Grammar Pet Peeves

[irishpipes]

supposably

[tld221]

Originally Posted by basket96

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!

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.

Originally Posted by LucyKKG

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 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:

Originally Posted by LttleMsPrEp

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

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

Originally Posted by luv n tpa

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

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

Originally Posted by irishpipes

supposably

(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.