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People using the wrong word in a phrase, showing they clearly don't get it. Someone who is feeling peeked (piqued), for example. There are a lot of other examples, too, but I can't think of any right now. I think my brain tries very hard to block them out.
I can live with "anyways."
"Anyhoo," however, bugs the crap out of me.
"Anyhoo," however, bugs the crap out of me.
The use of intensive/reflexive pronouns as the objective case, as in, "After you fill it out, please hand the form to either John or myself."
It bugs me because people say it to sound fancier, when in fact they sound pretentious and ignorant.
It bugs me because people say it to sound fancier, when in fact they sound pretentious and ignorant.
Ooh, that one gripes me, too.
Also:
"Yesterday, Sue came down to visit with Mike and I." *cringe*
If you wouldn't with we, you shouldn't with I. ;-)
Also:
"Yesterday, Sue came down to visit with Mike and I." *cringe*
If you wouldn't with we, you shouldn't with I. ;-)
The perennial USan misuse of "momentarily" as 'in a moment', as opposed to the correct 'for a moment'.
"The plane will be landing momentarily" [and then taking off again?]
"The plane will be landing momentarily" [and then taking off again?]
I'm one of the few people who objects to using "lay" without a direct object. Just about everybody these days says "lay down" instead of "lie down".
From http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/lay:
Lay has been used intransitively in the sense of "lie" since the 14th century. The practice was unremarked until around 1770; attempts to correct it have been a fixture of schoolbooks ever since. Generations of teachers and critics have succeeded in taming most literary and learned writing, but intransitive lay persists in familiar speech and is a bit more common in general prose than one might suspect. Much of the problem lies in the confusing similarity of the principal parts of the two words. Another influence may be a folk belief that lie is for people and lay is for things. Some commentators are ready to abandon the distinction, suggesting that lay is on the rise socially. But if it does rise to respectability, it is sure to do so slowly: many people have invested effort in learning to keep lie and lay distinct. Remember that even though many people do use lay for lie, others will judge you unfavorably if you do.
From http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/lay:
Lay has been used intransitively in the sense of "lie" since the 14th century. The practice was unremarked until around 1770; attempts to correct it have been a fixture of schoolbooks ever since. Generations of teachers and critics have succeeded in taming most literary and learned writing, but intransitive lay persists in familiar speech and is a bit more common in general prose than one might suspect. Much of the problem lies in the confusing similarity of the principal parts of the two words. Another influence may be a folk belief that lie is for people and lay is for things. Some commentators are ready to abandon the distinction, suggesting that lay is on the rise socially. But if it does rise to respectability, it is sure to do so slowly: many people have invested effort in learning to keep lie and lay distinct. Remember that even though many people do use lay for lie, others will judge you unfavorably if you do.
I am madly in love with your icon!
Anyways, I cannot stand the use of "your" when someone means "you're" or vice versa. It has bugged me since I was in school and kids would sign yearbooks with "you're friend, X." It still appears in yearbooks--I've seen it recently in Large Boy's--and shows no sign of dying online either.
Except vs. accept runs a close second.
Anyways, I cannot stand the use of "your" when someone means "you're" or vice versa. It has bugged me since I was in school and kids would sign yearbooks with "you're friend, X." It still appears in yearbooks--I've seen it recently in Large Boy's--and shows no sign of dying online either.
Except vs. accept runs a close second.
Irregardless of what you say, its not the punctuation problem's that effect me. Well, accept for apostrophe's, of coarse. But wrong words irritate me. Especially spelling that suggest the righter has the wrong meaning in mind. Next to "Irregardless," which is my all-time favorite word to hate (I think because when you parse the double negative of the the ir- prefix and the -less suffix, it means the opposite of what people use it to mean), "Copywritten" when someone means "copyrighted" is probably my favorite.
But what bugs me the most is when I make a mistake in a post complaining about spelling or grammar.
But what bugs me the most is when I make a mistake in a post complaining about spelling or grammar.
What, I'm the first in the thread to use this icon? I'm shocked!
Plurals with apostrophes, I think. Back in alt.callahans I had a fire lizard who considered misplaced apostrophes his rightful prey. ;-) "Sale on cucumber's" -- ugh!
Plurals with apostrophes, I think. Back in alt.callahans I had a fire lizard who considered misplaced apostrophes his rightful prey. ;-) "Sale on cucumber's" -- ugh!
Do you really gotta axe that question?
Some of the ones already mentioned hit the ZAP button hard ("anyhoo", especially). I've been known to split infinitives and dangle participles (although occasionally as bait, looking to hook dinner :-), so am not entirely cerain I'm qualified to gripe. Nonetheless, there are several things that bother the bodily fluids out of me: "doable", "different than", and two that I acquired on my first editing job, "upon" (when used for "on", in almost all cases) and "employ" (when used for "use", rather than "hire").
Oh, and leetspeak, valley speak, or most dialect, used nonsarcastically.
Oh, and leetspeak, valley speak, or most dialect, used nonsarcastically.
What bothers me about that one is how easy it is to fix (especially in written English): mentally remove "$SUBJECT and" to see if it's still correct. If "... with I" is wrong, so it "with Mike and I." (All of this you knew. But I'm a grammar pedant.)
What does "GIP" stand for?
But to answer the question: any misuse of apostrophes, effect/affect, and the use of double quotes for what I suspect is intended to be emphasis and ends up being the opposite, e.g.
Buy our "fresh" strawberries!
implying to me that said strawberries are only pretending to be fresh.
But to answer the question: any misuse of apostrophes, effect/affect, and the use of double quotes for what I suspect is intended to be emphasis and ends up being the opposite, e.g.
Buy our "fresh" strawberries!
implying to me that said strawberries are only pretending to be fresh.
I'm with Mike on 'momentarily'. Other things: dangling prepositions are things up with which I will not put *g*; 'perjorative'; 'homogeneous'; lack of agreement in number (or worse in case) between subject or object and verb ("Joe and me is going to the game").
Oh, and people trying to use the second person singular and getting it wrong. "I love thou" (the usage "thee is..." is apparently correct in some dialects, even though it is technically wrong, just as is "I be...").
Oh, and people trying to use the second person singular and getting it wrong. "I love thou" (the usage "thee is..." is apparently correct in some dialects, even though it is technically wrong, just as is "I be...").
Gratuitous Icon Post, for when you have nothing pressing to discuss, but want desperately to use your new icon.
Also, "Hopefully, it won't rain today."
Does the speaker mean that he or she hopes that it will not rain, or that it will not rain, but it will perform the not raining in a hopeful manner?
Ooh, I hate that.
Does the speaker mean that he or she hopes that it will not rain, or that it will not rain, but it will perform the not raining in a hopeful manner?
Ooh, I hate that.
the irony that just ooooozes when someone says "your retarted" online.
People who think they are erudite using that word wrongly, as in "eri-udite."
I do this kind of thing all the time, drives me nutz. I KNOW the difference between "your" and "you're" for example, but when typing in a rush, for some odd reason my fingers plop down the totally wrong spelling instead of what I know. It's very annoying when I'm telling someone off, because then they have even more reason to consider me an idiotic fool not worth paying any attention to than/then they might already have!
Yeah! I agree. That's the very worst. Puts up all my bristles.
"thou" is nominative. "thee" is accusative - in Latin grammar.
The way I learned it it correspondes to German "thou = du" "thee - dich". "Ich liebe dich." not "Ich liebe du."
In which case "I love thee" would be grammatically correct.
The way I learned it it correspondes to German "thou = du" "thee - dich". "Ich liebe dich." not "Ich liebe du."
In which case "I love thee" would be grammatically correct.
Your bard instead of You're barred was one that cropped up a few days ago. It made me giggle...
Lack of capital letters at the beginning of a sentence. Also, the word 'alright'.
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