What's your biggest grammatical pet peeve?

[Bocete]

I hate when people are supposably deep... On forums and otherwise... You know, those people who are unable to end a sentence with a single period... Because, you know, it's important... I feel strongly about it... Because, you know... And stuff...

I also hate the use of u instead if you... I know, it's shorter... But u can do it, it's not that hard 2 b literate...

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(dammit I've pissed myself off )
(you could misinterpret that )

EDIT:

Oh yeah , and those who can't put blanks the right way : only after punctuation . Either this or like this.You know what I ' m talking about .

 

[Blacke]

I hate when people are supposably deep...

I prolly have to agree.

 

[DigMe]

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

So basically my 4th grade class.

bc

 

[bassist 4 life]

their there and they're
your and you're

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

My pet peeve is about people who say :

"those ones" all the time!!

It's just so unecessary!

"I'll have those, over there please."
"I like those, not the green basses." etc.

Why do people always have to insert an unecessary "ones"!!??

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

I hate when people are supposably deep

You just invented a word there!!

 

[Bocete]

You just invented a word there!!

No I didn't

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(In truth, I'm not a native English speaker. Whenever I'm insecure about a word, I google it, and I'm given the exact spelling. Supposably was found as-is, but I didn't take notice where was it found Now we know!)

 

[Out_of_Toon]

My pet peeve is about people who say :

"those ones" all the time!!

It's just so unecessary!

"I'll have those, over there please."
"I like those, not the green basses." etc.

Why do people always have to insert an unecessary "ones"!!??

Cuz dem onez is teh bestest xpression lolz




Also, I hate to see small languages of this world being overwhelmed with English loan words that become subtitutes for originals (or is it original ones, Mr. Linfield? ).

But don't worry, it's not the English-speaking people's fault, it's the native speakers and their media.
Also, every language nowadays is being perverted in some way ok, maybe not Latin), so yes, if we don't have major influences over the education and the media all we can do is lament.

Btw, is there a polyglots club? If not, I'd like to be the proprietor

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

No I didn't

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(In truth, I'm not a native English speaker. Whenever I'm insecure about a word, I google it, and I'm given the exact spelling. Supposably was found as-is, but I didn't take notice where was it found Now we know!)

Well that kind of proves my point - it is not a word!

I now have a new pet peeve - people who say "supposably"..

 

[Bocete]

Well that kind of proves my point - it is not a word!

I now have a new pet peeve - people who say "supposably"..

I found one new on Uncyclopedia: exspecially. I'm astounded!

 

[Barkless Dog]

I have alot of them.

 

[Happynoj]

Affect/effect. It drives me insane, and every time I see it I want to beat the user to death with a stuffed heron.

 

[L-A]

In french, my pet peeve is about people who will mix up -ez and -er verb endings.

Manger is the gerund of the verb to eat.
Mangez is "you eat", plural. They're pronounced the same way.

My pet peeves in English (without pretending to be a grammar genius) are of the same type.

You're/your
Their/there/they're

And I mildly loathe those who profusely use "y'all".

 

[shadowmac]

Irregardless.....That one gets under my skin.

My favorite is Pacifically, as in "I pacifically asked you not to make fun of my grammar".

 

[vinny]

irregardless
exspecially
excape
nukular
supposably

And the other usual suspects:
your/you're
there/their/they're
too/to/two

plus many, many others.

What really gets me is seeing it in advertising. Is no one checking this stuff?

 

[MonetBass]

There's not enough time in the day to include everything.

But lately it's been that adding an 's to a word does NOT make it plural. EVER.

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

Irregardless.....That one gets under my skin.

My favorite is Pacifically, as in "I pacifically asked you not to make fun of my grammar".

I think that's just a speech impedement!

Some people just cannot say "sp" or have lazy pronunciation.

I remember asking a whole group of French people to say "Crisps" and they just couldn't get their chops around the last part - caused much amusement!!

 

[L-A]

I remember asking a whole group of French people to say "Crisps" and they just couldn't get their chops around the last part - caused much amusement!!

Actually it's not the "sp" part, but turning around from some consonant to a final "s" is really uncommon in French.

Sort of like saying sprichst in German. That word kills me.

 

[rustynuts]

My uncle can not say "Vietnamese". He says "Viet-muh-nese" and when you point out that he's saying it wrong and the correct pronunciation he swears that's what he's saying. He even hears it incorrectly.

Drives me nuts.

 

[L-A]

My photo teacher says "Incrustration"