Mispronunciation/ Poor grammar that annoys you?

dxhound2005

geeksauce wrote: »

W'hy d,ont' yo'u t,ell m!e yo'u see'm to b'e a'n exp,'''r...,t..,.,,.,.,,

When you call other people retarded you should expect to be put under scrutiny.

geeksauce

dxhound2005 wrote: »

When you call other people retarded you should expect to be put under scrutiny.

By who you? Are you the king of retards? Or the self proclaimed protector of apostrophe use?

Wise Old Elf

My current bugbear: troath for throat. Just f*ck off.
Oh, and Matt Cooper's 'saherday'.

the_syco

Kiith wrote: »

Am i the only one who didn't realise Irregardless was wrong?

Irregardless it's a good phrase to use, and spell-check doesn't see it.

LynnGrace

Disco Stuart wrote: »

Oh, and Matt Cooper's 'saherday'.

Yes, that and the 'nooze', (news), I had to give up listening to him.

Irish Guitarist

I hate seeing 'gonna' written in place of 'going to'. I've seen it in countless songs over the years and it always annoys me.

AdolfHipster

A bit stupid, but people referring to "Cazorla" as "CORZOLA" does my head in.

Frank Lee Midere

secondrowgal wrote: »

I know that it's standard practice on most internet forums (fora!!) that a person's grammatical errors are not corrected but I just wondering where that originated? And to boot any person doing the correcting is called a "grammar Nazi", which I think is OTT myself.

I read quite quickly - always have. Because of this I find my reading being stalled by these mistakes because the sense is gone from the sentence/paragraph. I am talking about the more usual offenders here, like apostrophes in wrong place (i.e. not at all or as a pluralisation of a word, etc.) and :

they're, their, there
you're, your
could of, would of,
his, he's, hers, it's, its, etc.

I am sure I make lots of grammatical errors myself but I have to say that I find the more common ones extremely annoying and interfering. Especially I suppose as those listed above are words that are in such common usage.

Sorry if this is off-topic!

If people were allowed to correct grammar all threads would descend into grammar wars.

That's Midere's law.

garancafan

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Anyone from templeogue reading this - the country you live in is pronounced eye-r-land not fúcking are-land. That's where my missus is from and her, her family, her friends - everyone I know from around there pronounces it are-land - WTF??

As a denizen of Templeogue myself, I would be interested to know if that is "are" the plural of "be" or "are" 100 square meters.

funtime93

There is no such thing as a car booth.Its a boot,get it right.

Also saying "I seen" instead of "I saw" really irritates me.

shopaholic01

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Amn't isn't a mistake, it's a bona fide word in it's own right.

I glad you posted that, I say it regularly.

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AllthingsCP

I COULDN'T CARE LESS REALLY.

Sinfonia

Troath.

Ring4Fea

People confusing transvestite and transexual. One is cosmetic, the other took the Final Cut, not that hard to get straight (pun intended).

MS.ing

their was this time once when eye was in the woods, and I seen a bare over near the threes beside a clearing. Eye was going to shoot it butt eye thought it would be two deer (am you nition is not cheap) so I just lef tit alone wyle it did it is thing

Meauldsegosha

On a radio news report at the weekend I heard Crimea pronounced Crim-e-a. It's been all over the news for the last two weeks. How can someone mispronounce it?

encore1

Sinfonia wrote: »

Troath.

Drives me batty! As does "thoryde" instead of thyroid

What heighth are you?

sbsquarepants

garancafan wrote: »

As a denizen of Templeogue myself, I would be interested to know if that is "are" the plural of "be" or "are" 100 square meters.

Eh, I'm not sure - I actually have no idea what you mean:)

DeanAustin

'I do be' or 'I does be'. Really annoys me.

'Pacific' instead of 'specific' really grinds my gears too. Probably because my boss always uses it and he's a tool.

Alun

DeanAustin wrote: »

'I do be' or 'I does be'. Really annoys me.

That's not really a mistake, but a bit of classic Hiberno-English there, resulting from a literal translation from Irish, in the same vein as "I was after walking the dog" for example. I don't have too much of a problem with that to be honest although it does sound odd to my English ears and I'd never use it myself.

lfqnic

Alun wrote: »

That's not really a mistake, but a bit of classic Hiberno-English there, resulting from a literal translation from Irish, in the same vein as "I was after walking the dog" for example. I don't have too much of a problem with that to be honest although it does sound odd to my English ears and I'd never use it myself.

Yeah, I think the distinction is actually quite useful.

greenflash

What gets to me is when people misuse a word to make themselves sound more intelligent.

Current in vogue malapropism is 'disinterested' instead of uninterested.

Disinterested means someone has no business in being part of the situation and should not be involved. Uninterested means they simply could not be arsed doing what they're supposed to be doing.

Commonly, footballers are accused of being disinterested in matches they are playing, but that's wrong because they are footballers and supposed to be there. A sea lion balancing a ball on its nose in the middle if the pitch would be a disinterested party.

That and the 99.9% of people in Ireland who say "Can I get..." Instead of "Can I have..," when ordering something (usually a roll or sandwich) in a shop. No you cannot 'get' it because you don't work in the shop. The staff will get it for you, bell ends.

dxhound2005

greenflash wrote: »

What gets to me is when people misuse a word to make themselves sound more intelligent.

Current in vogue malapropism is 'disinterested' instead of uninterested.

Disinterested means someone has no business in being part of the situation and should not be involved. Uninterested means they simply could not be arsed doing what they're supposed to be doing.

Commonly, footballers are accused of being disinterested in matches they are playing, but that's wrong because they are footballers and supposed to be there. A sea lion balancing a ball on its nose in the middle if the pitch would be a disinterested party.

That and the 99.9% of people in Ireland who say "Can I get..." Instead of "Can I have..," when ordering something (usually a roll or sandwich) in a shop. No you cannot 'get' it because you don't work in the shop. The staff will get it for you, bell ends.

You might be aware that the meaning of words can change over time and if a particular usage becomes very common it can be accepted as standard. This is what has happend with disinterested. In fact the usage which you disparage has a longer history than the usage which has more recently been accepted as standard.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/disinterested

Usage Note: In traditional usage, disinterested can only mean "having no stake in an outcome," as in Since the judge stands to profit from the sale of the company, she cannot be considered a disinterested party in the dispute. This usage was acceptable to 97 percent of the Usage Panel in our 2001 survey. But despite critical disapproval, disinterested has come to be widely used by many educated writers to mean "uninterested" or "having lost interest," as in Since she discovered skiing, she is disinterested in her schoolwork. Oddly enough, "not interested" is the oldest sense of the word, going back to the 17th century. This sense became outmoded in the 18th century but underwent a revival in the first quarter of the early 20th. Despite its resuscitation, this usage is widely considered an error. In our 2001 survey, 88 percent of the Usage Panel rejected the sentence It is difficult to imagine an approach better designed to prevent disinterested students from developing any intellectual maturity. This is not a significantly different proportion from the 89 percent who disapproved of a similar usage in 1988.

dd972

ORRRRR-T-E

Osgoodisgood

Pretty much everything mentioned so far irritates me with special mention for "troath" and "heighth".

My all time most annoying one (at the moment) is "sikth" for "sixth". Every UK sports commentary seems to be designed to send me into a new Bruce Banner moment.

RollieFingers

People who cannot spell the word definitely.

e_e

mike_ie wrote: »

heh - don't get me started on their/there/they're and your/you're

Somebody saying "your stupid" is the ultimate irony though.

e_e

Also "its" and "it's" get confused way too often.

It's = "It is." as in "It's a beautiful day."
Its = Possessive as in "He went to the shopping centre and used its car park.".

I only realized this a year or two ago myself.

Tokyo

e_e wrote: »

Somebody saying "your stupid" is the ultimate irony though.

Yeah, it doesn't bother me so much in day to day life, but it kills me hearing it from teachers, especially other ESL teachers, a lot of which are self proclaimed kings of the language. Was chattign online to a teacher this morning who is currently looking for work - he tells me that he has a CELTA qualification and then makes a you're/your error....