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Micky Dolenz wrote: »Nah, In that instance, I'd say something like:
Your arse is big, in everything or I rode your sister.
You should have put the comma after 'everything'.
''Your arse is big in everything, or I rode your sister''.
A full stop would have worked better though.
My hates are lack of capitalisation, seen instead of saw, done instead of did, and hear instead of here.
And of course the whole 'you, you're and your' minefield.0 -
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Also - "package" of crisps.
My wife says this. It drives me demented, as does 'chimley', 'scaff' and 'window still'. She picked them up from her mother.
My kids have a few beauts too, namely 'brang', and won instead of beat.
A few others are people writing ect. in place of etc., and pronouncing it eck setera.
Alot, noone (how come noone always pops up in conversation, especially when no one else is around?)
There seems to be a new reverse snobbery regarding grammar, spelling and punctuation nazis. Being accurate is now been seen as a bad thing. I bet you don't think that when the pilot manages to land on the runway, or the dentist fills the right tooth.
The use of amount in place of number (already referenced) and minute in place of moment drive me up the walls.
"Where's John?"
"He's not here at the minute."
Grrr, a minute is a specific period of time. A moment is a non-specific period of time, and should be used to refer to any [short] non-specific period of time.
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Pherekydes wrote: »Being accurate is now been seen as a bad thing.
I can't figure out if this is deliberate
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Or "He's" for "his".Culchies who say "millon" and "billon" instead of Million and Billion.
IMHO TV3 is the worst offender, especially among it's female presenters. They attempt to screw up the perfectly good accent of their background into some odd D4 speak and mangle words in the process. Word to the wise ladies, any rural or urban accent of Ireland is considerably better than some elocution strangled nasally drone.Get the fúck off the radio you imbeciles.
I hear that one from Dubs too though. Among some other beauties, it's not just the culshiesAlso - "package" of crisps.
Yea kinda, but at the same time I personally like colloquialisms. That one may have come from Irish. The grammatically mad(in English) one of "I'm after doing something" is one such borrowed from Irish that I'd not like to see go. Ditto for some of the archaic usage words knocking about, like "shore" for "drains", press for cupboard etc.Pherekydes wrote: »The use of amount in place of number (already referenced) and minute in place of moment drive me up the walls.
"Where's John?"
"He's not here at the minute."
Grrr, a minute is a specific period of time. A moment is a non-specific period of time, and should be used to refer to any [short] non-specific period of time.
/rant over
Other daft ones you see are instead of "Fair dues" you get "fair Jews" or completely eye swivelingly daft, "fair juice" I mean WTF?
Once the built in dictionary in their word processor doesn't spot it and underline it there's not a lot of proofreading going on these days.Scartbeg wrote:You'd think that any poofreader worth their salt would pick up on a glaring error such as this, yet it seems to occur repeatedly.Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.
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true-or-false wrote: »It's not about typos or mistakes. It's about when people just can't write in English properly and it's repeated over and over again. It gets annoying.
Language evolves. For example your use of the word "typo". If we were in 1700's people would be giving out to you for using incorrect language. The correct term you should have used is "typographical error".
"Mistake" is actually "Mistaka" and changed in the 14th century. Clearly you are not using the correct English.
"properly" is from the 14th century, from "propre".
Language evolves. The mistakes that annoy you are your inability to cope with change.
For future reference..
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php0 -
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LeeHoffmann wrote: »the only one that bothers me is when people write 'woman' (singular) when they mean 'women' (plural) or vice-versa
Ah but that one goes back 2,000 years or so....
"Man does not live on bread alone" hardly refers to one particular man, does it ?
As an aside : I nearly wrote "hardly refers to a single man", which would have been perfect language and grammar, but which would still have been open to misinterpretation based on his marital status, thereby emphasising the core issue : English is confusing enough without people making it - completely unnecessarily - even more confusing!
Oh, and here's one that I saw on Facebook earlier - a graphic with a caption of "I like went XXXXXXX" when what was meant was "I said XXXXXX".....
......where the HELL did that mangled bastardisation of language come from ?0 -
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Language evolves. For example your use of the word "typo". If we were in 1700's people would be giving out to you for using incorrect language. The correct term you should have used is "typographical error".
"Mistake" is actually "Mistaka" and changed in the 14th century. Clearly you are not using the correct English.
"properly" is from the 14th century, from "propre".
Language evolves. The mistakes that annoy you are your inability to cope with change.
For future reference..
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php
I think the evolution of language, the development of colloquialisms and the way words have changed over the years due to the lack of literacy and widespread written word isn't quite the point here. You might as well say we should all be speaking Latin or Greek.
The point is that (obviously with the odd exception) we were all given an education. It's not my inability to cope with change that causes my annoyance, but it is a similarly unflattering trait; bitterness. I'm bitter that I spent effort in school learning how to write in the way that all of my generation were taught to write, and other people didn't.
Normally, I would argue that language is a form of communication, and that if you can understand someone, then clearly they're communicating (and hence using language) properly. In fact one of my friends was once picked on in a conversation for saying something which strictly was grammatically incorrect, and I stood up for them with that very argument. I'm not saying they should go back to school, I just think I'm allowed to have a rant about it when I'm on a thread deliberately set up for people to rant about it.0 -
true-or-false wrote: »It's not about typos or mistakes. It's about when people just can't write in English properly and it's repeated over and over again. It gets annoying. The first time I saw someone type "been" instead of "being", it didn't bother me, I figured it was a mistake, but then it happens again and again by loads of people and you have to wonder if anyone actually went to school at all. I make mistakes all the time, but the systematic way in which some people just seem to not understand their own language pretty distracting in threads.
As for caring, no one really cares that much, that's why this thread was made; because it's not worth derailing a thread for or giving out to anyone for. This is just a place for the people who are bothered by it to have a bit of a vent.
Speaking of which, "sayed". What's that all about?
Some people are just crap at spelling and grammar. Others are crap at basic addition and subtracting, such is life!
Anyway, using E instead of €.Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.
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