.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

A good "u mad bro?" still gets a laugh out of me on occasion simply because "You mad, bro?" just doesn't have the same impact

I prefer "Thou'rt perturbed, sib?". Much more classy, and guaranteed to get a slack-jawed "wut" out of the masses.

The only thing that ever really bothers me is when someone insists that their idea is so important that applying basic grammatical skills would've been a waste of time. News flash: Nothing you post on a public forum like this one is that vital.

 

[PainInTheAssInternet]

This is informative and all, but has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

 

[Stasisesque]

A good "u mad bro?" still gets a laugh out of me on occasion simply because "You mad, bro?" just doesn't have the same impact

I prefer "Thou'rt perturbed, sib?". Much more classy, and guaranteed to get a slack-jawed "wut" out of the masses.

Perturbed doesn't really mean the same thing as "mad", though.

Not to mention, "sib" is an anthropological term and "thou" is archaic. I wouldn't say it makes you look classy, just woefully out of touch.

 

[Someone Depressing]

I speak and write British English/Scots English, so although I'm a grammar Nazi, I'm a lot more forgiving when I'm on forums like these, where the majority, or at least a good chunk, of the users write American English. But when they can't even get that right, I'll get the Nazi in me go full rage.

Thankfully, most of the people here spell well and use good grammar (at least when I'm looking) so I don't usually.