Your least favourite grammar mistakes

Loadsamoney

Most of them seem to stem from laziness/leaving school at the age of 14.
My pet hate;

They + Are = "They're"

Not "there" Or "their"!

El Weirdo

Sticky fail, it seems.

Your move, Dr.Bollocko.

Celly Smunt

"just having a lye down" :mad:

Dravokivich

Couldn't give a shít to be honest. I consider remarking on how someone said something to be rather childish and foolish as it completely misses the point of what they were saying too.

PseudoFamous

I have a few friends from the midlands who seem to be convinced that the word is "do'nt", and put it into writing, too.

sensibleken

Oh get a life!

bloody grammar nazis

matrim

Their are just do many I dont know where to start

The King of Moo

Loadsamoney wrote: »

Most of them seem to stem from laziness/leaving school at the age of 14.
My pet hate;

They + Are = "They're"

Not "there" Or "their"!

That one, and the similar "your" instead of "you're."

And of course "would/could/should of."

I could go on all day about grammar mistakes so I'll just mention one more:


"If I had of done better at school, I'd have a better job now."

Where's the "of" coming from? It doesn't make any sense there! I assume people saying/writing this are mistakenly confusing "'ve" (short for "have," as in the "would of" mistake) for "of," but the sentence would still be wrong if it said "If I had have..."
There should be no "have" or "of" at all, and I don't know why people include them in these cases (third conditional sentences, if I recall correctly).

I will point out though, that while I get very annoyed by bad grammar mistakes, I despise Grammar Nazism, and think that correcting the grammar of someone who hasn't asked you to is the height of rudeness.

marketty

A girl I knew would often have Facebook statuses using 'know' where 'no' should be, eg 'there's know way I'm paying this household charge', 'feck know milk left', 'my baby got know daddy' and so on.

TanG411

"Your great".

Your great what?

later12

Persistently correcting others' spellings seems to be mistaken by some as the express route to some sort of intellectual superiority.

Well done. Your intelligence can be summed up with a child's pocket dictionary. It can be bought for €4.99.

seamus

PseudoFamous wrote: »

I have a few friends from the midlands who seem to be convinced that the word is "do'nt", and put it into writing, too.

When I was a nipper working in a well-known supermarket chain, we all had to wear t-shirts one day for a promotion. It had something written on it, don't remember what, but I do remember that one of the words was "d'ont".

Had to wear the thing all day. Scarleh.

Captain_Generic

ThinksAmoral wrote: »

"Your great".

Your great what?

.....period?

sensibleken

If you are completely incapable of understanding a sentence because of a missplaced apostrophe or mispelt 'your' then if afraid its you thats the idiot, not the other person

Orando Broom

'Of' instead of 'have'. You fücking dopes.

GLaDOS

Lose/loose

Our/are

It's like they're not even trying.

WoollyRedHat

See's sticky at top of forum, starts thread on grammar mistakes.
Problem?

Jimoslimos

I do it for the sense of moral and intellectual superiority I feel when looking down on the lesser grammar Jews, aswell as grammar gypsies, grammar homosexuals, etc.*






*Joke mods!

Oranage2

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Mr.Biscuits

Cant abide grammer nazis nor speeling freaks.

And if the above sentence gets on you're tits - maybe you have ODC and not so perfect afterall!

_feedback_

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Ever heard of punctuation?! :rolleyes:








:pac::D

furiousox

"I seen" and "I done"
It's f'king rampant in this country! :mad:

mikom

The best mistakes are when the poster is trying in vain to appear all intelligent.

Exibit A.

paddyandy wrote: »

It'l be the "coo d graa" that will bury Ireland if they legalise soft drugs .Ireland has'nt coped well with anything since the foundation of the state .

_feedback_

This thread is quiet boring in fairness. You could of thought of a better one OP.

Loadsamoney

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056526338

Oh.

Only seeing that now.

Jimoslimos

furiousox wrote: »

"I seen" and "I done"
It's f'king rampant in this country! :mad:

I smell an imposter........



Oooh, nice ninja edit! Spared for now!

harney

Taught instead of thought

Caraville

I don't generally correct someone's poor spelling and grammar, but I still will never accept that it's ok that people are consistently shoddy with it.

The odd mistake is grand, but there's no excuse for constantly getting things wrong. People should make it their business to know how to read and write properly (assuming they have no intellectual/learning disability).

ImpossibleDuck

Your LEAST FAVOURITE grammar mistakes


Surely no one has a favourite grammar mistake?

When they make a mistake does someone go up and say "Hey, that one's my favourite!:D" ?

Jimoslimos

Caraville wrote: »

I don't generally correct someone's poor spelling and grammar, but I still will never accept that it's ok that people are consistently shoddy with it.

The odd mistake is grand, but there's no excuse for constantly getting things wrong. People should make it their business to know how to read and write properly (assuming they have no intellectual/learning disability).

Yeah, totally agree with this. I'll overlook mistakes like it's and its, their and there, or your and you're, since I'm probably guilty of making these before. I also will take into account the nationality of the poster.

I just find it strange that txt spk is frowned upon and indeed banned here (I think, is it?) but poor grammar, spelling and punctuation is considered ok. Double standards?

quietriot

Jimoslimos wrote: »

I just find it strange that txt spk is frowned upon and indeed banned here (I think, is it?) but poor grammar, spelling and punctuation is considered ok. Double standards?

It seems to be a current trend in social media. People seem to get aggressive and defensive if you correct their spelling or grammar, seemingly feeling as though they've been made to look like an idiot, yet doing nothing on their own end to prevent that perception being formed again. They'd rather blame the person that pointed out their error than themselves for having made it.

Something I was linked recently was the twitter account @grammer_man https://twitter.com/grammer_man . It's a bot that uses a wikipedia page of common grammar mistakes to point the mistake out to those who made it on twitter. A lot are accepting of the correction, judging by the responses, however some of the people receiving the correction are extremely aggressive.

I don't understand why "grammar nazis" are made to be the villains. Is bad spelling and grammar acceptable now? There is no quicker way, in text based media, to make oneself look like an idiot than with consistently bad grammar.

Some things that irk me regularly:

• The confusion between "there", "their" and "they're". The difference between the three is extremely simple to understand.
• "Loose" being used for "lose". The same idiots appear to never make the reverse mistake.
• "You're" and "your". Straight forward ignorance.
• "Then" and "than". You don't have more hash then Anto, bud.
• "Could of", "would of", "should of". Sheesh.

Alun

One that hasn't been mentioned yet is the confusion between "affect" and "effect".

I also get very annoyed by the use of "amount" when applied to countable nouns, as in "amount of people", and the corresponding misuse of "less" instead of "fewer".

obliviousgrudge

People using THEN instead of THAN really gets on my nerves. "I like you more then him" for example.

Marcus_Crassus

People who don't know the difference between 'seen' and 'seeing'. Or 'been' and 'being'.

Also, even the most erudite of people misuse 'its' and 'it's'.

phog

quietriot wrote: »

Some things that irk me regularly:

• The confusion between "there", "their" and "they're". The difference between the three is extremely simple to understand.
• "Loose" being used for "lose". The same idiots appear to never make the reverse mistake.
• "You're" and "your". Straight forward ignorance.
• "Then" and "than". You don't have more hash then Anto, bud.
• "Could of", "would of", "should of". Sheesh.

+ 1

especially Should Of :mad: it's rampant over on the rugby forum.

RichieC

when people mistake to for too :pac:

Chuck Stone

Sometimes I look back through my posts and think 'what a fucking mess'.

It's because I write with my thoughts fresh in my head so it often doesn't go to text as clearly as I'd like.

I make mistakes with the your/you're thing too and it does irk me a wee bit but not enough that I'd get overly annoyed by it.

Correcting English is a foolish game because the corrector will often make mistakes himself.

Liam Byrne

mikom wrote: »

The best mistakes are when the poster is trying in vain to appear all intelligent.

Exibit A.

Can we assume paddyandy was exhibit b ?

Chuck Stone

Sometimes people,not everyone mind,will use commas and such like in this sentence ! Have I done it myself ?

Proberly !

HalloweenJack

I have just twice read "There is more Unionists in Ireland than people think" in that thread.

Seriously, how can you confuse "is" and "are"?

robman60

I die a little inside every time I hear "I seen" and "I done".

Really is as bad as it gets.

Something that's become really common here is people saying "I could have went", which although not as bad as above, is still annoying.


Finally, it baffles me when someone types "been" instead of "being" or vice versa. You guys must know who you are, it's rampant on here. How someone could reach adulthood not knowing which is which in a primarily English speaking country is beyond me.

furiousox

I've heard teachers saying "I seen" so it's no wonder the kids are using it too.
Altogether now...

I seen
You seen
He seen
We seen
They seen

:mad:

Niles

I heard in the paper...

Nolanger

Just desserts
Tow the line
Veil of tears

Capt'n Midnight

seamus wrote: »

When I was a nipper working in a well-known supermarket chain, we all had to wear t-shirts one day for a promotion.

Ben there
Dunne that
bought the Taoiseach

Capt'n Midnight

Nolanger wrote: »

Veil of tears

Bridezilla ?

take everything

Its speld gramer.

Loomis

This is a grate thread.

Niles

Its rear that you come across correct English.

The Orb

I seen
I done
Them things
I would have went

Cringe

dxhound2005

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