GIP

[kniteracy]

That's it. No message. Well, other than the fact that the word 'anyways' really annoys me. And comma splices kind of bug me, too.

I know I've asked this before, but what's your favourite grammar gripe?

Comments

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

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.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Brutal.

[roaming.livejournal.com]

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!

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

{nods}

Plus, I have a complete inability to proof-read anything I have written/typed before posting it as I read what I *think* I've typed/written, rather than what I've *actually* typed/written...{sigh!}

Teddy