Zeffy
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Post by Zeffy on Jun 11, 2011 19:49:33 GMT -5
Seems like I have another one. My girlfriend knows this really irritating female. She has a habit of ending every word in "'s" when it should just end in "s."
She wrote a three page Facebook essay about how obsessed she was with someone else's mom, and I sent her an email correcting every single one. I didn't even touch the misuse of literally, its/it's, your/you're, or the face that the mom's son had a restraining order against her.
Here's every one she used wrongs, minus repeats.
hand's, eye's, alway's, sometime's, morning's, text's, memorie's, short's, dishe's, picture's, kid's, asse's, flower's, grade's, problem's, date's, boy's, girl's, bestfriend's,* argument's, say's, arm's, amaze's, complete's, fail's, reason's
*I also hate when people say "bestfriend" instead of "best friend."
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Post by pjthefey on Jun 12, 2011 5:35:43 GMT -5
/agree Especially when I spend about 20 seconds deciding which box to check on a form and thinking "define gender..." Generally speaking however I tailor my response to what they probably meant which is sex. My next peeve isn't with English speakers, but with the English language. its vs. it's ... Damn it why can't I use an apostrophe to indicate that one object belongs to another? It doesn't fit the logical pattern of the language. Why can't "it is" share the punctuation love? Selfish bastard of a word pairing. The ferret likes its squeaky toy. I WANT AN APOSTROPHE!! Sigh... |
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shaunanigans
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Love is merely a madness
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Post by shaunanigans on Jun 12, 2011 9:54:18 GMT -5
I absolutely hate it when people say "3:00 a.m. in the morning." The redundancy kills me.
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cassie
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Post by cassie on Jun 12, 2011 18:28:40 GMT -5
I am a grammar nazi with most things. I hate it when people don't capitalize where they should, don't put commas where they should, et cetera. All of the simple and mundane mistakes that high school students make just make my teeth itch in annoyance.
The thing that drives me nuts the most though, is WHEN PEOPLE WRITE IN TEXT SPEAK. I post writings on litsay.com from time to time, and there is this one author (I forget their user name) who writes poetry using "da" instead of "the" and "ur" instead of "your..." It drives me bonkers. I just want to reach through my computer screen and throttle him or her. When you start writing freaking POETRY like that, it's time for you to put down the phone, get off of Facebook, and actually pay attention in English class.
Texting is robbing our teenagers of grammar skills. Just saying.
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Gina
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Every second is a highlight.
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Post by Gina on Jun 12, 2011 21:05:17 GMT -5
I can't believe I forgot to mention this in my original post.
I HATE when people add a freaking space in between the end of their sentence and their punctuation. I've only seen it with exclamation points and question marks.
Facebook on graduation night:
"OH MY GOSH !!! I AM SO EXCITED TO FINALLY GRADUATE !!!"
"WHERE DID THE TIME GO ?"
Meanwhile, I'm sitting at my computer with my face in my palm. Where did the time go? How about where did your grammar skills go? GAH.
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Post by Silva on Jun 12, 2011 23:14:45 GMT -5
I can't believe I forgot to mention this in my original post. I HATE when people add a freaking space in between the end of their sentence and their punctuation. I've only seen it with exclamation points and question marks. Facebook on graduation night: "OH MY GOSH !!! I AM SO EXCITED TO FINALLY GRADUATE !!!" "WHERE DID THE TIME GO ?" Meanwhile, I'm sitting at my computer with my face in my palm. Where did the time go? How about where did your grammar skills go? GAH. Does it bother you when people write ellipses like this: Hello... I am [insert name] with a space in between those? |
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rayyychul
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On ne voit bien qu'avec le c?ur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
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Post by rayyychul on Jun 12, 2011 23:22:43 GMT -5
Well, in some people's defence, there are quite a few languages that put a space before exclamation points and question marks. I know I sometimes do that in English when my brain is in "French mode," hah!
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Post by iamahexagon on Jun 12, 2011 23:53:28 GMT -5
Seems like I have another one. My girlfriend knows this really irritating female. She has a habit of ending every word in "'s" when it should just end in "s." This is my biggest pet peeve. Why do people think that the apostrophe is needed? No, it's not! I'm going to use this actual status from Facebook to describe many of my pet peeves: Close your mouth please michael we are not a codfish- mary poppins ♥ I feel so smart when I read through my News Feed. It actually took me a few seconds to figure out what this status was saying. 1. Capitalization: Can you not capitalize? Do you know what a Shift key is? Proper nouns, anyone? 2. Punctuation: Where is the punctuation? I do not believe that a dash or a heart are punctuation. There should also be a few commas in there. Do you see what I go through when I read my News Feed?  |
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Post by pjthefey on Jun 13, 2011 2:47:09 GMT -5
I absolutely hate it when people say "3:00 a.m. in the morning." The redundancy kills me. 3 am in the morning before sunrise when the sky is dark |
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Post by cyanea on Jun 13, 2011 3:35:41 GMT -5
Angle/angel, rouge/rogue. These two drive me NUTS. Along the same line as this, Calvary is not the same thing as cavalry! Calvary was the place where Jesus got crucified. Cavalry are military units on horseback. They are different and I want to strangle anyone who refers to a group of horsed warriors as calvary. Other than that, I hate comma splices a lot, although they don't bother me as much as they used to. I've gained a very deep loathing for commas after "and" or "but," as in, "He came home from school but, noticed he had forgotten his homework." Also, "got" instead of "have" is irksome. I do wonder, though, is "have got" correct? I usually see (and use) it as a contraction, though, as in, "I've got some lovely flowers growing in my garden." I've always wondered that too. I always feel like I'm repeating the same idea (possession/ownership). To avoid it, I just usually drop the "got" and write it as "I have some flowers in the garden". Perhaps one of our more grammatically inclined armadillos can clarify? |
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Post by inarikins on Jun 13, 2011 23:43:16 GMT -5
When people pronounce especially as EX-pecially. There is no 'x' in especially!
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WhatIf
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Post by WhatIf on Jun 24, 2011 13:53:34 GMT -5
When people say that something is ironic, when it is in fact not. The also use the awkward in inappropriate ways.
I don't like it when people get it/it's, their/there/they're, and to/too/two mixed up. I never had a problem with those, and it can be hard to understand why anyone does.
When people use incorrect grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Just because it's FaceBook or a text does not mean that you can talk like that. It's even worse when my dad, who thinks that the little things like grammar are very important, does it.
I don't like when people say redundant things.
I once had to edit a bit that I was reblogging on Tumblr. There was no capitalization, poor grammar, and poor punctuation. I couldn't reblog it how it was. How hard could it have been to type properly?
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 24, 2011 17:15:54 GMT -5
"ect."
"ect." means nothing. NOTHING. The term you are trying to use is "etc." It is short for "et cetera," which loosely translates to "and so on," and should be used at the end of a list.
ECT MEANS NOTHING. SHUT UP AND LEARN YOUR OWN LANGUAGE BEFORE YOU FUCK UP USING IT. GRR.
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Post by serpentheart on Jun 24, 2011 20:39:39 GMT -5
Hmm another one that annoys me is brought vs bought. "I brought a pair of jeans at the store." Why did you take your jeans to the store?  |
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Post by KatjevanLoon on Jun 24, 2011 20:57:47 GMT -5
ECTOPLASM. IT IS THE GHOST'S VERSION OF ETC. YOU ARE BEING PARANORMALIST.
;P
The ect thing bothers me too, quite immensely.
Pronunciation-wise? EX-presso. It's ES-presso, not EX-presso. For gods' sakes, there is an ES not an EX! RARARRRRGGGGGGG.
(My first boyfriend's mom -- thank the gods he and I are not together anymore; I would have murdered her -- did this all the time. I was a barista, so she bought an espresso machine so I could "make her EXPRESSO lattes!" Gurbleblat. Rarfhnog.)
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