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Grammatical errors that make you cringe!
In this era of technology and bastardization of the english language...and just about everything else...I still can't get past certain grammatical errors.
For me...the misuse of them/those just makes me cringe in disgust. "Hand me them pliers" "Will you sell me them cards" At risk of insulting some here...I apologize. What grammatical errors make you seethe...or do you just not give 2 sh$ts!? Last edited by ullmandds; 03-01-2016 at 12:58 PM. |
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The misplacing of "only" as a modifier, for starters -- as in,
"Shlabotnik only played in eleven games that season" instead of "Shlabotnik played in only eleven games that season"... "Would of," "could of," &c', instead of "would have," "could have"... This is great -- a thread just for all of us grammar police who always have to bite our tongues...
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So eager were we to respond that we committed a glaring gaffe, since edited but now immortalized in having been quoted...
Sorry, were you referring to grammatical errors only in spoken conversation, as opposed to grammatical errors in writing? We'll overlook almost any error spoken casually, but grind our teeth when we hear it read in a speech, newscast, and so on...
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in writing is worse as I get to see it over and over again!!!!!
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It depends on the situation. Posts here on Net54 with poor spelling don't bother me too much. However, I continually receive emails at work in which people misuse the following:
there / their / they're your / you're It shouldn't irk me; however, does seem to get under my skin. |
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Grammatical errors that make you cringe!
My own errors are what make me cringe.
I just quickly write a lot of posts. Then later I see them again and I see all the mistakes. That makes me cringe. It is especially true when it is already quoted and I can't fix it.
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None mistakes happen .
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Also throw in: to / too were / where
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Steve B (re #14), wholeheartedly agree on the textspeak thing, even though one of our favorite people,
one of the most intelligent people we know, does it constantly. Agreed, too, that the elision of the infinitive ("the floor needs swept") is grating, but it's actually a pervasive regional dialect thing that runs in a geographical band from central Pennsylvania to eastern Ohio. One needs get used to it...
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Sticking an @ in front of someone's name.
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I feel like showing those people @outthedoor
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Peter - I was raised in the South by a highly educated English teacher who would also cringe at those phrases both in written and spoken form. She taught us to recognize the difference between proper English and anything otherwise pretended to be. With that in mind, I will take the opportunity to correct you in one case: It's "Hand me them THAR pliers" not "Hand me them pliers" I was fixin' to let that go, but decided agin' it. . .
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haha...to me...hand me thar pliers sounds much better!!!!!
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live long and dont worry about stuff so trivial.
I'm literate but in the text age i'm not wasting my day trying to correct everything because it takes longer to type it then to say it. |
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I don't know why, but I could scream when I read "I could care less", knowing they mean "I couldn't care less".
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"Would of" and "could of" drive me batty.
Also when someone spells "lose" as "loose." "We can't afford to loose focus..." Ugh. |
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Double Negatives and Misplaced Quotation Marks
This is a great thread. Two of my pet peeves (although I'm sure I'm guilty from time to time) are the use of double negatives and the improper "use of quotation marks".
- I can't see nothing wrong with that card. - I haven't "never owed nothing" to no one. |
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Not much really bugs me, I make plenty of mistakes myself.
But the two that really get me are Mixing tenses - "That car needs restored" instead of "this car needs to be restored" (I forget the term for the "to be " that makes it right, but I know someone here will know. ) And the textspeak. Is it really 2 hard 2 type the extra few letters? Steve B |
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good ones ryan...those really irk me too...talk about sounding stupid!!!!
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Many people in formal settings will use the wrong pronoun case for "I" and "me".
My wife purchased the tickets for my son and I. No! My wife purchased the tickets for my son and me. Watch the news for 10 minutes and you'll hear someone mess that up. Watching sports, I hear many athletes use "myself" incorrectly. I have to do what's best for the team and myself. No! I have to do what's best for the team and me. In writing, I hate when people use apostrophes on words that don't require them: Old photo's for sale. I just don't understand what people are thinking when they do this! |
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That's the one for me, too.
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A conversational affectation -- technically not a grammar issue -- that hits us like the sound of fingernails on a blackboard:
the deliberate imposition of a "sh" sound at the start of any word that begins with the consonant cluster "str"... we hear it every night from the under-30 contingent of the local TV news crews -- "shtreet" ... "shtrong"... "shtrike"... we could just shtrangle 'em...
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Others include: When homophones are used incorrectly, Using a letter or number to replace a word, When someone uses the word "Literally" figuratively. When I first saw this thread it made me think of Weird Al's song "Word Crimes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc |
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Spell-Check has created bad habits. Instead of reading for typos, some folks look as far as the red underline. That allows all but the incorrectly spelled words to slide by.
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Pete, there are more than I can count. I find myself correcting somebody, and then just as I'm about to hit the enter button, I back out of the post. Too many people have jumped on me as being a "grammar Nazi", even though my posts have always been pretty constructive. So, I started sending people friendly little messages to alert them of their error. That seemed to upset them even more. "It's only online, so it doesn't matter."
/face palm I guess people just don't care about the English language anymore. Sad. I'm certainly not above the occasional mistake, but if I'm writing a post, and I'm not sure of something, I'll stop and look it up. And if somebody were to correct me, I'd appreciate that they took the time to do so. I saw somebody writing an article about the Brewers earlier today. This was the headline: Reversal Of Fortunes Continues to Allude Brewers I felt a nervous tick developing in my right eye. I almost let it go...almost. As for what really knocks on my nerves? Most unique, or more unique. Those make my colon clench.
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That's the ready-made excuse for the lazy or ignorant to not put any effort into their grammar. That may have flown in 1992 when the internet was in its infancy, but today the vast majority of our communication takes place online, through text or email. This is how we communicate with other human beings, so if it doesn't matter there, where DOES it matter? I'm not sure why the transition from writing by hand to typing dictated that the rules of grammar went out the window but that seems to be the popular opinion.
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Someday, maybe soon, one of us may seriously start up a new thread entitled, 'Show us your ancient language samples: Cursive'
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