Gramatical annoyances

Corinne - posted on 11/08/2010

My daughter has been at school for 7 weeks now and I think I'm going to explode! She's started to copy the way some of her friends talk and it's driving me around the bend. Innit, nah, yep, dornt wanna, teef, gewl....The list goes on. My pet peeve however is the phrase 'I aren't' instead of 'I'm not', most commonly used by my M.I.L who is....... a TEACHER! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. :) (for the English see: backward yorkshire tw@t!) no offence, I call my hubby that too!

Wanda - posted on 11/08/2010

Have any of you read "Eats,Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss? It's a humorous look at incorrect punctuation. I think all of you would enjoy it.

Kathy - posted on 11/08/2010

"Axe" instead of "ask." PLEASE STOP IT!!!!!!!

Hannah - posted on 11/05/2010

aNotHER one I ThOUGt oF lAsT nIGHt.........sOOooo aNnoyING......

Johnny - posted on 11/05/2010

--...I could do both but then there wouldn't be any room left for actual words...-- lol.

Chatty - posted on 11/05/2010

I do both but my newest favorite is -- ......ok?

Toni - posted on 11/05/2010

I like - and ... it just depends on my mood. What's wrong with you people why can't you do both? Both rock! lmao

Isobel - posted on 11/04/2010

I no smrt enuff for dis thred... :(

Johnny - posted on 11/04/2010

Oh wow, I see that now. I think my eyes just skim right past and. I could probably mistakenly insert multiple ands, tos, thes, or ifs in a sentence and never notice. My own peculiar form of dyslexia. I noticed the 'correct' instead of 'corrected' immediately.

...so now that we're all finished dissecting Sara's post...

See, ... is so much better than -.

Caitlin - posted on 11/04/2010

I'm loving it!

Good Day! - posted on 11/04/2010

It's like English class in here!

Love you, too!

Chatty - posted on 11/04/2010

Love you, Sara!

Rosie - posted on 11/04/2010

sorry sara!! LMAO!

Rosie - posted on 11/04/2010

"correct" should be "corrected", lol.

Chatty - posted on 11/04/2010

I already explained the typo I saw in Sara's post - how did you NOT see it? What other typo is there? I've stared at it for 20 minutes - it's driving me nuts.

Let's disect it....

Sara typed, "In another community and mom titled her thread, "Lactose and Tolerant." She was correct by one of our fellow debaters, then she changed the title to "Lactose and Intolerant." Sigh."

I noticed that the 4th word in is "and" but it should have been an "a".

Rosie - posted on 11/04/2010

ok, i came back looked at it once and saw both immediately. weird.

Chatty - posted on 11/04/2010

OMG! Seriously, it only lets you click one thing under each comment. LMFAO!

Chatty - posted on 11/04/2010

I clicked "funny" under Carol's comment but it wouldn't let me click "funny" under Sara's - only "helpful"

WTF? They're working.....they're not working....which is it? GRUMPH!

Johnny - posted on 11/04/2010

I only noticed the other one and not the one that Dana pointed out. Like Kati, I still don't see the other typo.



Oh and I love using ....



Perhaps I need to get into dashes - that was fun!

Good Day! - posted on 11/04/2010

Actually there are two typos in that particular post.

Chatty - posted on 11/04/2010

No, she didn't change it! LMAO! It's just a typo - not really a big deal. I was just TRYING to be funny! Apparently not so much since Kati can't even see it! It's still there, Kati - look harder!

Rosie - posted on 11/04/2010

um jenn, i hate to break it to you, but the way americans spell things IS the right way. didn't you know that americans are ALWAYS right?? LMAO!!

and i don't see where saras typo was. am i blind, did she change it?? :P

Good Day! - posted on 11/04/2010

Dana, thanks for pointing out my typo! :P pfffttt!

I'm a big fan of the ....

Chatty - posted on 11/04/2010

Hannah, this is me clickin' "funny". I completely agree. ACK!

Krista - posted on 11/04/2010

Oh my goodness, Hannah, I know EXACTLY what you mean. There are some posts on the Welcome page, where I just long to reply, "Too long; didn't read."

Paragraph breaks are our FRIENDS, people!

Hannah - posted on 11/04/2010

what really annoys me is when people have a really long post and they go on and on and on and absolultly no periods commas or breaks anywhere in between i mean really you would think that i could say that whole sentence without running out of breath it really annoys me and i just cant stand it also when people use words like dat or da i just want to scream at them at say cant you you proper english?!! ;)

Chatty - posted on 11/04/2010

Me too - I think you're the one who got me hooked, Krista. Now I use them instead of the dot, dot, dot.....know what I mean? *giggles*

Krista - posted on 11/04/2010

I don't doubt that I overuse dashes in my writing, but it's a hard habit to break -- I just freaking love them so much!

Chatty - posted on 11/04/2010

OMFG! Sara, are you serious? And, just since we're pointing things out - "In another community "A" mom titled her thread...." You typed "AND" and I'm sure it was just a typo but....

Heehee, I couldn't resist!

Good Day! - posted on 11/03/2010

In another community and mom titled her thread, "Lactose and Tolerant." She was correct by one of our fellow debaters, then she changed the title to "Lactose and Intolerant." Sigh.

Ava - posted on 11/03/2010

I have a LOT, but spelling 'grammatical' as 'gramatical' is one of them. So are capitalizing improper nouns, misusing ellipses, not using proper pluralization, and misspelling simple words.

Caitlin - posted on 11/02/2010

how about irregardless... It's NOT a word!

Desiree - posted on 11/02/2010

My favourite is people trying pronounce somebody's name and you come out with some of the craziest sounds. Here in SA we hear this quite often especially when its a famous Actor or Actress that was born in SA then you get everyone correcting the TV at the same time Theron is the most popular. You pronounce it Ther-ron and Actually it's pronounced as Te-ron and don't even try some of the the African names that gets even funnier. Try Hlongwane on for size. I had to laugh at my receptionist who mispronounced Xavier and pronounced with a clicking sound because X is pronouced that way in Xhosa. Ahh the fun of living in a country with 11 official languages.

Chrystal - posted on 11/02/2010

My biggest pet peeve is when I'm on the phone and somebody is trying to talk to me when I am on the phone.

Stifler's - posted on 11/01/2010

When people write "your an idiot". "you're baby is crying". It makes me want to scream.

Chatty - posted on 11/01/2010

I'm in BC, Canada and somedays I use "color" and other days I use "colour" - just depends on my mood. That's how I roll.



But, yes Jenn, you're right - typically Canada adopts British spelling.

Jenn - posted on 11/01/2010

I think the Americans are the only ones to spell things differently such as colour, neighbour, etc. We spell them properly in Canada as well and it drives me batty when I'm typing and the darn Americanized spell-checker tells me that a word is spelled incorrectly when it in fact is NOT!

Krista - posted on 11/01/2010

Sal, go read that link about alot that I posted. You'll find out EXACTLY what an "Alot" is. :)

Rhea - posted on 11/01/2010

melk doesn't annoy me just because it's also the dutch word for milk and my family in Canada/US is dutch (and now I live in NL). My best friend growing up used to say that all the time, and her family is dutch too. Go figure.

Toni - posted on 11/01/2010

Oh the UK vs US spellings really annoy me, it always looks as if I am spelling words wrong, but I am not, I spell them UK version as I am British :-)

Desiree - posted on 11/01/2010

Christina had to have a little bit of a giggle myself, about the Milk/Melk you would go absolutely mad here in SA Melk is the Afrikaans word for milk. So we hear this mix of languages quite often. It can get quite hair raising if you aren't listening carefully enough and you miss something or misinterpret it.

One of our most common terms is JA, Well, No, Fine, which can mean just about anything normally when something has you gob smacked. Or Ja, Nee which is a positive and negative meaning yes no. Its the same with spelling in different parts of the world. ie in the Sates its Color, in UK, Australia and SA its Colour.

just thought I would add this perspective for interest sake.

Chatty - posted on 10/31/2010

Drives me sideways...

Sal - posted on 10/31/2010

i just saw the whole conversation on alot....

Sal - posted on 10/31/2010

alot......it should be a lot, only a little prob but i have it now burnt onto my brain after a yr 12 history exam when i walked into the class room to see "what in the world is an ALOT salli" written in the board, clearly it was my teachers pet hate.

Kathy - posted on 10/31/2010

Thanks for that, Jennifer!

Jennifer - posted on 10/31/2010

I did a bit research and whilst I agree wrong should have been wrongly. Different shouldn't have been differently because when a comparative adverb is used you don't add the ly - completely different, more beautiful etc. It's very easy to slip-up on some grammar without even reaslising it! Probably because I speak differently to how I write.

Kathy - posted on 10/31/2010

Now we're going to get into an argument (oops debate!) about which sources are best.
I was always taught that an adverb modifies a verb - in this case the verb "spell." An adverb has thre suffix -ly.But it's not worth getting uptight about!

Jennifer - posted on 10/31/2010

"Completely differently" sounds a bit wierd lol! I checked on Microsoft Word and according to the grammar check both what I wrote or with the "ly"s on the end are grammatically correct.

Kathy - posted on 10/31/2010

Let's just agree they can't spell! Just joking guys!

What about adverbs - shouldn't it be "differently" and "wrongly?"

Jennifer - posted on 10/31/2010

The one that really gets my goat is mixing up borrow and lend! Even my sister who's a qualified geography teacher does it from time to time. Also It really bugs me that Americans spell completely different from proper English - like airplane is aeroplane here, and color is colour here =]

You spelt grammatical wrong though...unless that's how you spell it in America lol?!?