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Their seems to be a problem thruoghout the inter-net with the deterioration of proper sentance structure and speling. Some of these mistakes are quiet common and turn up time and time, again.
Which one's do you wish would disapear most.
Their seems to be a problem thruoghout the inter-net with the deterioration of proper sentance structure and speling. Some of these mistakes are quiet common and turn up time and time, again.
Which one's do you wish would disapear most.
The one you made in the title of the thread. LOL.
EDIT: I got the joke!
I am surprised and annoyed at how many people add 's for plurals of words and just s for possessive forms.
Using the word myself when either me or I is called for.
I don't think I mind any one given mistake alone, but many, many mistakes crammed together, as so many people on the internet seem determined to make, make the message unclear.
It's a mute point.
Ask the hearty dwarves.
I am surprised and annoyed at how many people add 's for plurals of words...
Well, I might comment that when pluralizing an acronym, I feel compelled use apostrophe-s, incorrect though that is, just to make clear that the S is not part of the acronym.
It's a mute point.
My wife actually SAYS "mute point." I tried to tell her the word is "moot," but she keeps pronouncing it her way. I guess the point can't speak. (Well, that is true.)
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My eyes hurt looking at this thread title.
My pet peeve isn't really about grammar, it's that f+%@ing textspeak. How much damn good does it do to turn an entire sentence into an acronym? I spend a good 5-10x longer trying to figure that s#!* out than it would have taken me to read the unabbreviated message.
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My eyes hurt looking at this thread title.
My pet peeve isn't really about grammar, it's that f!~*ing textspeak. How much damn good does it do to turn an entire sentence into an acronym? I spend a good 5-10x longer trying to figure that s@#! out than it would have taken me to read the unabbreviated message.
I'll go one worse; my wife and I are both college instructors, and we get papers from college students written in textspeak all the time!
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My pet peeve isn't really about grammar, it's that f~~~ing textspeak. How much damn good does it do to turn an entire sentence into an acronym?
Like the first part of your name? ;)
Who remembers the old phone commercial where the mom asks her daughter who she's texting and the daughter replies "IDK, my BFF Jill?"
And then the grandmother is asked the same thing and replies "IDK, myy BFF Rose?"
It really sounded like neither of them knew who they were talking too....
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My eyes hurt looking at this thread title.
My pet peeve isn't really about grammar, it's that f!&*ing textspeak. How much damn good does it do to turn an entire sentence into an acronym? I spend a good 5-10x longer trying to figure that s#*@ out than it would have taken me to read the unabbreviated message.
WTF? IIRC you see this everywhere.
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Difficult to say. As english is not my primary language, I know that I make a lot of spelling and grammar mistakes.
Most of the time I just skip past the occasional error, but regularly close the thread that I'm reading when it becomes obvious that the poster does not make the least effort to write properly. No, the "I'm in a hurry, you understand what I'm writing nonetheless" is a lame excuse.
Most annoying are your/you're and its/it's.
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WTF? IIRC you see this everywhere.My eyes hurt looking at this thread title.
My pet peeve isn't really about grammar, it's that f!&*ing textspeak. How much damn good does it do to turn an entire sentence into an acronym? I spend a good 5-10x longer trying to figure that s#*@ out than it would have taken me to read the unabbreviated message.
Some are OK (WTF, IIRC, etc.) but some are just plain ridiculous... I have literally seen a string of 10 letters that was supposed to represent some sentence...i just deleted the text.
Another thing that gets me is when people verbally use the abbreviations...like BRB = "berb", LOL = "lawl". Oh, and the next time somebody says "chillax" I'm going to jail because i'm gonna stab them.
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Oh, and the next time somebody says "chillax" I'm going to jail because i'm gonna stab them.
"You should just take some time and chiilax, man. You're getting bent out of shape over noth-"
*Looks down at knife in gut*
"Now there was no reason to do that. Now I have to go get a new shirt!"
I'd like to see that actually happen, just so I can say you gave everyone a warning, and that you aren't not innocent.
I also hate seeing "loose" in place of "lose". ugh.
Their seems to be a problem thruoghout the inter-net with the deterioration of proper sentance structure and speling. Some of these mistakes are quiet common and turn up time and time, again.
Which one's do you wish would disapear most.
The one you made in the title of the thread. LOL.
EDIT: I got the joke!
You only caught one?
;^)
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Their seems to be a problem thruoghout the inter-net with the deterioration of proper sentance structure and speling. Some of these mistakes are quiet common and turn up time and time, again.
Which one's do you wish would disapear most.
The one you made in the title of the thread. LOL.
EDIT: I got the joke!
You only caught one?
;^)
I looked again and found 8. Amazing how we fix the sentence as we read them...
I'll admit that this is probably a bit unreasonable, but I can't stand a lot of textspeak/abbreviated speech in online games. Particularly in MMO's.
Even in FPS games. srsly.
What the hell's a proc?
Proc is short for procedure, referring to the code written to make it happen. Proc (in games) means an item or power that always does one thing SOMETIMES does something special, as in, under certain circumstances, usually if a random number generation meets the right parameters, the procedure will execute.
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I am surprised and annoyed at how many people add 's for plurals of words...Well, I might comment that when pluralizing an acronym, I feel compelled use apostrophe-s, incorrect though that is, just to make clear that the S is not part of the acronym.
That is actually correct. Acronyms should be pluralized with an apostrophe for exactly the reason you mentioned. See Wikipedia.
It's a mute point.
GAHHHHHH!!!!
That's mine right there. I HATE HATE HATE that!
I'm annoyed by all of the above, but at least I got my child into the habit of texting with proper grammar and punctuation. Now, if only she could spell...
Another one that nobody mentioned, but always pings my inner GN, mixing up "affect" and "effect."
Sometimes I like to correct people's grammar so that it's grammatically correct but nonsensical.
Whose awesome?
Your awesome.
I also hate seeing "loose" in place of "lose". ugh.
Oh, I don't know. When I was called a "looser" in writing, it didn't feel bad at all. I actually felt like the writer was the REAL loser.
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I've taught grammar to adults. It's fun explaining the distinction between lay and lie, sit and set, and affect (which is usually a verb, but sometimes a noun)versus effect (which is usually a noun, but sometimes a verb). The two errors that still give me the heebie-jeebies are than confused with then, and amazingly, of for the auxilliary verb have.
I really do hope Sean or Josh chime in.
I'm most bothered by the people on teh interwebz who try to prove their superiority by correcting the "grammer" of others. If you can't spell it, chances are you can't do it. Leave my grammer alone; she's a nice old lady.
The lack of paragraph breaks. Nothing will get me to skip a post faster than a wall of text.
Well, except maybe if the author is yellowdingo.
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I've taught grammar to adults. It's fun explaining the distinction between lay and lie, sit and set, and affect (which is usually a verb, but sometimes a noun)versus effect (which is usually a noun, but sometimes a verb). The two errors that still give me the heebie-jeebies are than confused with then, and amazingly, of for the auxilliary verb have.
I really do hope Sean or Josh chime in.
I have a PhD in English and I still make some of these mistakes...
The world is built on grammar mistakes a typos
thAn you skip it all done you?
Don't make me add you to the short list.
Many of my peeves have been covered, but nobody mentioned nauseated/nauseous and fearsome/fearful yet. They're right up there with loose/lose and lay/lie. Threads with the word 'viable' in the title also irritate me, but that's neither grammar nor spelling.
And there's a special place in my heart for "nipped in the butt."
And I have a special place in my heart for "nipped in the butt."
What's wrong with that? I do it all the time.
And I have a special place in my heart for "nipped in the butt."What's wrong with that? I do it all the time.
Hence the special place in my heart, you naughty pup.
Many of my peeves have been covered, but nobody mentioned nauseated/nauseous and fearsome/fearful yet.
I don't think those are wrong. Look at the dictionary definition of fearsome. Yes, it says that those two words are confused, but scroll further down, and you'll see "Fearful" as one of the definitions.
The same goes for nauseate. It can mean to feel OR cause to feel nausea.
I'll go one worse; my wife and I are both college instructors, and we get papers from college students written in textspeak all the time!
please tell me that you give an "F" to these students...
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Many of my peeves have been covered, but nobody mentioned nauseated/nauseous and fearsome/fearful yet. They're right up there with loose/lose and lay/lie. Threads with the word 'viable' in the title also irritate me, but that's neither grammar nor spelling.
And there's a special place in my heart for "nipped in the butt."
I would sometimes post stuff purposely misspelled or using the wrong word but well too many people did not take it as a subtle joke and the Grammar NAZI's attacked.(GODWIN GODWIN)
I would sometimes post stuff purposely misspelled or using the wrong word but well too many people did not take it as a subtle joke and the Grammar NAZI's attacked.(GODWIN GODWIN)Many of my peeves have been covered, but nobody mentioned nauseated/nauseous and fearsome/fearful yet. They're right up there with loose/lose and lay/lie. Threads with the word 'viable' in the title also irritate me, but that's neither grammar nor spelling.
And there's a special place in my heart for "nipped in the butt."
That apostrophe's got a lot of nerve showing up here.
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I don't think those are wrong. Look at the dictionary definition of fearsome. Yes, it says that those two words are confused, but scroll further down, and you'll see "Fearful" as one of the definitions.
The same goes for nauseate. It can mean to feel OR cause to feel nausea.
That site is infamous for such hooliganism. It's a "descriptive" site, providing the way that common people use those words, as opposed to a "prescriptive" reference, which would illustrate how learned people and published authors have consistently used those words. (The American Heritage dictionary is also a descriptive publication. It explains that imply and infer are used as synonyms.)
For words about "nausea", it's helpful to refer to the clearer subject of "poison":
to nauseate::to poison
nauseous::poisonous
nauseated::poisoned
In the last case, poisoned can be a participle verb - "he poisoned the well" - or an adjective - "she handed Snow White a poisoned apple."
By the way, my favorite on-line dictionary: OEDILF.
Thanks, Chris. I'm one of the sticklers who believes that common usage should not become correct usage. If we begin using different words interchangeably, we dilute the language and fail to convey information. "I'm nauseated" and "I'm nauseous" should not mean the same thing, nor should they be ambiguous. [/codger]
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Thanks, Chris. I'm one of the sticklers who believes that common usage should not become correct usage. If we begin using different words interchangeably, we dilute the language and fail to convey information. "I'm nauseated" and "I'm nauseous" should not mean the same thing, nor should they be ambiguous. [/codger]
"I'm nauseated" could correctly be the beginning of a statement using the participle.
"I'm nauseated daily by Courtfool's musk." ;)
If we begin using different words interchangeably, we dilute the language and fail to convey information.
I disagree. I love that English is a living language.