What's your biggest grammatical pet peeve?

[doctorjazz]

So, what example of bad grammar gets on your nerves for no good reason?



Mine is, without a doubt, the use of "different than" instead of "different from."

"Different" functions like "separate," except you never hear fluent English speakers using a sentence like "They are separate than each other."

"Than" is used in comparing things where there is some definite standard of comparison, e.g. "taller than," "nearer than," "larger than," etc. "Different" doesn't compare things, it just establishes that there is a difference, like the aforementioned "separate" establishes a separation. Would it be odd to hear someone say that they have to keep their pets separate than each other? "Different than" sounds exactly the same way, except it is becoming very common.

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[username n/a]

alot

 

[embellisher]

peeple who cant spel youse proper grammer and liketo type in long runon sintenses with no punchuayshun and wonder randomly from won ubnrleated topic to another without seeming to realise it and who can't bothre to use a good spoll and grammur chking progarm and stuff like that reely irrutate the crap out of me and stuff you know

 

[bass12]

Where to start? It seems as if fewer and fewer people are able to use English correctly. How about "there's too many" instead of "there are too many"? Don't get me started on punctuation, spelling and "texting" contractions/abbreviations.

 

[Joe Gress]

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[Craig_S]

My biggest grammatical pet peeve is that <--error someone will almost always point out the mistake.

Honestly, I don't have any peeves regarding punctuation. It does bother me when words are purposely misspelled and caps are purposely left out, due to laziness or the need to feel "hip".

 

[Kelly Lee]

alot

+1

 

[mike_v_s]

It does bother me when words are purposely misspelled and caps are purposely left out, due to laziness or the need to feel "hip".

whatev

Mike

 

[rustynuts]

alot

+2

 

[Relic]

-I hate the whole "alot" "allot" thing as opposed to "a lot"
-then there's the leaving out the "d" in "suppose" or "use" instead of using "supposed" or "used" ex - I'm suppose(D) to go to the store tomorrow like we use(D) to.
-the the bizarre "noone" as opposed to no one.

 

[mike_v_s]

"the the"

i hate dat to

Mike

 

[iamlowsound]

"Yous". Such as; "What would yous like for dinner tonight?" Drives me crazy. For punctuation, I hate it when people put a space before a period, or any other form of punctuation that doesn't require one.

lowsound

 

[popinfresh]

"the the"

i hate dat to

Mike

+1

 

[Jim Nazium]

pronouncing "nuclear" as "nuke-ya-ler"

 

[Relic]

"Yous". Such as; "What would yous like for dinner tonight?" Drives me crazy.

Hold on now... that's actually proper New Jersey English!

ahh fuggetaboutit..

 

[Stigs]

Nothing from conversation pops into my head, but a few online or otherwise written ones do come to mind, such as:

Your/You're
Saying "should of ..." instead of "should have ..."
Massive walls of text

 

[wabbit]

their, they're and there
two, to and too
your, you're and yore
then and than

... ummmm ...

I, eye and aye!

 

[rustynuts]

affect/effect

 

[wabbit]

jealous/envious
accept/except
whether/weather/wether

 

[QuelOround]

Missusing homophones and double negatives.