Things People Say or Write That Annoy You
 

Other than my walls of text and dad jokes, of course.
An idea again ripped from the mind of a member without his consent, this comes on the heels of a comment made by grindy in another thread.

So, what do people write wrong or say wrong that really annoys you? In this era of the changing English language and fluid ways of talking, the meanings of words metamorphosing into others and the prevalence of text spelling, what is it that still bugs you?

Number one on my list is, and ever shall be, the incorrect usage of apostrophes. Why oh why can't people understand the simplest of rules? If it's possessive, apostrophe yes. If it's not, apostrophe no.

:banghead:

Something which I believe is endemic only to Ireland is our propensity for making words up. We have "hostipal" instead of hospital, "copporation" instead of "corporation", "Beaumount" instead of "Beaumont", and Chicago becomes "Chicargo". Man, we're dumb.

Probably when people say "I could care less".

Since, in my mind, US and GB English is all muddled together, it's annoying to keep having to try and remember/figure out if it's color/colour, gray/grey, defense/defence, etc.

Should/Would/Could: Of

It's 'have' you friggin nitwit. Can I of some more pie? Derp.

If I corrected all the times I've seen this in the last year alone, I could probably just call it a part time job. Todays grammar mistakes are tomorrows norm.

I've lived here my entire life and have been unaware of this. I guess it's a thing though:

Irish people need to stop referring to Chicago as 'Chicargo' right now

Right up there with "Warsh" instead of "Wash" I guess. Just don't put ketchup on your hotdog and you'll survive.

Have course you can. Here you go. Just ask if you want to of some more.

The battle is already lost.

Just don't put kertchup on your hortdog and you'll survive.

Mic just posted a good one.

Not a grammatical error as such but the misuse of British/English, using one when the other is clearly meant.

I'm not the type of person who let's that stuff get to me.

Way too many u's.

I hate when non-whites use English.

Get your own ****ing language, darkie.

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Its apostrophe S, not apostrophe yes.

I have awful grammar and I don't care.

The crux of the biscuit.

^ :laughing:

Same.

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The already mentioned 'should/could/would/... of ' is the worst offender and probably the worst thing that happened in the history of mankind. Truly ****ing disgusting.

It's a bad one but is it worse than 'your/you're'?

Close one for me.

^ "Could care less" ;)

It takes every ounce of self control I have to not correct it most times, which isn't much.

...and yes, it's worse than your/you're. At least those are close enough to get mixed up by the grammatically illiterate, while 'of' and 'have' are two whole completely different words. It's laziness, and it shALL NOT BE TOLERATED! DO. NOT. USE. SUCH. NON. SENSE. EVER!

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That's slightly more forgivable since those are both real words. Would/should/could of comes from lazy speaking and propagates fake words.

...now I've lost my train of thought.

Since I have to deal with lots of German people trying to speak English, there are lots of annoying Germanisms.
For example 'aktualisieren', means 'to update' in German, so of course everyone keeps saying 'actualize/actualization' instead of 'update'.
It's understandable and somewhat forgivable but pretty annoying due to its ubiquitousness.

I like to throw in some fahrt's in casual conversation about traveling every now and then.

Did you speak German back in the day or just picked up a few words and phrases?

Good one.
Two threads in two days? Man, I haven't even got started yet! :laughing:
You should really be more respectful of your grammar. She's an old lady and you should care about her. She's your mother's mother after all.
It's the tastiest part.
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I found it.
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Keep track of it in future.
That's just the beans though.

Does it though? No one is saying woulda/shoulda/coulda... Would've/Should've/Could've are all legitimate contractions that could easily be mistaken for would of/should of/could of when speaking and then transcribed incorrectly.

This is similar to "play it by year" and "for all intensive purposes"..

Yes.

No.. the phonetic similarities between the "'ve" sound in the contraction and "of" could easily be misinterpreted.

Thanks for that enlightening rebuttal, Elph.

Read 'this is a mute point' in an e-mail recently. From a native speaker.
It's not even pronounced the same way, dumbass.

Similarities made less distinguishable from one another by lazy speech.

I was not aware using a contraction appropriately is lazy. I guess we should all stop using them if we do not want Frownland to think we are lazy speakers.

In order for your argument to be valid you would have to show how that kind of speech is lazy. So far you are failing miserably.

Well now you know, glad to help.

Another, one is the, use of commas, when,ever someone takes a moment, to think about, what they're, going to type.

I'll just chalk that up as a win.. Thanks :D

Nobody uses ellipses correctly either.

:D

i deal with a lot people who are unaware of the difference between reply and reply all when writing emails. definitely my biggest pet peeve at work.

ooo and another contender would be those who think it’s a good idea to use comic sans font and pink lettering in their emails. how the **** do you convince yourself that’s a good idea?

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And some people still argue against eugenics...

It's baffling to me that this applies to more than just a handful of soon-to-be retirees.

it's awful. to make matters worse the company i work for regularly sends out emails welcoming the newest employees, so at least two or three times a month i get flooded with "welcome aboard!" emails or my personal favourite, memes like the following:

https://memegenerator.net/img/instan...-a-new-job.jpg

But the memes really brighten up my day! They're fun

https://i.imgur.com/tATEsSW.jpg

Bet you didn't expect that with the morning update! Becky's so crazy.