Amazing how so many are so correct when they dish people for spelling or making typing errors!:D

I am sure you are being helpful!

Be, Bee, Bea.

To, Too, Two.

Please keep up the great work!:)

I'll admit there are many times that I misspell words or use incorrect punctuation, but what bugs me is when people spell words incorrectly when they know how to spell.


Some popular ones are: knoe (as in know), luv yeah (as in love ya or love you).

I have to admit, I like "anyways" better than "anyway".

Perhaps you mean "dis" as in "disrespect"?

That is now my new pet peeve. People who use "dish" instead of "dis", or even "diss", when they mean disrespect.

Tom, you may wish to steer clear of this particular thread. It is for people to express their pet peeves, not for those who cannot manage the English language to come and flaunt (not "flount", btw) their ignorance. We haven't been naming names, but if you come here and post in an ignorant fashion, yes, you will be "called out". Okay? Thanks.
SMILIE TIME -:) :p:D:confused::eek::cool::rolleyes:

Oh man
I have a friend (who's also a teacher) who always incorrectly uses "I" in her picture comments....such as "Joe and I's 1997 prom picture"

AUGH! You wouldn't say "I's prom picture"

The one that gets the hairs on the back of my neck to stick up is the use of "no" where it should be "any". We don't have no bread for the sandwiches. My sister in law does this constantly and it just makes me crazy! I am also not crazy about "ain't", especially "we ain't got none" of _______________. ARGH!

PS Thanks for this thread and a chance to vent!

using "their" for "his or hers"

Just came across another frequent mistake: "I would of" instead of "I would have."

Oooh yeah! "I's" makes me die a little each time I hear it.

You know what's funny about the unnecessary quotation thing? I didn't even realize it was meant to add extra emphasis until someone pointed it out here. I seriously had no idea why those words were in quotes. It makes more sense now, but it's still wrong!

ETA: Ok, not all unnecessary quotes are for emphasis. Some are still just randomly odd.

Ohoh! The adverb thing! I hate it when people don't use adverbs when they should. "I ran real fast." No, you ran really quickly.

"I's" I hate it when people say that especially in terms of pictures, "my mom, sister and I on the beach".. GRRR

I also hate "mines", "ain't" and "conversate" I cringe whenever a person says it.

Exspecially

I don't care about that, it's when people say any hoo that drives me crazy. Now, I have a co-worker who says any hoe! She can't even get any hoo right! I cringe every time she says it.

There is one more that really makes me crazy but it tends to be only in pronunciation, not in writing and that's when someone says they are "flustrated." It's FRUSTRATED, there is no L in there.

just thought of a couple more.. when people refer to Valentine's Day as Valentime's Day and when people confuse pacific and specific

How about "fustrated." No R. I hear it all the time from New Englanders. I don't get it.

It's like when people say they are going to the "Libary," no you are going to the Library.

I agree with all of these, and yes I do agree with the typos. Sometimes we just have our off days, right? I cannot stand birfday and fell (meaning feel) and dat. UGHHH! No wonder our education rates are so low :mad:. Also, there are times when I want to type on the computer in text mode. I don't like to be proper ALL of the time. However, there is a time and a place for everything. :rolleyes:

I'm guilty of that. You'd all be :eek: if you heard me say water. We don't drink WAHter in NJ, we drink worter. :p

Is she trying to be funny? It would get old pretty quick, but it's might make me laugh if she varied it.

Could she possibly be trying to say "anywhore?" I know that anywhore is really popular at the moment, it seems like everyone I know has been saying it.

I hate it when people TyPe LiKe ThIs, or L1K3 TH15. It annoys me, it isn't cool, or hip.

supposably

i think the issue there is the use of double negatives vs. using "no" in place of "any." the phrase would be acceptable if you took the "don't" out.

i understand the "real" vs "really" part, but why not "fast?" if someone said "I ran really fast," would that be grammatically incorrect? Fast is the opposite of slow. I mean, so is quick...

hmm, is it because you cant make "fast" into "fastly?" :lightbulb:



:raises hand: guilty. i just couldnt get my lips/tongue around it!

hehe, yup. to me, it sounds more like "whoa-ta" which is all sorts of wrong.

(because of the Friends episode) supposably is just a little bit funnier than overusing air quotes in conversation. like the semi-colon, only to be used sparingly.

MINES
Oh, how I hate that word. It's NOT a real word. My ex from Philly uses that a lot; apparently, it's a colloquilism (sp?) there. He's got a college degree and still says it. *sigh*

Pacific/Specific
An old manager said this ALL the time. I would just stare at her in disbelief.

expresso, expecially, their/they're/their, supposebly, costed.

i could go on forever, i am a stickler for grammar.

I don't know if it's been posted but I hate when people say "My Bad". I want to say "My Bad what?"


Also, I don't mean to be disrespectful when did people stop staying "passed away" when someone died? I want to say "passed what"? Go, McDonalds?

Less instead of fewer. (As in 'We had less students than last year.') (Ooh, should I have left off the quotation marks?)

And another one, when I was growing up disrespect was not a verb.

And along with that, 'amount of pnms' was posted in a thread yesterday or today. Not sure if amount is used properly - at least it sounded odd to me. One of our grammer experts would probably know.

humorous pov
 

I had a seminar leader once who explained that her spelling and grammar errors on the flipchart (yep, dating myself) were not her fault: the Mr. Sketch markers and their fragrances affected her brain.

She was also the one who taught me that when people talk about a 'pacific' item (as opposed to a specific one)...the more Pacific you get, the less Atlantic you become!

Amount is a sum-total quantity. Example is the amount of mess on the floor when two decks of cards and scoresheets are on the floor.

Number: individuals in the sum. An example: the number of cards on the floor when your toddler gets your Bridge set out of the drawer!

Above quote would have been correct when talking about the number of pnms. We know they're all individuals.

I love you, violetpretty.

My mom does this. I just correct her each and every time. I won't stop until she sees the light. :humph:

It's a little gross, but it KILLS me when women say "ministration." I :eek::mad: every single time. The word is men-stru-a-tion. I know it's not one we often look up in the dictionary, but try it. I hear it mostly with women from the south...a couple days ago my professor said it and I almost chucked a textbook at her head. :mad: I sat there thinking "You have a doctorate and can't even pronounce that? Thank God Almighty you have a son!"

Be careful criticizing pronunciation -:) - it's not grammar, and while there are standard English pronunciations, I personally LOVE the different pronunciations you can here from all over the country . "Car Talk" wouldn't be the same without that distinctive Boston accent, I can't imagine my grandmother without her soft southern drawl, and even Palin's almost Canadian-clipped speech is interesting to me.

That said - NUCLEAR. There are some weird pronunciations of that out there!

To this day, my cousin (45 years old and very successful) calls a hearse a "Hertz", as in rental car.

I totally agree. However, when one pronounces the word in such a way that vowel and consonants alike are rearranged to make a completely different word then one has gone too far! :)

My biggest peeve is when people say "I will be sending it to you tomorrow" or "I will be going to the game tonight."

It is better to use the active voice and say "I will send it to you tomorrow" or "I am going to the game tonight."

"We Be...." What is it with "be"?

Ooooo! Oooooo! Transitive be! Yeah, I finally get to use my linguistics course!

You know the expresso complaint really bothered one of the Columbine killers. I'm not sure that it matters, but I find it interesting.

I agree that "costed" when used incorrectly is annoying (That costed $15. NO! It COST $15.), however, I use the word "costed" correctly when we describe whether certain expenses were added to a job. (Have you costed that invoice to Bob's Restaurant job?)