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

[Preferred Penne]

I hate when people end sentences with "so, ..." instead of completing their thought.

It's even worse when they end a sentence with "err".

"Are you leaving now, errrr.....?"
"Did you need anything else, errrrr....?"

 

[Overly Serious]

So..?

Can't even get the number of dots in ellipses correct.

 

[Turquoise]

I've noticed lots of people type "worse" when they want to say "worst". I'm guessing they just don't know the latter word exists.

 

[We Are The Witches]

I'm sure you already know this but this is because according to the RAE, the institution that handles grammar and spelling, upper case letters shouldn't have a tilde now. It didn't use to be this way, however.
see here their stupid explanation


This is, of course, incredibly retarded and i can only hope it gets changed to how it used to be. It looks ugly and stupid without the graphic accent.

I'm not sure what you're talking about, uppercases should still have the graphic accent, and the link you shared states so as well.

It literally says that there is no justification to do otherwise on written text in any format ("...de manera que carece de toda justificación hoy no aplicar las reglas de acentuación gráfica a las palabras así escritas en cualquier soporte o circunstancia. La ortografía académica nunca dio carta blanca para ello.") (this is the text's conclusion), and that there is no motive to not follow the rules ("...se entenderá que no haya motivos para dejar de aplicar dichas reglas cuando se utilizan las mayúsculas.").

That text merely attempts to explain why this would happen, which was (in part) due to some old typewriters not being able to cleanly insert the "tilde", and how this practice bled out to hand-written texts as well, for no good reason.

 

[The Last Stand]

I've noticed lots of people type "worse" when they want to say "worst". I'm guessing they just don't know the latter word exists.

I do that, not going to lie. I have to catch myself.

People that do not use the enter key and just type walls of text.

 

[A Real Munson]

When people use the word "God" as a proper noun, but don't capitalize it as a diminution to convey their atheism. If you're an atheist, go to hell, have fun, (but in a good way) you don't need to shit up the English language while you're at it.

 

[Tomlinson]

Can't even get the number of dots in ellipses correct.

So?

 

[Neodanthril]

Loose instead of lose
Niggerspeak
Pronouncing rs as ws
Adults trying to keep up with the latest fad words
Milk toast instead of milquetoast
I'm seeing a lot of "do" for "due" and "to" for " too" AND "two" lately. Damn kids and their voice to text.

 

[Baraadmirer]

and "to" for " too" AND "two" lately

Don't forget you're/your and they're/there/their.

 

[Neodanthril]

Don't forget you're/your and they're/there/their.

i dont see those as much. i suspect it has something to do with the acceptance of the word yall into bugmen vocabulary.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Milk toast instead of milquetoast

Speaking of milquetoast. Is it me or has that word exploded in popularity the last 10-15 years? Maybe it's a regional thing but I don't recall hearing it at all growing up. Now it seems like people say it all the time.

 

[AnOminous]

Milk toast instead of milquetoast

But the only reason for milquetoast existing is the character Caspar Milquetoast, who was invented to refer to milk toast.

 

[edgymovies]

People starting sentences with "I mean". I've done it too, but it drives me crazy when I hear it.

 

[Space Police]

People starting sentences with "I mean". I've done it too, but it drives me crazy when I hear it.

I get you. I mean, so many people are so illiterate!

 

[Flatline]

When tryhards use semicolons with conjunctions.

We weren't the only ones there; but we decided to leave anyway.

He ate the hotdogs; but he couldn't bother to save us any.

The crows sat on the telephone wire; and they didn't bother us.

That's not how it works; you either you use only the semicolon or replace the semicolon with a comma.

 

[Fräulein Troonjak]

 

[Yukako]

People mixing British English with American English without realizing, I assume due to social media or TTS. Just stick to one spelling.

 

[a hapless toad]

When tryhards use semicolons with conjunctions.

That's not how it works; you either you use only the semicolon or replace the semicolon with a comma.

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"Unironically" does not make any linguistic sense; let alone, is it a legitimate word.

I love when people sperg so hard over grammar but utterly fail at punctuation and sentence structure.

 

[Fräulein Troonjak]

I love when people sperg so hard over grammar but utterly fail at punctuation and sentence structure.

It's a shitposter. A nulee.

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[bliblblblbbllb]

Some people laughed at me today for writing "the cow is of the bovine ilk" because "Haha you think you're so smart, but you don't know the animal is spelled ELK!" I was offended in the moment for some reason, but by the time I got home it's already funny to me.

I will admit I thought "segue" was spelled "segway" (the thing with wheels) until I hit college.