Spelling, punctuation and grammar pedants: What annoys you the most?
Hugh Jboobs
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Just for a bit of fun!
I'm a SPAG pedant, I don't mind admitting it. There are plenty of mistakes I see on this forum, Facebook and elsewhere which get my blood boiling.
But there are two particular ones that annoy me more than anything else. When I see either of them, I want to punch the nearest wall.>:(
Breath instead of breathe. >:(>:(>:(
Using a grave accent instead of an apostrophe. >:(>:(>:(
There are of course others, but these two make me the angriest! I can't explain why.
What are yours?
I repeat, this is just a bit of fun. ;-) I am sure I have made at least one spelling or grammar mistake in this very post, so please feel free to point it out!
I'm a SPAG pedant, I don't mind admitting it. There are plenty of mistakes I see on this forum, Facebook and elsewhere which get my blood boiling.
But there are two particular ones that annoy me more than anything else. When I see either of them, I want to punch the nearest wall.>:(
Breath instead of breathe. >:(>:(>:(
Using a grave accent instead of an apostrophe. >:(>:(>:(
There are of course others, but these two make me the angriest! I can't explain why.
What are yours?
I repeat, this is just a bit of fun. ;-) I am sure I have made at least one spelling or grammar mistake in this very post, so please feel free to point it out!
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Writing in text speak on a forum. You just saved a nanosecond writing 'u' instead of 'you', well done. Makes you look even more thick than mixing up your/you're.
Using an apostrophe incorrectly with a plural: grammar Nazi's >:(
Beat me to it.
I'm convinced that everybody who's guilty of this is still wearing an item of burberry clothing.
I have to disagree on this. It's not mildly irritating, I find myself becoming infuriated at this one.
Text speak annoys me too but not as much seeing all vowels removed from words e.g lyk, skwl etc. >:(
Surely it's harder to misspell words deliberately than to type the word correctly?
Maybe I'm just a grumpy old woman?
This, every time and it seems to be getting more and more prevalent.
It doesn't even work phonetically so I don't know why the buffoons who do it even bother.
It's worrying that they don't know any better.
Pedant: Noun. Someone who knows more than you do.
I'll give you that one! Jolly well played!
At this rate, my shift key may not survive the day unharmed. >:(
This. Also fairly recently I've seen definitely spelled as "defiantly". Phonetically it makes no sense whatsoever.
'License' is the American spelling. Are we being taken over or what?
Drives me nuts
Oh and text speak. I would never have a relationship with a man who writes in text speak. What else is he going to take short cuts over? ;-)
'Lose' and 'loose'
'effect' and 'affect'
There really is no excuse not to know the difference between its/it's, there/their/they're and lose/loose.
However, I will admit to always getting confused with affect/effect.
Your/You're
There/Their/they're
To/Too
I agree with the poster above, it just makes them look thick and most people I see doing it on Facebook are people who I went to the same school as so we all had the same level of education.
I'm finding having used the Internet so much my spelling has been affected, subconsciously absorbing American spellings I feel. Just fed "watercolour" into Google UK and the first item to appear is "Watercolor painting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
Even on DS I find my spell checker shows my English spellings as a mistake (check my settings?)