Music Banter - Things People Say or Write That Annoy You

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 1935027)

I was older than I should have been before I learned it wasn’t should of been.

I also used to mix up used to use to. Did you use to do that, too? It’s not so confusing once you get used to it.

No. Never did that.

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I don’t want to admit something you probably won’t believe. I used to mistake want and won’t when won’t opened the question won’t you save me.

I mixed up effect and affect but I’ve come to believe their meanings overlap more than most people think.

They don't. They're entirely different.

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I used to think the knell in death knell came from the nail in the coffin not the death knell bell.

This one I like.

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I’m convinced nobody knows for sure if it’s hear hear or here here.

It's "hear hear". Always was, always will be.

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I wasn’t going to tell you I didn’t know gonna is spelled going to.

Interesting. So it's going to orrehoea, is it? ;)

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Originally Posted by grindy (Post 1935029)

Every single one of my colleagues pronounces 'bearing' like 'beering'.
I bet they also think a woman beers children.
Germans...

Start those kids young, is what I say.

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 1935051)

* your's . It's possessive ;)

^ That's an interesting confusion.

In Britain people used to send money by post, for which they would buy a special Post Office voucher, which the recipient could then redeem in another Post Office; it was safer than sending cash. As a kid I thought it was a Post Lorder, until one day I saw it written down: Postal Order.

:laughing: I love this one.

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Originally Posted by grindy (Post 1935101)

As fascist as I am about grammar, 'literally' never bothered me.
It's called hyperbole, for god's sake.

No it isn't. You can't say "my stomach was literally hanging out" (unless you've been savaged by a bear, obviously). It does get overused.

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Originally Posted by grindy (Post 1935116)

Say one of those phrases and I will consider you a retard and never take you seriously again:
"Everyone has to believe in something."
"Only dead fish swim with the stream."
"Everything happens for a reason."

Every dead fish has to believe in something while it swims with the stream for a reason.

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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey (Post 1935117)

A good one this - 'Axed' instead of 'asked'.

I've said it before but the word 'pussy' makes me cringe every time I hear it tbh.

Axed: where did that ever come from? I bet someone just mispronounced it once and it caught on. Pretty silly though, when axed already meant two separate things.

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 1935119)

Something else that literally drives me insane is the increasing use of the so-called "Historic Present." This used to be confined to jokes told in an informal setting. "This guy goes into a bar...". Strictly speaking, if you are recounting a story, you should use a past tense. Of course nobody cares when they're listening to a joke, but more and more these days you hear it in otherwise reputable documentaries, " The Mayflower lands in Plymouth and the Pilgrim Fathers look for fresh water..."
If it happened four hundred years ago, it's the past, Mr.Should-know-better Presenter ! :bonkhead:

Didn't know the Mayflower could fly! :laughing:

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1935120)

"Yours" is a pronoun and so does not require an apostrophe. "Yours" is considered a possessive pronoun already, same as "its".

Twit.

Was going to say this. Without the twit added though.

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 1935121)

^ I was joking, hence the ";)" I was suggesting Lucem could of added another mistake to his sentence.

..and yes, the "of" is a deliberate mistake too.

Is it though?

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1935122)

"It is what it is". I ****ing hate this meaningless phrase.

Looked like you were being lightheartedly pedantic tbh.

God I ****ing hate that one too. :beer:

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Originally Posted by grindy (Post 1935136)

I don't think it's an issue in English but in German many people put 'quasi' before every second word. I suppose it's somewhat similar to 'like' in English.
**** those people. Whenever they say this I want to grab them by their lapels and scream into their dumb faces that no, it's not quasi this and that. It's exactly this and that. **** you, you dumb ****, thinking that using foreign words makes you sound smarter. It ****ing doesn't, you little piece of dumb ****.

Wouldn't that make them a dumb piece of quasi-****?