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

[AnOminous]

One of them that is really pissing me off is people using "disinterested" to mean "uninterested."

Disinterested is a good thing. It means impartial and not prejudiced against either side of an argument. Someone can be disinterested, and have no personal "interest" in the case as in beneficial to them, while being very "interested" in the issue in terms of wanting to pay attention to it and get the decision right.

Uninterested means simply not caring about the issue at all.

You would want a disinterested judge who has not already decided the case against you.

You would not want an uninterested judge who isn't even paying attention. Unless you were on the wrong side.

 

[Doctor John B. Zyklon]

One of them that is really pissing me off is people using "disinterested" to mean "uninterested."

I didn't know people did this.

A classic, but, "could care less" being used to imply that you do not care at all about something.

 

[A Very Big Fish]

Irregardless

The prefix Ir, means not. Regardless means without consideration.
If it were a "real" word, it would literally mean the opposite of how people use it.

 

[Epoch]

I hate when people say 'on accident' instead of 'by accident'

 

[Tripshots]

I see many native English speakers spelling "a lot" as "alot." I understand the reasoning behind why many people think that it's spelled "alot", but this is something they should have learned in English classes during middle school.

 

[Something Awful]

When people say "in any way, shape or form". It's fucking cringe, just say "in any way" and you won't sound like a faggot. And I swear more than half the time they omit the comma and write "in any way shape or form", what the fuck is up with that?

 

[Pitbull Victim]

"I could care less"

Like nails on a fucking chalkboard.

 

[Named User]

Similarly to above, using “apart” when they mean “a part.”

Example: “Joshua Connor Moon is apart of an obese pedo tranny fisting Meetup group.”

Nope. The two mean the exact opposite, and, for the most part, you’d use “apart” with the preposition “from.” “Apart” means “not a part.”

You usually see this blunder coming from black internet people.

 

[Fatniggo1488]

Seeing the wrong your/you're used in memes.

 

[Blasterisk]

Improper conjugation of the word "needs".

The calf needs the cow's milk.

The car 'needs oil changed'.

Irregardless, people who omit "to be" are disinteresting to me and I could care less about them in any way shape or form alot.

 

[MrTroll]

People who don't respect other people's pronouns.

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

When people spell lose/losing (as in losing weight) as loose/loosing. That one really drives me nuts for some reason.

 

[Botchy Galoop]

The stupid portmanteau people make of the words "leary" and "wary" as demonstrated by the sentence:

I was weary of the ugly man dressed like a woman.

AND! By the way, when did we start calling the "ground" the floor???

 

[Pedophobe]

Using "who" instead of "whom". Fucking peasants.

 

[Admiral Throbnelius]

"I didn't do nothing" instead of "I didn't do anything"

 

[AMERICA]

When people use "whenever" instead of "when" in the context of something that happened to them in the past, for example "Whenever I was a kid I used to spend the weekend at my grandma's house" or "Whenever I was 10 years old"

 

[Pedophobe]

"Would of" and "could of".

Psuedo-phoenetic spelling of simple everyday phrases really bugs me. I think it indicates most people don't really know how to spell and don't care, but I never realized before the Internet came along because I didn't have to communicate with them in writing.

 

[Dysnomia]

Tooken is not a word. Your wallet wasn't tooken. It was taken. Get it right or stay after class.

It might be an unpopular take and maybe even a retarded one, but I think we should retire the apostrophes in contractions. And being that so many people use the contraction by default now anyway I don't see the point in adding apostrophes to contracted words with obvious meaning and very common use.

 

[Alex Yiik]

"How it looks like" or "how it feels like" or any variation. You either want to say "how it looks" or "what it looks like."

Also, I don't see it as often recently, but back in the Gamergate days (lol) I saw people using "bias" as an adjective a lot. People would say that a person "is bias" so often I swear it was more common than correctly calling someone biased.

 

[BIG BILL HELL'S]

Improper conjugation of the word "needs".

The calf needs the cow's milk.

The car needs oil changed.

Irregardless, people who omit "to be" are disinteresting to me and I could care less about them in any way shape or form alot.

I've noticed this is a habit of people who think that they live in the Midwest, e.g. Ohio or Kansas. It's also the one that makes me viscerally angry when I hear someone say it.

The stupid portmanteau people make of the words "leary" and "wary" as demonstrated by the sentence:

I was weary of the ugly man dressed like a woman.

I've always assumed that this was an autocorrect mangling.

When people use "whenever" instead of "when" in the context of something that happened to them in the past, for example "Whenever I was a kid I used to spend the weekend at my grandma's house" or "Whenever I was 10 years old"

This seems to be a thing from the Deep South, along with sometimes putting an odd emphasis on the word "it". Both of these are ultimately harmless, though.

As for my peeve: people who say (or, God forbid, write), "Yeah, I seen that the other day." Not only does it not sound (or look) right, but it makes the person look unintelligent.

As for my own foible: I've caught myself saying the word "boughten" more than once, and I immediately feel stupid.