What's your biggest grammatical pet peeve?

[flannel cat]

Excessive comma use,,,,,, Cant help it they are easy to get hooked on,,,,,,,,,,,,well I am sure its just me,,,,,,but they are handy......

 

[slobake]

Excessive comma use,,,,,, Cant help it they are easy to get hooked on,,,,,,,,,,,,well I am sure its just me,,,,,,but they are handy......

"Comma, comma, down dooby doo, down down"

 

[flannel cat]

"Comma, comma, down dooby doo, down down"

Lol!,,,,,,Cheers!

 

[48thStreetCustom]

When people use "literally" wrong.

"I literally died when he said that."

 

[Levent]

It bugs me that dictionaries change the meanings of words to reflect the misuse of the language by morons.

Which makes them avantgarde visionaries.

 

[LBS-bass]

Hilarious.

Dictionaries were compiled originally by people who wanted to create a reference that documented the way people used language. I'm not sure anyone at that time suggested that these were books meant to keep people using the language in exactly that same way throughout the rest of time.

But here we are

 

[George Dennis]

It bugs me that dictionaries change the meanings of words to reflect the misuse of the language by morons.

Hilarious.

Dictionaries were compiled originally by people who wanted to create a reference that documented the way people used language. I'm not sure anyone at that time suggested that these were books meant to keep people using the language in exactly that same way throughout the rest of time.

But here we are

Pretty sure they'd say they're just doin' their job.
A Word on 'Descriptive' and 'Prescriptive' Defining

 

[Tom Bomb]

We certainly dude get around. Like Webster's Dictionary, we're more-ocker-bound.
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[RichterScale]

If people keep saying/typing "should of" instead of "should have",.....
Should we just call it "evolving language" and add it to acceptable ways to string words together?

 

[Tom Bomb]

Go right ahead​

 

[IamGroot]

We certainly dude get around. Like Webster's Dictionary, we're more-ocker-bound.
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From Wiki,
The Macquarie Dictionary (/məˈkwɒri/) is a dictionary of Australian English. It is generally considered by universities and the legal profession to be the authoritative source on Australian English.

Australia's words of the year for 2022 were:
"teal" ( an independent political candidate who holds generally ideologically moderate views, but supports strong climate action and prioritising integrity in politics) and
"bachelor's handbag" ( a supermarket takeaway chicken, named for the fact it requires no preparation before eating and often comes in a small plastic bag with a handle, resembling a handbag).

 

[IamGroot]

If people keep saying/typing "should of" instead of "should have",.....
Should we just call it "evolving language" and add it to acceptable ways to string words together?

Hi ther, my goode friend! howe doon ye doon on this fyne day?

 

[Tom Bomb]

Those handbags are grouse, in a pinch, chook. We'll go the roast pork handbag, more often than not — make right pigs of ourselves.

"bachelor's handbag" ….

 

[slobake]

Those handbags are grouse, in a pinch, chook. We'll go the roast pork handbag, more often than not — make right pigs of ourselves.

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It's a mute point.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Clever​

 

[Fishheadjoe]

What drives me up the wall are what I perceive to be out right laziness. Bastardizing words because folks are too lazy to enunciate. Is it that much more work to pronounce a word or series of words correctly?
Fishheadjoe

 

[Thumper]

"I seen" is used here in Utah. In Ohio I heard "bring" frequently used out of context instead of take.

 

[pcake]

We're doing our bestest. Boldly. Going. Going. Gonzo!!!!

I love what R. L. Trask writes, about the choice of using 'vs' versus 'versus,' in Mind the gaffe! : a troubleshooter's guide to English style and usage. Why not write it out? he opines.

I agree with him, wholeheartedly, on most things. Mind the Gaffe! is a good book (I've made the claim before). It looks better, it reads better. If you're going to claim something, if you believe you have a point, and you're in the communication game, have some conviction. It's only a few letters, after all. YMMV, etc. TTFN.
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i'm in the communication game. i make a living writing and editing. that being said, when i'm not working, i only use lower case letters most of the time, and i expect that's someone's grammatical pet peeve.

When I ask a coworker about a particular item we carry and she says, “We don’t got that in stock.” A little part of me, the part that cares, the part that thinks it matters, the part that thinks if we continue on like this the world as we know it will crumble, that part dies a little bit. I’m close to not caring at all. The Catholic nuns who taught me in grade school? If I talked like that they would be rolling in their graves! I continue the fight for them because no one deserves an uncomfortable afterlife. Speak properly, people, for the sake of dead nuns who can’t sleep.

LOL

"don't got" is one of my pet peeves, too.

 

[IamGroot]

What drives me up the wall are what I perceive to be out right laziness. Bastardizing words because folks are too lazy to enunciate. Is it that much more work to pronounce a word or series of words correctly?
Fishheadjoe

There will be a quiz on Friday. Study Up
411
5-0
Areous
Aw-ite
Axe
B.M.W.
Ball out
Be
Befo
Bemah
Bent
Bigga
Bo jangling
Bomb
Boo
Booty
Boyz
Brick
Brurva
Buck wild
Bud
Buggin'
Bumping
Bust out
Busta cap
Busta move
Busta white
Cakes
Cap
Cavy Sack
Cent
Chillin
Chronic
Cold-lampin
Cop-blockin
Cream
Crib
Curb job
Curried
Da poopie
Dime
Dimebag
Dimesack
Dis
Dog
Ebonics
Ebony
Fitty
Flava
Fly
Fly gangster poopie
Folks
Foo
Fronting
G
Ganja
Gank
Gat
Haps in da hood
He be
Hella thick
Ho
Homey
Hood
Hoodrat
I gonna Steal you
It's on
Jet
Jigga
Jo
Jocking my style
Joe Roller
Jonx
Kicking
Kicks
Lunchin
Lutchie
Mary jane
Mo
Moo
My bad
Na
Nah
Nick
Nickelbag
Nigga
Niggaz
Nine
Outy
Packing a piece
Peace out
Peeps
Phat
Piece
Player
Po
Po Po
Polece
Refer
Regulate
Rhymes
Rise up foo
Roll out
Rollen deep
Sack
Schooled ya
Scrap
Shiiee
Shorty
Sippinn' my forty
Skeets
Sku me
Snaps
Steping
Straight
Strapped
Stupposedly
Sup
Tha shiznit
That's the bomb
The man
Thug
Tight
Triping
Try-fo-lin
Wack
What tha dilly yo
Whats up?
Word up
Yayo
Yo
You got beef
Young

 

[Tom Bomb]

Oh. Thank you. That means a lot

All the feminists at uni bucked the punctuation game in a similar manner — said it was a construct of the boofy boys club and they wouldn't have a bar of it. Lots of poets especially did as you do.

If it makes you happy, I'm all for it. Life's too short.

i'm in the communication game. i make a living writing and editing. that being said, when i'm not working, i only use lower case letters most of the time, and i expect that's someone's grammatical pet peeve.