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Most hated grammatical error [Merged]

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  • 04-12-2008 1:55pm
    #1
    Smart Bug
    Registered Users Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭


    I f*ckin hate it when people write (or say) of instead of have, e.g:

    "it would of worked if I wasn't so 'tarded"

    or:

    "I would of come over there if I wasn't a blithering idiot"

    Grrrrrr

    What's yours? Thread go now:


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    #2
    andrewh5
    Registered Users Posts: 588 ✭✭✭andrewh5


    Your instead of you're for you are.

    Been instead of being.

    As instead of has.

    There instead of they're for they are.


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    #3
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    andrewh5 wrote: »
    Your instead of you're for you are.

    Been instead of being.

    As instead of has.

    There instead of they're for they are.

    +1

    plus people who don't know when to use their, there or they're.


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    #4
    monaghanbiffo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 129 ✭✭monaghanbiffo


    Yeah i'm gonna go for You're where actually it should be Your

    ie: You're Ma

    when it Should be

    Your Ma!!!


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    #5
    Smart Bug
    Registered Users Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭Smart Bug


    monaghanbiffo wrote: »
    Yeah i'm gonna go for You're where actually it should be Your

    ie: You're Ma

    when it Should be

    Your Ma!!!


    You are Ma.


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    #6
    Smellyirishman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭Smellyirishman


    monaghanbiffo wrote: »
    when it Should be

    Your Ma!!!

    Eh, it's actually Yore Ma.

    Pfft, go lurn a book or somethink.


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    #7
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    None, really.

    Text-speak is worse, as it's intentional.


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    Honey-ec
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,844 ✭✭✭Honey-ec


    monaghanbiffo wrote: »
    Yeah i'm gonna go for You're where actually it should be Your

    ie: You're Ma

    when it Should be

    Your Ma!!!

    Actually I believe the accepted AH spelling is "Yore ma!"

    Everything everyone has said above.

    People asking for advise.

    People thinking that every single word that ends in "s" requires an apostrophe before it.


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    #9
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    from the poker forum it drives me nuts when people use the term loose in stead of lose and vice versa.

    also forum instead of form and vice versa.

    also vice versa instead of vice versa


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    themadchef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,813 ✭✭✭themadchef


    Smellyirishman wrote: »
    Eh, it's actually Yore Ma.



    That will *learn him!



    *really bothers me


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    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Should of went - two grammatical howlers in just three words...

    (It's "should have gone").

    "Their"/"there"/"they're" are pretty bad too.


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    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    Why be there always of threads about the bad spelling and of the grammer also?
    Can i be ansurd pleese?


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    #13
    Smart Bug
    Registered Users Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭Smart Bug


    Dudess wrote: »
    Should of went - two grammatical howlers in just three words...


    That makes me cry inside.


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    #14
    fonpokno
    Registered Users Posts: 8,375 ✭✭✭fonpokno


    "Should of" is terrible but "I seen" is just infuriating. At least "should of" sounds a little bit like "should've", saw and seen are two completely different words. Jesus.

    You didn't seen anything, you fecking well saw it.


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    shellyboo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,883 ✭✭✭shellyboo


    Smart Bug wrote: »
    I f*ckin hate it when people write (or say) of instead of have


    This is mine, as well. The only one I will ever correct anyone on, too. I can stand any amount of its/it's and your/you're and their/there/they're (well, in day to day life, not in work)... but break out an 'of' instead of 'have' and I'm sorry, you are a complete idiot and you fail at the English language.

    Also, unnecessary capitalisation disease. Unless it is a proper noun or the first word in a sentence, it does not take a capital letter. How hard is this to grasp? I'll tell you... not hard at all.

    Ooh, ooh, and using commas like a stupid person. Just because you think a pause in your head doesn't mean a comma goes in there. We don't all read out loud.

    *angry editing face*


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    Dinter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Dinter


    I'm weary of people misspelling wary.


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    Alarums
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭Alarums


    "Loose" instead of "lose". The amount of people who make that mistake is astonishing.


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,421 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    - Using "amount of" instead of "number of" when referring to countable items, e.g. "there was a huge amount of people at the match today".

    - Using inappropriate adjectives, as in "fast speed" (should be "high"), "expensive price" (ditto), "cold temperatures" (should be "low") etc.

    - The inability to know the difference between adverbs and adjectives, as in "the train was travelling really quick" (should be quickly).

    - Using "rob" instead of "steal" (You rob people, you steal things).

    - Using "lend" instead of "borrow" (You lend things to people, you borrow things from people).

    - All the usual ones "would of", "been" instead of "being", their/they're/there, its/it's etc.

    - A Motors forum specific one that always gets me is the use of "brake" instead of "break".


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    #19
    Kold
    Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    Simply has to be There/Their/They're and your/you're. I could do this by age 5 only to have the same English class every year until I was 18 and still f*ckers can't do it!


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    abouttobebanned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    I'm another who hates to see loose instead of lose. I mean when they mean to spell loose do they not then question that their previous spelling of "lose" was incorrect?


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    #21
    Smart Bug
    Registered Users Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭Smart Bug


    Turd Ferguson wrote: »
    Why be there always of threads about the bad spelling and of the grammer also?
    Can i be ansurd pleese?


    Because, Tard Ferguson, most Boards.ie users are OCD-ridden perfectionist grammar/spelling Nazis who cannot, for one nano-second, tolerate the sheer ignorance displayed by the intelluctually unwashed as evidenced by their utterly incompetent attempts at rendering a readable and sensical post. :D

    Yes, sensical is a word. Because I said so, that's why.


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    #22
    shellyboo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,883 ✭✭✭shellyboo


    fonpokno wrote: »
    "Should of" is terrible but "I seen" is just infuriating.

    You didn't seen anything, you fecking well saw it.

    Oh, oh, and 'been' instead of being.

    And, and, and... 'I was looking at the telly'... Oh really? Was it off? Or were you actually watching a programme?

    And for the love of god, please, internet: It's 'discreet', not 'discrete'. Unless you're having an in-depth discussion about phonology and word sounds, it's discreet.


    Oh, and btw: Has anyone seen Tesco's discounted "confectionary" promotion? There's 25% off badly-spelled sweets in your local supermarket NOW!


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    #23
    MIN2511
    Registered Users Posts: 5,398 ✭✭✭MIN2511


    definately instead of definitely......

    I am guilty of using 'would' instead of 'will'


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    #24
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Turd Ferguson wrote: »
    Why be there always of threads about the bad spelling and of the grammer also?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-upmanship


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    Honey-ec
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,844 ✭✭✭Honey-ec


    shellyboo wrote: »
    Oh, and btw: Has anyone seen Tesco's discounted "confectionary" promotion? There's 25% off badly-spelled sweets in your local supermarket NOW!


    Come back next month for their stationary sale...

    Ever noticed that the same people who say "should of" invariably also say "kind have"?


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    #26
    Smart Bug
    Registered Users Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭Smart Bug


    shellyboo wrote: »
    Oh, and btw: Has anyone seen Tesco's discounted "confectionary" promotion? There's 25% off badly-spelled sweets in your local supermarket NOW!


    I love Quarlity Strete chicolites myself.


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    #27
    shellyboo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,883 ✭✭✭shellyboo


    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    from the poker forum it drives me nuts when people use the term loose in stead of lose and visa versa.

    also forum instead of form and visa versa.

    also visa versa instead of visa versa


    *cringes*

    Please be being ironic... because it's vice versa
    MIN2511 wrote: »
    definitely instead of definately......

    Definitely being the correct spelling of the word, you mean?


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    #28
    ncmc
    Registered Users Posts: 4,852 ✭✭✭ncmc


    Double negatives...

    "I didn't do nothing"

    "We don't need no education"

    etc

    Drives me cracked.


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    #29
    Alanstrainor
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 23,157 Mod ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Im make loads of grammatical mistakes everyday, but there are some that really annoy me. Done instead of did. Eg "look what i done"!!!


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    #30
    Gauge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,818 ✭✭✭Gauge


    I could care less about grammatical errors.


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    #31
    shellyboo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,883 ✭✭✭shellyboo


    Gauge wrote: »
    I could care less about grammatical errors.

    I really wish I could stop caring about grammatical errors. It's torture being a pedant.


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