The Grammar Nazi in You!

[Major_Tom]

I know that "thru" is accepted in informal situations, but I still cringe every time I see it.
Also, stop "holding down the fort"! It's not going to escape.

 

[Spider RedNight]

People that use then instead of than, I've noticed this quite a bit on the internet. Everytime I see it it just makes me want to say "Your such a fucking idiot, go back to school". It makes me wonder how they're parents feel knowing that they've raised such a moron.

Nitpicking this post aside (oh, the hypocrisy), I particularly hate when people use an exaggerated amount of ellipses.

"Well... It's not like I would know how it works... I'm just trying to explain what I did and it worked... Obviously his case is different than mine..." and etc. It makes you sound like you're either trying desperately to defend yourself and that your conviction isn't strong regarding what you're saying or you have no idea what a period is. Perhaps the ellipsis abuse stems from people not wanting to seem "absolute" but to me, it gets really old really fast.

Another one that really bothers me is "loose" instead of "lose". That's not one of those things that can just slip by in spoken conversation like "they're" and "there"; "lose" and "loose" aren't homophones. They sound different when you pronounce them. I see this surprisingly often in amateur subbed anime where a character boldly proclaims "I WILL NOT LOOSE!" and I can't help but snicker. Can't loose what, the door latch? Your belt? Good thing you can afford to lose, then.

As a Texan, I had to re-read my sentence just now so I put "really" instead of "real"; I tend to type how I talk as well so I often leave off the "g" at the end of words such as "endin'" and "gettin'", but at least I add the apostrophe so if one doesn't add the apostrophe, I usually chalk it up to them not paying attention. I'm not really that adamant online but the ellipsis abuse and the lose/loose issue are really the only two things that actively get my goat.

 

[DasDestroyer]

"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.

I sometimes jokingly correct people with yore when they mix up your and you're, but I'm surprised that people would actually make that mi-
You know what? No, I'm not surprised.

 

[chiggerwood]

Nothing gets to me as far as peoples use of grammar. Pedantry, however, is at best is inane and at worst infuriating. As long as I can understand what you're saying I don't care, but enough of my thoughts let's go to Stephen Fry for his opinion: