Using "good" for "well": Man, you did good. (blech)

^^ and speaking of "well," using "well" as a filler.

"um" is bad enough, but dragging out "welllllllllll" when you've got nothing to say, or to prove a point is obnox.

A teacher at my job did this yesterday. I wanted to flick her in the back of the head and say "Stop telling that boy he did GOOD, we're supposed to be helping him improve his grammar!"

My 10th grade English teach did that all the time!:rolleyes:

Just saw this article in the Dallas Morning News:

"Grammatical Errors on Signs Become a Regualar Occurrence"

It is enough to make anyone cringe.

Well, it's possible in the Delta Gamma sense to Do Good, but I don't think that's what you all mean.

It wasn't praise for humanitarian efforts, I bet.

I cringe when I hear alreaty instead of already!
One thing that seems popular is adding 'ly' or 'y' to everything. IE "she just seems so mally"

To a previous post, when I started my job as a barista, I said expresso. I was ridiculed till I pronounced the word correctly. I now cringe when I hear it pronounced incorrectly.

Misplaced modifiers:
"I only want the pink one." It should be, "I want ONLY the pink one."
You don't only want, you want only...

who, whom, subject and object people!

Nucular instead of nuclear.

Pacific
meaning a certain thing.
Example today, at our twice-monthly staff meeting: "..what pacificially are we supposed to do with these applications?"

I died a little on the inside.

lose vs. loose, as in I'm going to loose my mind if I don't get these shoelaces lose.

Ahhhhh...

And supposively...my SIL does it, and she is a teacher!

Supposively, huh? ;)

What I get tired of is all the people who come to GC asking for "advise." I mean, I know we all type too fast sometimes, but it amazes me how often this one pops up.

A-FREAKIN-MEN

"I could care less." This actually means that you do care. A lot of people make this mistake.

It should be "I couldn't care less." This means that I do not care at all, so it would be impossible to care less.


Also, why do so many people write "prolly" instead of probably?

....prolly because we choose to be informal sometimes. Nobody who writes prolly thinks it's a word.

I've heard supposibly from a teacher too.

The weird merging of suppose and possibly makes me laugh.

This one cracked me up. "Make sure you take home a momentum of this fabulous event".

I must add:
1. Lookded
2. Skinded
3. Likeded
4. Turnt
5. Hiret
6. Firet
7. Learnt
8. Skreet
9. Skrimp
10. Thang
11. Da or Dee
I am light skinned, but I am not light skinnded. I turned around when Dr. House told Chase he was fired. There is not a K in the word shrimp.

This one drives me batty.

AMEN!!!! *hi-five*


I said it almost two months ago and I'll say it again. If that woman tells one more child that he did good in school that day, I'm going to hit her in the back of the head with a textbook. :mad:

A grad school bud of mine was the librarian in the high school in a very small town. When the football banquet came around, it was attended by almost everyone in town. The head football coach got up to address the team and said "Boys, you done a real well job this year."

Needless to say, "You done a real well job" is now a popular catch phrase among my friends who were in school at that time.

On another board, saw two posts which said "Dido" when they meant
"Ditto." Weird.

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Thought this was appropriate to this thread...

I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but one of the things that drives me crazy is substituting “of” for “have”.

"I should of done my homework earlier"

SHOULD be:

"I should have done my homework earlier"

or...

"I would of invited her if she had been nicer to me"

SHOULD be:

"I would have invited her if she had been nicer to me"

Are you talking about written or spoken?

You do know that "I should've done my homework earlier" sounds like you are saying "of" but you are really saying "have."

Oh, I'm definitely talking about written. I see it done on this site constantly.

^^ my thoughts exactly.

Pacific instead of specific.
Like nails on a chalkboard. Heard it again today and managed to not cringe.

^^ Yea, that's another one that drives me crazy. As if these people have never even seen the word "specific" before. If they had, they probably wouldn't say the word by having it start with a P

Actually, learnt it acceptable. It's used instead of learned in the UK.

subjunctive mood
 

a grown ass man told me he had likeded me. that was sign number 3 that he was not on my level.

It is unacceptable when the person using the word learnt is unaware that it is an actual word. The person knows learned would be the proper pronunciation, but refuses to pronounce the word correctly. This person will also declare "I know it's wrong, but that's how I wanna say it" proudly. He also thinks the "invention of learnt" should be credited to him.

When did Prolly become a substitute for Probably?

I always figured skrimp was just a typo for scrimp, you know, to save/economize.

I was following a car the other day that had a window sticker that said "Smile - Your On Camera."

WTH would you advertise to the world that you don't know the difference between your and you're?

My first thought was "Better not follow this guy for too long - he's a dumbass."

I get annoyed everytime I hear a person say that.

My best friend has a bad habit of saying "haffina" as opposed to saying "having to" it drives me nuts and even though I always correct her she still insists on saying it...her reason? Because she feels that since she isn't in a professional setting that she doesn't have to use "proper english".