Grammar and language issues that drive you utterly berserk - Pet peeves

[McMitch]

Pet peeve: when people spell words such as “psych” as “sike.” It literally stems from nigger twitter typing (i.e. writing) out childhood responses for the first time. This then gets picked up by retard whites who haven’t used the word since they were ten, and think to themselves “oh yeah, that was a word” with complete disregard to how it would be spelled.

Additional peeves: People who say “seeked” instead of “sought, “aks” instead of “ask,” “finna” at all, etc. As an aside, I don’t even think I experienced “finna” until five or so years ago, and I think it’s use along blacks is largely artificial outside a specific part of the south. I didn’t intend this to target black people so much, but here we are. Maybe they should work to be more articulate.

The creation of “ussy” as a suffix to describe, not even female genitals specifically, but anything being penetrated by a penis. I get that it is 4chan meme terminology, but for some reason that one stands out as particularly egregious.

 

[Mouse Cop]

This has been bothering me lately in regards to Nick Rickieta and Nick Fuentes. When they recall a disagreement they had with somebody in the past and they are telling the story to their viewers, they will do this 100% of the time: when explaining what their "opponent" said, they will use a really stupid, emotional-sounding voice. Then, when explaining what they had said in response, they are always perfectly cool, calm, and collected, perfectly rational and even-keeled. It's like the conversational equivalent of this comic, and it makes my blood boil.

 

[AnOminous]

As an aside, I don’t even think I experienced “finna” until five or so years ago, and I think it’s use along blacks is largely artificial outside a specific part of the south.

I don't even think most "black" slang dumb white people use is even black. I've never heard any actual black person say most of this dumb shit, at least offline.

 

[DDR Yoga]

It annoys me when some obvious spelling or grammatical error is pointed out and then the busy bodies get to work on google and find an example of the variation in question having been used once in a 17th century text. Trump's use of 'bigly' would be an example but it seems like it can be done for so many words and sentence structures.

"Loose was a common spelling variation of lose in the Welsh counties during the Edwardian era. Self-own, bitch!"

 

[BirdUp]

ive said this before but i will murder anyone who uses a comma between a nonessential adjective and an essential one as if they're both nonessential (e.g. "an unremarkable, rusty cowbell") or two dependent clauses (e.g. "He drove the car to the apartment complex, and went inside.")

 

[Imp]

an older one for me is 'alright' for all right
newer and most confusing for me was nonplussed for not bothered instead of bewildered and taken aback

 

[Rap Scallion]

Misspelling dominant (adjective) as dominate (verb). There are a few words this happens with but the rest don't come to mind at the moment.

Edit: Definitely/defiantly. Learn to spell, retards.

 

[Lerias]

German speakers capitalize EVERY NOUN in writing. And when they type in English it seeps into it.

"Hitler was an artist who painted paintings but he was rejected by art school" vs "Hitler was an Artist who painted Paintings but He was rejected by Art School"

I just find it off that they would capitalize seemingly unimportant parts of a sentence. It gets even worse when they randomly capitalize words that AREN'T nouns/pronouns.

"Hitler Was an Artist Who Painted Paintings but He Was Rejected by Art School"
Nigga, be fucking consistent!

 

[toilet_rainbow]

When people type "breathe" as "breath." I always read "I can't breath" as typed and it drives me bonkers. Same with "cloths" for "clothes."

I've seen more than one person type "etc" as "ect." It isn't as rage worthy to me as the above, but it peeves too. Proves that they don't understand that "etc" is short for "et cetera."

 

[The Last Stand]

The auto-correct on my phone keeps trying to make me type "won't" instead of "wont". Wont is not short for "Wo not" you stupid fucking machine. Nor is there any means to stop it doing this. I fucking hate the way a few powerful companies now have power to guide the shape of our language.

Maybe it's me, but I'm noticing more people don't proofread themselves. That gets doubly embarrassing on an official document or sign. How hard is it to download Grammarly as a free spell check?

I hate how "noun of color" is used to describe Black people now. It's clunky to say or write. That's like saying a juice of grape instead of just grape juice. Less is more in writing. And another thing, why do people feel the NEED to point out that somebody is colored?

 

[AnOminous]

And another thing, why do people feel the NEED to point out that somebody is colored?

One of my favorites is when someone HAPPENS to be black, like it was some kind of random accident.

 

[The Last Stand]

ive said this before but i will murder anyone who uses a comma between a nonessential adjective and an essential one as if they're both nonessential (e.g. "an unremarkable, rusty cowbell") or two dependent clauses (e.g. "He drove the car to the apartment complex, and went inside.")

an older one for me is 'alright' for all right
newer and most confusing for me was nonplussed for not bothered instead of bewildered and taken aback

When people complain about grammar, but don't use basic/proper capitalization or punctuation in their grievances.

 

[Baraadmirer]

As someone who plays TTRPGs every once in a while, no, your character is not a rouge, and that lady over there isn't putting on rogue.

 

[Muttley]

the fact that I cannot use literally to mean "pertaining to the letter" infuriates me because that's precisely what litera means

 

[AnOminous]

As someone who plays TTRPGs every once in a while, no, your character is not a rouge, and that lady over there isn't putting on rogue.

Another homonym pair that might occur in a TTRPG. You do not have a moat in your eye, nor would a mote be of any use to a castle.

 

[I'm Really Feeling It]

"Hitler Was an Artist Who Painted Paintings but He Was Rejected by Art School"

I knew a couple of people probably from Europe who used to do this, and it annoyed me to no end. One day I let slip that this habit drives me insane and it might be wise for them to stop... only for them to do it even more. Oh well.

 

[DDR Yoga]

The British adoption of 'haitch' as the pronunciation of the letter 'H'. It was for a long just an Irish thing. If you watch any TV or film from before 2000, everyone still said 'aitch'. Variations in pronunciation are not annoying in and of themselves, I just hate how conformist and malleable people are. You can make the masses say and think anything you want if you put it on TV. Terrifyingly, most of them can't even remember ever pronouncing it as 'aitch'. Once it's in the memory hole, it never existed.

 

[BirdUp]

When people complain about grammar, but don't use basic/proper capitalization or punctuation in their grievances.

when people care about grammar in informal communication
i dont mind grammar mistakes on forums and stuff but if you're publishing a work without knowing how to organize your words properly you need death

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

The 'never start a sentence with because' shit. Also the 'never end a sentence with a preposition'

First of all

Ok so I'll change it to

First of all,  bitch.

 

[AnOminous]

The 'never start a sentence with because' shit. Also the 'never end a sentence with a preposition'

First of all

Ok so I'll change it to

First of all,  bitch.

A lot of "rules" like this really aren't rules at all, just the preference of some snobs. The problem with a "dangling preposition" isn't that it's at the end of a sentence. That is often awkward enough to avoid it when it is, but the real problem is when such a preposition isn't even connected to a relevant object in the sentence. It's just there for no real reason.

The same is true of the "no split infinitives" "rule." Some dorks in Victorian England decided that since infinitives in Latin were one word, English two word infinitives shouldn't be, for no reason but pure autism. This rule is slowly dying. A lot of sentences containing split infinitives are awkward enough to rewrite, but I'm not going on a jihad against them if it actually makes the sentence worse to "fix" the split infinitive.

Also, the Oxford comma is pointless unless it disambiguates something, such as when the last element in a list is "X and Y" intended as a single element.

So I'd say grammatical rules that aren't actual rules are in my list of annoying nonsense.

I'll adhere to a style manual that says "do it this way" but only if I'm being paid.

Otherwise, for formal writing I'll usually use the Chicago Manual rule if I know it. The AP style manual is absolute trash (not to mention complete wokeshit in recent days).