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

[AnOminous]

I must admit I do a lot of these myself. The one that pisses me off the most is when I say "a whole 'nother". I know it's wrong and I try not to do it, but it just feels so damn right.

Saying them is okay, so is posting them somewhere like here, it's just if it ever has a chance of ending up on a page of paper, would you want to see it there with your name on it?

 

[The Last Stand]

I fucking hate people that Type Like This

Here's a great example. I hate how Trump types by capitalizing random words in his rants. I'm also sure he comma splices on the regular. Look how disjointed and cluttered this post is.

 

[AnOminous]

Here's a great example. I hate how Trump types by capitalizing random words in his rants. I'm also sure he comma splices on the regular. Look how disjointed and cluttered this post is.

I hate that too. It's pure autistic Chris-Chan randomly capitalizing things shit. Only autists do this. This is why autists love Trump so much. He also misspelled "Capitol," the important time that word is spelled with an "o" because he is an autistic faggot who sucks cock.

This miserable idiot can't even speak English.

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

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!

This was actually fairly common practice in books published prior to the early 18th century. I have no idea why, but it was evidently the style back then. Of course, seeing it in a period piece of literature is much different than some retard typing like that on Reddit in the 2020s.

 

[The Last Stand]

Back to enunciation of certain words:

You'd normally say the first syllable of Mario like "martyrdom." Some people say Mario like MAR-eo as in "marry."

Let me know if I'm using the right term. Some words should not be pronounced a certain way IMHO.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

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Here's a great example. I hate how Trump types by capitalizing random words in his rants. I'm also sure he comma splices on the regular. Look how disjointed and cluttered this post is.

This is not even his worst. His writing always reads like a fourth grader writing an essay. Something about the simple/unvarying structure, or the constant hyperbole, or the mix of attentive punctuation (the commas around "D.C." are commonly omitted in casual writing, for example) and complete lack of it, or...something I haven't quite parsed.

I hate that too. It's pure autistic Chris-Chan randomly capitalizing things shit. Only autists do this. This is why autists love Trump so much. He also misspelled "Capitol," the important time that word is spelled with an "o" because he is an autistic faggot who sucks cock.

This miserable idiot can't even speak English.

I almost mentioned the "Capital" thing, but exposure to constant error on the internet has made me dumb and doubt everything, so I double-checked.

Conclusion: he should have used "capital," lowercase. [which, btw, my autocorrect auto-capitalized, even though I had made a point of making it lowercase]

D.C. is the capital or capital city of the United States, and Congress meets in (pick any one or more):

• the United States Capitol aka
• the U.S. Capitol aka
• the Capitol aka
• the [U.S.] Capitol Building,

our formal name for the main capitol building in D.C., located on Capitol Hill. Sometimes, usually in a tourism context (or by the Smithsonian on their homepage atm), D.C. is referred to as the "Capital City," though that always makes me think of River City:

Back to enunciation of certain words:

You'd normally say the first syllable of Mario like "martyrdom." Some people say Mario like MAR-eo as in "marry."

Let me know if I'm using the right term. Some words should not be pronounced a certain way IMHO.

I know what you're talking about. I associate it with either certain Northeastern city accents, like outer boroughs of NYC or some Boston accents. I hear some Marisa Tomei Queens or Brooklyn character. It's kind of similar to Ray Liotta as Henry Hill's pronunciation of Karen in Goodfellas, which never fails to crack me up. It's very Kahhhhhh-ren (as opposed to "ker-en"), with the "al sounding like the"a" in cat, but even broader.

But you also hear that "marry" Mario pronunciation in people who've never left the Midwest or had much exposure to "ethnic" names.

Since I'm on a cultural reference jag, it's like the mom in Better Off Dead:

 

[Balaam's Ass]

Hypercorrection in general, such as using the subject pronoun where it should be the object:
"'Til the stars fall from the sky on you and I" instead of "on you and me."

Interchanging singular and plural forms of words derived from other languages:
"It was an amazing phenomena" instead of "an amazing phenomenon."

Using the singular "they" when the person is clearly identified as male or female:
"Tell that woman that they need to leave."
Sometimes this involves alternating between "they" and a gendered pronoun seemingly without reason:
"If you see the maintenance man, tell them that he needs to fix the door."
Sometimes it can cause confusion:
"If a woman's husband becomes violent, they should contact the police." Who? The woman, the husband, or both?

Referring to any criminal violence as "senseless" even when it makes sense:
"In a senseless act of violence, Muhammad Abdullah stabbed 10 Jews while shouting "Allahu Akbar!"
"A transgender Satanist woman senselessly shot and killed 13 children in a Catholic school."
"Cities full of resentful, unemployed, fatherless African Americans have been inundated with senseless violence."

On the other hand, you never hear about "sensible" violence, e.g.:
"In an act of sensible violence, a teenage girl shot and killed a man in a skirt who attempted to rape her in the women's restroom."

 

[Prince Vegeta]

Huge pet peeve that's very autistic: people using 'subconscious' (meaning something that is not a focal point of your mind but is noticed) when they mean 'unconscious' (the things that happen automatically and unnoticed in the back of your mind).

I hate it especially when scientists do this in their papers because you just know they're too brain rotted from watching TV shows where they only use 'subconscious' to refer to anything (realistic or not) to do with the human mind. It's happening more and more in publications and it triggers me like a TERF at a troon rally.

 

[The Last Stand]

I almost mentioned the "Capital" thing, but exposure to constant error on the internet has made me dumb and doubt everything, so I double-checked.

Conclusion: he should have used "capital," lowercase. [which, btw, my autocorrect auto-capitalized, even though I had made a point of making it lowercase]

D.C. is the capital or capital city of the United States, and Congress meets in (pick any one or more):

• the United States Capitol aka
• the U.S. Capitol aka
• the Capitol aka
• the [U.S.] Capitol Building,

Oh yes, I HAVE seen Trump (and others) misuse "capitol" and "capital" within a governmental context. Hell, in general. "Capitol" is a building where Congress meets; "capital" derives from the Latin term of "head," or even advantage.

Sometimes it can cause confusion:
"If a woman's husband becomes violent, they should contact the police." Who? The woman, the husband, or both?

There's a rule for "they" usage; in this case, I believe it's subject-verb agreement. English can be tricky without context or understanding. A proficient English speaker would say: "they" refers to the woman because she should contact the police on account of her violent husband.

I hate it especially when scientists do this in their papers because you just know they're too brain rotted from watching TV shows where they only use 'subconscious' to refer to anything (realistic or not) to do with the human mind. It's happening more and more in publications and it triggers me like a TERF at a troon rally.

I see people confuse "psychopath" with "sociopath." They're similar, but have underlying differences if you're well versed into psychology. People often generalize "psychopath" as crazy. That's not always the case.

 

[AnOminous]

Conclusion: he should have used "capital," lowercase. [which, btw, my autocorrect auto-capitalized, even though I had made a point of making it lowercase]

I would let it slide with a normie because that whole thing is confusing as hell, but if you're going to be President you should get that shit right.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

if you're going to be President you should get that shit right.

That's what made it so perfectly perfect in every way!

 

[The Last Stand]

I would let it slide with a normie because that whole thing is confusing as hell, but if you're going to be President you should get that shit right.

I blame our education system.

What are words that you commonly misspell?

For me, it's "schudule" and "scharloship."

 

[AnOminous]

What are words that you commonly misspell?

For me, it's "schudule" and "scharloship."

I don't know because if I did, I'd stop misspelling them that way. Occasionally, I do find I've misspelled a word consistently for years. If you mean typo I'd say probably something like "teh."

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

I blame our education system.

What are words that you commonly misspell?

For me, it's "schudule" and "scharloship."

We have these things called autocorrect and Google, there is no excuse.

I fucking hate when people use "women" as a singular. It's "woman", you absolute fucking retard.

 

[Troon_Patrol]

Someone accuses someone of something, they become visibly angry and reply "I don't know what you are talking about" when they really should be saying "I know exactly what you are suggesting, and you are dead wrong". The vast majority of the time when someone uses that reply, the accusation or the suggestion is very clear and once again they do know exactly what the first party was "talking about".

I cannot stand Nigger-babble. The butchering of the pronunciation, made up words, the way "nigga" is a pronoun "bitch"is a pronoun. I had to speak to what sounded like a 19-20 year old hoodrat the other day. About the end of the call she had no intention of paying me for my services and it strongly appeared she was trying to get free tech support at 11:30 pm instead of just paying me to fix the problem, I hung up the call. I get a long text 5 minutes later written by someone with a 4th grade grasp of English calling me a "bitch-ass nigga". I just replied "I am not a nigger." These people deserve to be at the bottom rung of society, they don't even respect themselves and they demand under threat of violence everyone else respect them.

In my field of work people will use words they have heard in passing that mean nothing even close to how they are using the word. After over a decade, I start off the conversation asking questions, very simple questions anyone can answer even if they are not technically inclined. "When did you first notice the problem"? "Right after they serviced it, was it working perfectly or not exactly"? Binary answers to simple-simple questions. They will answer the question and then go on to try to describe something technical and once again use words that don't even mean what they think it means. It would be the equivalent of asking someone about an area wide internet failure where 1000+ people are out of service due to the ISP doing something wrong and they tell you "the router is broken it keeps trying to access the IP of the mainframe but BIOS is interrupting it" Yes those are computer words but, do you even know what they mean? I don't work in IT, I don't work in anything related to traditional computers I work with my hands in very blue collar job but, it irritates me to no end when I ask someone a simple yes/no question and they reply in pure gibberish for 2 minutes.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Back to enunciation of certain words:

You'd normally say the first syllable of Mario like "martyrdom." Some people say Mario like MAR-eo as in "marry."

Let me know if I'm using the right term. Some words should not be pronounced a certain way IMHO.

As someone who's firmly in the /maɹiəʊ/ "cat" camp, it's weird how people (Americans in particular) consider this pronunciation wrong yet have no problem with "Maria." I assume "Maria" is just the feminine form?

 

[Reticulan Joe]

I get irked by people who mix up "moral" and "morale," and it's one I see quite often; interestingly it's one I see a lot from ESL speakers, who normally seem, if anything, to be better about those sorts of mix-ups compared to native English speakers.

 

[The Last Stand]

>somebody says they are unable to do X
>restates their statement
>they say no
>no, that's not what you said or no, I cannot do X
>no, I cannot do X, correct

I hate when people do that. Say, "yes, that is correct" to confirm my restated statement.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

As someone who's firmly in the /maɹiəʊ/ "cat" camp, it's weird how people (Americans in particular) consider this pronunciation wrong yet have no problem with "Maria." I assume "Maria" is just the feminine form?

Are you British/speak British English? In standard American English, Mario is rendered like MAR-io [‘mɑː.ɹi.joʊ̯]. British English is more like MARRY-o,, which I've seen rendered as [‘ma.ɹi.jɘʊ̯] (which looks like the traditional version of what you included?), but it's still less flat of an "a" sound than when Americans tend to do the "marry-o" pronunciation.

And you say Maria with the same "a" sound as is mat, bat, cat? That delays and hardens the r sound, which - in American English - isn't a typical pronunciation, which is closer to muh-'ree-uh or mer-'ee-uh ( /məˈriːə/).
It's pronounced differently than Mario because the stress is on a different syllable, and stressed syllables in English are higher, longer, and louder, so the "a" in Mario is "bigger" than the "a" in Maria.

Why stressed on different syllables? In Italian, there's an accent on the "i," in Maria, meaning the -ia at the end is separated into two distinct syllables, whereas the -io in Mario is basically a dipthong and closer to a -yo sound together. Why did they add an accent? No idea. I've read some comment that Mario and Maria actually have different language origins (straight Latin (Marius)for Mario, vs Hebrew through Greek and Latin for Maria), so that might be related: "Maria (Greek: Μαρία) is a form of the name used in the New Testament, standing alongside Mariam (Μαριάμ). It reflects the Syro-Aramaic name Maryam, which is in turn derived from the Biblical Hebrew name Miriam. As a result of their similarity and syncretism, the Latin original name Mariaand the Hebrew-derived Maria combined to form a single name." - wiki explanation of the etymology

 

[The Last Stand]

MAR-io [‘mɑː.ɹi.joʊ̯].

The stuff in the brackets, what is that and what's it called?

Lolcow crossover:

This man, Dale Wilson aka Low Tier God, often misuses words with his rants. One example is "everything he says is rebuttal," is he using that correctly? Context: he talks shit against anybody in his crosshairs, any kickback he receives falls under "rebuttal" by his logic.