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

[Persian Carpet Salesman]

Something that no one used to do but now everyone does, use the word more in front of words that don't need it such as "more faster", "more bigger" etc, I despise anyone that does it.

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

People who use "awe" when they mean "aww" as in trying to be sympathetic.

Also, people who use "on" accident instead of by accident deserve to be raped by Muslims.

 

[bliblblblbbllb]

"Supposedly" and "supposably" are different words with different meanings.

 

[The Last Stand]

I Hate When People Uppercase EACH Word in a Sentence.

 

[Baraadmirer]

I Hate When People Uppercase EACH Word in a Sentence.

I see it a lot in YouTube video titles; it's supposed to promote the video in the algorithm somehow?

Another non-English pet peeve: Italian is (the only?) a language where the possessive form almost always* requires the direct article in addition to the possessive adjective. E.g., la mia torta ("my cake) instead of just mia torta.

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*For some reason, singular family members are exempt from the direct article. So mia madre (my mother) but i miei genitori ("my parents").

 

[Heliantheae]

I see it a lot in YouTube video titles; it's supposed to promote the video in the algorithm somehow?

You see it a lot in any titles as the generally considered proper way to write titles is to upper case the first letter of each major word.

 

[Flatline]

I Hate When People Uppercase EACH Word in a Sentence.

You see it a lot in any titles as the generally considered proper way to write titles is to upper case the first letter of each major word.

This is called titlecasing.

 

[Blasterisk]

This is called titlecasing.

What If I Plan To Make A Movie Based On This Sentence In The Future? Who Will Look Foolish Then?

 

[Norbert the Tiger]

Quite often, now more often than not, I hear people who get paid to speak for a living use "I" in the accusative or dative. Eg, "between him and I." I even see it in print.

I also see me used incorrectly with than, eg "He thinks he is smarter than me." ".. smarter than I" is correct, as "I am" is implied. But "Scott was much nicer to him than me" is correct (implied "than to me").

Troon and gender vermin using they as third person singular.

Using good as an adverb. "We did good today." That means we did something good, ie charity. We did well or played well.

 

[Dysnomia]

Troon and gender vermin using they as third person singular.

This. It makes reading articles so difficult. It doesn't help that genderblobs often have weird names normal people don't. So I end up thinking of the name as a group by force of habit. I refuse to call anyone whose gender is known "they/them.

They/them only works when you are talking about a individual whose gender is not known. Once said person is known you can then switch to the proper pronoun. Like if you are talking to me about your cousin Chris and don't specify that Chris is a guy I might use they until you clarify. It's probably safer than asking outright what sex Chris is because some people are insane like that.

 

[Norbert the Tiger]

They/them only works when you are talking about an individual whose gender is not known.

The grammarians needed to hold the line on "generic he" and stop the descriptivist contagion. I would suggest "singular" they is more acceptable for pronouns that connote a plurality but are conjugated in the singular, eg each, any, etc.

Here is Jared Taylor on how to speak (and write) like a white supremacist.

How to Talk Like a White Supremacist

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I am as jaded about language and grammar as anything. The midwit takes about descriptivism, that they was always third person singular are so utterly prevalent that it is hard to find authoritative materials rebutting them. I blame fuddy-duddy conservatism, which has always had a Philistine disdain for culture and somehow thought the universities and culture do not matter.

 

[The Last Stand]

Stop misspelling "lose" and "loose."

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

The way a whole bunch of people just suddenly forgot how to use apostrophes for some reason. I almost never saw this happen until maybe seven years ago when it really caught on like a virus - even (especially?) among supposedly more "educated" people who should know better than anyone.

For example the way that now you always see apostrophes stuck in plurals, or just ANY word that ends with the letter S. What's even more maddening is when you see these people use more than one plural in the same sentence but treat them differently, like:

Today at the store I bought some apple's and oranges.

Sometimes I've even seen this with proper names. I remember once seeing a reference to the chief justice of the Supreme Court written as:

John Robert's

Sometimes it doesn't even involve the letter S. Apparently lots of people just don't even know what words mean:

They we're the best team in the league.

We should send him a get we'll card.

My favorite one ever though would have to be when I was looking at a certain Linkedin profile, where this woman listed one of her accomplishments as:

honor's student

Apostrophes where they don't belong, especially from members of the supposedly superior White Master Race (aka white niggers).

Ex. "Nigger's are dumb"

Pluralizing nouns with apostrophes.

Example: noun's with apostrophe's. I don't get why people do this. Why the apostrophe? You have to go out of your way to type it on a keyboard. It's become incredibly common in the past few years, and every time I see that shit it shortens my telomeres.

I hate it when people misuse apostrophes, because there are literally only two circumstances where you would ever use one - either as a contraction: "Let's all go to the beach! I'll bring my suntan lotion!" or as a possessive, "Where is that black gentleman going with Brian's bicycle?"

Nine times out of ten, you don't need an apostrophe, so if you're not sure if you need one or not, just don't use one. Don't just go, "Fuck it!" and stick one in there anyway.

Also, people that say 'could of' instead of 'could have'. Maybe you 'could of' avoided having to face the wall when the revolution comes, but sadly, I'm going to have to ask you to line up with the apostrophe people.

 

[Active User]

I hate it when people misuse apostrophes, because there are literally only two circumstances where you would ever use one - either as a contraction: "Let's all go to the beach! I'll bring my suntan lotion!" or as a possessive, "Where is that black gentleman going with Brian's bicycle?"

I can at least get the confusion over those edge cases where it could be either a possessive or a contraction, such as its/it's. Think in this case the contraction version gets the apostrophe while the possessive does not and looks a little awkward.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

People who pronounce 'mischievous' as 'miss-chee-vee-us'... What the fuck happened?

 

[deputydogshit2.0]

People who say “funner” rather than “more fun.” If I hear someone say that, I immediately assume they are stupid and I discount anything they say from that point.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

People who say “funner” rather than “more fun.” If I hear someone say that, I immediately assume they are stupid and I discount anything they say from that point.

I've already mentioned this in the Shit That Reminds You You're Getting Old thread, but:

Some faggot kid with a speech impediment on YouTube sperging about the Star Wars Battlefront remaster described the original as one of 'the most greatest games of my childhood'.

First of all, you fucking zoomer, 'greatest' is a superlative, so you can't have a 'most greatest' anything. Something is simply 'the greatest'. There are not gradations of 'greatest'. Learn to speak your first fucking language.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

I've already mentioned this in the Shit That Reminds You You're Getting Old thread, but:

Fuck's sake, you sound like my dad... I like you.

 

[AnOminous]

Nine times out of ten, you don't need an apostrophe, so if you're not sure if you need one or not, just don't use one. Don't just go, "Fuck it!" and stick one in there anyway.

I like how Finnegans Wake basically just said fuck apostrophes and didn't use them at all.

 

[BirdUp]

troons who write everything in lowercase but still use periods